Stacy's Blog

Great early autumn day! LSD with the team. 

Tempo run with the team. Weather has been awesome for running. Just hot enough to keep them in condition if we should get a heatwave like last year. 

So we woke up about 3:00 am to thunder/lightning etc. I checked the radar and turned on the weather. There were thunderstorms backed up all the way to Bismarck! 200 miles of thunderstorms! And they were getting stronger as they moved east. We ended up with hail damage, tornado warnings, high winds and 3 1/2 inches of rain. Oh,... and no sleep.

Ron and I decided to go to the basement when we looked out at our backyard to see how big the hail was and the rain was swirling! I've seen it come horizontal before, but NEVER swirling! :0

Cool morning to take Miles out for some mileage.  This has been a week of speed workouts and my legs are tired so I am taking the weekend off. :)  Miles was wet, dirty, and panting when we got home. He was one happy dog!!

Long run with the team on a hot fall day! Bye bye heat. 

Mileage with Miles. The temp yesterday was 82, the high today won't even hit 60! 

Pre-meet run with the team.

4 miles with an energetic pup. 1 mile or so running around the XC course. Where is the warm Autumn days of Sept?

Recovery run with the team. Another chilly day, but great running weather!

3 miles with Miles this morning

5 miles with the team this afternoon

Easy run for the girls, speed work for me. They're killin' me. The Coach said the other day, "The girls stay the same age and the coaches get older each year." So true. ;)

Not sure what to call this run. Kind of a progression/tempo run. Started out just a long run with Miles, but the mosquitos were so bad I felt like I was running for my life. If I stopped for 10 seconds they were swarming all over both of us. So we ran fast!! Well sort of fast.

Mile 1     9:21

         2     9:24

         3     9:29

         4      9:37

         5      9:16

         6      8:19

         7      8:44

Ran with the team and when we stopped the mosquitos nearly carried us off! The bloodsuckers are unbelievable right now. Everyone is complaining about them. They were not bad this summer, but this fall has brought them out is swarms. Ugh!!!

Summer made a comeback with highs in the 80's. Made for a hot run. CC season is beginning to wind down. Four weeks left. :(

Cool enough to get the pup out. Speedwork for the team, so I was cheerleader. Gave up doing speedwork with the girls along time ago.

4 miles with Miles. Windy

3 miles with the girls. Rainy