Luke - ten hours of running

So December I barely ran, and then for those of you who haven't heard, I went all crazy and crap around the new year and am now in California for a brief respite. So I've been able to get back into running, which is great. I will start posting every run again; the past couple weeks I've been hitting split on my watch for each run, so now my chrono says 7:06:50 and I don't even know how many runs that is. Probably like ten. I also have four times written down in a little memo pad book thing. I will give a brief recap of all of them as much as I can remember. I'm guessing on the distances.

5.5mi, 44:15 (8:02)

18:10 to a grassy softball field, 9:14 barefoot on it, 16:50 back.

6mi, 48:17 (8:02)

17:26 to the same place, 14:35 barefoot on it, 16:16 back.

5.5mi, 42:15 (7:40)

17:15 there, 9:13 barefoot, 15:47 back.

6mi, 47:27 (7:54)

Went to Joshua Tree National Park with my brother, ran in the sand, on some trails, and over some rocks. Pictures of the place are on Facebook.

5mi, 38:46 (7:45)

17:41 to that field, 5:21 barefoot on it, 15:44 back.

6mi, 46:47 (7:47)

18:05 there, 12:52 barefoot, 16:50 back.

5mi, 39:19 (7:51)

16:57 there, 6:15 barefoot, 16:07 back.

5.5mi 40:21 (7:20)

17:23 there, 7:28 barefoot, 15:30 back.

5mi, 40:25 (8:05)

There's a trail about fifteen minutes from here that is five miles long. It's two miles of uphill, one mile of rolling hills, and two miles of downhill. There is a bike path that starts about 2.5 away from it, so I'll be doing that ten-miler probably at least once a week starting soon. I actually did this run and the one before it on the same day, about two hours apart.

6mi, 48:54 (8:09)

After hiking with my mom in the Mt. Baldy area, I went for a run by myself and got out of breath pretty quickly. It was straight up the whole way out, so it took 29:33 up and 19:21 back.

6mi, 44:12 (7:22)

17:18 to the field, 11:17 barefoot, 15:37 back

5mi, 36:23 (7:16)

17:00 there, 4:46 barefoot, 14:37 back

5mi, 43:36 (8:43)

Went to a trail expecting to do about ten miles in about 75 minutes, but found out the trail was steeper than cuss, so I did about 45 minutes of running and about 10 minutes of hiking. They were some seriously ridiculous hills. If I did ten miles on those trails every day, I'd be either dead or ready for the Olympics inside of two months.

6mi, 46:57 (7:49)

16:59 there, 14:23 barefoot, 15:35 back