Weekly Summary: 5/3-5/9

5-03-2010
Monday:
AM: 8.45 miles (1:11:29) 500' vertical South boulder creek path up to mesa trail. Down lower big bluestem. Really windy.

5-04-2010
Tuesday:
PM: 6.8 miles (51:30) South boulder creek path + 2mi barefoot

5-05-2010
Wednesday:
AM: 6.05 miles (47:00) South boulder creek path.

5-06-2010
Thursday:
AM: 10.85 miles (1:31:36) South boulder creek to mesa trail over to bear canyon and back home. I think this is about 1300' vertical if you add up some of the smaller climbs. Wanted to add a small amount of vertical before heading to Minneapolis.

5-07-2010
Friday:
AM: 25.75 miles (3:08:38) In Minneapolis for a wedding and took advantage of the lower elevation and large amount of pavement to get a faster run in. This run felt pretty good except for about the last 30 minutes (no breakfast and only brought 1 gel). Ran on the Greenway path to the Kenilworth path. Then back east on the Cedar Lake path out to Highway 169 and back to Lake Calhoun on the Greenway path. Then ran around Lakes Calhoun and Harriet. Finished with a lap around Lake of the Isles. This run felt good, and the time wasn't too bad. Raining and in the 40's most of the run.

5-08-2010
Saturday:
Rest 0 miles

5-09-2010
Sunday:
AM: 7.74 miles Ran out to the Twins stadium and back. Nice stadium, good to see they finally got out of the Metrodome.
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Totals:
Miles: 65.5
Hours: 8h 28min
Vertical: 1800'

Good week in terms of distance and time. Barely any vertical though with the trip out to Minneapolis, but it was nice to get a faster long run in. Minneapolis has a great network of paths for biking, but I wish they'd make the walking paths gravel or dirt or something. No need for so much pavement! I was able to find a small amount of single track on the side of some of the paths so that helped.