New Shoes

Running:
Initially I was going to take Thursday off from running. Then I decided I was going to wear my new shoes for the race on Saturday. I felt I better give them an easy test anyway. I went out for a 4 mile easy run in 32:51. The shoes felt great. They are Asics Landreth 5's. I have been doing all my long runs in this model since coming back from injury in May. I scored these a few weeks back on eBay for about 1/3 of the going price of $100. Friday I will be resting up for the 7:00 start of the half marathon on Saturday.




Hunting:
I put up my new ladder stand this morning. As I mentioned the other day I still have some additional work to do to clear shooting lanes and camouflage the stand. Climbing up in it though I think it will provide me the view and coverage I was hoping for with it's placement.

Gardening:
The pumpkins are really looking fantastic. I will have at least 100 of the best looking bunch of them I have ever grown. Most vine crops start having problems with powdery mildew as the summer goes along. I noticed this was starting to spread in the pumpkin patch. The pumpkins are big and plentiful enough that if the plants start shutting down soon it won't be any problem.
Over the weekend I'll take some more pictures for posting.

Hill repeats

Running:
Tuesday I got out during my lunch break and ran an easy 5 miles. Total time 39:51.
Today I was hoping to get out in the morning for some speed work. Because there was so much going on with school starting for the kids this just didn't happen. The timing was just off to devote 1.5 hours or so before I needed to head into work today. So I got out during my lunch break again, but chose to run some hill repeats instead of speed work today. I started off with a 1.8 mile warm up to the base of the hill in a local subdivision. This is a great hill for repeats. It's about .20 miles up at about a 30 to 40% grade. The .40 mile repeats take about 3:30 each. Almost the same time up as down. I ran 8 repeats today. Then finished the run with the rest of my 4 mile loop back to the office. Total distance 7.5 miles in 1:05:25. I think I'll do this workout once each the next couple weeks. I don't want to do it in the two weeks before the marathon. It's much to draining.

Hunting:
This morning I did get out with my clippers and cleared a bit of the brush from the deer trail that runs in the back of the property. I like to keep this clear of limbs, branches and small trees so the deer have free movement down the trail. The seeds in the food plot seem to have sprouted pretty well. I only see a few bare spots that may require over seeding in the next few days.

Gardening:
Tonight I picked quite a few pears and apples to have in the house to eat and put in lunches. The early apples were done a couple of weeks ago, now the later ripening varieties are starting to come in. I have 6 different varieties that will ripen between now and October.

Back to school

Running:

School starts out here today. The roads will be busier in the morning on the runs now.

Sunday morning early I got out for 2 loops around my favorite route. This gave me a total of 15 miles for the day. I ran this in 2:02:30. Monday was an off day. Totals through August month end.

WTD - 50 (last week)

MTD - 261 (highest monthly total this year)

YTD - 1291

ODO - 24557

The odometer number leaves me exactly 300 miles short of my first trip around the earth (assuming 24857 is the number). This means I should reach that milestone some time in October.

Hunting:

Dunham's had a great price on a 17.5 foot ladder stand.

With $70 off MSRP this was almost 50% off. I couldn't pass it up.

This one will be going up at my new spot in the backyard I mentioned a couple days ago.

Gardening:

The garden is overflowing with produce. There is some or lots of everything that is ripe or harvestable right now. Good for coworkers and neighbors too!