Time: lunch, noonish
Where: Bellevue DT park
Workout: five-ish miles.
One mile+ warm up. Then 1′ on, 1:30 off x 9 (total of 6 loops around the park), then .75 mi cool down run back to work.
Notes and observations: This interval routine is kind of nice. Those runners going counter-clockwise, you who go down the stairs instead of up … Wusses! Then again, I can also feel myself fading a bit. My lust for fit life not so lustful these days. I’m hoping my week off from work can shake that up a bit.
Music: my 1,000 song playlist, in what might have been sorted by most played. Nice.

Time: lunch
Where: around Bellevue, just north of downtown
Workout: 5 miles, the goal was to increase tempo but …
Notes and observations: I was freezing. It was raining and I was not dressed appropriately. Spent the second half just trying to not freeze. Tempo didn’t happen, though the route was nice and hilly. Last half was more traffic lights than I like.
Music: My entire iPod on shuffle.

Time: noon, 1:17.21
Where: Burke Gilman, Bryant to gas works and back
Workout: 8 miles, LSD
Notes and observations: wet. Actually not as bad as the drowned rat experience I had a couple of days prior, but very tough to get motivated to go out. Almost turned around at 1.5 mile mark, but finally yelled at myself, dammit if K can go out in this and run 14miles then surely I can do 8. What also helps is the number of people I encounter as a I approach Wallingford. The more the merrier, I say. So ready for this rain Togo away.
1:17 …
Splits:
Mile 1: 10:16
2: 9:45
3: 9:43
4: 9:28
5: 9:34
6: 9:29
7: 9:44
8: 9:23

Music: foo fighters, shuffle

Time: 11:40 am
Where: Bellevue downtown park
Workout: 5-ish miles, one mile warm up to the park, 6 half-mile loops around the park, then a .75 cool down back to work. The loops were intervals, 60 seconds on, 90 seconds off x 8
Notes and observations: lots of rain. Park was empty, and I should invest in some rain gear if I intend to continue this running thing here in Seattle.
Music: Bruce Springsteen, shuffle

Time: before work
Where: gym
Workout: plan was 5 miles or 47 minutes
Notes and observations: first time in a while that I was more than a mile off from my original goal. The nigh before i planned a 47 minute goal. By the time i arrived at the gym i had brought it down to 45 minutes. I finally got off the treadmill having completed 41 minutes, or around 3.71 miles, so theres some walking in there, too. Slow to start, and then felt crampy, unmotivated. Not sure if it’s work stress, fitness lull or what.
Music: John Mayer on shuffle. Maybe it’s The music that affected the workout.

Time: 8:30am
Where: Burke Gilman trail, Bryant to gas works park and back
Workout: 8 miles, LSD
Notes and observations: Nice-ish weather, for once. Funny as I arrive in Wallingford, due to timing and location, and probably weather, the trail is so much more lively. Wallingford is the halfway mark of this 8 mile route. I run along Lake Union and can see the last of the early morning rowers heading back to their boathouses. Sigh. I’d rather be rowing, I repeated a few times.
My splits:
Mile 1: 9:21
2: 9:21
3: 9:38
4: 9:24
5: 9:39
6: 9:51
7: 9:36
8: 9:32
… Miles 1&2 are an average because I forgot to hit the button. Miles 6&7 include traffic light waits.
Not bad, in fact quite good, IMO. My goal was to run a natural feeling pace.
Music: 8 Foo Fighter albums on shuffle.

Time: lunch
Where: Downtown Bellevue Park and vicinity
Workout: warm up to park, then loops of 1′ on 1:30 off. Cant say for sure but I’ll guess 4-5 miles.
Notes and observations: harder than treadmill intervals because a lot of it is a guessing game. The exertion on the on was there and i definitely went easy on the off. More than I allow when on the treadmill for sure. But I couldn’t keep track of how many loops I did. Too much thinking required there.
Music: foo fighters, wasting light

Tomorrow = 8 miles. Woot!