Greenway Lunch Break, Afterwork Woods with Myers, Hope, and a Science Turtle

One of my favorite things about my office's recently re-located location is it's about a 2 minute walk to the gym or greenway, so actually doing something during my lunch break is actually do-able. 

After work, both Myers and Hope are now conditioned to beg for a walk :)

On today's jaunt through the woods, we found a SCIENCE TURTLE.

 

Greenway, Gym, College Woods, and Greenway again

 

Day off, so greenway followed by totally empty open gym time. I'm starting to have vague goals of building back up to 5K this fall, so I wanted to get a baseline run-walk time... 46:08. Mile 2 was mostly run (12:17) and mile 3 was mostly walk (16:31). Trying not to beat myself up for not even being in the same ballpark as my 5K PR (23:01), but gotta start somewhere. Not that I ever think I'll be sub-23, but I'd be super happy getting back into the 25-30 range. 

 

Empty gym means box jumps without feeling like a goober. I always prefer box jumps when I feel like there are no witnesses to tell the EMTs what happened when I'm found unconscious. There were no box jump fails today, but one of my earbuds popped out just about every jump. I'll take it!

Later, Myers wanted to take Hope for a walk, so we hit College Woods again. After, I had a few minutes to kill between errands so hit the Greenway on my bike. Riding my bike makes me feel like a kid, so I think prioritizing riding it is a good play for mental health. 

 

 

Ijams and Forks of the River WMA

 

It didn't look like rain when we started, but a mile from the car the fluffy black death clouds rolled in. Made it all the way back home about 45 seconds before the storm hit. 

 

   

Case of the Mondays

 In training all day today and tomorrow, so bottled up the need to move till this evening. Met up with the man, the myth, and the legend James Saniger for a bike ride after training, then open gym with my bride, followed by an extended dog walk with Hope and Myers. 

 

Greenway, Jarvis Park, and College Woods

I've been making time to ride my bike just about every day this week. Last night I was keeping a decent cruising speed over 15mph, till I hit a couple of obstacles to slow me back down to 11. The water under Alcoa Highway didn't look so bad from a distance. I revised that opinion when it hit about knee deep. 

  

This morning Hope woke up early, and we didn't get along so well last night so we tried to hit reset and walk it off this morning. 

First was a walk around Jarvis Park for the first time. Only about .75 miles in trail so far, but it's a GEM. Great little walking spot 4 minutes from my door. 

After that, we hit up Maryville College Woods. I don't think I've really been on the trails there since I coached cross country. Things we mostly the same, except the orchards now have trees and are bearing fruit, and there's a big ol' beautiful track under construction!

  

  

 

Greenway Saturday

It wasn't a 5AM workout like the crazy folks do, but 7:45 was pretty good to me and home and dressed in time to go to a movie this afternoon. 

Pistol Creek was about ready to hit the greenway, too, but I was able to fit a two mile run the hills/walk the flats on the greenway between rain showers, then a 30 minute circuit in the gym, capped off with a mile of hill sprints. Disregard the short little peaks on repeats 5-6-7-8... I was a little warm so they were more dainty little jogs before coming back strong for 9 & 10.