you really could not believe it (and training week #12)

(photo from ditmasparkblog.com - liena)

but please go to this link....new york times photos from new york city's tornado watch 2010.
totally wild.

i mention it because i did a longer run this morning and i was aghast at the tree rubble in prospect park. at the end of the long meadow there were trees down all over the place. i also had looked through these pics this morning because i failed to realize just how late sunrise had gotten in the last couple of weeks.....so i had about 15 extra minutes to kill before sunlight. some of the pics are amazing!

but back to training....
long run: 11.5 miles
it was 59 degrees at 6am.
again, the hint of fall is upon me and i am loving every minute.
and i have to admit that today was a killer run. i hit my stride, was going through my prayer list, thought through women's prayer breakfast this morning, mapped out next week's run, and then failed to be able to complete simple mathematics. that was the hint to head home. i ran home hard....left it all out there....and felt great.

week total: 21 miles.
easy run - 4.5
hard run - 5 miles of mile repeats.... i did 4.
i had my groove this week!
which considering i was home by 7:15 in order to not disrupt the already disrupted home schedule with the many days of tears about kindergarten....it was a long week. there were no tears on friday - big improvement!!! we might make it. so thankful for saturday!!!

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