Posts Tagged ‘Davidson Mesa’

The weather’s moving in. I’m sitting at my desk staring out the window watching the temperature drop on the deck thermometer while the wind swirls patches of snow around. There’s an Arctic front moving in all over the country today, and even Florida is going to be in the 20’s. Sorry, Florida [...]

Saturday’s run had speed and Sunday’s run had distance.  Because I’m training for the Las Vegas Half Marathon, now only 12 days away, this post will be a “weekend report” on the two runs, and how they complemented each other.
Had Saturday fallen on a day other than November 21, I would have run at 7 [...]

I’m so late on posting this week, but since I’m still thinking about the incredible run I did this weekend, I want to take a few minutes to write about it.
My long run was Sunday instead of Saturday, due to tech rehearsals and the like.  I thought I’d be wiped out on Sunday but surprisingly, [...]

Our Saturday run was cancelled due to weather.  Sunday I ran solo on Davidson Mesa.  Because it was flat, grey and incredibly boring, I decided to do a tempo run.  I ran three 3-mile loops, staying on the Mesa because of the black ice on the streets.
The music on my iPod made the time go [...]

I wasn’t meeting anyone this Sunday morning, and didn’t rush while I gathered my hat, gloves, iPod, and Garmin GPS.  Our regularly scheduled Saturday run was canceled due to a forecasted blizzard that never materialized. It was still cold at seven A.M., a cool twenty degrees even though the sun was shining.  My lined tights, [...]