I don’t truly know what race is next. It sounds like my wife wants me to do the Candy 5k just for the medal. I kinda want to do the RedLegs 10k because it’s one of only a handful of major 10ks in the region (the others being the Flying Pig 10k and the Turkey Day 10k, and of those two others one is a 6 mile parade). I’ll figure it out someday, and hopefully before these races happen. Otherwise, the next races might be the Bulldog Blast 5k and the NKU XC Series. Fall marathon training starts June 24.
Anyway, on to this past week.
Monday: 5 miles. Apparently I felt like running off my lasagna, because I ran 5 at a pretty blistering pace (and it was a progressive run). I kept it in the park since it’s not the longest running I do. 5.12 miles in 42:03 (8:13 min/mile pace).
Tuesday: 5 miles. Woke up late, so I kept it in the subdivision. Fortunately, no dogs or idiots. 5.01 miles in 41:04 (8:12 min/mile pace).
Wednesday: Rest.
Thursday: 7 + 8 strides. Got my hill on at East Fork. It was a cold 50F – I originally put on a short sleeve shirt and went to leave I stepped out of the garage and decided I wanted a long-sleeve shirt. So up to change. 8.01 miles overall in 1:08:07 (8:30 min/mile).
Friday: 9 miles. I drove to West Lafayette, Indiana yesterday, and scoped out the riverside running path. I specifically booked a hotel along the path, because priorities 😊. It looked good. After dinner, I scoped it out a little.
West side of river, looking south-ish 
Pedestrian Bridge 
East side of river, looking north 
East side of river, looking north 
East side of river 
East side of river, looking south
Friday: 9 miles. Well, the pictures above make it look really good compared to the reality. I started across the pedestrian bridge to the east side of the river and went north. First off, there was a lot of bugs.
Then, I started slipping on mud. I stopped and realized that right ahead of me was the shimmer of water (and we’re not talking a small puddle, this was several feet and I couldn’t go around). So I turned around and headed back across the bridge and then north. All seemed good until I noticed I was going down and then… water. So I turned around and went north and all seemed good until… yup, you guessed it – water. So I decided to run up to Purdue University, which started with going uphill. Finally, with some additional light and lack of copious amounts of mud, I got some good miles in. Overall, 9.37 miles in 1:22:35 (8:49 min/mile pace).
This is a great example of how to design bicycle facilities. 
They love their fountains in this area. I ran past about 64 of them (before losing count).
Overall, the week was 27.5 miles of my legs getting over the marathon I ran late last month. On to next week!