Training in Montana

4.5 miles on the bike path in Nashville this morning before a conference. Tomorrow I'll start not next to tall buildings as the GPS signal didn't keep up and I only planned to run 4. It's all good. And much better weather than home.

A nice outside run in Nashville along the river, over a bridge to the Titans stadium, back over another bridge and back to the hotel. Nashville is hilly!

After did weights, pushups, and 43 sit ups for my 43rd birthday (I couldn't do 43 pushups)

AP: 9:23 (not sure the watch kept sync with the satellites the whole time, even though I purposely ran apart from the tall buildings)

6 miles this morning with my new friend Ken. Ran around Nashville, similar to other mornings. Nice but not amazing scenery. One hour talking flew by.

AP: 9:19 (I'm not sure the GPS works all the time in Nashville, this seems slow)

Running is hard. Running in the heat is harder, especially when you're older and fatter than normal. 80F, no humidity, no wind. Didn't feel hot, but my legs were dead and I walked a lot. Nearly walked it in the last 1 1/2 miles but saw a woman running slowly in front of me and I realized I didn't need a 7 mm to run, I could slog in a 9-10 mm. I thought I was going 10 pace, actually a 9:14 pace the last while. That worked.