In Houston now, on the last leg of the trip and the last hotel. Today is my last full day of work before heading home, and likely my busiest workday, so I was up at 5:30 a.m. to get to the treadmill. There is no good place to run outdoors here without driving somewhere - no sidewalks or bike lanes on any of the streets, and lots of traffic. The air conditioner is already running in the hotel fitness center, with the weather forecast for low 80s and humid. The outside of my water bottle is dripping before I even start the treadmill.
The TVs are off and the music is on, but I am tempted to try to turn on some local news, just to see if it is as crazy as it was in Denver and Dallas, but that quickly passes. Music is fine. I planned to run some 1-mile intervals today, and did, feeling strong, though damp. I ran four 1-mile intervals hard with rests in between, with my fourth and fastest at a 7:15 pace. The last few days have been very up and down, but today was a good day. In total I ran 6.5 miles. I looked and felt like I just had just walked through the hot tub with my clothes on when I was done.
Then I went out and had three hefty meals in restaurants during the day, and probably consumed considerably more calories than in any other single day of this trip. The highlight was the whole prawn, with cheddar and cream cheese, all stuffed inside a fresh jalapeno pepper, breaded and deep fried. Those were amazing! And probably 300 calories each. The scale will not be my friend when I get home. Houston is a bad place for a diet.
Three weeks down now. Stats for this week:
Miles this week: 35.8
Total miles so far: 102.9
Average miles/day this week: 5.1
Average miles/day so far: 4.9
Time running this week: 5 hours, 16 minutes
Total time running: 15 hours 45 minutes
Average pace, week 3: 8:50/mile
Average pace, week 2: 9:00/mile
Average pace, week 1: 9:40/mile
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