As Nathan and I were getting ready for our run this morning I noticed there were several sticker type things on the bottom of one shoe that I don’t think I’d ever seen before. Nathan took one look at them and said that they looked like Goat Head Stickers like he used to see in Lamesa, Texas where he grew up….
He then commented that he’d never seen any of these since moving to Tennessee. I’m guessing that I got them while running in Florida a couple of weeks ago, because these were the same shoes I wore that entire week.
After starting our run, the discussion turned from Goat Head Stickers to “Hooker” weeds that were apparently another despised botanical from his family’s farm in Texas. Since I had never heard of either of these, I found the discussion quite interesting. Anybody else have to deal with these things? I love Nathan’s farm tales!
Back to running…today’s schedule called for 60-minutes at easy pace, and we started from the Bellevue United Methodist church building and ran a 7+ mile route which included several neighborhood streets in Bellevue, the Harpeth River Greenway, and Edwin Warner Park.
I’m really enjoying the cooler temperatures this week, but the humidity for the past couple of days has been intense. Other than dealing with the thick air, I felt pretty good today. After an initial mile around 9:15, we then completed the additional 6+ miles around with an average pace in the mid 8:00s. In total we finished just under 7.5 miles with an average pace of 8:36 per mile.
Beast Mode….ON!