:)

this was a good run. i came up with a new pr course of 6 miles which i'm going to call spring creek 6 - basically, it's cemetery 7 from our house, minus the cemetery/carleton part. nice route, a couple mild hills with a long downhill finish and a short, steep uphill at the very end.
the best part about the run wasn't my time, though i was pretty happy with that - 42:01 (and it's actually 5.9 miles, so the pace wasn't exactly 7:00, it was 7:07). the best part was that i didn't really want to do this run today. i dragged my sleepy ass out of bed at 6:30 and started hydrating, planning to go when it was light enough (around 7:15). 7:15 came and i convinced myself that i could wait a little longer, which only made me more drowsy until i finally decided to just eat breakfast and try to squeeze the run in later. we met with a recruit at 9:45 and there was the perfect amount of time to go between that and lunch with her, so i made myself go. as soon as i started, i felt pretty good, but my left calf felt a little tight; since i strained a calf last fall and spent a couple of months not running, i was mildly concerned and started thinking...hmm, i could cut this off at jefferson parkway and make it the 4.5 mile pr loop that i used to do. i even started thinking about my blog post - planning to start it with a frowny face as the title and proceed to justify cutting the run short. when i got to jefferson, my calf had calmed down a bit and i told myself to stop being a wuss and just do the damn run.
now, i'm so glad i did, but i'm a bit concerned about having to do this again in two weeks and try to shave time off. actually, no i'm not. there's no way that was as fast as i could run. it was only as fast as i wanted to run.