Easy run. Average pace: 9:32. 5:05 am, 58°F, 41% humidity, wind 4 SSE. The 6-mile easy run makes a frequent appearance in my training these days. I've decided to turn it into 1-hour easy instead, which takes me just a little past 6 miles. I have two standard 6-mile routes. I ran the slightly hillier one this morning. I don't run this route as often as my other 6-mile route. Splits were 9:49, 9:56, 9:39, 9:25, 9:16, 9:13. I've been thinking about whether I should make my son walk to seminary in the morning. I've thought of a couple of other benefits to my running early enough to take him to seminary. The biggest one is that I am home when my other two boys are getting ready and leaving for school (they go about a half hour after I get back from the seminary drop-off). I'm not home when they get home from school, so it's nice for me to be here in the morning for them. The other benefit is that I'm getting to work on time, which I wasn't doing when I was running later. So I think I'll stick with running at about 5:00 am and driving him to seminary. That works as long as my run is no longer than 8 miles. On the occasions when I have a longer run, which will happen sometimes, he'll have to walk. I told him that this morning and he wasn't too happy.
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