Sean's Running Blog

Took a redeye flight from Seattle to NYC Sunday night. After maybe two hours of sleep on the flight I got to the hotel and had enough time before my meetings to run for the first time in 7 days. It was a great week completely away from running both physically and mentally and now I'm easing back into it with four miles today (7:35 pace). My plan is to take a day off Tues, Thurs and Sat and run 6, 8 and 10 on Wed, Thurs and Sun. Then start ramping the mileage up again Christmas week. Feels good to be running again.

Six easy miles today on a a nice gravel trail near work. A balmy 48 degrees today. I was way overdressed. Ran 6:50 pace which was faster than I wanted but it felt fine. Rest tomorrow then 8 on Friday and 10 on Saturday with a rest on Sunday.

A nice easy 10 miles (6:50s) today on the newly discovered Preston-Snoqualmie trail. It's all paved but goes six-plus miles through some of the most gorgeous terrain I've ever been in. It's one of the many old railroad tracks that have been converted into public trails and it goes from Preston to Snoqualmie falls. I didn't have time to reach the Falls today but I'm planning on going back tomorrow.

After yesterday's beautiful run, I realized that I was very close to my house during part of the run. So today I left my house -- in pouring rain -- and went down one of the many barked trails we have in our community which leads to the Preston-Snoqualmie trail. Getting to the trail from my house takes me through .75 miles of some of the most densely forested hills on the planet. It was very muddy so I couldn't run very fast but I was in awe of the beauty. Once I reached the bottom of the hill and got on the main trail, I headed east for a view of Snoqualmie Falls. It was gorgeous. Turned around and headed to Preston to finish up my 10 miler. I love running here even in the pouring rain.