22 miles this morning. I ran a combination of 3 different routes; hospital loop, desperate housewives and Ryan's loop. I started with the hospital loop and right away I knew my Garmin was going to have issues. I should have registered 1 mile as I passed K-Mart but it didn't beep until I'd crossed the freeway and was near Famous Dave's. That should have been a clue to run off of time and not my Garmin's distance. Anyway, I finished the loop and was in dire need of a bathroom as I approached Starbucks and Fred Meyer at 5 miles. After taking care of business I continued up Boones Ferry, onto Ibach and then the rest of D.H loop. I made my to the Commons around 8:00 am and was a little disappointed I hadn't jumped in the Crawfish 5K after seeing all the participants lined up to start the race. I looped around the art walk twice, ate some Hammer Gel and then finished off the morning on Ryan's loop. The plan was to run 20, thus giving me my first 100 mile week. I decided to run 1 mile extra just to make sure it was legit, but after getting home and mapping out the course on the computer, I see I ran 22 miles total. My Garmin is worthless here with all the trees. Absolutely worthless. I guess if 21 miles is good, 22 is better, right? I felt pretty good throughout and hope to recover this weekend. All in all, I'm pretty pumped to finally reach 100 miles in one week. I've tried for it on 3 separate weeks (June 2009, July 2009 and July 2010) but have never gotten over the hump (90, 91, 93). I don't think I'll make it a habit--it's a lot of running and therefore time away from family and more important things. But it's cool to achieve a goal and we'll see if the miles pay off come October.
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