I am at the end of a week off work.  I was able to complete some exercise goals and spend some quality time with my girls.  I managed to get the first sunburn I have had in a decade.

Nikeplus.com is a great resource for anyone looking to make jogging more interesting.  I have never had much success distance running on a treadmill because I become bored, even in the 'cardio cinema' at the gym.  Nikeplus provides serious breakdowns of runs, routes, times and calories burned.

Jenna and I moved way out into the country and I found a nice 4.5 mile run.  If you search my name on nikeplus you can see the actual route I will be running when I am not traveling.  It includes a small mountain that makes me feel like Rocky Balboa climbing the stairs of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

It's not K2 or Everest, but I only made it halfway up before I was forced to begin walking.  At the top the view offered a look over a neighborhood, across some farmland and out to the nearest lake and Rocky mountains.  

At the top I drank the rest of my water (I run with a Nathan 4 bottle running belt) and had to slog 2.3 miles back home with a fierce thirst...lesson learned.  This run was the longest i've done since I ran a marathon last year.  I completed this course in 52 minutes and i'm going to make it a regular so I can see how much I can cut the time.