Cool angles, originally uploaded by sealexander2010.

I love having a camera with me all of the time – even if it’s my phone! The fact that my phone has a built in 2MP camera is great…

Note the shadows on the right as well – I almost missed them when I spotted this shot. They are caused by the convex design and curvature of the windows.


taken by me!, originally uploaded by sealexander2010.

I took this interesting angle photo after taking a photo class put on by Sony. Their advice – take at least one photograph every single day… I’m not sure I do that, but have been trying. My new phone (the one responsible for the running shots) is a 2MP camera which takes great shots (for a phone, anyway). Since I have like a billion messages I can send every month (500 per month, actually), I will do my best to send them as often as I can and TRY to send them daily!

This was at the start of my 6 mile solo run on Saturday… waiting for Sara to join me…


Solo 6 miler… it was interesting doing this alone!

Activity

Route: West Creek Elev. Avg: 0 ft
Location: Goochland, VA Elev. Gain: +0 ft
Date: 06/23/07 Up/Downhill: [+0/-0]
Time: 06:30 AM Difficulty: 0 / 5.0
Weather: Fair
60F temp; 69% humidity
60F heat index; winds Calm

Performance

Distance: 6.12 miles
Time: 1:00:00
Speed: 6.1 mph
Pace: 9′ 48 /mi
Calories: 1080

Notes

Solo 6 miler

Map

Elevation (ft.)


Original photo – S E Alexander

Cool shot of the sunrise and the clouds that were moving out after a Friday night rain… West Creek in Goochland County, VA

I have been continuing to trog through my weekly runs… Monday / Tuesday runs are the hardest since they are on my own. For example, I ran 3 1/2 miles this morning on the treadmill. Since school is now out, I got to sleep in a bit – and the gym was still crowded at 6 AM… Wednesday / Thursday runs have gotten better. While it is harder to run at night due to the summer heat, we’ve pushed the time back to 7 pm when it’s a bit cooler. We ran 5+ each of the past two weeks on Wednesday. While it’s a smaller group, it is definitely better than running on the treadmill solo.

On Saturday, we moved the run to an industrial park in the next county west of us. It is really close, about 3 miles west of us and, for now, a low-traffic route.

I just ran across (pun intentional) an article from a runner’s world blog. Since several of us have discussed this, I thought it was worth sharing. It discusses how to determine and change your running cadence which will decrease your chance of injury while increasing your speed — a really good combination!

http://rodale.typepad.com/coachjenny/2007/05/run_faster_easi.html

Today, I checked my cadence at 6.1 MPH – 182 (91 left steps in 1 minute)… now to go back and read what that means! I’ll try to do the same tomorrow when we run outside.