Running while smoking

The run yesterday was not as planned. I started after Adam Carlisle cooked the Varsity Crew dinner. Although the best part of the dinner was the cookies cooked by LoJo. So, my advice to you is to not start your run as late as I did. Anyways, the air was very smokey from the marsh fire in New Orleans. I ran a short route that I have began doing this summer. The route goes through the campus of LSU and then around the lakes. It is around 6.5 miles. It is also just nice to run through the campus at night.

My run this afternoon was supposed to be for the Team Squish 2-Mile race. I was going to do a 2.5 mile warm up, then a 2 mile time-trial, and then a short warm down. I clicked the start button on my Garmin Forerunner 610, and began the warm up. I have not ran through my parents neighborhood in about 6 months, but I do remember the distances of the streets. When I got to the end of my street, the watch said I had gone an extra .4 miles. I did not understand why it was saying this and it took my mind off of my training. I ended up finishing the run I was going to do. When I was finished I had no idea why it was not saying the correct distance. Then I remembered that I let a guy play with my watch at Varsity Sports, and he switched my distance from miles to Kilometers. It made me laugh, but I can say he bought himself a Garmin 610! So I will do my 2-mile TT tomorrow before I go to Dallas for the LSU vs. Oregon game. While there I will have that post run beer. What do y'all think?