old feller

Another great Thursday morning run.  Shan and I did the 10 mile loop in 1:39.43.  Very, very happy with that although we need to start and finish at the exact same spot for our improving times to be totally legit.  I'm an anal SOB when it comes to measuring my performance but that's okay.  One consistent thing is that I've started my watch the exact same place the last 2 times we've done the big loop.  We park in the YMCA parking lot and take the trail down towards Cesar Chavez between the baseball diamonds.  I start my watch not very far from the parking lot and then we end at the cross walk on Cesar Chavez just west of Lamar.  When Shan stopped her garmin this morning it said 9.94.  I was so fricking done and there was no way I was doing another .06.  Weak I know, but that's the deal.  All that being said the bottom line is that we knocked a full 5 minutes off our time from just 2 weeks ago.  I'm very sure I have the foam roller, extra stretching and the new push up routine to thank for the faster running.  I've never forgotten a 90 minute 10 miler I did at Townlake in probably '99 or '00.  I wonder.......if that could be done by this old feller again?