Day 294

• 6.22 miles
• 7:39/mile pace
• 0635
• Richmond, CA
• Running in cooler weather is a much more comfortable experience -- seeing highway signs for Sacramento during my run kept me focused on the California International Marathon that I need to sign up for as well...though it didn't make me speed up at all because, well, I didn't feel like speeding up at all.

Day 253

• 7.04 miles
• 7:06/mile pace
• 0435
• Richmond, CA
• I remain concerned that the "base mileage" period of this training plan I'm following seems much harder than my preconceived notion of "base mileage" should be.   Warmed up for 10 minutes, then ran 30 minutes at 6:42/mile pace, finished with 10 minutes more relaxed.   The 6:42/mile pace was supposed to be 6:40/mile, so I felt like a failure, except that I did live through the run, even though it was in Richmond, CA, so I'm trying to give myself credit for that at least.
• It was another very windy morning.

Day 252

• 6.2 miles
• 7:12/mile pace
• 0540
• Richmond, CA
• Very strong headwind on the 'out' leg portion and equally strong wind on return...didn't intend to run this hard, but didn't want to run too slow, so pushing through the wind ended up resulting in a faster than anticipated pace, which I didn't want to negatively impact when turning around to run with the wind, so, whatever.  
• Found out after the run that Richmond, CA is the per capita murder king, having the highest numbers, woohoo!, glad I lived.