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Hartley Trails with Tammy!

December 22, 2016 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: nearly 30, nice

Comments:
Up early and left my uncle's by about 7:30. Big day today with two coaching sessions:

- with Tammy, my former "4th grade love interest", in Duluth
- with Michelle, another new client, in west MPLS

Met Tammy at St. Scholastica (a private college in Duluth that she attended). They had a nice, new indoor track facility, so we used that to work on things. She never ran in HS, but is pretty dang fast now (3:30 marathon), but dang, she's the most talented - but has the worst stride - of perhaps ANY of my clients. Just doesn't use her hips well, and over-strides. So we worked on pawback, and sprint mechanics (strides, etc), which was really good.

Then, I followed her to a nearby park for a trail run. God bless the "fat tire bikes", as the tamp down the snow to make the trails super-runnable. Wound up running 5 miles in just under an hour in beautiful conditions. Really fun!

Cool - and surreal - to spend time with her. She was literally like my first-ever "girlfriend" at age 10, and my mom is still obsessed with her. Oh, what could've been had paths crossed earlier... :-p

After that, I headed downtown to get coffee for my drive south...