Perham, MN

The goal on our road trip was to get in a few runs. We got in 1. Nice. To our defense, it was REALLY humid. But a better excuse was that we were just too tired to get our butts out of bed. I'm glad we at least ran once because even though I lost 10 pounds of water it was a really cool run.

My mom, aunt Kathy & aunt Jodi ran part of the way with us and then made their way back. Tom and I ran out to the lake to see if any of our family would be awake and then we headed back and zig zagged through town while Tom told me stories of the "olden days".

It was a cool run because we started out in the quaint city of Perham and ran out to the lake which felt really country. Tom chatted with a cousin who was the only one awake while I jumped in the lake to cool off. Before we left back to town I had my dad's cousin squirt me down with the hose! It was that sweaty. We headed back into town and made our way through the neighborhood. Our pace reflects our walking through town.

**STATS**
Date: 7/17/2011
Distance: 7.95 miles
Time: 1:34:13
Pace: 11:52/min/mile
Temperature: 75 with 94% humidity!
Time of day: 6:22 a.m

I forgot to take pictures when we got back to the hotel so I stole some pics off the internet to show some of the things we saw.

Where Perham, MN is on the map

More or less our route

Starting line...our hotel

Sites we saw as we ran through town

Little Pine Lake. It didn't look like this when we got there. It was hazy with the humidity!

My grandma's house when she was a child. We stopped here and spoke with the current owner.

Awesome run. Too bad we only did it once. It was way too hot...even at 6am.

13 miler

I had planned a 13 to 14 miler (whatever it would end up being) for me and my dad to run. I wanted to revisit the Ogden Parkway. The last time we ran there it was a bit rough on my dad (remember he fell?). I wanted to conquer the entire path. I told my dad I would be at his house right after he got out of church because I knew it would be getting hot later that day. But my dad took his sweet time getting home and by the time he walked in the door I wanted to call off the run. It was already getting hot and frankly I was mad he took so long getting home. He put on his sweet face and talked me into still doing the run. He said it would be "good for us" to run in the heat. He always tells me that when he was younger he would get off work and go running in the high heat. He always thought it was good to train like that. hmmmm OK

When we pulled into the parking lot and the car said 88 degrees I told him we were crazy. Luckily we both packed our large water bottles but I will tell you it didn't matter. I needed to carry a water cooler! By mile 3 I was stopping to jump in the river. I ended up diving into the river a total of 5 times to cool off. I had to force my dad into the river in fear of him overheating. I don't know how he didn't keep getting in the river because every time I got in the river it bought me my next mile. When we made it to the pond I told my dad we should just run around the pond two times instead of going all the way to the end of the parkway because I needed to stay near the river. I can't remember what mile it was but we hit Washington Blvd and I had to ask the owner of a restaurant if he would be kind enough to fill my water bottle because I had run out of water and I seriously started feeling lightheaded. The cold ice water revived me a bit and we continued on. But within a few miles we were walking the majority of the time. I was determined to make at least 13 miles, so that's what we did. But most of the end was of us walking.

After we were done Tom told me I was right and that really was dumb! Geez, sometimes I have to teach my dad some stuff.

**STATS**

Distance: 13.00 miles
Time: 2:36:39
Pace: 12:03/min/mile
Temperature: 88!
Time of day: 10:43 a.m