Runsploring West Coast Edition

I have managed to do a run everyday for 40 days (20 in Massachusetts and 20 in California) with a total distance of 115 miles I’ve gotten to do some really great runs while I’ve been in California including running on Mt. Wilson Trail in Sierra Madre, running with Gary in Peters Canyon, and running along the Santa Ana River My fastest 5k run of the year was the first week I was out here running around Gary and Kyle’s neighborhood (I plotted a course to avoid traffic lights). My total time was 31:48 with a pace of 10:14/mile. I’ve come close to beating that on my last two 5k runs, but that is still my time to beat for 2026. I am working on covering as many streets as possible in Framingham using CityStrides and before the trip I manged to get a lot of new streets. I have now covered 27% of the streets in, which is more than all but six other people in Framingham (that also use CityStrides). With all of runs this week I am currently in 20th place in the city of Orange, but I only have <…