Father's Day Sundown Run

This year was my first year to celebrate Father's Day as a father.  To be completely honest I did feel a little honored today.  My wife had to work today, unfortunately, but that let me hang out with my wonderful Little Girl one-on-one.  It's amazing being a dad and I love it.  At first I planned to drive to Exeter to run in the foothills out there.  A fellow DailyMiler, Rob, told me about a trek that he does out there.  After waking up at 542 this morning asking my wife when she had to be at work, 6 am by the way, I never went back to sleep and wasn't motivated that early to go run.  So I hung out with my girl till around 1030 until I took her to her Grandma's house so I could go do some stuff.  I went to Visalia and walked around Sport Chalet for a while.  I'm currently looking for a better hydration system than the one I have, which is to carry a bottle of water with me and throw it away when it's empty.  I'm still at an impasse with that one.  I'll get to that in a later post.  I also went to Costco to get some things.  Walking to the car I made the decision to just drive out to Exeter and see these hills.  Holy cow was my first impression.  I actually think I drove it in reverse from what Rob said, but wow these hills are way more than anything I'll have to run in my Half.  The scenery is beautiful out there too.  I'm planning on going this up coming Sunday if anyone would like to join me. For Father's day my mother-in-law got me $50 worth of Applebee's cards and my wife didn't feel like cooking so Lilly, wife, and I went there for dinner.  I ate a lot.  I mean a whole lot.  Even Desert, which I hardly ever do.  I ate this meal with bittersweetness though cause I knew that I still had a run to do.  A 10 mile run in fact.  After letting my food "settle" for an hour or two I decided that 10 miles was a little far.  It was getting late and I don't feel safe running at night (no lights, crazy drivers, rough neighborhoods). So I went on my 10K route but this time I went backwards.  I set a personal best with this one running it in 49:23.  My last mile was 7:29.7.  That's pretty good for me.  Normally I use an iPhone app called RunKeeper (also available for Android OS 2.0).  But my phone has been on the fritz lately and the app fails to open.  I'm sure that it's my phone.  RK usually tells me my distance time and pace with audio cues.  Without those cues though I just ran my hardest for as long as I could.  I got home right as the sun dropped behind the mountains to the west (of course it was those).  It was an awesome ending to a decent day.  Maybe my Father's Day 10K will be better next year.