Run Fast?

Its too hot to run after 8:00AM.  Easy run, but it took too long. 

49 mins.  Just wanted to do an easy run round the hood so to speak.  Added a little extra hill at the end to slow myself down a bit but I kept it easy and kept myself aerobic.

Not bad.  Did it with the stroller and my two kids.  This is about the same time I did this race in last year but this year I did it with the stroller.  So an improvement for sure.

Bad news was that I was the second stroller.  My brother was number 1 stroller at 20:48... way faster than me.  I am sure quite a few runners were thinking... holy cow... a stroller.

~58mins with the race just 12 hours earlier this felt like a good run.

Got out a little late this morning.  Man its hot by 8:00AM.  Regular ~8 min mile pace.  Someday I will break past this pace. 

~40 minutes.  Really tough hill at the end (for me anyway). Looks like we will get the total for this week over 40 and I will have run 6 days.  That is really good.  Eventually I am shooting for 50-60 miles a week.. So I am excited about these results. 

long runs take a long time.  a little sore in my knees but manageable.

45 mins though it was probably shy of a true 6.

round the hood. 1 hr 2 mins.  A little under my target mileage but I needed to be home before 7:30

Pushed the stroller.  night run.

Not particularly difficult.... starting to notice a little pain in the balls of my feet after these long runs.  

Took this really easy in an attempt to try and go hard for the last mile.  Pulled off the last mile in ~6:30 which I feel pretty good about.  I didn't have much left at the end but could have kept the pace for a little while longer I think.   Seeing as this is more or less my target split for a 5K I have been making some improvement.  

After the evening run this felt pretty slow.  52mins or so.  Checked out the new lindon path and went under state street... More concrete than I would like to see but it will be nice to have the path regardless.

 

Need more sleep.  It seems to start to hit me every week on wednesday that I am not getting enough sleep.

evening run with stroller.  final hills made it hard but manageable.

For starters... I was pretty, ok... not just pretty, VERY, frustrated at the number of slow runners who started at the front.  I looked at the pack.... said I expect to be top 300 or so... which puts me ... about here.   It took about 40 seconds for me to even hit the start line (walking mind you).  I counted 36... but very slowly.  And then the first mile couldn't have broken 9:00 due to the weaving passing and luckily not swearing... (but I thought about it).

Well, I was hoping to find Kim out there somewhere and run with her.   Instead I ran with a very nice lady named Heidi from Orem. I ran with Heidi till the 10 mi marker and decided that I had a little more gas so I might as well burn it.  Hit mile marker 12 and struggled a little to hang on.  Hit the finish line sprinting so I backed off too much in mile 12.  Oh well.  I am really uncertain as to the time.  I am pretty sure it was under 1:45. Funny thing is that apparently my wife and I exchanged numbers.  so I am picking up my shirt and the lady says... womens medium eh???  Thinking to have caught me using someone else's number...  Which I had albeit rather innocently... (oops don't ban me next year) So I picked up a women's medium and then waited for my wife to cross.  Which she did at 2:04 ish.  Which is awesome for her!

All in all I had too much left in the tank.  I shoulda pushed the middle miles harder.  But seeing as this was just to prove to myself that I can pull off st george in 4 hrs... I am pretty sure I succeeded at that.

 I should add that I was a total dork at the end of the race.  During my final sprint I saw two ladies way out ahead of me and decided to catch them... I crossed the finish line just barely ahead of them but the skinney sojourner dude made me hold up and let them pass me.  Which I objected to because I had passed them right at the line.  But the objections were retarded, the time was the same, and in the end who really cares?

Updated the official time according to the online results. 

No sleep work kept me up.  Then I got called back from my run before I was ready.  Oh well... stuff happens.

exhausted this week.  Need more sleep.  did this run in the evening instead.

1:17 ~8:30 ish a mile.