Run Fast?

Ran with my honey.  Freedom festival 10K... 51:46 was the time.

All the time I had... wife wanted to go junking (AKA garage saling).

Easy recovery after the 10K.

More easy base building miles.

Took forever to get going this morning was 2-3 miles before I started feeling better... never felt good.

Easy 7 miles with the wife.  

Ran with the Dixie (the dog).  Smoked her pretty well.  Feel bad for her on fast days with downhills... she loves uphill but hates downhill.

nice walk with the family. 

Just ran around the lindon hills for a while.  Compression shorts = too hot.

Really slow 3 miler pushing the stroller with the kids.  Came home and got sick (stomach flu).  Prolly not going to run wednesday.

Relatively speedy 6 miles.  About 50/50 canal and road.  I was expecting to be more tired after spending wednesday laid up with the stomach flu.  ~46 mins.  Felt really good and could have pushed harder.

Tired... didn't wake up early enough to run. =(

Ran with my honey up the provo river trail and back down ~12.  Felt pain in my shin several hours after but that has faded away this evening.  A bit over 2 hours with some breaks for water and stretching etc.  

Nice canal run.  Really quite humid this morning 40 minutes ~8:00miles.

Ran to the north orem soccer park where I did a couple miles of barefoot running and then ran home.  ~1hr

Supposed to be 13 but it got dark and we got rained on pretty hard. Mommy needed to get back to her baby too. Besides whats a mile among friends ?

Canal to PG... PG to Blockbuster... picked up a movie and ran home.  I love the rain... at first it took my breath away it was so cold, but after a while we got used to it.  A couple of people pulled over and asked if we needed a ride.  We said nah... we are doing this for fun.

~50 mins fairly easy run.  Took about a mile to warm up.

59 mins... roughly 8:30 miles I guess... I felt really tired this morning... it was very hard to get going.  I am not sure I ever felt like I had warmed up during this run.

6 miles at my regular pace.  ~52 minutes or so.  Someday I am going to have to break out of this rut of not being able to go faster.

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.

Good sleep and a long weekend made this an easy run with the stroller.

I had to make a pit stop at lindon park.  Wow, I don't think I have ever had to go so badly before.  Running really tightens up your core.

A little more sleep this week has gone a long way.  Night run last night morning run this morning.  like 15 miles inside of 12 hours.

I had to get back home to get some things done for work.  I work on the stock market and needed to watch the open this morning. So I didn't get the run in I was hoping for.

This was a good race.  I was really glad to meet everyone and put lots of faces to names. I swear that Kim knows EVERYONE.  

Harrumph... the results were posted and my name isn't even in there.  Some sort of error because once again I was dumb.  This time instead of switching my wife numbers I put my bib on backwards so the number wasn't showing.  I was pretty sure that got corrected at the finish line but I guess it wasn't.  I imagine I didn't even have a chance at winning something at the raffle =).

 As for the race description itself.  Ran pretty much the whole thing with Kim.  She had thought she was going to run a slower race.  We started chatting and I guess the conversation was interesting enough that she decided to can the pacing and she stayed with me. The good news is I am pretty sure we negative splitted.  Which I am way excited about. I also learned that Chocolate gus are much better than berry flavors for me.  I am also confident I am going to beat my 4:00 st george goal. This was a good primer race... I liked hobble creek because it gave me an idea of the pounding I will get from all the downhill at st george.  I like this race because its smaller and has some hill in the middle. 

Big hoorah for the Spanish Fork Running Club for putting on a good event.  There was plenty of fruit at the end.  For next year though... don't forget to have gu at the ready!

Got a couple of miles out and got a text message saying servers were down.  A few minutes later got some texts saying everything was normal again. Started heading back home just to check and met up with my folks out walking the dog. Took the dog on another few mile jaunt and then back to my folks to chat.  Apparently my Dad's old co-worker Age 65 just finished the wasatch 100 in under 35 hours.  Which isn't an amazing time, but for a 65 year old ... WOW!

So far 7, may try another 4-5 tonight because I need to get in 10 today... with the rest inbetween I figure 4-5 would make up for me running out of time this morning.

Edit::

 Though silly I might as well record it... I didn't do a double session.  I ended up with some montezuma's revenge.  I am recording it because I would like to see if there is a cycle here.  Maybe I am carrying some sort of periodic bug or something.  Happened last wednesday night as well. I ate jumbalaya at mcGraths and had some sprouts and chicken noodle soup with some sliced cheese when I got home.

Up to late last night... will probably pay for it tomorrow.

Pretty normal 7 along my normal routes.  

no sleep.  Bad news though.  My wife is feeling pain in her knee and bowed out at about mile 13.  She is able to walk without much trouble but her knee was bothering her pretty bad.  I could use a good recommendation for a doctor.  From what she is describing I am voting it-band.

 I finished up the run alone and it went well for me.  I felt like I had the next 6 in me for sure.  I am likely to be sore after the marathon though.  I am not sore now.

Easy miles in the 8 min range.  Felt good... possibly too good I might should have gone running yesterday.

Time was short.

Four with the wife.

Probably a bit shorter than 12.  Canal and street.  Picked up a movie to watch on the way home.  Wife had some tightness behind her trouble knee.  But with a little stretching we finished without incident. She is still really worried about the marathon though.

Felt like I was running pretty fast, I was content with the workout.  Mornings are starting to get colder which isn't good.  But the good news is that I truly love the fall.  The smells and the weather have been great.  Fall is truly my favorite season.  Must be why I got married in the fall.

lots of hill sounded like fun... so I went out and did some.  This was a good run.  My fitness level has improved this year... but I feel like there is a lot more left in there.  And there better be if I ever want to qualify for boston.

Good quick run.

this was split up into two runs... one in the afternoon and one in the evening with a break to watch the kids inbetween.  I hope that double short sessions of 4-5 miles counts in getting in a long run.  It didn't feel to hard so I pushed it a bit in some places.

Well, it was a good race as far as my performance and my goals went.  The rain slowed me down, I ended up with a terrible cramp in my right foot (I think it was due to having wet shoes and feet for 26 miles.)  I bonked real hard at mile 22 after I had a very long pee break, I couldn't get my speed back after this point.  I would have almost certainly broken 3:35 if I hadn't over hydrated and ended up having to slow down for so long.

Overall this race met my expectations.

 I was happy to meet Jodie she was super nice and she did a great job!  And to think she has four kids! 

 It is now hours after the race and I am very very sore.

The race was super well organized and I loved it.  I think I would like to do it again. 

My first run after my first marathon.  The muscles were just a little bit sore.  But my right foot is killing along the bottom outside edge.  This is a new one for me.   I am going to stretch it out for a while and see if I can get it to loosen up.  It was frustrating because other than the foot I felt pretty good.  I was thinking about running a 5k this weekend just to loosen up and have some fun.  I am not certain that is going to be such a great idea now.  I may also need to look at finding some different shoes.  I like the idea of trying some five fingers, but I am worried that they won't be that great on the canal where I do a lot of my running. 

4 miles with the stroller.  Felt really good for the entire run.  Got home and my toenail started to separate.  I was worried about that.  It has actually been quite a painful process.  I have been limping pretty much ever since.  I may try running again later this week just to see how bad that hurts.

Finally a nice run.  It wasn't too long... I can still feel weakness in my lower legs I continually am shifting my stride around to remove possible aches and pains.  but my upper legs feel great and my right foot is feeling good.  Now it is time to choose the next race to prepare for, and I should probably run a more official 5K and figure out what kind of time I can do.  I have a goal of sub 20 mins in a 5k.  I need to assess how far I am from that goal.

Sad I know that it has been so long.  Its been crazy down at work and I know that isn't an excuse.  Did a 5 miler.  Started feeling it in my knees by the end.  I think I am going to have to keep the mileage under 4 for a while and just go every day if not twice a day.

Left IT hurting after just 3 =(

Left IT band really bothering me.  I have signed up for the thanksgiving day 4 miler.  I am just hoping to make it through at this point.

I guess these were probably fairly fast miles.  Left IT band still bugging me... really really bad pain after this run.  Hopefully this knee will calm down for the Turkey trot.

Little to no warm up...(keeping the knee happy) but did do some cool down.   Lungs were struggling a little bit, knee was bothering me.... legs were anemic, and I forgot to eat even a snack much less breakfast.  What can I say?  Not a terribly good run, but not terribly bad..  It was two minutes faster than last year so I can't complain.  If I had kept up my previous fitness level I feel like a 28 was possible.  Seems like I need to get back into a schedule again.  Ran into Sasha and Jeff and had a fun conversation.  I need to hook up with some other people for some training runs.

Easy out and back.  Started with a good hill climb and then just jogged the rest of the way back home.