Artichoke's Running Blog (Ken Spence)

5 miles at 5:00 a.m. easy run along Skyline to Grimm's Gate back via the lower loops.  The moon looked really weird coming up over the Oquirrh Mountains this morning.  20 degrees.

5 miles at 5:30 p.m. in 45:58 on the Westland route coming back along 200 North and over to 100 West coming home.  Fairly easy effort.  Back okay until after I was done.  Generally doing better, but need to be cautious.   

5 easy recovery miles at 5:00 a.m.  Skyline standard route and back along the lower loops.  30 degrees and clear.

5 miles at 5:00 a.m. easy run.  Ran a bit with Liz and Roland on Skyline and back via lower loops.  40 degrees.

4 miles at 5:30 p.m.  Nice to run with some daylight.  Westland loop.  Slight pickups on Coleman.  My back is still hurting, but tolerable. 

5 very slow easy miles at 5:00 a.m.  Did the Upland and Loma Vista loops going up and through Elk Ridge loop and Skyline coming back home.  Back not good this morning.

5 miles at 5:00 a.m.  30 degrees.  Easy run along Skyline to Grimm's gate and back via the lower loops.

18 miles at 8:00 a.m.  2:42:41 or 9:02 average pace.  With Tina for about 11.  Smelter Road hills to 6 miles then back down and through Erda and to the north end of Stansbury.  38 degrees and cloudy starting out.  A lot of runners on the hills today, including Pat who's headed to Boston with me next month.  Didn't set out any water.  Stupid.  Stupid.  Stupid. I've never ever done that on a long run in 28 years, so why do I try it now at age 55!  I'm an old man for crying out loud!  Tina ran out of petrol about 1.5 miles from the end.  I didn't fair much better.  Glad she had some bottles of water in her car as we drove home.  We were both feeling like crap.  My back loosened up after about 7 miles and felt fairly good until about16.  Somewhat encouraging run.  52 miles this week.