Artichoke's Running Blog (Ken Spence)

6 miles in 52:42.   8:47 pace.  With Tina at 8:00 a.m.  Cold, but clear morning.  Good to have the fog gone.  30-35 degrees.  Tempo pace for a mile or so.  Hamstring feeling pretty much normal. Two other runners out on the route today.

5 miles easy at 9:00 a.m. solo on my standard route on Skyline to the gate and back.  Cold, but sunny day.  

4 miles easy at 8:45 a.m.  Light rain and gusty south winds.  Southwest quadrant loop to Main and Vine, down Vine to C&G, and zig-zag back home into the wind.  A bit sluggish.

5 TM miles in 46:30.  Progression run from 10:00 min. pace to 8:20 pace.  Plugged into the I-pod today.  I don't normally do that, but too much TM drives me nuts.  Should have put on the spikes and hit the road this morning.  It's only going to get colder the next few days. Saturday's low is supposed to be zero with a high of 19 degrees. BuRRRR!!!!

4 TM miles.  35:41.  Progression from 10:00 min. pace finishing at about 7:45 pace.  Tina and I wussed on the long run today.  6 or 8 inches of snow on the roads, and nothing plowed this morning.  Roads are very slick out here.  13 degrees.  Maybe tomorrow with spikes.  We'll see.  Met with Pat and Michelle last night to plan Boston trip for April.  It will be here before we know it.

10 miler at 10:30 a.m.  Solo on New Year's Day.  15 degrees, partly sunny.  Icy, slick roads except for Main St. and lower Skyline.  Tooele east bench got 14" of snow yesterday.  What a mess!  Wore my pull over spikes and lost one twice, but was able to retrieve them.  Pretty slow running.  Dressed pretty warm.  Hamstring did okay. 34 miles this week.