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Mar 11, 2007

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AM 10 miles XC team workout. Did a Sugar House Grass lap and then we moved to hill number 3 on the state course. We played 21, and did 400 meter hills. First round went three repeats and Patrick won. Nice to see him push for a reason to win. The way the 21 game works in a nutshell is: You run the hill and jog back (400 hard up and 400 recovery back), I deal out a card in the order of finish at the top. Then we run the hill again and return, deal out another card. Now comes the fun apart, You don't know who has what so there is some bluffing involved. If you are the first to the top of the hill with a 21 you are the winner of that round. So you may be fifth to the top but if you are the first 21 you win. No one with a 21 can beat you. It makes everyone really push, even if they don't have 21, because they love to bluff the potential winners and make them really work for the win. If no one had 21 in that round you deal out another card or they can stand on what they have. Then you run again and repeat up to 5 times. Maximum 5 cards. If you have the closes to 21 and are the first one to the top after the fifth card, you are the winner or if you don't bust you are an automatic winner if you took all 5 cards. So Our first round went 3 hill repeats. Then we played again but changed it to only 200 meters of hill. The second round went all 5 cards so 6 times up to the top:) Taylor won he was holding on a 20. Ran back to where the cars were to put away the cards and then added a grass lap and some running by the stream to get the even ten for the morning. The river is going down at the park now so we can start doing some ice bathes there. Some of the Alta girls were playing in the water after their workout. 

PM 6 miles on the Des News Marathon course. Started at 3.75 mile mark and ran up the canyon for one mile, turned around and ran to the little mountain emigration turn and  then back up to the car. This part of the course has more rolling than you think so it is a nice change up before having to tackle little mountain in the race.  When I got back to the car some bikers were coming off the pioneer trail that is by the bathroom, so I walked down it a mile to see how it would be as a running trail. Looked good as far as I went. If anyone has ran it before, how far can you go and is it a good running trail. Driving home I was amazed how big the full moon was as it came up over the mountain and lite up little dell reservoir. Nice night for a run. Averaged 7:15 but first mile up hill took 9:45.

 

 

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