relentless forward progress

Because i am a silly person i showed up at Scotts at 5 instead of 7 and wondered where everyone was. This after talking with Scott on Saturday about meeting at 7 and a reminder text lol. So i drive down to Matts and ran an out and back on the Murdock trail because i thought i had missed them. I left my phone home so i couldn't check it. The run was great. The weather was nasty at my house but nice in AF. I was stretching in front of Matts after the run when his light turned on. I realized what i had done right about the time he poked his head outside and asked me what i was doing. Haha :). I considered running another 10 but headed home instead. Sorry i missed you guys today! Merry Christmas! 6:52

Perfect day today. Waited until about 11:30 to head out in the sun. Got into a nice groove on the golf course loop and just enjoyed it. Picked it up a little throughout and put a couple marathon pace miles at the end. Merry Christmas! 6:30

Off the ice and to the gym for an easy run to check in with the HR. Wore the monitor today and set the pace and forgot about it for the duration. Avg HR for the run was 131 @ 6:53 avg pace. Pretty happy with this but I know I can improve. Much better than where I was last year. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/254663536

Also got about an hour of weights in. This trailer was posted on letsrun and looks amazing. http://youtu.be/_g3uX6Z5-kc

10 miles of work from the soccer park in Orem. I thought i was solo this morning but Jacob showed up about 5:05 so we set out up the canyon in 6-7 inches of fresh snow. It was tough but fun. We went to the water fountain before we decided it was a little too deep and turned back. We did a few loops around the park and then Jacob called it a day at 6.5 miles. I ran an out and back in the deep snow on the Murdock trail to make it 10. The 8:15 pace suggests it was an easy run but the effort felt closer to 6:30 pace. Glad i got out in it today. It was a great strength training session. Rocky IV style haha.

Pm - 6.2 easy on the mill. 7:00 

Too much snow and ice out today so I slept in and went to Golds for a progressive tempo. 5 mile warmup 7:30 - 6:30. Then the work miles were 6:16, 6:00, 5:53, 5:46, 5:39, 5:22. I felt really strong throughout today and in control and thought about pushing one more mile but decided to leave with some more in the tank. Cooled down 1.5 miles at 6:35 (funny how easy that feels after some fast miles). Saw Lily there throwing down some miles as usual. Happy Friday!

I would like to run some shorter distance races (5k and 10k) just to see how it would come out. I would love to get my PR's down and think that I am in shape to do so. So inexperienced at them, I need some practice :).

15 easy then 6:11, 6:00, 5:56, 5:52, 5:49 on the last 5. Strong and smooth. Very happy with this week. Easy 1/2 mile walk after. 6:40