Hurt so good.

Met with Ken and Riley from 31st street parkway and did a 5 mile out and back. Think this was my fastest 10 mile run since January 1st! So legs are coming around and my confidence is growing daily. 

I officially hired Riley Cook as my new Coach/Nutritionist for a hefty price(things just come cheap these days!) So I expect myself with the help of my new coach of course to be in 2:25 marathon shape by STG. #crossedovertothedarkside

Avg pace 6:58 min/miles 

Easy run with Jon from my place, did a flat loop through Harrisville. Felt a little dehydrated today on my run, probably from the hot weather yesterday. So need to make sure I am on top of my fluids especially today. Doing my first track workout tomorrow since surgery. Probably going to do 12X200, something simple and short just get the legs moving. I will ask Coach Cook though to see what he thinks.

 avg pace 7:30 min/miles

Met @ Jon's house with Bret and headed up to the canal rd. Ran to Parson's Gravel pit and turned back around. Good solid run, couple of 8 min miles climbing up to the trail then sub 7 min pace the rest with the last 2 miles roughly at 6:15 pace.

Going to double before work. Small workout with some 200 repeats.

P.M

1 mile warm

8x200 meter repeats w/200 jog

1 mile cool

Felt good for my first workout since the knee surgery, I have along ways to go but glad I have til October be back into shape.

Loop through North Ogden on the Canal Rd. Nice and cool morning today, feel blessed to be out running.

Been working on my deck in the backyard, its all I could fit in.

 avg pace 7:24 min/miles 

Met up with Jon @ Rainbow Gardens today to start a bike ride up the Ogden Canyon. But that was shut down fast by Highway Patrol. So rode down the parkway for a couple miles and then on the way bike I took a nasty spill on the bike. Think I broke my wrist or sprained it very badly. Can't move my arm above my head without pain and major bruising on my hip. So needless to say the bike ride was cut short and so Jon and I drove to the Ogden Finish line to cheer on my brother and friends. Ran a half mile up on grant avenue and came bike.

Was going to run later but I have gotten pretty sore as the day has gone on, hopefully by monday I will be good to go. So anyway I have decided that I am ready to train again with intensity. I have looked up and down on workouts that I have done since 2009 and I think I have in mind a pretty good schedule to gradually introduce and get me to where I need to be for STG. But first my weight needs to come back down to 148, as of right now I am at 166. Which is good because I was at 174 a month ago, also I need to be on top of my mileage and build back to high 70 to low 80 mile weeks. Which is coming it will take about 6 more weeks to get there. So here is to happy training, begins Monday!