Have a little faith

Late start this morning, but after all the high and jr. high school traffic settled down, I went up to Neff's canyon by way of Oakridge. Lengthened out the run a little and gave it more of a loop feel rather than out-and-back. Light snow made it quite slippery.

Snow gate and back up Millcreek Canyon. Needed some mileage, missing the black sheep speed workout yesterday. 1hr 29min.  Pace 8 mpm

From 20th & 33rd, went canal road, adding .5 miles to last Thursday's run, at 1hr 11min. Same group. Pace = 7.55 MPM

Went to the gate - 11 miles with two 2-mile tempo's. Made rattlesnake in 17:49 (good time), hit the bridge near church fork at 29:48 (good time), then the 5800' sign at 33:15. So the two+ tempo miles form snake to 5800 was 15 minutes (12:30 minutes in reverse). Slowed down some and hit the gate at 44:30. Would have made elbow by 1:00 but turned around.  Turned up at the stop sign 1.5 miles to Mt. Olympus , then home. 14 mile run in 1:50.  A good time, and I didn't feel 100%. My stomach felt crowded. 

Easy early morning loop around eastwood at 5:40 AM. 59:40

Early run. Went across wasatch pedestrian bridge, all the way 1.5 miles to top of Gilead, back down and then up to Neff's Canyon, and home. Felt way nice to climb those hills.

A ringing wet one. Rained then snowed. Started at 43-deg. Ended at 35-deg. Went the 13.35 route to 7-eleven at base of canyons, and back through holladay to S-curve, up berkshire.  Stopped my watch at 1:40:00, Changed out of my  heavy wet shirts and gloves and into dry (except shoes which were soaked too but...) Got a drink and left again. Went up to top of Gilead 2.8 miles 28 mins, gaining ~800 feet, so not too bad being tired and wet with slushy ground snow. Retract up to Neff's trail head, and down to canyon road. Up the 1.33 miles to water tanks, again gaining ~400 feet, then back to canyon road. Turned up the 0.5 miles to fee station, and finially home.  The second route was 9.5 miles, and it took 1:30:00 way slow but cold and wet slowed me down. Didn't have any nourishment except for 20 oz gatorade. A little weak. Overall 22 miles in 3:10. Under such conditions, I'm pleased. Need to work on hills and speed now for the next two weeks.

Slow and stiff from Saturday's 23. Hit 5.5 at 1:00. Made it back down in 0:45.

"When the earth and sky are both in flames, where does the eagle land?  He flies until he falls" Billy Mills.

Black sheep group; ran st. mary's foothills. I pushed but held back. Was stiff at first. Then as most of the group were tiring, I was just starting to feel loose. We ended with 7. 

Holladay loop without the canal road. Casey, Kathryn, Barb and John cut short. Burke, Johanna, Lisa, ?, and I went long. Good run at ~7.5 pace. 1:08. 36-deg in shorts.

Long and slow. Across Parley's Canyon, down and around Sugarhouse Park, up to Tanner's Park, through the gulley and across the freeway, up into the foothills near the water tanks, and home. Started out at 28-degrees. Ended at 31-degrees 2 hours later. Wanted to got 18, but needed to see the YSA basketball game. Red Rock Marathon in two weeks.  Felt slow having run for the last two weeks in shorts, but this time needing my long pants. Actually it was slow. That's what I get from a combination enchalada / taco plate at Tres Hombres the night before.

Eastwood loop 53:30 ~ 7.5 mile pace

Neff Canyon trail head, 37 minutes ~ 8.0 pace.

Holladay loop, 1"-2" wet slushy snow with Lisa, John, Burke, Barb.

With Froerer, went up to top of Gilead, back over to Neffs, down to MCC stop sign where we did three sprints, pumping up our already hot legs with lactic acid.  Actually hit the "wall" on the last two sprints. Then, worked our way up MCC to Log Haven where Rosalie pick us up. About 1600' elevation gain across the 10 miles.