Have a little faith

The monster run with four dead ends on Covecrest, Mathews, Abinidi, Zarahemla, adding .53, .50, .60, & .80 miles respectively.  First time: 1:11:43.

Evening run around Eastwood, listening to Christmas music and looking at the lights.

Monster "E" with the dead ends on Crestview (.5), Mathews (.53), Abinadi (.60), Zarahemla (.8). Met Ray Clawson, a developer who lives at the top of Zarahemla.

Time to top of Gilead was 46:10. Total time 1:08:30.

Savor the hills with the black sheep. Ran in shorts, 37-degrees. Started at Gilmer and 11th, ran to Foothill. Then across Foothill and did a couple steep hill sprints.

The loop through Tanner park with Burke and Kim. Stretched it out a little by running down to Erik's and back. About 7. Ran in shorts.

Drove up to Boise Friday morning, then over to Rexburg in afternoon/evening. Got a hotel, and was alone the entire day with Rosalie and Teresa in SLC. So, I went running...and..running...and...running.  In the morning at about 8:00, I picked up Ryan from Jackie's, and ran out to Sugar City cemetery, where he turned around. I kept going, up 3000 E. to the top (that's a long hill). Met a 20 year old girl in the middle of her 10 miler, so we ran back into town together, stopping where I stashed some gatorade, which was slushy cold and delicious. Her name was Kelsey. Once to the hotel, that was a 14.8 miler.  I was content with this, but got bored, so later I went out again. It was raining/snowing, and I had my tunes. Listening to Prairie Home Companion, I went out to get my first stash of Gatorade, which was about 6 out. I was famished, and barely made it back to Nygaards. All day, all I had had was a cup of hot chocolate in the morning, a bite of a chicken pot pie (awful) at KFC, and a coke. Once at Nygaards, I ate three oranges, a cup of OJ, and several handfull's of cashews. That got me home again, which was very cold. I sat in the hot tub to thaw, then watched television until Rosalie arrived, at about midnight.

Monster in good time. Hit the summit at 26:20, and finished at 49:00

Black sheep at Sugarhouse Park. Ran the loop, then did 4x hills at three hills, and 2x hills on the last one.

16-degrees and nothing but clear sky at 5:45 AM. No clouds. It's going to be one of those magnificent days. Met Burke and Kim. I peeled off when they wanted to stay low. I needed hills, and the beauty of the mountain side.

Run to elbow fork. The 1.5 miles above the gate were slow going, as it snowed about 3" during the night, and it was slippery and soft. Skiers were out, but hadn't packed it down.

Got a little stomach flu Sunday night that kept me from Tuesday's black sheep workout. Then we left for St. George to the Las Vegas bowl. Wednesday morning, with continual rain, Craig Romrell, his girlfriend Grace, and I ran Snow Canyon and back, for 8 miles. The river had washed over the road and trail, closing the road to traffic. We took off our shoes each way, and ran through the river which was about 12" deep. I took a few pictures. Lots of fun, wet and cold.

After driving all morning from St. George, I had dead legs. Needing to get them worked up, I went 6.2 through the Parley's gulch. It is very foggy, which adds to the mistique, and being tomorrow is Christmas eve.

Monster E, on Christmas Eve. Took my time and was a little cold.

Had a nice Christmas day run up Millcreek canyon for 11.

Black sheep morning, hill workout in indian hills. Jeff Staley was there. John not. Also Rob Murphy, who was 2nd in Pocatello half, and a 2:47 marathoner. He's 46 and teaches at Alta.

Coldish (15-degrees) with 3-5" snow on road, and snowing. Met Burke and Lee and ?? and ?? (two other females) and ran a nice route to Parleys, but didn't take the trail, as I'd have liked. May do that tomorrow or Saturday (New Years Day).