The little fist of fury

Good 8 mile run with Coach Fielding, good to catch up with him. I signed up for the marathon and the squaw 50 as well, so I'm feeling motivated and excited right now. 

Ran the Mayor's loop, then met up with Sam to do a little trail run on prospector trail. Good times. 

Ran with Coach, and met his cool friend named Trevor. It was a good run, both good dudes, lots of farting, so you know that creates and instant bond between runners. Got back home, saw my boy Ryan P, ran and caught up with him and chatted for a bit. It's going to be a good day. 

Nice run with Anna, including some 200 m finishes, then did a couple more miles on my own. 

I paced Anna for her 800m time trial today, and she beat her PR, she ran a 2.25. I was sooooo proud of her, it was just awesome to see her hard work pay off. I wish she could have had this season, but I'm just proud of her. 

Nice run this morning with Logan and Trevor, and after 6 miles we met up with Aaron Metler (?), the guy from stg who's beaten me every year in the marathon and won that silver shoe award. Anyway, it was fun to actually meet him and run with him. Our pace was below 6.30 almost the whole time, so that was pretty sweet. 

Man, those adidas have a ton of miles on them. Nice loop run around the mayors loop, and then drove up to SLC

Got up at 4 for a military physical, thouroughly exhausted, did not find the time to run.

Fun afternoon run with Logan, then we jumped in his parents pool afterwards, which felt fantastic. Had an interesting discussion with my mom about dating today that was on my mind a bit as well. No one reads this, so whatever, but it was cool

morning run with Logs

Nice run with Coach along the river trail, and then through some neighborhoods. 

This was a great day. I ran out to crimson cliff track, and helped pace some of the high school girls in their mile time trial. Then I paced Anna in her 800, and she ran a 2:22!!! That was a HUGE pr for her, and I'm just so proud of her. These are weird times, but I admire the way that she has dealt with it all. Love that girl. 

I finished up by running around until I got around 15 miles. Later, I swam for a couple of hours with the Wisans, then went on a 5 mile evening mountain bike ride. Mileage may have been a tad lower this week, but I'm really glad that I was able to get so much time being out in the sun and active!

Chill run with coach. 

Went out to confluence park, and apparently today is the day when the running center crew gets together to run. I ran with them, and Logan and we did a 4 mile tempo run, my first one in a long time. It was really good. The first mile was 6.15, and they each got faster until the last one was 5.37. The total time was 23.32, so I'm really happy with that effort. 

Little longer today out towards sullivan park, talking with coach

Nice little run out to sunriver with coach. Talked about dating as usual

I felt kinda weird and light headed at the beginning of the run, but got feeling better as we went along. Fun convo with coach about covid, masks, dating, running, and anything else that matters. Jk, it was just a nice relaxed run, with some peaceful, open spaces. I loved it. We also kept speeding up little by little over the last couple miles, and had a pretty strong finish. I really liked the loop, I'll be back. 

What a great day for running. I ran a loop and a half around Navajo lake with John R. We had such a good conversation, love that dude, he seriously has been such a good friend to me over the years, and is largely responsible for my love of ultra running. Some highlights include seeing a Bald Eagle, realizing the back half of the trail was too full of snow and fallen logs and bushwacking it down to the road, and talking about the Jazz and how much we love them. 

Ran up bear paw poppe on my own, then down it with the cousins. Lots of fun, good way to run and still be doing the same family activities. 

Great tempo run today. 5 miles at 29:11, so that comes out to 5:50 pace I think. I felt strong and smooth, except for mile 3.7 when I had to stop and use the bathroom. 

Classic morning run with Coach and Trevor. 

Went and ran the suicide ridge loop out in Santa clara. I had a water bottle with me, but even still I was super thirsty by the end. Good run though, Coach came with. We didn't talk a ton, but sometimes it's nice just to be with someone, and not have to talk. 

Ran with Trevor and Aaron Metler. So it wasn't really a slow run, we averaged around 6.30 pace I would guess. Good guys though, it was a great run. 

Great, and very active day. Ran up Forsyth trail to Burger(?) peak, which round trip ended up being about 11.5 miles. Great climb, really fun descent while testing out my new running playlist. Only had one fall, with a shallow but sweet looking cut. I also noticed my heart felt a little weird coming down, maybe tired? idk, but it's something to keep an eye on for sure. Later, towards the evening I ran up and down Bear paw poppe. Swimming was inbetween, so I was just active for a long time, it was great. Training has been a lot better this year than last.