Nate's Blog

4 easy miles. Okay, easy pace, but not easy. Felt very heavy and slow. Legs really tired still from saturday. Outside of my lower legs especially sore right around the ankles. Probably from all the rocks I was trying to dodge.

Went out with the plan to run 7:30-8:00 miles but ended up averaging about 7:15 for the whole 8. Ran the middle 7 miles at low 7:00 pace.

Felt very good today. My first good road run in the mizunos. Felt very good. I felt like I was running much straighter as I got tired. With my asics I tend to feel like I am running to the outside of my foot as I got tired. Mizunos also tend to keep my up on my toes a little more and I think that is why I was running faster than I expected too.

Had a great run with Clyde today. Went over to Green springs then to powerline rd and over to the pink tank by turkey farm rd. Came down through industrial park. Had some good hills with last 4 miles or so good downhill. didn't push it too hard. Shoes felt great. Legs felt great. Hit a slight wall about mile 9.5 but nothing too serious. That was just the first part that I began to feel tired. Tried some barefoot at the park but too many twigs from the trees they just chopped down...

Drove out to sand hollow to run around the lake. Doing dam 2 dam on saturday and wanted to see the terrain. The whole course is a graded road, not too bad for running. It was pretty cold this morning even at 9:30 when I got out there. Started to sprinkle on me about mile 1 but ended soon after and I warmed up for the rest of the run. Started sprinkling again last half mile but nothing serious. Then I drove the back way home on washington dam road. Might run that road home after race to get some miles in. About 11 miles.

Very easy pace today. Increasing mileage this week and trying to listen to my body and it said take it easy today.

Great day for a race. about 40 degrees to start, a little windy, but it's Hurricane so what do you expect?

Jose went out pretty fast and me and a large group were behind him at about a 6:15 pace. I was shooting for holding that pace and was happy to have a group to run it with. By mile 1 most of them had dropped off however and it was Jose, then a guy named Jeff from spanish fork, then me. I was going about 6:10 pace and felt great so I started picking it up to about 6:05. By mile 2 I caught Jose and held the lead the rest of the race. Jeff caught Jose shortly after me and stayed steady behind me about 30 seconds or so.

I was so excited to get first and when I got to the finish line my three boys (4-1/2, 3, and 18 mos.) were all yelling "Go Daddy, Go Daddy!" and then the spectators joined in yelling "Go Daddy!" as well. It was great.

I represented the Blog and SGRC well as I had one of the singlets on for the race. It was funny cause everyone else had sweats, tights, long sleeves, beanies, gloves, etc. because the weather said it was going to rain, maybe snow. Everyone at the starting line was saying "look at that guy, he must be freezing!"

PM: I am not going to count the home show homes I walked through, but "Daddy" had to carry a heavy little 3 year old through 6 or 7 houses today. That should count for something if you ask me!!!

Afterwards I took the car over to Fabulous Freddy's for a detail and ran to the running store and back while I was waiting. The store was already closed though...  Good little 5 mile jog on red cliffs right during the crazy valentines day dinner rush though. Pretty busy out there but I made it through without a scratch!