"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves"

Exhaustion.

That''s all I can attribute this to. I want 70 miles this week, but I'm cutting it back to 50-60. My body is fatigued. Not enough sleep and not enough quality food. I'm going to forget this day and push back tomorrow as hard as I can. This whole week I'll push as hard as I can, and then taper. I must peak this week.

PM: Worked out for class. Ouch. This is going to be a really hard week.

100% difference from yesterday.

I woke up fully rested after 7.5 hours of good sleep, and took off up University Parkway.  The second counselor in my ward told me about some places that he runs to, so I decided to go find the Provo Cemetery.  Didn't find it, but had a great run with numerous hills and some good tempo-ing.  I feel great, and I might go out for a 3 mile jog tonight with some of my floormates.

Felt really good again today, although my sleep wasn't very good.  The idiot jocks on our floor decided to have a "music war" last night around 11:30 and woke up half of our building.  Luckily the hall adviser showed up and I think told them to turn it off.  We're making quiet hours at our next floor meeting.

 Maintained 7:56 per mile today.  I'm feeling slower each day, but I'm actually running faster.  I can't wait to see what happens when I'm fully rested and ready for the marathon.  For my run, I ran down the East side of BYU and went over to the Olympic ice arena.  Did you know that they had Olympic sites in Provo? Neither did I. 

DS Trainer 12 - Retired today after faithfully serving me for senior year track and half of XC and most of my marathon training. 600+ miles

DS Trainer - 8.0 miles

Raced the Army today ha ha. I changed my route a little bit so they could get far enough in front of me and I would have to push myself to catch them.  Probably not the best idea to beat the Army guys, but it was fun.  Somebody yelled at me "Join the Army! We need guys like you" when I passed them. 

Otherwise, it was a somewhat slow and painful run.  It's starting to get a lot colder here, and I'm not used to it at all.

 20 miles tomorrow.

DS Trainer - 15.6 miles

Yeah! *pumps arms in air*

I am so happy to get this run out of the way! I woke up at 5:30 and started running around 6.  I added this route under the course tool if you want to see it ("20 miler around Provo").

I had two major problems though.  It was much colder then I was expecting it to be, which kept me from really moving until about mile 15 when the sun finally came up.  And then when I put my sunglasses on just past University Parkway, my directions fell out of my pocket. Uh oh. I got to Utah Lake and had to stop and call my roommate to find out where I should go and then had to just figure it out as I went.  Turned out to be much better.  I'm thinking it would have been 21 miles at least if I had went the planned route.

Took 2:55 which is 5 minutes faster then my last 20 miler three-four weeks ago.  I figure I'll do better at SGM because I'll be better rested and the cold won't play such a big role in slowing me down. 

 w00t!

DS Trainer 13 -  35.85