The Renegade

Well, I'm back! Had a posting hiatus since Thanksgivng but I just sat down and posted all my entries since then (had nothing to do). As you can see, I got sick, which in turn made me slow. Working on addressing that now haha. Afternoon run today hitting up the entire river trail. Was supposed to be an 8 mile route but it turned up short and I was too lazy to finish it. It was VERY cold. Don't know what the pace was because I didn't look at it during the run and accidentally deleted it before upload but probably mid to high 7s :(. Honestly felt okay today, I just need to get used to the distance again. I'm going to try and get in 8 miles every day this week with a 12 mile long run. It'll be hard but it'll only be 52 miles compared to the 60 I was doing before.

AM: Went for a run on the deer fence around lunch time. I am terribly out of shape for those hills and the run sucked but it was good to get on a trail I guess. 8:20 ap.

PM: Had a nice 3.5 miles of running at like 9:30. Ben was supposed to meet me at my house but he never found it, but by coincidence I ran into him about a half mile east of home, so he ran with me to Willow Park and we did some strides, then we ran back to my house and I gave him a ride home. 7:11 ap.

AM; Had a terrible four mile run out west of my house, just was not feeling it and voluntarily stopped like five times. It'll get better I know it. Decent pace though I guess. 7:26 ap. Haha just remembered, not even a half mile into it I tried to step onto a sidewalk and tripped on the curb, fell down and did a full roll on purpose to reduce the impact. It was pretty funny if anyone saw it, but I think I'm in the clear.

PM: Four miles after work from Merlin-Olsen to the canal trail. Felt decent. Started with like an 8:26 mile but the rest were all around 7:30. 7:47 ap.

AM: After doing some Christmas shopping with my bros we got home and I did a quick 3 miles to Willow Park and back. It was very pushed but at least I hit that kind of pace. 6:35 ap.

PM: Five miler after work from Merlin Olsen, this time mostly in River Heights. Had some hills in there too. 7:37 ap.

Frantic, pushed 6 miler before work. Pace was only 7:02 average but it felt like 6:02 pace pre-sickness. Ran up center street and turned around at 2.5 for some reason, then adden on another mile on the back road.

Slept in, had work at 11, was not able to run. Should have organized a crazy midnight run with someone like Riley Cook and friends did haha. So crap mileage for this week but I'll get it up. I might even just go all in and try for 60 next week. If I do I'll probably try and keep it consistent and do like 10 miles a day in a mix of singles and doubles. 

P.S. It's official, just signed up for the Ogden Marathon, also ordered a Garmin Forunner 630 so theres a couple forms of new motivation I guess.