EXTREME MAKEOVER 2012

My wife has early morings on Mondays for running so I get the night shoft on Mondays!!!  I left my house at 8:00 pm and headed East on Salem Canal Dr and then went right on Woodland Hills Dr.  From there it is nothing but up hill to the East Elk Ridge Entrance Road.  When I hit mile 1 I realized 2 things???  One I should have packed some water and 2 is that I should have went to the bathroom!!  Luckily at mile 2 I found a water hose on a house that was being built and snuck a drink of water.  This is a really good 3.2 miles of uphill running.  When I hit the top of Elk Ridge on Park Dr, the view was so awesome!  I wanted to stop and take it in but I wanted to keep running.  I ran down Park Dr and then turned right on Goosenest Dr and had anticipated on running through Payson and Back to Canal rd and home which is a 9 mile loop. How ever the bathroom break and my wife not wanting me gone all night directed me to run down Elk Ridge Dr and then home.  It was a great down hill run to Canal Rd and then a nice flat half mile home.  My average pace was 7:46, not real fast but with all of the hills it felt great.  Not to mention a week of no running in Cancun, and eating 5 times a day for a week I felt great for having done all of that last week. 

So my wife took the early morning running shift this morning so I was forced to go out at night again!!!  I have a close friend that is training for the Wasatch 100, and so he runs a lot in the mountains and hills around Provo, Orem, Lindon etc... I try and run with him at least once a week in the mountains, it is always a great work out.  You can't cover the same amount of miles in the same time that you can on asphalt but it is still a great work out!  He called me around 3:00 and said hey it's going to be a full moon tonight let's go out for a midnight run???  I am running the last 25 miles of the Wasatch 100 with him and most of my portion will be at night. 

We started at the Timponagoas park in the mouth of Provo Canyon and headed north up to the ROCK PILE!!  you climb about 1,000 feet in elevation and then we continued up to anout 7,000 feet which is at mile 4.  It was very pretty when we hit the top, we did get rained on and kept having glimpes of animals dashing in front of us.  On the down hill we had to go a little slower so that we didn't fall and kill ourselves.  We finished the run at midnight so overall running was 1hr 25min.  It was a lot of fun and can't wait to do it again.  I had intentions to run 13 this morning however 4 hours of sleep is not a good thing, so I will have to go out again tonight!

I left my house last night around 8:15 pm, hoping to run a 13 mile out and back.  When I left my house I headed East on Salem Canal Rd and just as I was getting ready to crosss woodland hills dr, a friend of mine pulled over and proceeded to talk to me.  I was being kind of short because I was kind of in a hurry.  When he finally finished I had wasted about 25 minutes of running time.  I decided that 13 was not going to happen so I ended up running around the pretty little road and up Harry's Hill!!!  I had decided that I was going to turn a easy 13 mile run, now into a 8 mile fast run with a 1 mile cool down.  After Harry's Hill I hit Woodland Hill's Dr and looked to the left wanting to run to the Mail Boxes, but decided that it was getting late & dark so I decided to run down Woodland Hills Dr and then back home on Salem Canal Dr.  My average pace was 7:22.  My legs and body have felt great the last month, I am very excited about the summer training and races!

No run today!!!!  I did get in about 45 minutes of strength training...  Hopefully I can get some miles in tomorrow.

This morning I ran 4.5 miles out to Power house Road and then back home!  I didn't sleep very good last nigt, so it was kind of hard to get going!!  Once I hit the BYU dairy I was feeling a lot better.  My legs are a little tired today, I think that it is from running a lot of hills this week.  I don;t know what it is with me and Hills!!  I love to run up them just to see if I can make it to the top with out stopping.  I don't care so much for the downhilll, it really beats you up.  But it is good for St. George.  7:27 average pace today.