Elite Jogging For Dummies

Exciting new loop, minus a little section of Foothill blvd. 

Workout with the Black Sheep. After a generous 1.75 mile warmup we ran 6  x ~ 800m repeats with about 300m of climbing.  These were tough! The U campus is all chewed up with construction so we were running between many narrow fences along the sidewalks.  Sort of felt like being in a cage. 

I met up with Josh on South Temple at 5:45. I promised to take him on my new exciting loop, which I accurately described as being "like a Beethoven sonata that you play with your feet." He was not disappointed. Ok, maybe mildly disappointed when we ran east up the hill between Bonneville Golf Course and the Zoo, but joy again reigned supreme when I told him we would not be running up Emigration Canyon.  So we returned to our inane conversation that somehow involved Michael Vick pirating a glow in the dark space ship.  

My Asics Speedstar's seem to have exceeded their lifespan, which was not all that long--probably 400 miles. But I liked them and have ordered another pair. So today I ran in my DS Trainers, which are unfortunately a little  too small but still runnable. 

It was 17 degrees out, I ran the U/Federal Heights/Memory Grove loop.  I ran 8 strides on 11th Avenue of varying lengths. I enjoyed that. 

The thermometer said 5 degrees but I don't think it was quite that cold. I ran a nice loop through Research Park and TiTP to Sunnyside, and then back through the U. 

I ran 2.5 miles from Foothill Sbux before joining up with the main group to add another 8.5.  Nice morning, good company with lots of folks I haven't seen since before the holidays.

Today's run puts me over 50 miles for the week for the first time since the week of April 6, 2009.