Elite Jogging For Dummies

No running today. I did go skate skiing up on the Mirror Lake highway in the Uintas, though. A group of six drove up in two cars. It was cold, cold, cold. The thermometer in the car read -8 degrees on our arrival at the trailhead. My fingers are still recovering from the chill. The snow was too cold to get much glide and it was generally very tough. We covered between 6-8 miles total, so not too much. Because I am so inefficient, I definitely taxed my aerobic capacity, however. On the way back down Parley's Canyon, Mtn Dell looked like it was in great shape and nice and warm. Not the best call on where to go today, but I'm glad to have been out. It was beautiful.

HCI loop with the usual cast of characters. I ran a harder pace on the first half, ran 4 x 80-90m strides in the middle, and then ran a consistent but slower pace toward the end. I stretched and used the TP Massage tools last night and I think that helped loosen things up for today's run.

After hovering in the 50 mile range for the last several weeks, I'm going to try to pick it up a little this week, and try to get in at least 55--keep the mileage increase gradual.

Black Sheep workout at Liberty Park. Josh Steffen coached today. We ran the 1.4 mi loop for a warmup and then ran 6 x 1000 meter repeats with about 1-2 minutes rest between. My slowest was 3:11, the fastest was 2:55. Then 2 more loops to cool down.

I ran a couple of miles through the avenues (zigzagging from 4th Ave up to 11th Ave) before heading east to run the Bonneville Golf Course loop. Easy pace. I have some obnoxious pain in my left foot that I am icing as we speak.

Cool addition of the word processing tools, thanks Sasha.

I met up with the group at 6am to run the Radda route.  About 3 miles into the run, Aimee Larkin and I started a series of 2-3 minute fartlek-style surges at between 5:55 and 6:10 pace.  These felt decent.  My left foot is still sore, I have no idea what is going on there.  Ignoring it doesn't seem to be helping.  The pain is no worse; just still very present.  Iced again when I got home.

These tools are cool, I hope I make use of them. I just noticed that using the minimize/maximize tab you can fill up your whole screen with white space to complete your entry.

 Today I ran an out and back loop (nice oxymoron, eh?) to 15th and 15th, return via 17th E, and then over to Guardsman.  On 17th E, the snow was falling off of the tree limbs and I was getting pelted with snow every few feet as I ran in the street.  I kind of enjoyed that.  Just easy pace today, watching the ankle issue I described yesterday.  It was slightly more sore after the run, but feeling decent right now.

Thermometer read 9 degrees before I head out the door. This was at 8am, so I guess it had warmed up.  It was chilly, but if you dress properly, you get used to it. Like running in extreme heat though, extreme cold can zap a bit of your energy, or just make you feel like you're working harder than your results reflect. I ran from home, through the U, to Foothill, then zigzagged down through the Harvard/Yale neighborhoods to 9th and 9th, then continued to Liberty Park for a couple of laps, and then 6th East through downtown, up Canyon Road toward Memory Grove, and then east on 4th Ave. to home.  My left foot didn't bother me at all until the last mile when I started to feel it. I iced when I got home.  It's manageable, but I should probably have it checked out to be on the safe side.