Elite Jogging For Dummies

Yum . .  red air quality day.  Thick tasty air, just how I (don't) like it.  I don't know how bad the air has to get before I will run indoors on our new treadmill, but apparently pretty bad.

I did run a good loop that was a hybrid of my old Golf Course loop, just .50 less. 

Workout with the Black Sheep at Sugarhouse Park.  It was cold and dark. And the air stunk.  But there we were, a merry band of running freaks traversing the park in search of early morning thrills.  John Straley designed this workout so that we would basically run up each of the 4 hills in the outer loop of the park four times (up, then down, then up etc)-- for a total of 16 hill repeats per lap.  We did two laps, so that's 32 reps.  On the second loop around the park we lengthened the distance to be run on the hills.  I was surprised at the end to see how far we had run. It added up quickly. It was a good workout.  

U/Avenues loop with Ensign extension.

Limited time and lack of sleep (due to satisfying parental duties in the middle of the night) combined for a shortened run--Avenues loop.

This morning I ran a nice little loop out on 12th East and then climbed up toward Foothill and ended up running through TiTP to Research Park and then home through the U.  A little more running on busy Foothill Dr. then I would like, but otherwise solid. 

Ok, so now a complete entry:  A group of six of us headed up to Park City yesterday morning at 5:30 and ran the Round Valley trails. We had local guidance, which was great.  The snow on the trail was packed down and we had a great run. We all ran with headlamps on our forehads and snow-gripping YakTraks or MicroSpikes on our feet.  It was a beautiful morning, probably 15-18 degrees, but no wind. So nice to be running above the muck in the valley. I saw stars! Imagine that! Stars! In the sky! 

The trail was about 50/50 singletrack and doubletrack. There was plenty of climbing as well, which made the 8 miles feel more challenging than the distance suggests.