Elite Jogging For Dummies

Cody was in Salt Lake and agreed to drive over to my house at 6am for a run. We ran the U/TiTP/St.Mary's/Golf Course route, out and back. Nice to have good company on this run. We added a little bit at the end to make it eleven miles even. Cody was impressed with the number of porta potties that line this route intermittently, and noted that Jon would be even more impressed. We had great weather today.

I don't really have any particular soreness from Saturday's race, just a little less spring in the legs. I was far more beat up after the half marathon, leading me to believe that fighting that wind took a lot more out of me than I realized.  I did come down with a little head cold on Saturday night (better after the race than before), so that's a little annoying. But it's not terrible right now. I'm planning to keep it easy an consistent this week.

I hooked up with the Black Sheep at East High this morning, but I can't really call what I did a "workout."  With this little head cold and just enough race-fatigue, I simply wanted to do some up-tempo running without too much stress.  The main parts of the run were 2 x 1 mile and 5 x 800. I didn't time anything so I don't have specifics, but it wasn't too quick or too hard. I just ran by feel and focused on keeping everything moving with decent form. I think this was the right thing to do today.  

Met up with Josh on 3rd Avenue. We ran a meandering route up through the U, to Red Butte Canyon Gate, and then back north via the Shoreline Trail.  After the trail, we headed west on 11th Ave, dropping down from 9th Ave. via the concrete switchbacks in to Memory Grove, then home via 4th Ave. Easy pace, nice conversational run. I was pretty congested at the start, but things improved after a couple of miles. 

AM: Easy miles with the Holladay crew. It was snowing when I left my house, but not too bad on the run. In fact seeing the snow on the blossoms was pretty nice. Included a couple of short surges, but nothing too notable.

 PM: I ran home from work.  On the way, I saw Sam walking down State Street. Then I ran into my friends Dave & Keli out for a run. Dave never runs, so this was a surprise. I ran with them up Memory Grove and around the horseshoe back toward the Capitol. Then I dropped down to Memory Grove again, and ran home on 4th Ave. 
 

This morning was cold (surprise!) on the thermometer, but the conditions were actually very good.  I did most of the Ensign Elem. loop and added a couple of miles by running up City Creek to the 1 mile marker.  Water is starting to move quickly in the creek now.  Almost everything looks like it's turning green.  I have no idea what my pace was. 

Law Day Run 5K today. I have to go to the airport right now and don't have time for a full report, but here's the executive summary:  I managed to recruit a very fast Speed Team to represent my law firm  (Manning Curtis Bradshaw & Bednar) in the Speed Team Division. Our "A" team for the five-person Speed Team Division included Sasha, Jeff M, Josh Steffen, Megan Call and Johanna Nielsen.  (I was on the B Team). The A Team rocked the house and held off the Workman Nydegger team led by BJ Christensen and his friends.  BJ won overall, but we got to keep the speed team trophy for another year (It's now ten years in a row for our firm).  In the end, it wasn't all that close, particularly because oure women were VERY fast. Our "B" team placed third.

I finished 6th overall, running what for me was a decent race amidst some very good competition. Thanks to everyone for running!