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The day to meet with Steve and the group.  The surprise was that it was raining this morning, I wasn't expecting that.  We (Peggy, Cheris, Kris and Michelle) drove up to Alta High and discussed with Steve whether we wanted to run in the rain.  Finally Lisa showed up and said let's do it, so we were off.  I like those streets around Alta, felt we got in a good workout.  Lots of hilly streets.  We were plently wet when we finished, but overall it was fun.

Met with the So. Jordan group at 5:30 and we ran an easy 25 minutes, which I figure was around 2.5 miles.  Then we regrouped and ran 6.5 miles.  I pretty much told everyone to run the pace they felt was best.  I ran with Lynette the entire way and could carry on a conversation even though at times I didn't really want to talk.  So I didn't  think I was running too fast and wasn't checking my time throughout the run and was surprised to see I ran the distance in 54:42, which is around 8:25 per mile.  Could I have maintained that pace for an entire marathon?  No, not right now, but I was glad that 8:25 pace didn't seem overly difficult.  However, just now reading Sasha's comment on Peggy's blog that she shouldn't run over 9 minutes per mile makes me think I maybe ran this too fast; if she should be 9 minute miles, I should be closer to 10 min./mile. Anyway, it's hard to slow down when we feel good running a faster pace.   Plus, time was limited and if we had slowed down we wouldn't have gotten in as many miles.  What to do?

Met with Debbie at 6:30 and we ran for an hour, mainly along the canal road.  We did do some barefoot grass running also, that was kind of fun.  Tried to keep the run very easy and relaxed.  It was a great morning to run.

Met with the So. Jordan group at 5:30.  We did a slow warm-up of approximately 2.7 miles, and then we went into our regular workout.  We ran from 3200 W. up 9800 So. to Glenmoor, up the Glenmoor golf course road twice, and back.  That was about 5.8 miles.  I kept the pace moderately easy.  I could carry on a complicated conversation if I wanted.  We decided we don't talk about anything too complicated when we run.  There were only women today, no men, which is somewhat unuual for us.  It was a nice morning to run.  I then went to yoga class and enjoyed the stretching, and when we got out it was very windy and now it's rainy.  I'm glad the morning run was nice.

Met with Peggy and Debbie at 6:00 at the Rec Center and we ran for an hour along the canal roads.  Kept the pace easy; nice morning, nice conversation, nice run.  It makes a difference running with others.  Usually on my own I'm constantly looking at my watch and just hoping the time will pass fast and spending a lot of time talking myself into completing the run.  Today I barely noticed the time and it seemed like the hour went fast.

Today was an interesting running day.  I first got on my treadmill around 6:30 and ran a warm-up with some fast sprints intermixed.  That was about 2 miles.  Then I went to run a 5K that a young man working on his Eagle project was sponsoring.  It was down on the Jordan Parkway trail by 106th So.  My time was 24:39, not a great time, in fact my slowest 5k in a long time, but I was happy with it because when I went in I thought anything in the 24's and I'd be happy.   The last few times we've done practice 5ks I've been in the 26 minute range. At the turn-around I was about 13 minutes, so I thought the best I'd do would be in the 25's.  I guess I picked it up the 2nd half to finish where I did.  Then I ran another 6 miles, slowly, with Debbie, Peggy (who won the women's portion of the 5k) and Alan.  Almost hit 50 miles this week, not quite, but I was happy with the week because I put in a lot more miles than I think I ever have before and it really wasn't that hard.  Running slowly and with the group makes a difference.