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Met with some of the group at 5:45 and ran about 8 miles up to Glenmoor and back.  We advertised it as an easy run, but for me it was more of a moderate effort--not easy, not hard.  The pace was probably about 9:15 per mile.  It was a nice morning to run.

I could tell this was going to be a tough day when I tried to warm-up on my treadmill and I quit after about 3 minutes.  Usually I'm able to get in a pretty good warm-up, most times I don't want to stop the warm-up, but today that wasn't the case.  I then met our group at Bingham at 5:30am and we ran easy for about 2 miles, then we went to the one street close by that has a hill and ran around there.  Peggy had a fast and slow option for us, for me it was no choice; I was going slow today.  Dragged myself thru about 5 miles, then done.  These early mornings may be catching up with me.  I went to yoga class and dragged thru that too, just did not have my usual enthusiasm for the fun poses.  Oh well, if Big Brown can have one of those days, so can I!  Tomorrow will (hopefully) be a better day.

Treadmill day.  I know some people call it the "dreadmill" but for some strange reason I like occasionally running on a treadmill.  Today I did two miles easy, then two miles where I threw in some faster one minute intervals.  Felt much better today, I was happy with the workout.  Went to the chiropractor today also, trying to get that piriformis muscle loosened up.

Busy night last night, my kids were preparing for youth conference and had friends over late, I guess the night before party, so I slept a bit fitfully.  I therefore did not get up early for my group, missed the 5:30 run but met them at the church on 3200 W. and 102So. at 6am.   We ran just under 7 miles; I ran with Kris and Lynette and tried to keep the pace fairly easy because of our second run tonight with Steve.  Of course, I always run a bit faster than I probably should.  One of these days I'm going to run a truly easy run; hopefully tomorrow!

PM--We (Michelle, Cheris and I) met with Steve at Alta High at 7:00 and we ran up I guess it's called Bell Canyon road.  It was very pretty.  We did 4 miles up and then down, throwing in a few faster surges along the way.  It was fun.  If we do something like that regularly, we'll be well prepared for St. George.

I was a little afraid to run today because of the big day yesterday.  I don't know, I just have this fear of injuries.  So I power walked for 30 minutes on the treadmill.  I felt it was a good workout, but should I have run very easily instead?  Not sure what to do in this situation.

I have not had a truly easy day of running in a long time, so I decided today would be the day.  I was going to run slow, slow, slow, I didn't care what the pace was.  So I started out on the canal road slow, slow, slow I felt, but would find myself speeding up periodically, so I just worked on slowing myself down.  The goal today was to run for two hours.  After the first hour, I took my shoes off and ran barefoot in the grass (sounds like a movie title) in the fields by Bingham for about 30 minutes.  Now let me tell you, that was fun!   It even felt liberating, so liberating that I felt like joining NOW (I was going to say I felt like burning something, but didn't know if that was appropriate.)  I felt like I could go really fast on the grass.  Watch out, BBK group, I know what I'll be planning for you soon.  After that, I put my shoes back on and finished the run on the canal road.  I'm not sure how far I went, but I'll estimate that I averaged 5.5 mph, so I'll put down 11 miles.