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Six pretty easy miles on the treadmill.

I had pretty much decided last night that if I woke up in time on my own, I'd go to early miles.  If the alarm had to wake me up at 5:10, I'd only go to the 6:00 running.  Well, I woke up at 4:50, so what should I do?  I decided to bag the 5:30 thing.  Probably the wrong decision, but oh well.  Anyway, got to the track at 6:00.  There was a pretty good sized group today.  I was mad with myself because I forgot my Garmin, and today would have  been a great day to know what pace(s) I was running.  We ran to the entrance to the SJ park off Redwood Rd., then ran some 3/4 and 1/2 mile repeats.  I felt a little sick after that and wondered if I was done for the day.  However, I just decided to run whatever was next and just try to get thru it. What was next was a  run thru Canterwood and Rustic Roads.  I drove the course later and to the entrance of the high school, it was 2 miles.  My time on that was about 15:15, so not too bad of a pace, especially after feeling that I might have been done.  Then a few of us "diehards" I guess you could call us ran 3 400's with 30-second recovery between.  My times were 1:40, 1:39 and 1:35.  It was a fun workout.  I wanted to go to Provo to help with the movie Eric was making, but I had a 10 year old who would have been alone all that time, and I just couldn't feel good about that.  Hope everything worked out well with the movie.

I wasn't sure I would get anything in today because most of my time was taken up with getting ready for book club at my house.  However, around 6:00 I felt motivated to do something, so I power walked on the treadmill for 30 minutes, then I ran for two miles, pretty fast.  That was fun.

If I had known what we were in for today, I would have pulled the covers over my head at 5am and gone back to sleep.  As it was, I naively got up, looking forward to a nice run with the group.  Peggy had mentioned something about a hill up 114th So. she wanted to run, but that didn't really compute.  We did some warm-up miles from 5:30-6:00, then it was a run up 114th from State Street to 1300 East.  It was pretty much a steady uphill the entire way, until the mother of all hills from 10th East to 1300 East.  It was tough.  It took me 17 minutes flat to run that about 2 mile route, with an 8:38 avg. pace.  Not too bad, I think, for all uphill.  Our group has gotten so fast that even though that was a good time for me, I was one of the ones bringing up the rear.  Where did all these fast people come from?  We then ran from 114th So. to 11000 So. (I think), down to 10th East, back over to 114th So., and then you guessed it, the mother of all hills again.  It was just as lovely the second time around.  That run took 15:35, avg. pace 8:14.  Once again that was a good time for me, but once again, I brought up the rear.  It was during this run that I recognized the hill--it's one we ran last year with Steve Ashbaker.  I really liked the hill back then, thinking it was a great hill to run up.    For some reason, I liked it a lot less this year.

Then it was back down from 1300 East to State St.  I ran that in 14:38, avg. of 7:27, which, you guessed it, was a good time for me, but I still brought up the rear.  At least that avg. was a lot better than the Suncrest average of 7:58.   I knew I could go faster on a more gradual downhill.  All in all, I really liked what we did today and would like to try it again.

It's funny, after running Suncrest last week, I wasn't sore at all.  Today, on hills a lot less extreme, I was a lot more beat up.  My left lower knee hurts and my right shin hurts.   I wonder if it's because I went a lot faster today, especially on the downhill?  Or maybe it's cumulative, this is soreness that has built up over the last few days?  Beats me, just hope I feel better tomorrow so I can get in another fun run.

Seven miles of treadmill running, some fast, some slow.

Ran for 30 minutes in the heat of the day, then ran inside on the treadmill for 60 minutes, some of it very slow, some of it very fast.  Enjoyable day of running.