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Some of us met to run the Glenmoor route, starting at the church at 9700 So. and 2200 W.  I took off feeling stronger than I have in a while.  Maybe those runs in California helped?  Anyway, I ran with Julie, Cheris and Peggy the entire way.  They were talking comfortably, I was happy to mainly listen.  The total time for the distance was 1:11:12, which I think is the fastest I've run it lately, so I was pleased about that.  My glutes were sore when I got home, I need to keep working on that.

I met with our group at Bingham High at 5:30 and we ran for a little over 2 miles, mainly on the canal road.  Then to our regular workout at 6:00.  We had around 10 people there.  We ran a workout I found in Running Times where we did fast two minutes, then recovery, a fast 5 minute, 10 minute, 5 minute, with recovery after each, and we ended with some hill sprints on Rustic Roads.  We then ran 30-30 back to the high school.  Everyone seemed to like the workout.  I felt pretty good, my legs were just slightly rubbery, probably recovering from yesterday.

I was planning to meet with Peggy and Debbie at 6:30am to run for about an hour, but this morning the mattress won the battle.  So thank goodness for treadmills, because I don't think I would have run outside later when it was hot.  I ended up doing two 5-K's on the treadmill, on a decline, and my times were 21:40 and 21:45.  Don't be fooled by those times, I think running is easier on a treadmill, especially when there's a decline.  Probably on the road the best I could do on a 5K right now is around 24 minutes.  But I enjoyed the workout because I worked up a really good sweat.  Is that bad to enjoy sweating?  Only in the privacy of my own home.   I once read to be healthy you should sweat every day, so today I'm feeling pretty healthy.  I think those downhill runs will be good for St. George because that is such a downhill course.  You don't feel that way at Veyo, but everyone says it's downhill, so I have to go along with that.

PM--I did some hill sprints that Steve wants me to do. Don't know exactly how much mileage I did, but with warm-up and cool-down it had to be at least 1 mile.

Met with the group at 5:30am at the church on 9800 So. I had planned a tempo run where we changed the pace throughout--20 minutes slow, 20 moderate, 20 pushing it. So of course all the speedsters in the group took off; they did not match my definition of "slow." Then during the moderate 20 minutes, everyone got spread out even more, and I pretty much lost the group except for Eric, Nancy and Kris. So I just completed the workout on my own. We added 30 minutes on after, which was supposed to be run 10 slow, 10 moderate, 10 pushing it. Who knows how everyone ran, I just know I ran for 90 minutes total. I think the distance was around 9.7 miles. I came home and rode my stationary bike for 30 minutes, then I took my 9 year old to the Rec pool and did some pool running. All that I'll count as a little over 1 mile. Now I'm tired.

My husband and I were in Deer Valley today at The Chateaux at a retreat for the firm he works for.  There are several bike riders in his firm, so a big bike ride was planned for today.  We started down at Kimball Jct., where the marathon starts, and then rode a bike loop around the area.  Several places we went were places I've run before during the marathon and half-marathons I've run up there.  We went about 20 miles, and then the real fun began.  We rode back up the road to Park City, then into lower Deer Valley, and then up Royal St. which lead back to The Chateaux.  They had warned me that Royal Street was all uphill, and they were right.  Unbeknownst to me at the time, I've run Royal St. before, except the opposite direction, donwhill, during the Wasatch Back Relay in 2007.  Anyway, I just plugged away for the 3.4 mile ride straight uphill.  It was tough, but it's like anything hard we do, we're glad we did it after it's over.

So I biked about 34 miles, several of them uphill, the last 3.4 very much uphill.  So how do I count this as mileage?  Sasha says we can count biking mileage in our running mileage as long as we have a fair conversion, which I think is 3:1.   So I'm counting what I did today as 10 miles.  Does anyone object?

I was still in Deer Valley this morning.  I debated whether to run up there or just wait until I got home.  I finally made myself get out of bed, saying I would only go an easy 30 minutes.  But as it usually turns out, once you get going you want to keep going.  I ran around the Silver Lake area there, then went to the ski resort and ran up and down some of the trails.  That was a lot of fun.  When I had to stop after 45 minutes to go to breakfast, I was sad.  Should have gotten up earlier.  I hope to put in more miles later on.

PM--I did manage to run some more.  I ran a little on the treadmill, then took my dog and ran on the canal road.   We both got some good exercise.  Managed to put in 8 more miles.

I put in the most mileage ever this week.  Now granted, I counted biking miles for 10 miles of it, so if you subtract that, I was around 47 running miles for the week, which is where I've been the past several weeks.  Hope to get to 60 one of these weeks.