Chasing my Dreams

First run at altitude in two years, rough to say the least. Dead after two miles, the next two were absolutely miserable.

Was working concrete for 7 hours all morning and never got around to getting a run in.

Ran four before heading up to Jackson Hole for a few days.

Ran a time equivalency of a five miler up in Jackson Hole along the highway. The relatively even higher altitude made the run decently hard.

4 mile equivalency on a backroad. Pretty average run.

Same backroad as yesterday, but today I went out farther. I felt pretty sluggish going out, but was surprised that I was able to go negative on the way back with an uphill.

Ran a pretty average four miler back at home. It felt pretty easy being not as high.

Ran the Fernwood trail for the first time since getting back with Tom and Parker. It was hard with the hills and it being the longest run I've done in over two years, but I was really happy with it. I climbed HPH really well and was able to push it again the last half mile or so for a good overall effort. What was even better is that I was able to run with the guys again. It's been about 38 months since we ran together.

Ran a relatively easy 4 miles around West Point this morning. My legs were tight from Saturdays trail run. I felt like I still maintained a good effort though. I feel like I need to put more emphasis on hip/glute strength as well as my form. I'm still working on the balance of everything right now though. 

Wasn't able to run this morning due to scripture study being more of a priority before moving up to Logan. As a result it was an interesting day. I'll be really active here though like on my mission. This evening I went out and ran for 35 minutes around the campus just to try and feel things out a little. The uphills really got my heartrate going, but I'm going to get good at running hills while living here. 

Ran in the morning. Went out 17:30 then turned around. Felt good, ran behind some nice houses on the base of the mountain.

Ran a relatively easy 30 minutes, similar route to yesterday. Broke out my new shoes today hoping that will help my aching toe.

Ran five out and back again this morning. Held a decent pace going out. I've been discouraged with how hard it had been to go negative even with the downhill. I focused on it at the end today and went a minute and a half negative

Ran up to the Bonneville shoreline trail and then ran to the mouth of Logan Canyon and back. Not sure how fast the uphills were today, but it was a solid long run to say the least. My feet were hurting for the first mile or two with the usual new shoes breaking in ache I get. Beautiful morning, with a pretty cool wind at times.

Was honestly a pretty stressful sabbath due to being worried about school the next day.

Ran for 30 minutes out and back with Tom. We held a pretty good pace going out and then there were all sorts of factors that slowed us down on the way back. I picked it up again the last 1200 meters or so and finished in 30:10, so just about even. Honestly not too bad based on how it felt. It was pretty warm since we ran at 5:40ish in the evening.

Ran at about 8 in the evening, it was still plenty warm. Ran into Karson Nielson about 2-3 minutes into my run so I stopped and talked with him for a few minutes. I ran my usual course up here, and made it farther than I ever have in that amount of time. I felt really good going out and then tried to hold the pace coming back. Once again it was hard to hold it coming back for whatever reason but I still ended up going 30 seconds negative thanks to the hill on 10th North at the end. By far the fastest and most solid run I've had since being home. Elevated and foam rolled afterwards.

Solid 30 minute run with Tom this evening. We held a solid consistent pace going out, and then just kept clipping away on the way back. The fact that we ran more even made a big difference on how we felt overall. We ran a minute negative coming back. Finished in 29:16. We both agreed that with some training that is a realistic marathon pace.