A Bigish workout... well I guess this is the biggest workout I've had for months. We met up at 4 a.m at Mike's to run up Snow Canyon and back down the course and aroundto his house. It was 8.4 up to the top and that is a very good, steep climb. Then I did 8 miles of tempo down to the bottom and around the parkway. Then 1.7 miles of cool down back. It was a nice morning but still pretty toasty as we made our way up the climb. I saw around 15 falling stars in the dark sky and that was cool. At the top I took a GU and started the tempo to see how my body would hold up. Hit the first mile in 5:47 with Steve right there at my side then I stopped looking at the garmin and just focused on smooth form. Steve dropped and I ran on down hitting the 8 miles down past Paradise Canyon at an avg of 5:44 min mile pace. Not great by any means considering last year I did basically the same loop and hit the fast miles at an avg of 5:10-5:15 pace. But on the flipside I haven't ran anything fast for months now and it was good to see I could still hold something together. In the end I still felt good and was running just as strong as when I started. So we'll see where I can get back too in the months to come. Good workout and glad to have gotten out and push things a little. Thanks Mike for putting the run together and for all your work in getting water drops out all over the place. | 