Dave and I decided to celebrate our Memorial Day with a run up and down Utah Hill. The old highway from St. George to Mesquite, NV. We drove just over the Arizona line and then started our climb up for the next nine point something miles. You climb a little over 2000ft in the nine miles and never get a brake from the hill. We held a strong yet comfortable pace up and averaged 7:52 per mile up. When we reached the summit I ran down the road a little more trying to find some water and Gu that we had stashed on the drive by. So total for this up segment was 9.6 miles. Then I reset the Garmin to have a fresh look for the downhill and we walked up to my stuff got a drink and stretched. Then we started down off the Mountain and the splits went like this. 1. 5:47 (took a mile to realize we could run fast now, Yeah no more uphill) 2. 5:34 3. 5:26 started feeling frisky 4. 5:31 5. 5:33 6. 5:38 left the mouth of the canyon and hit some headwind 7. 5:38 8. 5:43 Headwind and now I very thirsty- Should have stashed more H20 9. 5:46 Just trying to get back to the car to get a drink .3 in 1:46 Finished the downhill tempo at 9.3 miles in 52:25 right around 5:38 mile pace. Then Dave came a couple minutes later and we did another 1.2 miles to cool off and get to 20 miles on the workout. Happy with getting in a tough run like this. I wish I could push myself more often. This should be the last hard workout before my trip to Idaho. Now just get some miles in this week and then taper off next week before the race. | 