Craig's Running Blog

Warm morning. I couldn't resist getting out on the trail, so I did a nice, eary 7.5 on the single track. Nothing big.

Cold, wet morning. The ankles felt good after the warmup.

I went to my bro-in-law's game store last Friday and ran into a guy that I used to work with back in 20001 - 2003. Turns out he works at the game store for fun a couple nights a month and knows my bro-in-law well. So we talked for an hour. He still works at the place that I left in 2003 (I left that place in April 2003 and started working at SPS, where I met Renan and subsequently met you). Anyway, we talked for an hour or so. It made me nostalgic and I wanted to go back and work at that place again, or at least re-live the couple years I worked there. Funny how that is.

I went and gave a seminar to SaltLakeFit last Saturday. That was very interesting. They had 40 people there, most of them returning from last year. It was a more relaxed crew- maybe 'cause it's smaller? Dunno. I talked to Hollie afterwards about the group. I let her know the reasons I'm not involved this year and I told her not to burn herself out. I explained that I was making plans this year to do some more racing than previous years and more weekend camping with friends/family. I couldn't do that for the last 3 years 'cause I had to get someone to cover for me whenever I wanted a summer weekend for myself. So in a way, it was good to see those guys, but it was also a relief to walk back to my car and drive home (I ran early with friends in Emigration and then gave the seminar at 8:00).

Another 6.5 miler on the paved trails in Draper.

Very very tight this morning. It took about 3 miles to get into it, before the ankles loosened up. I need to get on top of that and stretch more today.

I wanted to get on the trail, so I got up about 5:45 to give myself some time. Did the usual corner canyon route. I didn't see anyone else at all today.

I'm thinking about running the Draper Trails 15k on June 7. It doesn't look competitive at all, so I'll have to think about it.

I'm thinking about taking tomorrow off to give myself a little rest. I'm going to be up late 'cause the form to register volunteers for WBR opens up at midnight. I want to give our team's volunteers the times and locations they've requested.

Regarding St George-

This is stupid. So this ½ marathon has a couple SGM slots to give away. Instead of giving them to the winner, they’ve decided to give it to the person who volunteers the most hours. Like I’m going to work my --- off for 20 hours in order to *hopefully* be the one volunteering the most hours to this race. I wanted to see if I could go run it and win it, then get the St George slot.

FYI- You can still register for the Grand Slam, and then run Des News, Park City, ToU, and St George. I would do that, but Park City falls on Aug 23^rd, when I’m on vacation.

My St George opportunities are starting to run dry. I don’t know what to do beyond begging… L

From: Scott Summers [mailto:runsum@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:59 AM
To: Craig Green
Cc: 'Dr. Jerry Simons'
Subject: RE: Homestead Memorial Half info-

Hi Craig,

We have decided how to allocate our STG slots. The following will be posted on the Homestead site today.

The Homestead Memorial Runs have been given guaranteed slots for entrance into the St George Marathon on October 4, 2008 for both the 5k and Half Marathon. These slots will be given to the runner who provides the most volunteer hours (their own hours or the hours of friends and family) to help with the each race. To compete for the slots you must register for the race and then provide volunteer information to the race committee at runsum@gmail.com.

Ideas of where volunteers might help include:  packet preparation, race morning packet pickup, course pointers, traffic control, water stations, finish line and finish line food.

The guaranteed slots to the St George Marathon are just slots. The winner must still register for the marathon and pay the entrance fee. The winner must also agree to a photo and provide a bio to be reported to the local media and to the St. George marathon.

We hope that you will join us in Midway.

Scott

Yes, I took yesterady off. I had to get a stump out of my yard in the morning. I got back out today, the day before the Ogden 1/2 (I'm running the second half of the marathon in a 2-person relay). Things felt pretty good. I'll try to stretch and stay loose today.

Once again, I am unable to break 1:16 at the half marathon. I ran this one about 30 seconds faster than Provo River last August, so I guess that's good. Especially considering I ran it as part of the relay so I didn't have the competition or motivation that running the real 1/2 marathon would have given me. The other thing to consider is that my total distance was 13.29 instead of 13.1, which might have been because I took the baton before the relay handoff instead of after. I'm not sure, though. If the distance was off and I really ran 13.29 instead of 13.1, then I did finally break 1:16.

Mile splits:

1) 5:46 - I was fully warmed up and ready for it

2) 6:06 - The hill. Didn't slow me down too much.

3) 5:40 - Slight downhill after the hill

4) 5:55 - Rolling

5) 5:35 - The biggest downhill of the course

6) 5:52 - Leveling off through the canyon

7) 5:54

8) 5:38

9) 5:27

10) 5:43

11) 5:12

12) 6:03

13) 5:50

.1) 1:40 (The Garmin gave me a total of .29 distance for the last bit, giving me a total of 13.29 miles run instead of 13.1)

Unfortunately, my right achilles was nagging me through the run. It didn't slow me down, but I'm paying for it now. It looks like I might be out a few days with inflamation issues while it heals. Time for ice and a bit of scraping.