Craig Hudman - Simply Live

AM - 9.66 Tried to tempo this a bit and get down to low HMP on the down hills. Legs are overall pretty flat and tired it was real work getting in at least a few of these and then the legs just gave out so I cut the run short and will see how tonight goes up in Island Park. Had to drag the dog again. He really isn't doing very good these days, might have to keep the runs with him a bit shorter.

Boy scout camp run in Island Park. Slept on the ground and the first 10 miles felt horrible but then I started to warm up even though the last few were uphill they started rolling off pretty easy. Good to spend a night up here with my son.

4 super slow miles in the mountains. Woke up and felt like crap all around so kept this short. Up at West Piney Girls Camp slept horrible. Had a great day with the girls. Sometimes I feel like I really take for granted that I'm able to be so active. Started a hike with the girls, at 1/2 mile my wife had to turn around and take a girl back to camp I made it 1 1/2 miles before I had to take 2 girls back the rest only went up 1 mile further and half of them were mad because they wanted to go the full 7 up and back we had planned. Just goes to show the huge difference in girls. I was at least glad to see that my daughter was up with the faster ones and she was wanting more.

Back home easy loop this morning. Dog did much better. Legs feeling good before the race on Saturday. Trying to figure out what my plans and race strategy should be, go out super fast hope to hold on or be more conservative. Going out hard seems to be the main choice, but how hard not so sure.

A bit of a taper so just did a short easy run with Nikki. Went fishing last night and it stunk to say the least I guess the water has raised 2000+ cfs in the last couple of days. We we got to the truck, miscommunication ended up getting my keys locked inside (both sets) so we waited for a locksmith on the Menan boat ramp until 11:00. At least it was a beautiful night but I ended up sleeping in a bit later than I wanted...

Quick warmup then off to the starting line. 

Started out fast, probably too fast. Blew up around mile 7. If someone would've offered me a ride from here to the finish line I would have taken it. By all accounts an "F". the only thing good the "F" stands for is finished. Don't know how I did but I did.

Huge blister on my right heal. I felt it at mile 2 and knew I was in trouble. Pushed through it, hurts now and has three more friends on my foot.

Need to learn to race more within myself. I know I can run fast but the first few miles were well outside my parameters. I knew it after one and didn't have the sense to slow down.

I did take a huge risk on this race and I think I would've regretted not doing it.

Great support for this race. It was great to actually see and notice my family as I was running towards the finish. Jeff was great to grab me and make sure I was ok, I wasn't it was a character run today and it sucked. 

Just wasn't my day. 

Can you really be pissed off about a 1st place AG finish?

I'm still sick, close to puking at 1:30