Craig Hudman - Simply Live

Girls are in St George and Boys are in Boise, I'm home by myself and sice I hate being home by myself I went for a run up Wolverine Canyon with my dog. Good place to run nice stream by the road that I was able to stop at a few times and let my dog drink. Pretty relaxed pace. I went out on an empty stomach and now I'm ready to eat. Should be a week of running and fishing just trying to stay away from an empty house.

AM - 11.5 Somehow managed to drag my butt out of bed and get going this morning. Another hill route and my legs sure could tell. I think I officially broke my dog this morning he couldn't run at all but since it's just me and him this week I don't want him to be bad while I'm at work.

PM - 7 ran 6@slow MP. It was really difficult to hold pace not used to running on tired legs, I've fallen out of that type of shape a bit ago. Hopefully I can regain it. Yard work tonight since all my little slaves are gone. 

7 - Lunch run. Well after a horrible night trying to sleep, I ended up sleeping in and didn't get in a morning run, which means night run in hotter weather. Today was much better than yesterday. HR was down at a faster pace throughout the run. did most at GMP. After this week we'll see how the legs react to a 5K race on Saturday. Hopefully I'll still have something left in them.

My only shot at a long run this week. It was pretty tough on me didn't really have any legs today and the heat got to me pretty bad. Of course I had to make a few drining stops for the dog along the way but he did really good for hot and long.

7 - This was a whole lot better than this morning. Felt much better all the way around. Had some stomach issues right at the end but not too bad. Ended up going fishing and I must say I was King of the Small fish tonight. Plenty of 12" fish landed only one decent one but at least I was unhooking fish all night. Easy day tomorrow. 

I wish I would have dreamed up the idea for Sketcher's Shape ups seems like obese people everywhere wear them in hopes of getting trim by simply walking around eating cupcakes and drinking soda.

So this is the race my mother in laws company puts on. I ran a 2 mile warm up on the course to kind of check it out before the start. At the start there were a few guys who looked like they may be fast so I wasn't sure what to expect at the gun I started out pretty good and found myself in the lead. From the start to about 1.5 There was a group of 3-4 of us running together not quite sure because I was not looking back and just could here the footsteps. After that it ended up being me and the Kuna cross country coach. I was figuring he wanted to turn it into a sprint at the end so around 2 I started to try and push the pace down. At 2.5 I threw in a surge and ended up dropping him and held on strong to finish. This race felt like a bit of a vindication after my epic blow up in the half I ran a few weeks ago. I went out smarter and stayed within my goal pace. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have run the time I ran without having a good push to help out. After I finished I ran back and started getting the kids. Brytan ran 25:48, Chloe 29:12, Jonah 31:27. They all did so well and we really enjoy running this as a family. I was surprised at the amount of times under 20 min. The competition was much better than last year. Now off to my wife's 20 year class reunion.