Decide--Commit--Succeed

The temp gauge out on the freeway said 100 and so did the truck's gauge. At home it was only 97 degrees. I love the heat to run in. Because I know that winter will be here all to soon. So bring on he heat baby, I want more. Todays run took me up around the golf course from the canal road side, then down powerhouse road to little bros mini gu corner (aka log house). Then back up powerhouse to gu corner across the river bottoms to home. I think this week will be a mini taper week in order to prepare for the provo river half on sat. I felt good today and pushed the pace a little. No mile splits, don't want to have a most embarrassing moment on the old blog. I finished with 200 crucnhes. Chow for now.

Alot cooler today but very muggy which made it feel warmer than it was. It was a great run felt good. This is a cut back week for the half marathon on sat. So I am not going to push things to hard this week. Ran in the river bottoms, seem to be alot of traffic today. Some drivers don't even have a clue about pedistrians having the right of way, have to be careful don't want any accidents. Sounds like we might get some rain this week would be a nice change, I finished the workout today with 200 crucnhes, see ya tomorrow.

Decided to make my run interesting today by playing a little game. I thought I would see how many grasshoppers I could step on during my workout, I mananged to only nail three with my size 10.5 shoe, better luck next time I guess.

My legs felt a little wack today not good considering this is supossed to be a down week. Not good with the half marathon coming up on sat. Hopefully they will recover in time. Other than that it was a great run and very injoyable. Did 200 crunches to finish the workout, see ya tomorrow.

Just another easy run up around the golf course. Legs did feel better than yesterday. I am excited for the half marathon on sat. should be a fun run and perfect conditions. I did 200 crunches and I will report on race day see you then.

My goal for todays race was to try and go out fast, anyway fast for me and have a half marathon pr. My best so far in a half was 1:49:33. I seen alot of the old Spanish Fork running group, Pat, Kent, Tom, and Kim. I meet Sasha's wife, very sweet lady by the way. I meet one of the SGM  forum bloggers Tom Slick, was able to run with him for a few miles, thanks for the help during the middle miles Slick  I think it helped me get my pr for this half.marathon. Lots of runners today and as usuall the start was a little disorganized but we expected that and stayed patient. Great weather a little bit warm towards the end but we were able to hang in there. My average pace for the race was 7:56 with a total time of 1:43:23. My mile split's were as follows.

Mile 1. 7:23  A bit fast for me, steep down hill

        2. 7:27  First four mile steep down hill

        3. 7:30

        4. 7:27

        5. 7:48 begining of 2 mile up hill battle, was a supprise

        6. 8:20

        7. 7:45  Some more down hill

        8. 7:33  ran with Slick for a few miles

        9. 7:34

       10. 7:50  Legs starting to feel the strain, energy kind of wack

       11. 8:31  The wheels are starting to come off, trying to hold it together

       12. 9:18  getting chicked like crazy, legs are wack

       13. 8:44  Tryed to finish strong.

By far my best race effort, Need to work more to have better energy for the finish miles, I don't like getting chicked. Need more hill work up and expecially down. See ya Monday.