Decide--Commit--Succeed

I finally got to sleep in this more have'nt done that for a while. It felt good, and was nice to have the rain in the night. It made for perffect sleeping conditions. Wendy and I headed out the door about 9 this more, I did a couple of miles with her and did my golf course route. Wendy is doing awesome she is up to about 4 miles, and looking awesome. I was able to get back from my run just before another band of hail and rain hit.

SGM is only about a month away, it is hard to believe that race day is just around the corner. I am very excited for this years race. My goal for this year is 4hrs or less that would be my ultimate time, Realistically around 4 and a half. Hopefuly we will have great weather for the race. Lets party !!!!!!

Today was a litle recovery run, and plan on taking it on the easy side for the rest of this week in order to try and do well in this weeks half marathon. I tryed to keep it on the flats today and did only a few small hills. The weather was perfect for an afternon run. A slight breeze and temps around 70, I love the fall running weather. I finished with 200 crunches.

I don't know why the old legs have been so wack this week but they are gonzo. I think it is good to have a down week once in a while. Nice and cool again today which made for a very fine afternoon run. Running in the fall is awesome. Finished with 20 crunches, and I hope tomorrow the legs will be back.

I sure hope my legs rebound before sat half marathon, they are just wack this week. I can't figure it out. I think it was good to have this week as a down week. I finished with 200 crunches. Ya I know pretty boring blog.

On a little more exciting note, my daughter Haylie had a baby bo this more, a 8 plus pounder. I think he is going to be a big guy. That makes a total of 5 Grandchildren, One girl and four boys. What a great blessing.

Race day and a beautiful morn it was. Perfect cool race conditions and no wind, lots of people. I think 600 plus this race keeps getting bigger every year and they have a great prize drawing after the race.

As far as the run went today not as fast as Provo Rivers half, this one has alot more uphill so I think it was a little more difficult, plus I made a mistake of walking through 2 aid stations. My average pace was 8:06. I don't know if I can hold that pace for all of SGM next month, we will just have to see. Mile splits are as follows.

Mile 1. 8:03

        2. 8:13 Begining of uphill throught the river bottoms

        3. 8:21

        4. 8:21

        5. 8:01

        6. 8:33

       7. 8:26

       8. 7:41 Finally a little bit of down hill

       9. 8:04

      10. 7:49

      11. 8:03

      12. 7:56

   13.1. 7:46 Finished strong, but felt a little out of gas.

My goal in both half marathons was to get in under 1:50:00 so I feel good about that, now for SGM I am trying for 4hrs or less, but will probablly be around 4:30:00. One more hard week of training and the tapper. See ya next week.