Why Not?

AM: 5 miles with Sammy then 4.5 miles with PCCC. Felt pretty good. Took it easy. Long run tomorrow or Sunday.

5.5 easy by myself in Sun Valley ID

Ran up and down a mountain in the Nat'l Park just outside of Sun Valley ID. Saw some foxes, they were really cool. My legs felt okay, didn't sleep too well in the tent last night.

8 miles at Mill Creek. I have a conference in SLC so my runs will be around the city this week, Legs felt like shit.

2 miles with Sammy at 5:30am

Then got dropped off and ran down EMigration Canyon HARD on the way down. Felt pretty good. Ran the last 10 miles in about 62:00.

4 miles at City Creek Canyon. Worst run in a while, legs felt terrible.

4 am with PCCC

4 in PM with Sammy.

6 miles easy around PC

Provo Half.

Nice downhill race. Felt pretty good. Here are the splits that I can recall:

1 mile:  5:14

2 mile: 10:36

3 mile: 16:05

5 mile 27:25

6 mile: 33:05

10 mile: 55:35

Got lost in the last mile, turned wrong direction.

A good race for me.

8 miles easy on some trails. Hiked some with Erica also.

AM: 8 miles with PCCC at back of Jeremy Ranch

PM: 6 miles on the trails at Sportexe.

AM: 5 miles with PCCC

PM: 3 miles with Sammy

Toughest run I have done in a while. Ran from the bottom of Deer Vally Resort in Park City, up over Guardsman Pass and down to Midway and then toward Heber. The whole run would be about 21 miles, but I stopped at the river at 19 and had Erica pick me up in the car. I needed to ice the legs in the cold water.

Felt okay for the first 10 minutes (no joke), and then struggled until about 30 minutes. At this point, there was a little downhill for a 1/4-1/2 mile. The rest of the first 6.5 miles was straight uphill with almost no breaks whatsoever.

At 45 minutes I considered turning around and running back down to the van in PC but I figured I won't get many chances to go the distance, so I took a GU and kept running. No water up there, that didn't help. Oh, and I started at 3:30 -- what a moron.

Made it to the top, got some strange looks from cars, and then down the Ragnar side of the mountain. I was at about 1:02 when I got to Guardsman. Running downhill was easier but was rough on the legs. It seemed forever down, but I made it to the Visitor Center at the State Park in 1:51 (so I ran just over 6:00 on the way down). Then I ran about 2.5 miles into Midway, found a hose, got some water, and ran toward Heber. At this point, things were getting ugly, it was hot, and I was toast. I ran with my phone and called Erica and she came and got me. THankfully.

Couldn't east for a couple hours but am okay now.

Oh, and I'll probably never run that again.

4.5 miles easy, legs are trashed.

AM: 6 miles with some hills. Didn't run hard, but ran up a hill about 10 times. PCCC was running a workout. Felt much better today.

Ran from Midway up Cascade Springs road to Cascade Springs, and then all the way to Mt. Timpanogos. If I had known how hard the run would have been, I probably wouldn't have run it. The first 5 were uphill and then down for one. The three after that were uphill, then downhill for one, then bac up for 3 more. Fortunately the last 4 miles were down 92 toward Sundance, and those were easy running.

According to Google the distance was 17.94, and my time was 2:06:14, so I was pretty happy with that.

Went hiking for a couple hours afterward, so I'm counting that as at least .06.

Steve