faster with age

     I just starterd irrigating again today. It was nice having it shut down last week. I have 2 wheel lines and one hand line that are each 1/4 mile long. The hand lines are in 40 foot lenths that each have to be disconnected then carried 60 feet and reconnected. The wheel lines have motors in the middle that roll the whole thing over 60 feet to the next setting. Much easier. I move them morning and night every day. I put my garmin on the other day and figured I end up walking about 4 miles every day doing this. It's not always the most fun when you've just finished running. 

    Tonight I was in a hurry to get finished before dark and so I ran when I had to cover the 1/4 mile back and forth across the field to the other end of the line twice for one mile. Probably not a very fast pace but wearing irrigation boots and running through knee deep alfalfa it should probably count for double.

This morning I went 11 miles up past the reservoir. I ran most of it around 8:30 pace but did mile 7 in 6:40 and mile 9 in 5:59. Overall pace for 11 miles was 8:14. After getting back I had to move my irrigation lines. I had a flat tire so I ran out and shut off the wheel  lines to drain. 1 mile round trip. I would have run back out to move them after they drained but I got lazy and put air in the tire so I could drive.

PM    Ran 4 more miles at 8:50 pace.

This morning I ran 3 easy miles at about 9:00 pace then headed out on my road bike for 26.5 miles. I rode up past glendale reservoir until the pavement ends. Overall ave. 18.5 MPH. As soon as I got back I ran 1 mile shutting off my wheel lines to drain before moving them.

PM   Ran 2 more miles at 9:05 pace. I wore my garmin doing irrigation and recorded 1.47 running. I was barley under 10 minute pace wearing hip boots and running through deep alfalfa.

This morning I ran 7 miles at 8:27 pace. I got back and ran another 1.75 moving my waterlines. I figure it saves on gas to just run the sections I would normally drive and I can get in more running miles. Only problem is sometimes I need tools.

PM ran 2 miles

This morning I did a 6 mile run Then went 12 miles on the mountain bike. I might run a little more later if I get a chance.

   This morning I did a 20 mile mountain bike ride off road in about 1:20. Then ran 1 mile shutting off water when I got back.

    I've got to go down to Salt Lake to a famly reunion tomorrow so I'm going to run the Draper days 5k in the morning. I've had a hot exausting day out in the sun today and I'm not going to get much chance for sleep tonight so I don't think that will help much for tomorrow but it should be a good training run.

   I had a family reunion to go to down in Salt Lake so I decided to leave extra early Saturday morning and hit the Draper Days 5k in the morning. My wife was on call friday night so we couldn't leave until morning. I didn't get to bed until 12:30 and got up at 3:15 to get on the road before 4:00 am to make the 2 1/2 hour drive. I didn't taper at this all week but figured this would be my tempo run for the week. The course was changed from a net downhill course to a loop course. I only got in a 1 1/2 mile warmup before the race. I was just planning to try and run just under 19 min./ 6:06 pace.  I did the first mile in 6:07 and the second in 6:02. Halfway through the 3rd mile there is about 1/4 of uphill. I think I got a little to comfortable running behind a couple of younger guys that had been running about the pace I liked. I didn't relize how much we had slowed until we were closing in on the third mile. I took off and left them then but it was to late. 3rd mile was 6:23. Last .10 in 36 [.12 according to Garmin]. It was a good workout and I still got in 72 miles for the week. I think I could have run this a bit faster and my heart rate never quite got up to where it normally does on a 5k but I'm glad I did it. 

   I went on a 4 mile hike at the reunion which was up at the spruces. Then I got in another 6 mile run that night in Sandy from my parents house.