Just do it

Ran down to State Street, over to 27th and back up to 13th.  I think it was just under 7 but I also did 8 strides so I figured it was fine.  My legs felt rather achy today so it was nice to get those strides in.  I would say the aches and pains may have just been from the 22 slow miles this weekend since Friday until today.  The strides helped me shake off the rust a bit.

Felt really good today!  We ran the Hogle Zoo route and then did some core afterward in the weight room.  No ice bath, but the legs felt good :)

Speed work.  We did 5 1-mile repeats.  My splits were 5:26, 5:31, 5:28, 5:32, 5:25.  Consistency could have been better but 13 second spread isn't too bad.  Coach was only going to have me do 4 but I was feeling really good so I added in the last one.  Ice bath was pretty dang cold!  Probably didn't help either that we did some lifting this morning.

Swam for 50 minutes... Boring as usual.  I went 35 laps freestyle, then some side stroke and breast stroke and finished the last 5 free.

Not racing this Saturday so coach had me running some fartleks.  I haven't been sleeping as much as I should be so this was quite fun.  I ran down to Liberty and then just did them around the park.  I went 3 minutes at about a 5:40 pace and then 1 minute slow for recovery.  Did that 8 times and ran back to my house.

We were down in Orem right next to UVU campus for an Institute retreat.  Went to bed at about 1 and got up at 5:30 to go running before the next part started.  I ran from La Quinta Inn to the Provo Temple.  It may have been just over 5 miles up because it took me about 41 minutes to get there.  Total time ended up being 1:17 by the time I got back.  It was a really fun run if i do say so myself.  I did surprisingly well with how much sleep I have been getting.