Why I Oughta!!!

Cathy and I left at 6am to do an easy 5 miler (9:30 pace). We did her walk breaks which was probably a good thing for me and we threw in a couple long fartleks. I felt leg heavy after last weekends running and biking. After I dropped Cathy off at the house I did 2.1 miles at 7:30 pace. Felt easy and I feel good!

Swam 0.75 miles of open water this evening at Sand Hollow Reservoir. I figured I did more but I have no way of measuring and I forgot my watch. The kids had a great time playing on the beach and rocks. The 4 yr old kept swimming out to deep water.... dingleling kid!!!

Tempo work today.  I did a 2 mile warm-up at 17:55 (8:58 pace) lots of uphill.  Ran the 5 mile tempo at 38:43 (7:45 pace) gradual down/flat.  1 mile cool down at 8:35.  Over-all average pace was 8:10.  Not bad for an old, fat guy trying for a 3:40 marathon goal pace in October.

Met up with the St George Tri-Club tonight out at Sand Hollow Reservoir.  I did a total of 0.9 mile swim.  I did a 0.4 mile warm-up with Cathy without the wetsuit.  It took us about 20 minutes to complete the distance.  That was her first time swimming a long distance in open water.  She was disoriented the entire time.  She may have swam more distance than me if you count all the circles she did around me... :)  When the club showed up, I joined the group that did the 0.5 mile loop.  My time was 13:48.  My goal is 0.5 mile in 10:00.

We then jumped on our bikes and completed the sprint section of the triathlon course (12 miles).  I forgot to time it, but I did get my time on the way back of approximately 17 minutes.  I figured I did the distance around my standard race time of 35-36 minutes.

I then jumped into my running shoes and did the dam trail.  The distance is 1.1 miles across.  My time was 8:30 across and 8:09 back with an average pace of 7:35.

Went to Del Taco afterwards.... :) :) :)