Today is the first day on my 18 week training schedule for St. George, and things are off to a decent start. The last few months I haven't been doing any high mileage, just basically staying between 30 to 50 miles a week and running races here and there. Actually, since the start of the new year I have ran 1 30K race, 3 half marathons, 2 10Ks, and 1 5 mile race. I'm planning on doing some more half's and 10k's over the summer and maybe even a 5k or two. Anyway today the plan called for 4xhill repeats. I made the mistake of waiting until mid morning to get out, well I actually went and worked earlier this morning on a garage my father in-law is building, so that pushed my run back to about 10:30 (already hot! here in St. George by that time of day) Warm-up over to Pah Tempe where I do the hill repeats, then I realized I really needed to go the bathroom, so I turned around and ran back home, did my thing, then jogged back over to Pah Tempe. Ended up being a 3 mile warm-up 1-2:10- Not bad to start with, this was the first time I have used my Garmin on this workout, so I was interested to see what the distance of the hill was. It was right about what I though .32 of a mile 2-2:11- The first part of this one felt really good 3-2:12- Notice a pattern? slowing down but not bad. I threw-up a little bit after this one, wasn't much, since I didn't have much in my stomach 4-2:13- I thought I really slowed down on this one, but really the time wasn't that bad, in fact the times for the whole workout are about where I thought I would be maybe even a little faster. After the repeats did a mile cool down home. Tonight I did another easy 4 miles over to Hurricane Middle School and back, after we went swimming down in the Virgin River with my family and extended family. It was nice to go and cool off a little, I think it is going to be a pretty hot summer.
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