Little Buddha

La Verkin Loop, pretty windy

Ran over to the gravel pit and back.

No run.  Went to the expo and then to dinner at Pizza Factory in Washington with Sunny and Joslin.  After dinner I met up with John and rode up to the cabin in Pine Valley.  At the cabin I watched the first part of the BYU game, but wasn't feeling too good so I went to bed at half time.

Tough day for me on the marathon course.  I was ready to drop out numerous times, but ended up finishing in 3:34:40. Fortunately Bill came by about .5 from the finish and helped encourage me to make it to the end.  This was my 13th marathon overall and 9th STG.  I felt decent the first half, but the second half was brutal.  Right now I have no desire to run another marathon anytime soon.  I've never felt comfortable with longer distances, and often question why I even sign up to run marathons when I really don't enjoy them that much.  One thing I do know I'm not going to sign up for another marathon until I've lost at least 15 pounds.  Right now I'm just too heavy and out of marathon shape both physically and mentally.

On a more positive note.  I was happy to see so many of my friends run well today.  Many had personal bests and great performances.  I felt terrible after the race and left right away so I didn't get to talk to very many people.

Splits:

1-7:14

2-7:11

3-7:03

4-6:46

5-6:45

6-6:37

7-6:40

8-8:03

9-7:27

10-7:23

11-7:37

12-7:25

13-8:28 Stopped to go the bathroom

14-7:13

15-6:55

16-7:33

17-9:17

18-9:34

19-11:25

20-9:06

21-8:01

22-8:36

23-9:23

24-10:40

25-11:23

26-8:42

.26-2:04

3:34:40 (8:10 avg)

Nice recovery day.  Spent the day watching LDS General Conference, one of my most favorite weekends of the year.  I felt much better today compared to yesterday.  Of courses my legs are still sore, but I've been able to eat some food which has been good.  Just to recap the past week, busy with preparations for the marathon.  Thursday night I had parent teacher conferences which lasted a few hours after school.  Tuesday night we had bishopric meeting up in Virgin and meet with the clerks also.

No run today, did take Joslin on a short walk.  The next few weeks I will be pretty busy teaching night school, but hopefully I can continue training.  I'm planning to run the Snow Canyon Half and Butch Cassidy 10K in November.

La Verkin Loop easy, legs still feeling pretty beat up.

Did 40 minutes on the exercise bike. Watched the Blacklist episode Wujing.

3 miles easy over to the gravel pit and back, knee bothering me.

Ran down through Pah Tempe and then home. 40 minutes on the bike.

Nice run this afternoon, up in Virgin.  I ran from the church over to Dalton Wash road and then did 2 miles up the road and then back down for a total of 7 miles.

This was a pretty good week.  I stayed busy teaching a driver's ed class and working on scout rechartering (I will be glad when that is over).  Yesterday I went on a nice run up near Virgin, also helped Jansen mow the duplex.  It felt great to get out and enjoy the nice weather.  I really enjoy fall down here in Southern Utah temperature was great.  Friday night Sunny and I went over to St. George and tried out the new Qdoba resturant, pretty good food.

Today, was busy as it was Fast Sunday and I had to conduct.  We had a few changes in Sunday School and as I mentioned before I've been busy working on scout stuff.

Everything else is going pretty good.  I'm looking forward to this week as we only have three days of school and then Fall Break.  Also Joslin will have her birthday on Sunday.

Basketball this morning, and then got home and was planning on going for a run, but ended up playing Jansen about 4 games of one on one and then played soccer with Jarren for 20 minutes. By the time I was done I just bagged the idea of going on a run. Oh well,

20 minutes on the bike.

No run today went to Vegas.

No run today

Had a fun week.  We had fall break, so it was nice to have a few extra days off from work.  Sunny and I went to Vegas on Friday.  We went and saw Frank Caliendo on Friday night, it was a really funny show.  Before the show we did some shopping and had dinner at TGIF, but it wasn't very good.  After the show we walked the strip and then went back to our hotel, we stayed off the strip at a Marriot it was an ok hotel got it for $60 on priceline.

Saturday evening we celebrated Joslin's birthday.  She is really into Frozen right now, so that was what most of her presents were.  Sunny made Navajo Tacos and we also had a cake from Costco.

Today was actually Joslin's birthday (3 years old). I was pretty busy with meetings today, however bishop didn't have any interviews after church so he said he would stay and do the count so that I could go home and spend more time with my parents.  They got here on Friday with their camper and plan to stay about a week.

La Verkin Loop with a couple of stops to stretch and work on my knee pain.  I'm really thinking that it is time to go to the doctor with this problem.

Basketball this morning, knee was hurting and then I rolled my left ankle.

Ok run this morning.  I'm going to name this the Trail Ridge Loop.  I went down past the gravel pit to Trail Ridge Subdivision then on the paved trail, back on the highway to the gravel pit road and then looped back home.  Overall 5 miles and things felt ok, still some ankle pain and the knee is still causing me a lot of pain.

Went and saw Dr. Welch today regarding my knee.  He didn't feel like there was any ligament damage.  He thought maybe I've torn or strained my meniscus so he gave me some stretches to do, he said he didn't think I could do much more damage to my knee by running.  I played some basketball with Jansen and then I rode the exercise bike for 20 minutes.  I'm actually beginning to wonder if riding the bike is causing some of the knee pain?

Nothing today, quite a bit of knee pain and then busy with lots of meetings.