Since it is the new year, I thought I should take a moment and record all my races for 2006 and set some new goals for 2007. First of all in 2006 I ran 2236 miles, which is the most miles I've ran in a year since 1998. I really felt good about my miles and believe I can ran even more in 2007. The goal this year will be 2500 miles. Race Report Jan. 14th Painter's Half Marathon-1:37.42-42nd place St. George, cold weather-First race in about 2 years time and coming off an 8 month period of absolutely no running. Feb. 11th Dam to Dam 5 mile Race- 33:06- 4th place, Hurricane- cold Mar. 18th Spectrum 10K- 37:42- 8th place overall, rainy and some wind, felt pretty good Apr. 8th Coral Canyon Run for Kids 10K-38:40- 3rd place. Tough run Apr. 17th Boston Marathon- *3:06:45 New marathon PR- 1758 out of 19688. Good experience, struggled at the end, cool weather. May 6th Hurricane Half Marathon- *1:20:49 New half marathon PR- 6th place overall Jul. 4th Freedom Run 10k Provo- 39:12, 18th place, not a good race for me, felt very sick before, during and after the race. Jul. 15th Bryce Canyon Half Marathon- *1:18:25, new half marathon PR and a really good race for me. 11th place overall Jul. 22nd Enterprise 10K- 34:49, 6th overall and the fastest 10K I've run since college. Aug. 26th Hobblecreek Half Marathon- *1:16:29, 14th overall in a pretty competitive race. Good race for me, until the end when I took a wrong turn Sept. 23rd Santa Clara Swiss Days 5K- 17:29, 5th overall. Good 5K race, I hadn't ran a 5K since 2004 when I ran 19:27, so this was much better. Oct. 7th St. George Marathon- *2:46.11, 47th overall, 43rd male finisher. A new marathon PR, by over 20 minutes. Great race for me and nice finish to a good year of training and racing. Some goals for this year: 1. As mentioned earlier run 2500 miles 2. Run all the local community races in St. George 3. Improve marathon time to under 2:40:00 4. Participate in the Utah Grand Slam 5. Average 50 miles a week. 6. Continue to enjoy running 7. Improve diet 8. Get weight down to 140 lbs Difficult run today. Started from my house and ran over to the trail that leads up to the La Verkin Overlook, the first two miles where a pretty good climb, combination of running and hiking. Once on top things were better and my pace picked up, coming down the La Verkin twist was good, except we have had a lot of wind in La Verkin lately and it was really windy and cold today. When I got down to Farmer's Market I decided to head north and run along the Confluence trail back to the west. I had to do a few laps around the neighborhood to make the run 10 miles, but it was a good way to start the week. Burned 1614 calories and averaged 8:21 (the first two miles climbing up the hill really messed up my overall average) 1-10:44 2-11:09 3-7:17 4-7:32 5-6:30 6-6:58 7-7:47 8-7:28 9-9:50 another difficult hill climb 10-8:12 | 