Little Buddha

Played basketball for an hour, pretty good workout. Ran 5.5 tonight from Snow Canyon Middle School over to trail on Snow Canyon Parkway then down trail came back to school past Albertson's. Pretty warm this afternoon. I got on the scale tonight and weighed in at 149 still dropping the pounds which is good.

Ran with the club tonight, boy it was a hot one outside, we are going to change our meeting time to a little later in the evening to deal with the heat here in St. George. We ran the loop up over Foremaster, came back on the trail by the Virgin River. I had to stop at the Chevron station to get some water. But we still ran a pretty good pace the entire run. Clyde and I ran about 7:20 which felt pretty good, Bill and Steve weren't far behind so it was good to have the whole club out there running.

Did the basketball thing again this morning, played really hard for an hour, found myself sweating just as much if not more than when I'm out running. Plan on doing around 7 to 8 miles tonight, maybe run part of the 1/2 marathon course. Well, I didn't get in 7 or 8 miles tonight, (really busy) only 4.5, ran at a decent pace down by Confluence Park. When I got to 300 West I decided to really push the last mile hard ran 5:42 and felt pretty good, could have probably went a bit faster, but it was getting really dark and I wasn't too sure of my footing.

Good pace run from Brentwood Bowling, through Sky Mountain, across 600 North trail to ball fields, then home. 1-6:51, 2-6:53, 3-7:04, 4-6:28, 5-7-didn't get exact splits on the trail and I had to hike around a large spillway full of water which slowed me down a bit. 8-5:50

Easy morning workout 3 miles. Rode bike 3 miles tonight= 1 mile running. Felt like taking a break from running tonight.

Did a morning hike with the cub scouts, so wasn't able to run with the club. This afternoon I ran from the start of the Hurricane Half Marathon to my house, the distance was right at 11.4 miles. Felt pretty good and overall pace was decent (6:45). I think the half marathon should be a good experience.

1-7:05-easy warm-up

2-6:45 (13:51)- gradual downhill

3-6:43 (20:34)

4-6:56 (27:31)

5-6:51 (34:23)

6-7:16 (41:39) gradual uphill

7-7:27 (49:07) uphill, but not too bad, I was just hurting because I was needing a drink really bad.

8-6:51 (55:58) downhill

9-6:15 (1:02:14) serious downhill coming into La Verkin, at this point I am just cruising along hoping to find a place to stop for water soon.

10.4-7:45 (1:10:00) stopped for a quick drink of water at La Verkin city park.

11-6:53 (1:16:11)

Very busy day and week, felt good to get this workout in after spending the whole morning with the scouts, the whole afternoon shoveling dirt and putting in a garden, nice to run this evening. The hike was about 1.1 which makes my weekly total around 50 miles, which I think is a good start to my summer training and the first full week after Boston.