Little Buddha

Played ball for 1.5 hours this morning, really good workout, but now I'm sore and tired at work. I'll probably run 5 or 6 miles tonight, depending on how long it takes me to mow the lawn and finishing planting the garden. I didn't get a run in tonight like I was going to. I really have felt run down all day, pretty tired and sore.

Good workout this afternoon, still trying to cool off, with my busy schedule tonight I had to run right when I got home from work. It was 90 degrees and at different points on the run I was really wondering why I was out there running 9 miles. Anyway I was happy with my effort 63 minutes so right at 7:00 pace, I did the same route from Sky Mountain Airport to my house back in February and ran at 7:13 pace in much cooler weather. I was also pleased tonight when I got on the scale I was at 145 which is 20 pounds lighter than where I was back in October. I would still like to lose a little more weight, when I was running in college I was down around 133 to 135.

Easy 4 miles this morning. Spent most of the afternoon and early evening at the hospital with my wife (8 months pregnant and had a bad kidney stone problem) fortunately it passed and we came home this evening, went out for another easy 4 miles tonight around 8:30 nice evening 75 degrees.

Ran 2 miles around the park before running with the club. With the guys we went out on River Road then down along the river trail, up over St. James, past the golf course where I found 3 golf balls, then back on River Road, decent pace and right around 8 miles.

Easy morning workout, I'll do a few miles tonight and should be ready for the Hurricane Half Marathon tomorrow. I am pretty excited, still a little unsure what kind of time to shoot for. I am feeling in pretty good shape and fairly recovered from Boston, so I might try to push it and see if I can come close to a PR.

Did the Hurricane Half Marathon today. I was really pleased with my race. I took 6th overall and ran 1:20:49 (6:10 pace) which for me was a 3:41 improvement from my all time PR which I ran back in 2004 at the Provo River 1/2. Ran a lot of the race with Clyde which helped me keep pushing along. We started out the first few miles back in 9th and 10th pace, then passed two guys around mile 6, passed another guy around mile 8 and then the last guy around mile 10. I really felt like I was getting stronger as the race went on, so I was happy about that.

1-5:29- first mile was a little short

2-5:37 (11:07)

3-6:18 (17:25)

4-6:30 (23:55)

5-6:19 (30:15)

6-6:26 (36:41)

7-6:41 (43:23)

8-6:18 (49:41)

9-5:07 (54:49)

10-6:14 (1:01:03)

11-5:59 (1:07:03)

12-6:47 (1:13:51)

13-6:58 (1:20:49)

Overall, really happy with my place first in my age group, plus the competition was pretty good. Hobie Call won the race and Jose Martinez was second.

I just need to keep training and working on improving, today was a good day and helped boost my confidence and desire to really train hard this summer and prepare to run a good marathon this fall at St. George.