Little Buddha

Easy run tonight, I did 5 miles over to the Hurricane Cheveron and back, then I ran 1.5 miles with Sunny up to her parents and back. Legs a little sore from the 30K on Saturday, but I'm looking forward to this week and the Hurricane Half. Last year I ran 1:21 something and this year I would really like to take 2 or 3 minutes off of that time. The course is not as fast as one might think, there is some gradual downhill the first three or four miles, then a gradual climb out of Virgin to the La Verkin Overlook, then some major downhill that can really work the legs if not prepared, after the downhill, you have some flat running through La Verkin, then finish with a little uphill heading into Hurricane (which is the same boring direction I run almost every other day) the last mile is fairly flat as you come into town. (Nimbus)

I came home from work not feeling too good and decided to take the day off from running.

Good run tonight from the house over 600 North trail to Brentwood Bowling alley where Sunny picked me up.  The run wasn't bad, except for the wind which was probably the worst it has been all spring.  The run took just over a hour (average mile was 7:41, a little slow, but I was running into a headwind the entire way.)

Ran from Snow Canyon Middle School up to the running store, stopped in for a few minutes then back down Valley View Drive over to Sunbrook Golf Course and back to the school. Average 7:22 mile pace, felt a little better than yesterday, still windy weather but nice temperatures can't complain too much.  I won't be at the club run tonight, sorry guys but looking forward to the Hurricane Half on Saturday

4 easy miles this morning

Ran the Hurricane Half race this morning, pretty pleased with my race overall. I ran 1:19:55 (6:06 average) The biggest thing was the fact I took a minute off of my time from last year and we were running in much worse conditions this year. We had a pretty good headwind for much of the race. Steve Hooper and I started off together and pretty much helped each other the first 9 miles surging and trading postions to draft in the wind. About halfway down the steep hill into La Verkin Steve started to pull away and put some distance on me, I closed a little on him the last two miles, but he beat me by about 30 seconds. Clyde took 2nd to Glen Tucker and also ran faster than last year while still recovering from Boston, and Bill was the 3rd in the Master's Division, so all in all a pretty good showing for the club.

Here are the splits

1-6:09- slow, still warming up and dealing with the wind, some older guys went out ahead of Steve and I

2-5:59- I told Steve we need to pick it up a little on this mile, since it has some downhill, pass one of the older guys. Still have Clyde, Glen, and a guy from Northern Utah up in the lead pack

3-6:11 Still dealing with the wind, we've dropped another older runner who was drafting off us.

4-6:14

5-6:16 took a little gu here, since I knew we would have a water stop ahead and the next 3 miles are a gradual uphill

6-6:21

7-6:30 Steve and I are still just crusing along

8-6:04- Start of the big downhill. I was just getting into a groove really enjoy my ipod and the music playing, when the dumb thing died. I slowed way down and tried to restart the music, but no luck, low battery or so it says, turns out I had plenty of battery, but didn't find that out until after the race. Anyway probably good to run some of the race with no music and trying to be more focused mentally. Steve really picks it up on the downhill and leaves me to eat his dust.

9-5:29-Steep downhill, pounds the legs

10-5:43

11-6:18 Just pushing along down Main Street La Verkin! Steve is about 30 seconds ahead

12-6:35 some uphill into Hurricane

13-6:00 a good last mile, felt strong coming into the finish, and felt like I could have probably kept going a little further, completely different feel from last weekend in Ogden.

My garmin measured the course right at 13 miles, so just a little short.

Overall happy with the day, and the improvement from last year, had a nice massage after the race