Little Buddha

Did a morning workout of 4 miles, felt sick to my stomach much of last night and had trouble sleeping didn't feel any better during my run and I have still felt stomach sickness throughout the day. Painted the outside of my sister in-laws house all day then went on a mile long walk with Sunny tonight. She is ready to have this baby, hopefully it will happen within the next week or two.

Good workout tonight, did 2.5 mile warm-up (funny calling it a warm-up when it was still 97 degrees outside at 9:00 pm) over to HHS track then ran 3x1 mile @ 10K race pace or slightly slower 6:07, 6:01, 5:55. Felt pretty relaxed on all three and probably could have gone a little faster. I was a little discouraged because it was pretty dark and I couldn't see my splits very good on each lap. After the workout ran another 2.5 miles home real nice and easy.

Good morning workout 8 miles over to Hurricane and back. Pretty cloudy this morning and trying to rain, nice change from the really hot weather we have been having.

Went out this afternoon and did a hill workout over at Pah Tempe Hot Springs. This is where I did most of my hill repeats in preparation for Boston and I really enjoy the hill and the workout it provides. The last hill workout I did was back on March 30 a couple of weeks before Boston, so I was kind of curious today to see where I am at in terms of being in shape. Since the marathon I have taken my training fairly easy the last month and a half. Anyway started out with a 2.5 mile warm-up, little longer than I usually do. After the warm-up I got into the workout. Repeat #1 was 2:09- which is now an all time PR, I was really surprised I ran that fast on the first one, maybe it was just the fact I was excited to be out doing hill repeats again. Slowed down to 2:14 on the Repeat #2 and started to wonder if I had just wasted all my energy on the first repeat. Between the second repeat and third repeat threw-up a little bit of lunch, I thought this might happen because it had only been a few hours since I had a big lunch. Anyway on to Repeat #3 ran 2:19 and figured I should be done for the day, since I was just slowing down on each repeat. My mind was willing, but I was having trouble getting the rest of my body into gear. However, I did decide to do one more repeat since I had originally planned on doing 4 repeats. Repeat #4-was 2:13 really glad I decided to stick with my plan and do the last one. Felt pretty satisfied after the workout and look forward to doing more hills as the summer goes on. Today the rest was right around 3:30 between each rep. Ran 3 miles for a cool down. Ran 4 miles tonight on the treadmill while watching the NBA Finals game one.

4 miles easy this morning. New route tonight ran over to Hurricane up by the ball fields where they are putting in a new subdivision, then ran down a trail to the Virgin River, I was on the south side of the river and saw a turtle and a rabbit, it was getting dark and rather than run back up the steep trail I had come down, I decided to wade across the river and then run up the trail on the other side of the gorge back up into La Verkin, easy 5 run and got a little cross country running in.

Ran with Steve and a guy named Dennis from Leeds we went from Chuckawalla up over T-bone trail down to the Industrial park and then back up over Skyline Drive to Chuckawalla, judging by our time and pace I would say the run was at least 11 miles.