Little Buddha

An easy 5 this morning, then another 3.5 at 12:30 pm, little upset my Garmin wasn't working again this afternoon. I'm wondering if anybody knows if it is harmful if the Garmin is on the charger for long periods of time?  Well, since I wrote this post this morning I figured out the problem with the Garmin, I think it just had locked up.  Anyway, I just did another easy 2 miles tonight at 10:00 pm with Sunny over past the bridge and back.  She went 1.5 and did fine.   Maybe in the future I can get her out to run with the ladies in the St. George Running Club.

Well, not a very good running day.  I had to help set up girls camp for our ward up at Oak Grove Campground.  One of those leave early in the morning get home at midnight days.  I did manage a short 2 mile jog/hike up a trail, but most of the day was spent setting up tents, packing in food, and dealing with flat tires on cars.  I was pretty happy to finally be home last night.  The day really messed up my training, but I guess sometimes you have to serve the Lord and put others needs before your own.  Anyway, I going to try to do two good runs on Wednesday and back off a little on Thursday, to get ready for the 10K on Friday.

I slept in this morning, then did an 8 mile run over to Hurricane then out south to the cow field and back.  Going out my splits were decent, coming back I started to slow down, I could already feel the heat, 7:40 average for the run.  I ran in my DS Trainers again, I think they are getting pretty close to being retired.

Only 2 miles today, pretty busy and eventful day too many details to describe, just the bad news my Ford F-150 was basically like they say Found On Road Dead.  Pretty funny I was actually at a car dealership ready to trade it in, when the motor just froze up, not good.  Between that, teaching driver's education today, and setting up and taking down flags with the scouts not a good day.

Well, I had a really great race this morning. A new old man PR for a 10K 33:11. actually pretty close to my all time PR of 32:50. Even running that fast I still placed 10th overall and 4th in my age group. We had a good field of runners there today. Joe Wilson won the race, and Dave took 2nd in 31:00. The St. George Running Club and many fastrunningbloggers ran strong. Dave 2nd, Steve Olsen, 7th, Dustin 10th, Steve 11th or 12th?, Bill first in his age group, and Ruth 1st overall female. I really didn't know how the race would go for me. I was feeling a little sinus problem before the race. The pace started off really fast as most of the course is downhill, hence the fast times.

1-5:13 Really faster than I thought I should be going, but I was back in 13th place. Everyone took off really fast from the start. I figured some of the high school kids would fade, but not very many did.

2-5:22 (10:36) Good mile feeling alright, still in 13th but not too far behind Steve Hooper and Ryan from Cedar.

3-5:30 (16:07) Good mile here, picked it up a little and passed Steve and another high school kid.

4-5:33 (21:40) Feeling stronger as the race goes on which is a good sign and a good feeling.

5-5:39 (27:20) Still happy with my splits and gaining ground on Ryan, another high schooler, and another guy. I can see Steve Olsen up ahead.

6-5:30 (32:50) With a little less than half a mile to go I pass the high schooler and Ryan, only to have Ryan kick it in at the end and beat me by about 10 seconds

Last little bit was .21

Anyway I was very happy with my 33:11 and a 5:28 average. Always nice to run a fast time, last year my best 10K was 34:30 so I think I'm on the right track with my training and getting stronger and faster, still not where I was in college, but a lot closer than I was a few years ago.

Had no desire to get out of bed this morning, but I did manage to make it over to run with the club at 6 am. We drove up the marathon course 13 miles, then it was back down to the store. I knew it would take me a few miles to get warmed up. I was still feeling some soreness from the race yesterday. Right after we started off Steve Olsen and Dave took off. I knew from the beginning that there was no way I was going to be running with them today. So I just told myself if I can just hang with the 7:00 minute guy today on this downhill and feeling a little sore I will be pretty happy.

1-7:59 pretty slow, still trying to wake up. Hooper takes off to catch Olsen and Holt

2-6:58

3-7:00 just taking it easy running with Bill

4-6:39 still running with Bill, decide to take my shirt off since it is already starting to warm-up, then I decided to pick it up a little.

5-6:06 not my idea of a recovery run the day after a race, but hey maybe this will help me mentally for Wasatch Back next weekend. Trying to run faster when the body is tired.

6-6:16

7-6:28

8-6:54

9-6:32

10-6:27

11-6:28

12-6:35

13-6:48

13 miles average 6:42 pace 

At the time, the run didn't feel that great, I mean I wasn't dead, but I also didn't feel that fresh. However, now that I'm finished I'm really glad I made it over there this morning and pushed the pace a little.

I haven't hit the mileage for the week, like I was hoping to, but I did have a really positive experience with the 10K yesterday. The rest of the week was kind of a downer, but today was a good run, and I'm getting excited for next weekend.