Little Buddha

Ran 6 miles down from the Overlook into La Verkin then back on main street to house, did one grass loop around the church field. I injured some of my ribs on my upper right side Friday playing basketball. I was in some pain on Saturday's run and felt more discomfort again today while running. Hopefully it isn't anything too serious. I plan on going out again tonight for a few more miles. Ran another 4.5 miles easy tonight down in Confluence park along the river and back up into La Verkin came back on 300 West.

Didn't get out this morning like I should have. This afternoon I went over to Hurricane Track and did some tempo miles, things didn't go as I had hoped. After a mile warm-up ran the first mile in 5:40 felt ok after a few minutes of active recovery ran the second mile in 6:00, but was physically drained, did some more active recovery and started the third mile repeat, but had to stop my body was just not responding, I thought it had cooled off a little and the breeze outside would make the workout a little easier to do, but instead it was still really warm and the breeze soon turned to very strong gusts. Upset I did a mile cool down and decided with the afternoon heat and strong winds I was done with the track workout. Plan on getting in some more miles tonight. Ribs still hurting, but feeling a little better than yesterday.

4 miles this morning. This afternoon did a pace run from Virgin to La Verkin. Did .5 mile warm-up, then 7 miles at a faster pace.

1-6:53

2-6:38

3-6:56

4-7:02

5-6:22

6-5:55

7-6:16

.5 cool-down

Went out to run at 2:15 pm, temperature was around 82 and still really windy had to fight a headwind for most of the run.

Did one of Sasha's always on the runs tonight and got another mile in then shot some baskets with Jordan outside the church.

Didn't get a workout in today, my wife Sunny went into labor this morning about 1:00 am, spent most of the day at the hospital. At 4:20 pm we welcomed Jarren Joseph into the world. It was an amazing experience and such a blessing from our Heavenly Father. Thankfully everything went fine with the delivery and both mother and baby are doing great. Sometimes we get so busy with life and our schedules we don't stop and reflect about how precious life is. Today was a wonderful and joyous time for me and my family. I would really like to thank everyone from the blog and especially my new friends from the St. George Running Club. In place of the traditional cigars I will try to pass out gel shots or powerbars next time we are all together.

4 miles easy this morning.