Little Buddha

This was a challenging run.  I left the house this afternoon temp 89 and ran up the La Verkin Twist, then on up to the La Verkin Overlook, this was a good 4.5 miles of climbing, once at the top I stretched for a bit and took in the view. I took it easy coming back down, I had to make one pit stop, but I won't share the details.

Ran out to Hurricane Intermediate then back home, 9 miles total. This was a decent run, I slowed down a little coming back from Hurricane High to La Verkin as I ran into Martha and Heather running, so I did a couple easy miles with them. I'm planning on doing another 6 miles tonight and then a big workout tomorrow morning.

I swam for about 45 minutes tonight, good workout

3.5 mile run. Did 2 miles with Sunny and Jarren in the stroller. We also took the neighbor's dog. When we first moved in to the neighborhood me and this dog didn't really get along. I guess she has never liked men, anyway she doesn't bark too much anymore when I take off for a run and she doesnt' come chasing after me as much as she used to.

Big Workout #5 5 mile Toquerville Tempo.

I've decided I'm going to try to run most of my tempo runs on this route. I usually start out by Anderson Junction and then run back toward La Verkin, passing through Toquerville. The route has some nice downhill, which is one area I would like to improve on in my running being able to run faster on downhills. I ran this workout on June 1st, but today I pushed it quite a bit harder mainly wanting to see what kind of time I could set as a baseline for future workouts.

4 easy miles warm-up, took half a gu and some water.

1- 5:39 Started at mile marker 6, which is right under the freeway, good first mile, with a short uphill in the middle of the mile

2-5:34 (11:14) This was a good mile and felt very easy. (6:15 on 6-1-09)

3-5:58 (17:12) (5K 17:56) Another good mile, flat running through Toquerville (6:21)

4-6:02 (23:15) This is probably the most difficult mile of the 5 (6:21)

5-5:29 (28:44) I was moving pretty good on this last mile (5:57)

Overall 28:44 (5:44 average)for 5 miles I felt pretty good with this effort, especially compared to a few weeks ago when I ran 24:59 (6:14 average) for only 4 miles

Did a slow two mile cool-down.

Now off to Cedar City to watch Jordan play basketball, and then packing the rest of the day.

Today was similar to Spectrum 10K a few months ago a good workout right before a vacation. 

No run today, traveling all day to Hawaii!

Nice 6 miles this morning in Kihei.  I started out running along the beach, but then headed up a few streets that turned into about 3 miles of uphill, then turned around and head back.  Nice morning, now I'm over on the other side of the island where we will be the rest of the time.

10 miles this morning over to Lahina.  I woke up early so just went for a run.  My legs didn't feel very good on the run.  I might try to run a few more miles tonight.