Little Buddha

B-cereal

D-Homemade Enchiladas, rice, beans, corn, birthday cup-cake

snacks- Popcorn

150 lbs Sunday night weight 

Not the best morning of running, I really didn't even want to get up and do anything, but did manage to force myself through 4 miles. I'm feeling a little sore and stiff, but hopefully things will loosen up as the day goes on.

Stratus-232

Met up with the club tonight and did a 5 mile warm-up then a 2 mile tempo and then a 1.3 mile cool-down down at the Dixie Center. Those guys are all so fast, I got tired just trying to keep up on the warm-up.

1- 5:50 felt good

2-6:20 caught up to Steve Hooper and we coasted it in the second mile.

Still really hot, took it easy on the cool down. Glad I made the effort to drive over for the workout. My two mile tempo a few weeks ago on the track right after vacation was the same time, but my splits were more equal 6:05, 6:05

Cumulus-129.5

Just about didn't make it this morning. I did a run down through Confluence Park, along the Virgin River here in La Verkin. There was a whole crew of horse flies that tried to carry me off. I felt like that kid from Charlie Brown that always had the flies around him. I would speed up and then slow down trying to juke the flies but to no avail. Finally I was able to get back on the pavement and enjoyed the last 2 miles without too many flies. I also had this feeling as I was running that I might see a snake today, and sure enough a long black and white one. I was actually surprised it didn't spook me as much as they usually do.

Nimbus-182

Ran up to the substation and back tonight with Sunny. This was the first time she has done this run. The first two miles have some uphill, but then coming back there is some ok downhill. Anyway, I paced Sunny and encouraged her to run the last two miles at a faster than usual pace. I'm going to try to get up a little earlier tomorrow and get in some more miles before it warms up.

Cumulus-132

5 easy miles this morning. I went over and measured out a 1000m loop, which I might use later in the summer as a place to do some repeats. Earlier this year, I was doing the repeats on the track, which I didn't mind too much, but right now Hurricane High's Track is all tore up.

Stratus-237

La Verkin 5K loop with Sunny times were pretty slow.

Nimbus-185

Nothing exciting 4 miles, we will be leaving this afternoon for Salt Lake and the Wasatch Back Relay tomorrow. I'm pretty excited, I think I will be able to do pretty good on my legs of the relay. I have been a little sore the last few days, but hopefully I will feel ready when I get the baton and it is time to race.

Cumulus-136

2 easy miles this morning in Murray.

Got up to Logan and rested for awhile at Katie's parents house, then headed over to Paul's, met up with everyone then off to the starting line.

This year I had a great van and a great experience with WBR.  Paul was our driver, then it went Mitch, Steve Hooper, James Barnes, Me, Chad, Jon.

I did about a mile warm-up before my leg.  I was excited for my leg this year and was interested to see if I would be anywhere close to the times they had predicted for me.  My first leg was leg 4 and it was a moderate 5.1 mile leg.

1-5:49 took off a little fast, probably got too excited.  The temperature was still very hot.

2-6:03 another good mile

3-6:39

4-6:33

5-6:44 a little bit of uphill here and feeling pretty hot

.14- 55

Overall time was 32:45, average pace was 6:23, I was about a minute faster than I was supposed to be, so I felt pretty good about that. 

Took a short ice bath in the canal in Eden, and then got some dinner.

My second leg was at about 1 in the morning.  Right before the exchange I was asking people for directions and by chance I happended to ask my old collage coach at Ricks Doug Stutz for some information.  It was pretty crazy running into him like that.  I knew he was running, but finding people when there are 580 teams is kind of hard.  Anyway fun to visit with him.

2 leg- easy

1-6:02-Felt good and enjoying just passing lots of people.

2-6:02 consistent

.92- 5:39 Still pushing it

17:45 (6:05 pace)

This leg was a little short, but I still think I ran really good.  Once again I was ahead of my predicted time

Now it is off for some rest, even though it is very hard to get any sleep during these types of races.

Final leg- Hard

This leg was a fun leg, even though it was rated as hard, I felt I ran this one pretty good.  Overall I gained 560 ft elevation, so there was a good climb the first two miles

1-7:08 heading up the hill

2-7:11 another mile up hill

3-6:19 Things start to even out, and actually some downhill this mile

4-6:29 Kind of rolling

.92- 5:23 I was really pushing myself here, and ended up losing a little bit of Fazoli's at the exchange

Overall 32:31 (6:37 average)  This was another leg, where I run just a little better than projected so I was happy about that, but more happy just to be done.

At the finish we watched BYU come in.  They brought a really good team this year, and then our first team came in second, followed by our team in third.  I was pleased with the effort of everyone on our team, and I think everyone had a fun time, which was the main goal.

I know this isn't the best race report, but I'm still on vacation and using somebody else's computer, so I can't spend all night reporting or I would.

When we got back to Salt Lake.  Jansen and I went swimming and then I got stung by a huge wasp.  Anyway, my right hand is now about twice the size of my left.