Little Buddha

Easy 3 mile loop after work, from house over to 300 South then up to 100 East, back on 300 West. I will go out and do a few more miles later tonight, when it cools off. I should have got some miles in this morning, but I was still pretty tired from my trip so I slept in.  I went to the movie tonight with the family, then did 8.5 more miles tonight.  I felt pretty good averaged 7:25 and ran over Hurricane then out west on 400 South.

Once again, I didn't get a run in this morning, so I had to pay for it tonight with some miles in the heat.  After work I went over to the St. George Running Center and got two new pairs of shoes.  The Asics DS Trainer and Asics Cumulus.  I have been running in a pair of DS Trainer and just put in over 300 miles.  They are a lightweight trainer, and didn't last as long as some shoes, but I still like the feel of them, especially on days when I want to run faster.  The Cumulus should be a good in between shoe.  I have also been  running in some Nimbus which are kind of heavy, so the Cumulus should be about in the middle.  I did my first run around 5:30 two miles outside in the DS Trainers, then headed inside because of the heat, also the shoes felt a little big so I changed to the Cumulus.  I then did two more miles on the treadmill inside, then it was off to scouts.  After scouts Sunny and the boys weren't feeling too good and they all wen to bed so I took off and did my Gun Club run up the La Verkin Twist.  I did this run 3 weeks ago and hit 24 minutes going up.  Interestingly I hit the exact same time tonight going up.  Coming down I wanted to hit at least 18 minutes, which is what I did 3 weeks ago.  Well, I hit 3 miles right at 17:59, so my times were almost identical to 3 weeks ago, which I guess is a good thing.  I think I might have been able to run a little faster, but felt a little zapped from the 4 miles earlier.  Tomorrow I'm planning on running over at Pineview Track in the morning.

DS Trainer- 2 miles

Cumulus- 8 miles 

Made it over to Pineview Track this morning.  Clyde was already warming-up when I got there, so I started my warm-up.  I was waiting for Steve to show, but something must have come up.   Anyway I did 2 miles warm-up and still felt terrible, while I warming up Clyde had already started doing mile repeats.  I ran my first mile repeat with Clyde when he was doing his last.

mile 1- 5:50 legs didn't feel very good

mile 2- 5:55 still struggling and just hoping to run under 6:00

mile 3- 5:55 once again, nothing to write home about, but I was happy to finish three, especially considering my run late last night.

After the track workout, I decided I had enough time to drive home, so I went home and did a mile cool-down, then showered had breakfast, then drove back to Pineview to teach summer school.

The nice thing about this morning, was the fact I got 7 miles in, so I won't have to run as many miles tonight which will be good.  This way I can spend more time with the kids and maybe get some rest.  I've been feeling a little tired the last day or so, plus my family has been kind of sick, hopefully I don't pick up anything.

Cumulus- 15 miles

Did 4 mile run up to the substation in Hurricane at 5:00 pm, still pretty hot.  Met up with the club tonight and did a nice 8 mile run down by the river out to Bloomington.  Average pace was 7:05.

Cumulus-23 

I went and played basketball for over an hour this morning, good workout and now feeling some soreness since I was using some different muscles than I have been running. After basketball came home and went back to bed, now its time to do some chores around the house and then get in another run this morning. Went out an barely managed 4.5 miles at noon, really starting to get hot today.

Nimbus-253

I didn't make it over to the club run this morning, like I was planning to.  I woke up at 5:30, but I was still feeling the same sickness I felt yesterday, so I called Bill and told him not to count on me. I then went back to bed and slept until 9:30.  I think the extra rest helped, I seemed to feel better as the day went on.  I was feeling pretty good tonight, so I took off around 9:30 and ran 10.5 miles, went out on the 600 North trail to the golf course, then over to the highway and back into Hurricane, then home.  The pace was pretty slow and relaxing, but I was fine with that.  I got my 60 miles for the week, which I didn't think was going to happen with the way I feeling this morning, but I'm glad I got the run in tonight.  June has been a pretty good month of training and racing.  I still would like to increase my mileage a little through July and August.  I'm looking on doing a few half marathons the next few months.

DS Trainer- 10.5