Little Buddha

Played basketball for an hour this morning, then did a 6 mile run over to Hurricane High School and back via the City Park (for water). Now heading to Vegas to trade in the Explorer for a Mini Van.

Well, we didn't make it to Vegas maybe tomorrow.

Anyway, with the nice cool temperatures tonight I decided to do a short tempo run.  I wanted to a little speed early in the week and then run easy miles until the 10K race on Friday.  I decided to do the 2 mile tempo I've done in the past warming up by running to the substation by Hurricane Middle and then pushing it hard back which is mostly downhill for two miles.  My best time so far for this tempo has been 5:21, 5:31 so 10:52.

I was interested to see if I would be anywhere close to that tonight.  Sorry to report no PR tonight, a little headwind and stomach issues.  Pretty strange I almost threw-up just doing the warm-up.

1-5:27 decent mile, but I thought I was going faster.  It was funny a little kid on bike tried to keep up with me for a minute, then asked why you going so fast.  Didn't really have a good response, so I just kept running.  I thought is was funny and it reminded me of Will Farrell in Talladaga Nights when he says "I'm going fast again"

2-5:34 Had to negotiate a few cars crossing the main highway.  I really felt pretty good once I got across the bridge and was coming back into La Verkin got into a good rhythm the last .5

Overall 11:01 (5:30) Not my fastest but still a nice little workout.

1 mile easy cool-down

Nice overcast morning. Ran 9.5 miles out to the Intermediate School and back via City Park. Legs felt sore, especially the hammy's?

Ran 2 miles easy with Sunny and pushing Jarren in the stroller.  Jarren lasted one mile, then fell asleep which was good.

Over an hour of basketball this morning.

I did 5.5 miles easy down through Confluence Park. Legs a little sore, hope everything feels better for the race tomorrow.

3 miles easy tonight over the bridge to Pah Tempe then back home. 

Well this was a positive race for me this morning. I've run this race only one time before back in 2006. In 2006 I ran 34:49, so I was really hoping to be close to that or faster. At the beginning of the year I set a few goals. One was to break 17:00 in a 5K and the other was to break 34:00 in a 10K. I knew for either of those things to happen I would probably need to find a fast downhill course. I missed out on running the Utah Summer games races so decided that today would be a good day to shoot for the sub 34.

Everything went good and I was able to kill two birds with one stone. I went through the 5K in 16:34 and finished the 10K in 33:49. I feel pretty good that I was able to improve by 1 minute since 2006. I was also happy considering I ran most of this race alone in second place. Ryan took off from the start and had a 5 second gap on me the first mile and kept increasing it a little each mile. He ended up running in the low 33's I think 33:04. I think the course was just a tad short, or at least measured different than the tangents we ran.

2009	2006
1-5:12	1-5:03
2-5:22 (10:35)	2-5:29
3-5:27 (16:02)	3-5:40
4-5:40 (21:43)	4-5:43
5-5:40 (27:23)	5-5:53
6-5:54 (33:18)	6-6:58- last mile plus the extra distance to
.1 30:31	the finish
33:49 (5:33)	34:49

10 miles over to Sky Mountain hole #13 and back home via 600 North Trail.  My legs were pretty sore today, mainly my quads.

This was another pretty good week training wise for me.  Just been hitting around 60 miles a week.  Hope to bump it up a little in August, but for the most part pretty pleased with the way my training has been going lately especially considering my schedule.