Little Buddha

Did a pretty challenging hike most of the day, with my son Jordan, my father in-law, and some friends from Alaska.  We climbed from the north side of Pine Valley Mountain, up to the summit 9900 ft, then back down to Oak Grove Campground on the south side.  The overall distance was 6.5 miles, but was kind of slow going.  We had to stop quite a bit to let Jordan rest, but overall he did pretty good.  I'm going to try to do a few more miles maybe later tonight.

Decent run this morning. I went from the house out to my new school and back. Good 4 mile out and back. Overall 7:39 pace I checked out my schedule for the upcoming year, and it looks pretty good. 1st hour- plan, 5 classes of 7th grade Utah History, and 1 class of 6th grade Early Civilizations. School starts at 7:45 and we get out at 2:00 pm, which should really work well with my running schedule and also when I do driver's education over in St. George.

My weight has gone up a little the last few days. I had a big steak and potatoes dinner on Sunday night, before our hike, then last night Sunny and I went to Texas Roadhouse for our anniversary. I thought the food was really good and the price was decent. However, now I have some extra pounds to work off this week.

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Went out and did an easy 2 miles with Sunny tonight, she did good.

Got up at 5:30 and made my way over to the Pineview track for some 800s with Clyde and Steve. I was a little late, so I didn't get in as long as warm-up as the other guys, I only went a mile, so I started my workout, when they were starting their second interval. Both Clyde and Steve were running a pretty quick pace, I settled into more of a Yasso 800 workout. Here are the splits

1-2:40 felt like I'm still warming-up

2-2:40 felt better

3-2:39 felt pretty good here

4-2:39 Pretty happy I'm consistent with these times, I was just wanting to be between 2:40-2:45 range

5-2:45 I felt pretty tired on this one, and not very focused.

6-2:42 This last one was a struggle, but at least it was faster than the 5th one.

Workout- 3 miles threshold, 2 miles easy recovery

Finished with Steve driving me over toward Middleton Drive, then ran back to the high school and added a little bit 2.5 miles.

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I'm glad I made it over to the track and did this workout. I felt ok with the times, last year I would do similar workouts and be in the 2:45 to 2:50 range, so I really think I'm faster than last year at least at this point.

Now we are off to Vegas for a short overnight trip and some relaxation.

Got home late from Vegas, and only did 4 miles.

Played basketball for an hour, then I did a 8 mile run out on 100 North, past Ernesto's, then back across the 600 North trail. The run didn't feel that great, my right hip is still bothering me. I'm planning on getting out again tonight, since I didn't run much yesterday.

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Really good run for me today. We did a 20 miler from above Veyo down to the running store on the marathon route. I was a little worried how I would be able to handle 20 miles, since I haven't done one for a long time. Anyway we started off at a decent pace, Clyde, Steve, Bill, and myself.

1-7:09

2-6:46

3-6:20-I'm enjoying the pace so far not too fast, and we are running together enjoying the cooler temperatures

4-6:27

5-7:19 I felt pretty good going up Veyo Hill, Bill drops off a little going up the hill.

6-6:59 still some hills here

7-6:40

8-6:45 Steve and Clyde put a little distance on me here

9-6:34

10-6:27 Quick water stop for the guys, though I didn't really stop, I carried some two smaller bottles of power aid on my little hip belt

11-6:37 By this time Clyde has taken off, he really wanted to try to push the second half, so now it is just Steve and I for a few miles

12-6:28 I'm still feeling pretty good, which is surprising. I didn't eat much yesterday or last night, and I also didn't get a good night's rest.

13-6:22 (1:26:56)

14-6:16- I picked up the pace a little here, Steve was struggling a little, was low on fuel.

15-6:12-

16-6:40 gradual hill leaving Winchester

17-6:26 Legs starting to feel tired, and body really starting to warm up. In fact I took a water bottle that was on the side of the road, looked like it was more than half way gone and wasn't one that somebody had recently set out, so I just dumped it over my head and it helped cool me off for a bit

18- 6:43

19-6:41

20-6:38

2:12:32 average 6:37 I was pretty happy with this average. I had done a similar run back in April 14 miles down the course with a 6:38 average. So this effort was much better today 6 more miles, plus the Veyo Hill and the rolling hills coming into Dammeron.

I did have some problems driving back home, got really tired and just felt ready to eat something and take a nap.

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