Little Buddha

Legs still really sore today from Saturday's run.  I feel like I ran a marathon.  I only did 2 miles tonight down to the cow field and back.  Jarren insisted on going, so I took him at 9:30 in the stroller.  Once I got home I rode the exercise bike for 30 minutes, which felt pretty good on the legs.

Also not good to report, my weight really balloned over the weekend. I really didn't think I was eating that much, but apparently I was.

1 mile around La Verkin, then I noticed one of Jordan's lawns that needed mowed so I hurried home changed and went and mowed the lawn, then left for Back to School Night.  After that was over I went out and ran over to the Baseball Fields and back home, so another 5 miles.

Late night last night and first day of school this morning, pretty busy day between driver's ed, Back to School Night for Jansen, and fitting in a run.

I just did 3 miles around La Verkin pushing Jarren in the stroller.  Then I came home and did 30 minutes on the exercise bike.  The legs are still feeling a little sore.  I'm going to try a tempo run tomorrow afternoon hopefully, even though it will probably be really hot.

Not a good run at all today.  Went out this afternoon big mistake, still way too hot or maybe I'm just still messed up from my run Saturday.  Anyway the plan was to do a tempo run from Anderson Junction, through Toquerville my normal route which I really like.  I did a two mile warm-up then got going.

1-6:15 this was good two weeks ago I hit 6:35 on this first mile, so I was feeling pretty good, but that quickly changed

2-6:23 even stopped and walked a bit up a hill

3-6:00 just going through the motions not even pushing it on this section like I usually do.

Anyway after just 3 miles I was done.  I was able to limp into Toquerville to the City Office and got a drink,

Then two more very slow miles to my water bottle which Sunny had left at the Trails Sub Division.

The worst part of the day was the last two miles, I just walked the rest of the way home.

I really hope it was just the heat that drained me and maybe just being a little stressed and wore out from the first few days of school.  Hope to bounce back soon, today running was not fun at all.

Easy 2 miles down to the cow field and back, pushing Jarren in the stroller it was fun listening to Jarren talk about everything

Now that I'm done this was a good run, waking up this morning at 3:45 I didn't feel quite so excited.

Anyway we did 20 down the course this morning.  Lots and lots of people out on the course.  I've really been in a rut with my running and I wasn't to thrilled to be going out this morning for a 20 mile run, especially not on the marathon course, which gets really old to me.

However, it turned into a decent run.  I ran the first 7 or 8 mile with Mike and Bill then they both took off and I stopped and went the bathroom.  A few miles later I caught up to Bill but didn't run with him for very long.  Instead I kept the pace pretty good and just pretty much ran by myself, which was actually good for me this morning.

Once I got to the top of Winchester I was pretty much beat.  I saw Marcie and Amber and jogged with them for a moment, then they said they were going to do 3 hard tempo miles to the end.  I said "have fun with that" totally intending not on running with them.  However, I soon found myself staying right with them and then actually running right ahead of them, so I guess it worked out good for me, because it took my mind off the last 3 miles and I ran pretty good to the end which was at the church.

I never caught Mike, that boy was cruising and Wildbull came in not too far behind me, so we all ran decent.

Most of the other guys in the club got out at mile 16 and then did their workout to the park and then cool-down back to the church.  Anyway, I figured their warm-up pace and workout would be quite a bit faster than the shape I'm in right now, so I just decided to run most of this run by myself, which was ok.

Total time was 2:18:44 (6:56 average)