Little Buddha

Easy 4 miles this morning, cough might be getting a little better. No run tonight spent most of the evening working with Jordan again on his eagle project.

I would be a decent runner if I got up every morning and started the day with a 7 mile run. Felt pretty good this morning, pace was still slow but the coughing was reduced still not gone but getting better. Hoping to do a tempo run this evening.

Big Workout #13- Tuesday Toquerville 10K Tempo

I'm starting to feel a little better, but I was still worried about this workout.  It has been awhile since I've tried to push the pace, plus I was still worried about the temperature being a bit on the warm side to be doing a tempo run.  I was also concerned because I wanted to do 6 miles of tempo instead of my usual 5. Sunny was kind enough to drive me out to Anderson Junction.  I started by running 1.5 miles out on the frontage road, then turned around and ran back .5 miles stretched a little and then started the tempo 

1-6:25 This mile seemed mostly uphill heading back on the frontage road toward Anderson Junction

2-6:00 (12:26) This mile has some downhill, then a good hill to climb, then some downhill

3-5:43 (18:10) Nice gentle downhill

4-6:12 (24:23) Rolling going through Toquerville, not feeling too good at this point

5-6:14 (30:37) Short uphill coming out of Toquerville, then gradual downhill

6-5:59 (36:37) Good downhill, but not really feeling it.

.2-1:19 (37:57) Average 6:07,

Did two miles easy home.

Overall, a good workout.  I did struggle a little coughing and seemed to be spitting up stuff more than normal.  I would like to try to do this workout a few more times before the marathon.

 Good day of running.

 

Birthday today 34, still in a tough age group 30-34. Had some strange shin pain today on my right shin, just decided to take the day off and see if it feels better tomorrow.

3 easy miles this morning did the La Verkin Loop. Right shin feeling a little better, had some plantar fascia pain on the right foot, after about a mile it started to warm-up and feel a little better.

Only ran 5 miles tonight, the right shin was still bugging me.  This is maddening, right after I get over my cough, now I have a shin injury. 

Went and played basketball this morning. Plantar fascia felt much better, shin felt pretty good. I'm thinking of doing some 1000 repeats after school even though it is supposed to be very toasty this afternoon.

Big Workout #14 5 x1000m repeats at CV pace (5:40-5:43 mile pace)

This workout was really tough because of the heat. It was around 106 when I was doing this so really too hot to be pushing it hard.

I did 3 miles to warm-up then got into the workout.  I wanted to do 7 or 8 repeats, but only managed 5.  I think the heat just drained me more than I was expecting.

1-3:36

2-3:32

3-3:35

4-3:36

5-3:36

I've ran much faster times for this workout, but I guess this was still alright considering being sick all last week, and the shin still hurting some.  The shin did manage to loosen up doing the workout so that was good.

I only did 1 mile cool-down home.
 

Nice 16 mile run down the course. Met up with Logan, Clyde, Paul, and Nate then drove up to Veyo. Logan, Clyde and Paul took off, since Logan had to hurry back to town. Nate ran with the first 7 with his brother, and right when we were taking off ran into Mike, Art, and another neighbor. That was exciting for me since I haven't seen Mike for a few weeks. I just decided to do an easy 7 with him, right around 8:45 pace, then was fine with me considering the hard speed workout yesterday and still trying to get over being sick and little nagging injuries.

Once we hit Diamond Valley, I stopped got a drink stretched a bit and then told Mike I was going to run the next 9 a little faster. Got going good and caught back up with Nate who had been waiting at his brother's car.

The last 9 miles down the course felt real good didn't feel like I was pushing it at all and still ended up with a 6:40 average. With about 1 mile to go and decided to try to break the one hour mark. Ran like 5:57 on the last mile to put me at 1:00:04

I'll try to do a few more tonight to put me at 60, we'll just see. It is Sunny's Birthday today, so we'll do whatever she wants today.

Easy 2 this afternoon