Little Buddha

Didn't feel good at all this afternoon, only 3 miles.

Good workout tonight.  I've been wanting to do a tempo run on a fairly flat fair course, so I measured out a 5 mile loop around Hurricane starting over on 400 South, then heading out past Hurricane Intermediate, then west on 400 South out to the highway, then back into town.

Did 1 mile warm-up

1-6:09

2-6:14 little uphill in the middle of this mile.  Funny thing happened on this mile a little kid came riding his bike right at me, like he was playing chicken I tried moving in a couple different directions and he kept moving in the same direction.  Finally I yelled at the little kid to watch out.  His friend was also funny he just said "Hi Mr. Jogger" what is funny is the fact I was going about 6:00 pace and he still thought I was slow enough to be called a jogger.

3-6:02 worked this mile really hard

4-6:34 very gradual uphill mile

5-6:08 thought this mile would be a lot faster, I was working really hard but couldn't get the time down.

31:11 overall (6:14 average)

1 mile cool-down

Still dealing with PF pain which is a bummer.

Just an easy 3 did the La Verkin Loop, been feeling a little sick today and not very fun to be around.

Ran up the road behind the "H" hill to the Gould's Trail, then did about 1.5 miles out on that trail.  It was nice to go out somewhere different for a change.  I'll probably try to go do some more runs out that way in the future.  Going up was very slow and I stopped and walked in a few places, but coming back down was pretty good.

No run

Really good run for me this morning.  I went out alone and did 15 miles from Rockville to La Verkin.  My original goal was just to average around 7:30 to 7:45 pace, but after the first mile I was able to get into a good rhythm. I ended up running 1:42:33 so a 6:50 average which I was real pleased with, especially considering the PF pain and hip pain I was dealing with.

1-7:35

2-6:40

3-6:41

4-6:50

5-6:56

6-6:49

7-6:38

8-6:50

9-7:01 small hill through Virgin

10-6:56

11-7:02 rollers

12-7:18 hill up to La Verkin Overlook road

13-6:47

Half Marathon- 1:30:45

14-6:04

15-6:17

1:42:33 (6:49 average)

To pass the time I looked at the license plates of passing cars.  Here is the list of the different state license plates I saw today

Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, New York (3), Illinois (1), California, Colorado (4), Texas (4), Washington, Oregon,  Bonus: British Columbia, Canada

I also saw quite a bit of roadkill: 1 skunk (not much left), 2 racoons right next to each other, 1 fox, 1 rabbit, 1 field mouse, 1 tow rope that looked like a snake, which scared me.

Anyway, good run.  However, I'm still somewhat concerned about the marathon in less than two weeks.  I would like to get over this plantar fasciitis pain it has been the main thing bothering me.

I'm not in PR shape, but feel like I should be able to run between 2:50 to 2:55 hopefully.

Did another 4 miles this afternoon to get me to 40 miles for the week.  I know that is not a lot of miles, but that has about been the max lately with the foot issues.