Rollin' THUNDER

11 mies, avg pace 7:07.

11 miles, avg pace 7:18

6 easy miles, avg pace 7:36

I ran the Race for the Cure 5k in Idaho Falls today. This was the first 5k I have done in a couple years (I think). Going in I had high hopes of hitting around 18:00, but my training hasn't been going for too terribly long, so why should I expect a PR? I shouldn't but I had hopes.

The race started and me and one other kid jumped out in front. Technically he jumped out in front and he was about 30 feet ahead by the first 1/2 mile. I could hear someone close behind me, but I didn't want to look and force myself to try and run faster than I am able. At about the half way point I knew I wasn't going to catch the first place guy, and I didn't know how close third was. My goal at this point was to try and maintain the distance between first and me, and not look back for third.

The course was nice. We ran on a paved trail along a river, crossed the river, then ran back on the other side, crossed on another bridge, then went under the bridge back to where we started from. At one point a few geese were walking slowly across the trail, I was trying to run tangents and wasn't about to let a goose push me off my line. I stayed on my line and it got out of the way literally about 1/2-1seconds before I would have kicked it.

My chip time said 18:26, which would be a PR, but my watch said 19:02. I am trusting my watch.

Fun race, good cause.

20:00 on a treadmill. I am pretty sure I didnt go as far as the treadmill said because it said I was going 10 mph when I felt like I was going about 7:00 min/mile pace.

6.3 miles on treadmill.

Ran a race to support my brother-in-laws school program at weber state.

It was cold and windy at the start of the race. It was an out and back course, and the first half was straight into a really strong head wind coming out of the canyon (canyon that ogden marathon comes out of towards the end, 12th street) and the cours went uphill about 80 feet in the first half. It sucked going into the wind and up the hill, but it was really nice coming back. I won by about 2-3 minutes. At the half way point when I saw how far ahead I was I almost shut it down and jogged in, but I told myself I didn't drive 3 hours to do a jog, I drove 3 hours for a race. I pushed hard and finished in a decent time for me. The course was about .1 miles short, but what 5k isn't?

I have got to stop being lazy

7 miles on treadmill. I tried a hill workout program on the machine, and I was surprised. I think I might do that more often.

8.5 miles while watching FSU destroy Clemson.

9 miles on treadmill. I felt like I got a really good workout. I did a hill program for the first 6 miles, then the last 3 miles in 20 minutes.

4.25 miles on treadmill in 30 minutes, followed by a full body workout.