my makeup may be flaking

I did four loops of Liberty Park in the morning. I only planned on doing two but I was going slow and I felt pretty good so I kept going.

Did two loops of Sugarhouse park very relaxed. Pace was 7:30.

PM Feel the burn!!! I did two three loops of Liberty Park, with the last two hard. I think they just added fresh bark so my run could be approximated by a Stokes Flow...by that I mean the bark sucked away all my momentum. I had to drive hard each step and so my quads were burning. You know its tough going when you go out onto the grass to pass someone and you suddenly start going 20seconds a mile faster...in deep grass. I managed to do 8:32, 8:40 for a total of 17:12 (5:44 pace). This is actually pretty close to where I've done this workout in the past, so I'm pleased with it. After I was done I did some hard strides.

Did a 16 mile long run in 2:04 (7:45 pace). Ran up 2700S to 2000E then ran along foothill to 1300S. Ran by the zoo, into the mountains for a bit, coming out by the medical center, down Sunnyside home.

AM 10.6

PM Played frisbee (90 minutes of strides)

Did three loops of Sugarhouse. Tried to keep it fast, feeling wrecked from frisbee yesterday. I need some recovery which is hopefully what I'll get tomorrow.

The day speaks for itself:

7:30get up

8:00-8:50 go running

8:50-9:20 breakfast, shower, got dressed

9:20 walk to ballpark Trax

9:47 get on Trax, meet Chris and Masaki

10:00 Arrive at U haul dealer

10:30-12:30 Shopping at Walmart

12:45 Get home discover I've somehow lost my house key.

12:45-1:15 Drop off Chris and Masaki at our new house, unload stuff from Walmart, call Uhaul place to see if my key is there. Leave them there to take pictures and measure house. Drive back to Walmart, look for my key, fail to find it, drive back to new house. Pick up phone book off of front porch and call locksmith.

1:26 Locksmith call me to say he'll be 15 minutes.

1:38 Drive back to my house with Chris

1:44 Locksmith arrives starts working on the lock. Estimates it will be 10 minutes.

1:54 No the door is still not open

2:00 Call Rocky mountain power set up account

2:30 Door still not open, send Chris to go move his and Masaki's stuff from their apartments.

2:45 Call Questar Gas to setup account

3:00-3:45 Walk around my house looking for a way to get in, try to say encouraging things to the locksmith who is getting very embarrassed.

3:45 Door is open!

4:00 Masaki calls me and tells me they'll be there in 30 mins

4:45 Masaki asks me to come meet them at the new house so I run from my house to my new house.

5:00 Masaki and Chris arrive, they are late because they stopped by to pick up some stuff from a friend and he basically made them move all of his stuff out of his basement (none of it we could actually use)

5:05-5:45 We unpack their stuff

5:45-6:15 Drive South to Ikea

6:15-9:30 Buy dining set, coffee table, two beds, a desk, three dressers, two bookshelves...alot of stuff basically

9:30-10:00 Drive back

10:00-10:20 Unload all of the Ikea stuff

10:30-10:40 Drive to my house and pack up my things

10:40-10:55 Unload my stuff at new house

11:15 drop of Chris and Masaki at Walmart

11:15-11:45 Drive to the Uhaul place, realize you can't legally turn into it from the mainroad. Attempt to drive around the block, find myself in the middle of a bunch of warehouses on unlit streets. Finally manage to get to the Uhaul place by driving through  business park and through a construction site (this is not smart planning). Realized I needed to go fill up with gas so went and did everything again.

11:45 walked to Carls Junior and got a burger

12:15 Catch last train to the Ball park

12:35 Got home, fell asleep on couch

Spent a pleasant day building Ikea furniture. Didn't get home until 7pm, however. Time to run 20miles! I had left all my GU at my new house, so I just made do with some nuts. I started out at about 6:40 pace which felt fine, but I felt myself running out of fuel almost immediately. I found that I was able to maintain my pace however. As the run went on I began to feel more and more comfortable at the pace and even began to speed up a little. With about 7miles left I really started to pick up my pace, I felt unstoppable...except when I had to stop at red lights. Then my legs let me know how fatigued they were (really bad at the long light at 2700S). I thought about jogging in the last two miles, but when I got going again I felt good. I knew I wasn't going particularly fast so I really tried to pick it up the last mile and go just under 6. I think I might have been burning fat for most of this run. I was able to run about 6:30 pace which is about what I was able to do at the end of Boston, but it felt much easier so I'm probably getting more efficient at burning fat. Total time was 2:08:40 with a slight negative split despite the second half being hillier.