Fly on the Wall

About 9 miles on the Provo River Trail.  4.5 up canyon at ez pace.  4 miles down canyon at hard pace.  0.5 mile cool down.  I forgot my Garmin, so don't know the details.  It was warm sunny but not bad- 82 degrees.  

The trail was extremely crowded, especially between Nunns and Bridal Veil Falls.

I should have run either 5 recovery or 14 ez pace but some guys across the street from my work were taking us on a new route and I caved to peer pressure.  6.5 miles none of them ez enough, pushed hard up to the capitol

Ran from work over to and through Gateway (the fountain was fun to run through), past the LDS reflecting pond, and up to the doors of the capitol.  A fun route but I fear the lunch-time traffic (Latter that afternoon I found out that there was an accident on our home street and near today's route.  We think it involved a bike or pedestrian.  The street was closed for hours and a fire truck came to wash away the blood). 

 Tomorrow I will probably regret today's run.  Oh well.

14.1 on JRP @ 8:32 ave pace.  A nice and comfortable 80 degrees at the finish :)  (sure beats 90+)

After running sorta hard two days in a row, I thought today's med long run might be a slog.  But I felt better than anticipated.... which is to say pretty darn good.

5 @ recovery pace on JRP.  83 degrees.

Downtown, up City Creek about a mile past the end of the road and back.  Not particularly easy nor hard real or perceived effort, just a get it done run.  I finished tired.  83 degrees at finish.

Up Provo River Trail on tired legs. 

I did this run to get my training miles in even though my legs were heavy from yesterday's long run.  I started off sort of chugging along wondering how long I would last before feeling really tired.  Slog, slog, slog for a few miles.... but then who was that up ahead?  It looked kind of like Smooth?  Could it be?  It was!  Smooth saved me from a run of drudgery.  I ran with her and another blogger up until their turn around and this made me forget any fatigue and feel great.  After Smooth and company turned around I ran about another mile up to Vivian Park, used the facilities, and headed back down the canyon.  I even finished with an easy effort 7:07 paced mile! 

Thanks for the boost Smooth.  I hope you did great in your training run race!

ave pace - 8:24.  Last mile at 7:07 pace, downhill with the wind at my back and feeling good.  :)