Run fast

about 50 times up and down the biggest hill (maybe 20 ft) in Oshkosh, WI 

-17 windchill in wisconsin

chilly morning run with Jon, Andrew and Anthony

possibly some of the hardest miles of my life. Roo and I postholed our way up Wire then I took a wrong turn our our way down. We ended up in a gully with no tracks and the snow was at least 4 feet deep. Roo was getting stuck trying to follow me and he had 10 inch snowballs stuck to him so I had no choice but to carry him. We couldn't continue down the gully because it was too deep so we hiked, very slowly, back up to the ridge line. Once on the ridge Roo could run again. Fortunately on the way dow there were some tracks to follow so the postholing wasn't quite as bad. The ridge dropped us on the BST where I don't think I have ever been so releaved to be on familiar and semi hard ground. We wound our way back to the zoo then went to the park to fetch balls.

averaged around 5:50 for 9 of the 10. A bit icy at times.

with Andrew, Adam and Daniel

with Roo on the BST and golf course. GoPackGo!

Glad to get the one obligatory 5K out of the way for the year. Forgot my watch (rare occurence) so I don't have my splits but I think they were pretty even at around 5:15. Benjamin ran a good race and finished in 16:05. He gapped me and Jason at about mile 1 and didn't look back. I was happy not to fall apart in the last mile and held off a few guys who finished around 10 seconds back.

Warm up and cooldown with Justin. Good to see a soldout race but suprised there weren't more fast runners. I don't think I have placed in the top 3 in this race for years.

Windy wire with Roo and Amiee.  It was the place!

Neighborhood with. Hammy still no bueno :(

Treadmill at 5%. Feels better on the hamstring with the incline.

xc skiing with Roo and Amiee in Jackson Hole

more xc skiing near Jackson

48 of the 60 minutes on the stair master at the max speed and no hands. I think that is my record. Rowing/biking afterwards.

9 on the treadmill.  Still felt the hamstring but seemed like a good pain. We'll see.

Wire

BoSho pacing

Wire and searching for Kermit the dog.

Up Wire and down George's Hollow with Amiee and Roo. Lovely day for a run. Happy Mother's Day!

Grandeur Fun Run and I didn't get lost

I ran in the Cosgriff Tiger Trot 5K which took place at Sugar House Park. The course is basically two laps of the inner circle of the park and start and ends at the parking lot near the pond. I was only expecting to run around 18 minutes but felt pretty good after a my first mile of 5:45 so I starting picking it up from there. This might be the first 5K I have run where my last mile was significantly faster than my first :)

SPLITS 5:45, 5:32, 5:11

VanCott/BST +5 waterholes with Roo

BST loop with Nate and Adam

Flying Dog loop with Nate, Adam and Andrew. Longest run since.....STG.

About 3.5 minutes slower than last year but considering the lack of prep it was a decent effort. More importantly, Amiee got under 3 hours! It was a big goal for her because on her first two attempts she missed it by less than a minute.

1/2/3 were Andrew, Nathan Peters and Lars K

Bike ride up Emigration

I regained the title after last year's loss to Elijah Armstrong. This year there were a whopping 4 men in the race and 11 woman. Amiee ran faster than last year and finished 3rd. I joined Leo for his first 1K race. He was running well then tripped with about 200 yards left and finished the race in tears. But I am sure he will be back next year. He was the youngest competitor at 2.5 years old and for that he won a bag of swedish fish bigger than the size of his head.

Woke up at 3 am, picked up Nate at 4 am, got on the busses at 5:15 and to the start at about 6. Race got off at 6:30. I led through 5 miles then Nate started to slowly pull away. He ran low 5s from mile 6 through 8 and put about 30 seconds on me. He added another 15 seconds on me over the remaining miles and came in at 1:06:24. I finished in 1:07:10 which was only 12 seconds slower than last year. I am happy with the outcome considering I didn't really taper and ran a race last weekend. Allie! won the women's race and James also had a good showing. 2 mile warm up and 7 mile cool down with Nate, Justin, and Matt P. Matt P. finished in a solid 3rd.

Felt better than expected but tightened up later in the day.

Mid Mountain trail with Adam

11 meandering miles plus 1 fast lap at Sugar House Park and 2 marathon effort laps and Liberty Park.

Another year and another DesNews Marathon is in the books.  I knew going in that 1st place would be a very tall order given that Jon Kotter keeps getting faster and I only had a few weeks for solid training coming off the injury in the spring.

Woke up at 2:25, ate breakfast, drove to the busses at 3:30 and was lying in the grass as usual by 4:30.  Unfortunately Jon found me in the grass and was very chatty so I didn't get to rest much :) The race got off right at 5:30 and Jon and I stayed together until the top of Little Mountain. It took enough effort for me to stay with him that long so I had to let him go if I was going to survice. He slowly pulled away and by mile 20 on Foothill Blvd he was about 2 minutes ahead. I wasn't falling apart but I could definitely sense that a death march was slowly ensuing. I made up the hill on Foothill in OK shape then started down 5th South until I abruptly had to come to a complete stop because the TRAX train was coming and the gate had drop. I waited furiously for about a minute then got going again. Not only did I have to stand still for 1 minute I probably lost more time because my momentum was lost coming down the hill. That was a bummer but it didn't really matter because Jon was long gone and third place was about 20 minutes behind. I managed to hold it together decently over the last few miles and I finished in 2:28 and change. I figure without the TRAX stop and I would have been right under 2:27 which was about 1 minute slower than last year. Not too bad I suppose. Incredibly over the last three years I have run this race my split for the first 15.6 miles have all been within 6 seconds of each other. Unfortunately I don't know my splits for my 2012 race when I ran a course PR of just under 2:22. Now that this race is behind me I plan to run more trails for the next few weeks before getting back on road before STG.

Congrats to Jon for crushing a 2:22+ and to Allie for making her Utah comeback and finishing 2nd. 

3 of the 4 years I have run this race my times have been within 5 seconds of each other. The other year was slower. Glad I am not getting slower. Finished 5th overall behind Aaron Fuller (set CR!), Bryant, Riley, and Nate.