Relentless

AM - 11.5 Parkway/Mav. What a crazy night... Everyone in my house was sick and puking all over each other - epic! Ran the Parkway with some extension before practice and then over to practice, the warm up and then a 30 minute run and home. Never really felt great this morning. I probably have a touch of what Ry and Py had, but obviously not as bad as those sickos. Great first day of practice; now the challenge - keep as many as possible of the 65 that were there coming out, and hopefully snag a few more key people. (Barefoot '14 15)(Ronin 383.75)

noon - 6 ND. Short turn around, but I had a nap and the girls wanted to go swimming, so I told them they could before I went running or after and they chose after. So I took advantage of a light cloud cover and the not as hot day to get the run in. Stomach still off a bit. (Landreth blue 1102.9)

AM - 10.5 BV/Tortoise Fence. Just a slow easy run before practice. No reason to go any quicker. Then a decent 30 min run up into the desert for practice. First day of Kids Club; glad that's over. (Kinvara Lime 463.75)(barefoot '14 15.5)

afternoon - 30 min pool run. Just trying to make sure I don't do too much too quick as I bring my mileage back up, but I still need/want to do something. So there it is.

AM - Clyde's (tempo)/DogTown. 4 mile tempo with Logan this morning. And other than denting his car like a nube, it was a good morning and good starting tempo. Hit 5:45 ave for the 4. Lots of room for growth! Then 35 min with the team, covered 4.66, I hear, and that put us at the usual 7:30 average. (Barefoot '14 16)(HyperSpeed 2 489.5)

afternoon - 4.5 Dirt Mile. Just didn't feel good all day - super tired and groggy and my stomach was just not sitting well. But I finally got out and decided to just stay only Dirt Mile so I could jet home (or walk) if necessary. The further I went the better I felt actually. But I decided to still cut it since I had run a lot this morning. (Boston 1100.5)

AM - 11.5 Highland/Grass. Pretty decent run up Highland all the way to the park and back before practice. The mornings are so great right now; I wish they would stay that way even when it warms up. Then barefooting on the grass. The city is turning our normal field into a cemetery, so that is a bummer. So instead we ran laps on a baseball field - more laps per mile, but goo grass. (Barefoot '14 20.5)(Connect 739.5)

afternoon - 6 ND. This sounds wierd, but I am getting too many miles and I kind of forgot how quick the miles add up. So I'll take the afternoon off tomorrow and hit the pool if I feel like it. And the temps aren't too bad and that helps things too - 100 isn't nearly as hot as 105, and 105 is nothing like 110, and then 115; a bit too warm there. (Stratus black 1110.45)

AM - 12.5 DogTown/Fields. Started off very slow for the morning - barely beating the 9 min guy for the first two. Not hurting or anything, just slow and sleepy. But toured the town and just enjoyed it. Then got down to practice where we ran 40 mins (that actually turned into 44) with a strong finish and listened to Trevor bawl about high school. (Kinvara white 217.5)

AM - 19 Fields. Logan and started off at my house and tied in with Steven, Haydn and Aaron down at Sullivan Park. then we hit into Clyde out in the Fields. Not enough zip in the legs for a tempo or anything. Just kind of a decent pace throughout. Hit 6:40 for the first 17, the Logan and I chilled/struggled back up the hill to my house to finish it off. Felt better throughout tha. Last week, but like I said not a lot of pep in the legs. It will come though. These have have been a few good building weeks in a row. (Kinvara silver 396.5)

Mileage kinda climbed on me even with two afternoons off. I guess it is a good thing, since I made it through the week and feel pretty decent.

Goals for next week: Make sure I keep the mileage between 85-90, so as to not climb too high too fast. Looks like a two workout week, so we'll see how that goes.

AM 14.5 Hell's Hole/Dirt Mile. Ran a bit down in Hell's Hole this morning. Checked ou the progress on the new trail - it is coming along very well; it is all ready to be paved and will be awesome, but then the two sides just don't connect. They are still about 200 meters from actually finishing it, and no work has been done on that part. Then got up to practice and we ran 40 minutes with 10 at steady-state pace (basically the idea of Tinman Tempo). A good enough morning that I won't do an afternoon. (Barefoot '14 21)(Kinvara3 688.75)

AM - 15 Clyde's. Hit the short tempo loop with Logan again. Although I felt surprisingly flat and unmovtivated (thoughts that I had to battle the whole tempo), it ended up being a decent 4.5 miles. Hit an ave of 5:39 and actually had Logan in sight. So some improvement. Then for practice we had an easy 30 minutes followed by Kids Club. My watch died half way through practice so I am guesstimating 15 total for today. Ran in a new pair of Gel Lyte 33's. Haven't had a new pair of Asics for probably 3+ years. They used to be my fave and I still love my old Stratus and enjoy the Landreth. So I thought I would try something with them again. They were decent and I'll see how they break in. (Barefoot '14 21.5)(Lyte33 14.5)

afternoon - 4 Sanberg's. Met at PV with of the VBoys. After they helped me out away the hurdles and high jump mats, we had a nice and easy run to Sandberg's via DpgPound bottom-up. Nice run with the guys and dip in the pond. (Landreth blue 1106.9)

AM - 11.5 Middleton/Grass. Easy recovery run out and back into Middleton and then barefoot on the grass for practice. Ran in the new Kinvara 5's. They felt pretty good. To me, a similar feel as the old ones. Hopefully running in some new shoes will help out a few of the aches and pains a bit. (Kinvara green 7)(Barefoot '14 26)

AM - 17 Clyde's/Grass. 5x3 mins with Clyde and Logan. Took a big gouge out of my foot yesterday evening when I stepped on a hammer, so that hurt quite a bit, but it went numb after a while. Paces were 5:20, :11, :07, :01, 4:58. Felt pretty good about things as I got going. Then over to practice where we went 3x6:00 on the grass. I forgot the feeling of trying to run a workout on the grass and could really feel the difference. Paces here were 5:45, :48, :38. (Everything had 3 minutes recovery today). Good workout for the team. Need to get everyone's camps and church things and stuff out of the way so the team can get working together. Only run for today as the miles kinda added up. (Kinvara green 24)

AM - 12.25 Parkway/Coral Canyon. Just an easy recovery day. Ran the Parkway with some extension into the new neighborhood. Then for practice we ran from Coral Canyon up onto Highkand and looped it around. (Kinvara Green 36.25)

AM - 22. I have no idea what to call this loop, so I'll wait until someone else names it. The Circle met up at Dc and ran through Bloomington Hills, Little Valley, and our tempo area out in the Fields and along the river trail. Pace was honest throughout and ended up at 6:37 for me even though I didn't have much at the end. Clyde and Logan hammered out the last two/three and I just plugged along, but still hit under 6:00 for the last bit. I was pretty spent on the run - especially since I had only planned on doing 15'ish - but Clyde made the rules today! (Kinvara Green 58.25). Updated: the name, The Mutha Loop (good work Logan).

Pretty good week. All of the miles except 4 were on singles, so that was about as recovery as it gets (taking the afternoon off).

Goals for next week: I've got Scout camp for the first of the week, so that's lame. I'll miss tempo and just try to get in what I can. Hopefully the week ends up solid.

AM - 12 Junction. Out to the junction and Coral Canyon early before head up to scout camp. Run was pretty good. (Kinvara Green 70.25)

afternoon - 12.25 Navajo Lake. Up to Navajo, and I ran over to Cascade Falls and then a bunch of miles on the Virgin River Rim Trail. Super pretty. I have never spent any time up here and it is just beautiful. The trail was fun and runnable, but very tough. If trail races were really like this and not on just made up trails up mountains, I think I would really get into them. (VertK 321.25)

AM - 14 Navajo. Went from Navajo down to Duck Creek and beyond and then back. It was basically all up hill into a hideous wind (that had blown the whole day yesterday and all night). Made it super tough and I was way slow. Of course the 9500 ft. made it tougher too! (Kinvara Green 84.25)

afternoon - 6 Navajo. I headed off the mountain today since Ally is taking off tomorrow. On the way back, I pulled off at some random dirt road and went out on it. It was way to close to lunch and my stomach was jacked. My legs were dead. And I was chaffing like a beast. So about a mile into it, I went Trevor-style(for just over 4 miles) and things got much better. It was pretty crazy and something I never thought I would do. Startled a huge buck about 5 feet off the trail resting under a tree - scared me to death. It was one of about 20 deer I saw the past 3 runs. (VertK 327.25)

AM - 14.5 Middleton/Grass. Good run into Middleton and then on the grass for practice. Couldn't go barefoot because of the cut in my foot is still giving me some problems. But it was a good relaxed run nonetheless. It was nice to be able to breathe and the temps were just absolutely awesome. (Kinvara Green 98.75)

PM - 5.5 Parkway. Didn't get out until later, but it was such amazing temps I could have gone for ever... Other than the fact that I have run over 60 miles in 3 days and am a bit tired. Front-loading the miles this week to give me a very easy end to the week. (F50 673.5)

AM - 16.5 Hell's Hole/Grass. I was just wiped out this morning from a stupid neighbor dog that barked all night. I don't mind barking in the day, but at night... And for 5 hours straight. Come on people, seriously, do something. But I got up and had an nice easy run along the river in Hell's Hole. Then ran over to practice with Ry and we did 4,5,6,5,4 of cruise intervals on the grass. It was a nice workout, and I was very pleased with the whole scene! (Lyte33 31)

AM - 15.25 Mall/Sullivan. Ran just out past the mall and back today. Then down to practice at Sullivan Park where we took the unfinished trail up Hell's Hole (that trail is going to the bee's knees when it is done - I was always thinking they needed to get finishing connecting the two parts, but they are actually putting in a foot bridge there. It will be awesome). Then we looped up around the Dam Rd. and extended just a little before finishing with a solid pace for 10 minutes including a nice little Indian run to keep the group together. Only thing that was bad was that we were missing a few key people. (Kinvara White 232.75)

afternoon - 6 ND. Didn't get much in - but I knew I wouldn't, so that's why I ran my week the way I did. Warming up again. (Landreth blue 1112.9)

Accomplished pretty much all I could today. So that was good.

Goals for next week: same sort of mileage with some workouts.

AM - 16.5 Parkway/Dirt Mile. Went out on the Parkway with lots of extensions. Right Achilles is still hurting a bit - not killer, but too much. Then over to practice (and back) with Ry where we ran 50 mins with 15 at Tinman. Working on team, team, team. (Barefoot '14 26.5)(kinvara3 704.75)

afternoon - 6 Highland via Grapevine. Pretty nice run. You know it is warm out, but when you take care of yourself the hardest part is actually getting out the door. (Oregon 783.75)

AM - 13.5 Clyde's Tempo. Ran Clyde's loop for our tempo with The Circle and then around a little at practice and club. First mile of the tempo was much quicker than the first two times (5:35, where it should be), but then I struggled to keep it there. The bigger weeks have added up and I am a bit tired. Ave. for 5 was 5:40. (Lyte33 44.5)

afternoon - 6 ND. Not a shabby run. Although it isn't as hot as it could/will be, I feel that I am handling the heat pretty well. (F50 679.5)

AM - 16 Hell's Hole/Grass. Pretty wiped out this morning, so I think I may take the afternoon off. We'll see. Super easy down into Hell's Hole and along the river across and up the Dam Rd. Then barefoot on the grass for 50+ minutes. Had good conversations with lots of different groups of runners today; that was nice. (Ronin 392.25)(Barefoot '14 34)

AM - 18.5 Middleton/Dino Tracks. Around 9 out and back into Middleton, then over to practice where we ran a 60 min run into the desert in Dino Tracks trail with a strong finish. Pretty good run and pretty tired now. (Barefoot '14 34.5)(Kinvara silver 414.5)

AM - 12 Parkway/Region Course. Slept in a little since I've got plenty of miles this week and just ran the Parkway. Over to practice at the Bloomington Hills North Park, we ran cruise intervals of 5x4:30 at 5:45 pace. Group had a little harder time staying together today and I think that is because we were missing a few people that would usually hold it together a little more - but everyone still put in solid efforts. (Hyper Speed 2 501.5)

AM - 26.25 Clyde's Marathon. Didn't get the message about the changed start time, so boys graciously came back and gabbed me - didn't matter much, because I wasn't up to their pace today and ran most of the long run by myself. Plan was to run a marathon - many asked us why... Our thinking, nothing replicates the last 10k of a marathon like the last 10k of a marathon. And since I do pretty decent at getting some mileage in, and have used this in the past, I was on board and plan on doing hopefully 2 more this macro-cycle. I pretty much got into 6:30 pace and just stayed there the whole run. Never felt great, never really to bad... just kind of did it. At 10k left I looked at my average (which was 6:26) and decided I was going to try and push to drop it - whatever it would be, fine; but drop it. I did pretty good for three, then up into Bloomington Hills I slipped a bit, so the last 1 1/2 I brought it back to end right at 6:26 sneaking it in under 2:49 by a few seconds. Finished with a little more because I like quarters, halves and even mileage (whatever, my own stupid thing). Ran in a new pair of Kinvara 5's (my first pair got traded in because of a defect). (Kinvara Green 26.25)

Happy about the week and today's run (even though it wasn't great, it was something decent). Got good mileage this week and almost all on singles. Feeling pretty healthy with just a bit if a twinge in my Achilles that acted up a bit on today's run.

Goals for next week: I am going to use it a bit of a recovery week. So mileage should be at 100'ish. And I would like a decent 5k on the 4th.

AM - 16.25 DogPound/Dirt Mile. Decent morning run with no real side effects do the big run Saturday other than the blister on my toe that just kind of rubbed throughout the run. Not the greatest tempo for the team today, but not too stressed about it. Pretty warm out already. Iced down the Achilles after. (Kinvara green 42)(Barefoot '14 35)

afternoon - 5 Grapevine. Truly hot today, but I made it through. Achilles has really spread into my ankle and made it a bit uncomfortable, so I'll keep working on that. (Connect 744.5)