Relentless

AM - 10&10 first 10 to Junction at easy pace - saw a gila monster and it made me jump out of my skin (thought it was a snake).  When I realized what it was I stopped for a look.  I have only seen 1 live gila ever, unfortunately something had happened to this one and it was dead.  Stopped back home for a quick drink and gu and a break and then took off on Wendy's for the harder pace of the run.  Ran into Clyde early on and he decided to head my way.  Kept a pretty decent pace for those 8 miles as we chatted 6:20 give or take.  Then the last 2 I was spent and needed to be done, so I didn't even get the round 20 when we got back to my house.  I felt a little dehydrated and, of course, fatigued after the hard runs lately.  (Cumulus orange 94.25)

morning - 8 on Millcreek Trail (2 w/team - they headed back and I continued on).  Good recovery run.  Still a lot of sand up at the top part of the trail.  (Landreth 212.05)

afternoon - 8.65 on Dimple Dell Trails in Sandy.  I really enjoy running on these trails even though it was easy and slow, but it makes me think of cross-country (my favorite type of running).  Ended with 10x100 strides barefoot on the grass at Granite Park with a very slight downhill - kind of fun.  (Cumulus orange 102.9)

morning - 10.2 out and back on Wasatch. Pretty slow and tired feeling run, but a beautiful area. (Cumulus red 45.45)

afternoon - 5 Sego Lily run in Sandy. Last run not on the treadmill for awhile. (Cumulus orange107.9)

morning - 8 on treadmill @ 1%.  (Cumulus 399.4)

PM - 8 treadmill 1%.  Both runs were pretty and I felt like I was straining just to stay on the treadmill at only a speed of 7:30.  This made me not look forward to another week of this.  (220.05) 

AM - 8 treadmill 1%.  Decided I have to do these treadmill runs when the girls are asleep because they make it very difficult to run without interruption. (Cumulus red 53.45)

evening - 7 treadmill 1%.  Well I started reading Chi Running as well as Advanced Marathoning.  Taking some good things and leaving out others from both.  From Chi the best thing I got was the improvement in form that I have realized I have needed to make in a long time.  My problem is that I really sit back on my feet; thus my legs get spent as well as problematic leg and foot issues like PF, Achilles issues, and shin issues.  So what I am trying to do is improve my lean a bit and get up in front of my feet.  I really noticed a change between my two runs today because of this.  And I am actually looking forward to the next few runs to work on these technical aspects.  Easy pace both runs. (Cumulus 406.4)

AM - 14 treadmill 1%. Tried continuing to work on my form. Felt a bit more tired than yesterday evening's run - maybe from working a few different muscles? (cumulus red 67.45)

Finished the week hitting the mileage goal which was 96.  There might have been a slight stretch of burnout for a day or two near the end of this week, but this in bound to happen.  

Goals for next week:  big goal is to make running on the treadmill as fun as possible and shake off the burnout.  Hit a good long run.  Bring back a little more speed into my runs.  From Advanced Marathoning I have decided I need to work on two major things:  First, number of strides.  I had been working on this a little for a couple weeks - I would really like to improve this, as I know that I struggle with a slower stride rate (This week I would like to be able to hit 170 without struggle).  Second, I want to work on improving the quality of my runs by making the second half better and making sure I really use Tempo runs to my advantage.