Relentless

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)

AM - 12 Clyde's/grass. Tempo on Clyde's loop this morning. Wasn't really that great. I told the guys that I could feel the flatness from Saturday today and they agreed too. Started off 40 seconds slower than last week, so I told myself not to look at my watch again and to just run as best I could. Ended up with better miles on 2-5 (I guess, since the average came down), but was still only at 5:54 total after 5:39 (I think) last week. I was kind of bummed at myself though because I am sick of Clyde and Logan just killing me in workouts. Not that I am upset at them - they are both running strong and at is sweet - but it sucks to get killed every run together. So I was getting down on myself a bit. Then I thought back to how I was talking to the team about finding positives, so I tried to do that a bit. Overall, I am doing well on my running right now, mileage is way up, feeling mostly healthy, I am just going to commit to be a little braver on some of the workouts and not succumb to just falling back. Finished with a little on the grass and kids club. (Barefoot '14 36)(Lyte33 56.5)

afternoon - 6 ND. 6 hot ones up in the North Desert. Took all the way up to one step below full-heat mode today. Ice in soaked hat (which conveniently got some air conditioning holes in it after Twix, our new puppy, decided to chew on it this morning), of course ice-packed water bottle, and the reason I was a step below all out was shirt just half soaked (from hose run-off from soaking my head - have to save 1 more thing at least for when it is over 110 (108 just isn't hot enough). Big thunderheads out on the Strip (above Trumbull) and up on Cedar Mountain, but nothing coming our way. Watching the weather made me think of a lot of stories from wildfire fighting - good times that I don't miss at all! (Free 938.7)

AM - 11.25 Parkway/Grass. Not a great morning if you look at my pace, but it was just kind of a get out and run morning. It started with an amazing sunrise though. One of the greatest I have ever seen. (Barefoot '14 41.75)(Oregon 789.25)

afternoon - 6 ND. Hit the usual afternoon run inthe heat. I probably don't need to say it is hot anymore; it just always is. Had a great session of yoga this morning after a good one yesterday too. Hopefully I can loosen up a bit. (Kinvara 979.65)

AM - 16 Middleton/Grass. Ran pretty slow out into Middleton, but by mile 7 I found myself actually feeling good and starting to move. Then for practice I ran with the girls as they did 2 sets of short cruise intervals. It was a very good workout for those that were there and they did a very good job. Then ran home. (Barefoot '14 42.5)(Kinvara white 248.25)

Sandy Classic 5K 16:27

AM - 14 Sandy. Ran down to the race about 4.5 miles and then a little more warm up with Ry. The last time I ran this race was when I was just getting into running again, and I got thrown down on by a 15 or so year old kid. I advised him that he was pretty dang decent and should stick with this running thing. Luckily he turned out to be Kyle Perry, national champ for BYU, so I don't look too bad now! Anyway... The course was much different this time with a figure 8 kind of thing that had some rolling hills and a decent wind going on for a bit. Started off and let all the Youngbloods take off like usual. By mile 1 I had worked up through them all and was working on the lead pack of 3. Went through the mile at 5:12. I was much too comfortable for a 5K - that was the main reason for running this, trying to make myself hurt a bit. On the 2nd mile, we were working back in to the wind the whole time. I worked to get up to the lead group so I wouldn't have to break the wind on my own. When I finally caught them (on the parkway thing there by the mall), I was feeling decent and had a decision to make. I decided to sit with them for a minute and regain some strength before a push in the final mile. Unfortunately this slowed me down and I couldn't sit in there with them comfortably. And after clipping each of them a couple times and trying to find a good spot, I just decided it was better to break out and take over the race. Mile 2 was 5:27 on my watch (and a little far gps-wise). I think between trying to sit back for a few hundred meters and then the wind on my own, I lost about 15 seconds on this mile. Thinking back, I should have just flat blasted by them. In the third mile, we circled around the mall, so there was a little hilly climb on the south side of the mall and a little drop back to the parkway. I gave a couple quick glances to make sure I was okay and pushed pretty good. Didn't have a 3rd mile marker, but based on finish time (the course measure a good 5K distance of 3.15 on watch) was probably through mile 3 around 5:10'ish. Felt pretty good about it. Didn't really tap into a higher end gear like you need to to tear up a 5K, so hopefully this will get me ready for the next one in just over a week. Ran back and helped Rylee finish. She did well and kicked to 5th woman and 1st in her age. Then we ran back to Ally who ran well and took 4th in her age. The younger girls did well also - Pyper won the 1 mile race in a 6:30 or so (everything in the kids race was kind of messed up, so she was a bit frustrated). Some kids took an early turn, so they finished before her and took the glory out of her win! One of those was Laney. So she probably ran about a 3/4 mile and took 2nd there - getting out leaned by a boy at the end! After regrouping, I ran back up to the in-laws via Sego Lily. Lots of comments and looks for the flag shorts. (Rocket 2 87.75)

morning - 13 Wasatch. Did an out and back on Wasatch instead of the normal loop - just because it is pretty up there and I like running next to the mountains. Kind of a wierd run though. I slept in a bit because of the fireworks going all night up here (I have never heard fireworks go so long - from 9:00 to 11:45 straight with no breaks. Made for a pretty poor sleep). Finally got going and felt pretty good at first and even entertained the idea of making a bit of a tempo, but when I turned around at that park where Wasatch drops down to Draper I just was suddenly spent. No energy and just kind of limped in back in. I think it was mostly because I didn't treat yesterday right. In my mind it was kind of like yesterday was Saturday and I didn't prepare myself for another day of running. It was cool at that park though; someone put a huge American flag somehow suspended like a kite on wires from way up high on the rock ledges between to canyons and the wind was really stretching it way out high like it was just suspended and flying up there - looked cool. (Kinvara Green 55)

Week was okay I guess - nothing great, just kind of made it through it.

Goals for next week: might be up kind of wierd in that I probably won't get a double in Mon or Tues, so we'll see what that does to me mileage wise. Hopefully bounce back a bit from today's poor run with some fresher legs on Mon.