Relentless

AM - 16.75 Dimple Dell/Sego Lily. On Sat Rob Murphy and I had talked about going up to Jeremy Ranch. Sounded awesome and was pretty excited about it, but forgot that fam was going to Lagoon. So that kind of threw off the plan. Messed up my original plan of trailing at Corner Canyon too. So, anyway, got up kind of early and took Twix out on the Dimple Dell trails. A few more people out than I thought at that time. Also bugged by the people that blatantly ignore the rules and have their dogs off leash (because apparently they and their dogs are to awesome to follow rules a but guess what, my dog isn't awesome enough and when your dog charges up to mine, who is on a leash and is trying to be better so she doesn't get in trouble, and starts causing problems it is going to develop into me probably yelling at you and your dog). But we had a good time. Then dropped off the dog and ran Sego Lily finishing with some barefoot striders at the church park. Including some running through the coldest sprinklers know to mankind! (Barefoot '15 37.5)(Riders 336.75)

morning - 16.25 Sego Lily/Wasatch. Up a little later after getting home late from a good day at Lagoon. Took Twix around Sego Lily, bumping into Justin Park at the end and having a good chat with him. Then up onto Wasatch where I attempted my tempo. Splits were all over, basically following the terrain - faster downhill and slower uphill. Overall probably just a little bit better than last week's effort. 6 miles of tempo starting at 2 miles from the in-laws. 5:59, 6:15, 5:40, 5:35, 6:19, 5:47. (Riders 353)

All day - 33 Virgin River Rim Trail. Have wanted to run this full trail for years, so we just kinda did a quick throw together planning of this trail last night. Met up at the store at 4:30 and drove up Cedar Mt. to Strawberry Pont. We didn't have a ride back to the trailhead at this point in time, but eventually got ahold of Hayden who graciously volunteered his day to tote us all over the place. Started the tail at about 6:30 with high hopes and great attitudes. Saw deer, elk and antelope throughout the day. Views off the cliffs and down into Zion were absolutely unmatched and indescribable. Dodged some intense thunderstorms with only brief lightning and hail. Unfortunately, Logan wasn't feeling too hot and struggled a bit. Steve drank his water pretty quick and when I dumped some of mine into his, I spilled most of mine. So he and I dropped off the trail to a campground my Navajo Lake to refill and Logan continued on. When we got back the trail, I noticed no footprints on the trail and worried Logan may have missed a trail sign. By 16-17 Steve and I were both getting pretty spent too. Still no Logan and we should have caught him by now. More amazing views and spectacular single-track trail through the high aspen and pine forest. Finally at about 26 I started to feel a little better and ran a few faster miles through a picturesque aspen meadow. Got to the "end" of the trail and waited for Steven at the trailhead for about 20 minutes. Started to go back and get him when he came out of the forest. Turned out he lost his phone and spent a bunch of time looking through the meadow for it without any luck. Still no Logan. Kind of had to guess at which direction to drop off the mountain to Woods Ranch, but had a decent idea and we guessed right. Got down there and Hayden was waiting for us. But not Logan. So I waited in case he showed up while Hayden took Steve to the car at the top of the trail. I really figured we would need to car the sheriff and have them search for Logan. But I had a very good idea where he had missed the trail and that would give us a good direction to look. I told Steve, best case was that Logan had backtracked and worked his way to the highway. Sure enough, after a few minutes they came and got me with a stranger they had picked up on the highway. After getting the car we went back to where Steve lost his phone and ran in just over a mile to look again. Still no luck, bummer. Overall and awesome experience. Would like to do it again when I was feeling better and when Logan was feeling better. So beautiful up there. Truly inspiring. (VertK 497)

morning - 8.25 Twix/DogTown. Slept in a bit and just did whatever I felt like this morning. Both achilles hurt so bad this morning I could barely walk. Got so tight from yesterday that it really set them off. (Plus, they hurt pretty bad at least half the run yesterday.). Even wore the sock on the right leg for most of the night until I ripped it off. Just be more diligent on them, I guess. After a very slow and painful mile, they both warmed up a bit and I could actually move. The pace was easy, but beside the achilles pains I felt pretty good. Extended around with Twix around DogTown to have a little more running. Iced up and rolled pretty good to try and help them be ready to have a little better run tomorrow. Probably won't double today. (Peg 31 473.5)

morning - 11.25 Twix/GS. Slept in a little again and took the dog out for a few. Then went up to Green Springs. Achilles both felt a little better today. Although I felt better than yesterday, it was all still pretty laxy-taxi. (Peg Black 134.75)

Body and mind needed a break. Slept in today and then took two naps. Achilles was killing. So I just decided to bag it as one of those days. Bummer end to the week. But the rest was alright.

Goals for next week: use the energy of the team to get me back rolling.