Relentless

evening - 5 Washington Loop with 11th.  Slow start to the week.  I may not hit my mileage goal, with State xc this week.  But once it is over...!  Run was pretty good.  Legs are starting to feel better.  Even beat a guy on a bike until he got embarrassed and started pushing downhill. (cumulus red 359.15)

evening - 7 in SLC, around South Towne with team (2.3) and then out toward Draper and back. Cold and rainy, especially the last part of the run. At first I wondered how long is was going to take to start snapping back a little. But after about 4 miles, the run started to get quite a bit better and I ran the last three or so at around 6:20 pace. I thought about going 10, but I was freezing, my watch got water in it, and I wanted to get back and try to dry it out. I think it survived. State XC tomorrow - in the rain and snow! (Paramount 190.0)

morning - 10 in SLC from South Towne south into Draper and back.  Good run, but cold.  I didn't really warm up physically and runningly (?) throughout the whole run.  Nonetheless, I was happy to get back to a 10 miler.  (Paramount 200.0)

evening - 10 club run with Clyde through Entrada.  Had a very good run - things are coming back!  Had a good chat with Clyde, and we hit a pretty good pace.  7:10 ave - including the 5 miles of dark golf course - paved trail sections were all around 6:30-45.  (Cumulus silver 132.05)

afternoon - 10.7 GS/PL/WT trail.  Felt a little more tired after yesterday's run.  Put the watch on "grade" for the two big hills - on the first it is just a short 26% and the water tank read 16% at its steepest.  Whatever... Kind of fun to play around with.  (Cumulus orange 396)

morning - 13.2 Diamond Trail. Club braved the hunters (I wore the orange SGM shirt from 2006) and ran from Diamond Valley across to the Turkey Farm Road then across the to desert (not sure of the trail name) and onto the Parkway and to the store. Good run. A little speed at times. A little cross-country adventure. And beautiful weather and country. (Paramount 213.2)

Good recovery week - now it's time to get back to business a little more.

Goals for the week: Get up in the morning!  Hooray, I love AM runs. I would like to be right about 80 miles for the week.  I am going to try some speed on Monday (10K prep speed - although I don't have much time before the Butch Cassidy, I would like to see if I can do well in it) if my legs let me.  Another goal; get back into the weight room.  Hooray again, I love lifting slightly heavy objects and letting the world know how absolutely wimpy I am!  Then a 15 or so on Saturday.