Relentless

afternoon - 7 Mall Trail/DI w/ Austin and Kimz.  Nice easy run to work out some of the stiffness.  Felt the pain just a little more than I had at the end of last week.  Then ran .5 w/ Ry and Lanes in stroller and Molly to the rec center for Ry's swim practice.  Dog did good, Ry wasn't so stoked (but she was mostly mad about going to swim).  (Cumulus blue 461.35)

AM - 5 Washington Loop.  Will be doing a couple light morning runs like this each week.  Pain was still there this morning and is kind of hanging on through the day.  I'm not sure why it is coming back but I need to continue to be careful.  (Landreth 515.4)

afternoon - 10 6x1000.  Warmed up w/ 2450 w/ Austin.  Then started up on the workout.  1-3:13 felt okay.  The pain was there again on the warmup at about the same minimal level, but didn't bug at all on the 1000's. 2-3:08 Austin joined me for this one.  Pace was a little quick and hurt me on the others, but it is so much easier to run these with someone and the pace was actually what I would like next time around. 3-6- times jumped to 3:20 give or take a second for the next four.  If some of the kids hadn't been there yelling at me, I may have stopped; but it is nice to have that feeling of completion of a hard workout.  Ended with DI cooldown.  (Stratus black  55.25)

afternoon - 6 Into Middleton and then Josh convinced us to go under the freeway - it was a long dark journey, but we made it with soaked shoes - then back by PVMS and up around DI.  Then drills, core stuff.  It is interesting doing this lower mileage stuff.  Sometimes I am wanting more, other days I am very happy with the little.  Pain was pretty minimal today.  (Landreth black 271.35)

evening - 8 Club run.  Went from new St. George Running Center location around the hospital run backwards with a few changes.  Then James and I continued on with DI to make it 8 for the evening.  Running from the new store will be nice as it is only 2 miles from home, but it will be the same runs I do everyday and with the traffic of the area which is good for business but not for running.  (Cumulus white 405.5)

afternoon - 12.5 10x400.  Warmed up w/ Kimz, Aust, and Danny on Dogpound reverse and a couple grass loops.  Then I hit the 4's. 1-3 were 1:14, then 4-6 at 1:15, back to 1:14 for 7, 8 was 1:15, then down to 1:14 again for 9 and 10; with a 200 jog 1:00 recovery between.  It brought me to the sad realization that I am no longer fast at all.  Oh well, that's life.  At least I was consistent (I guess that is why I run marathons).  Cooled down with 2450 and drills, core.  (Cumulus gold 76.9)

morning - 15 Little Black Mt.  Drove out to Warner Valley entrance and ran out toward Arizona.  I had tried to find a good loop last night, but everything was 20+ and I only wanted 15, so I just made it an out and backer across the state line and out past the pictographs.  Really nice morning, pretty cold out on the desert (only 24 at the start - and got colder for the first hour) but once I turned around it was nice.  Running on the trails and dirt roads out there is great.  (Landreth black 286.35)

Solid week.  Mileage was nothing big, just right where I want it.  It isn't too tought to keep it down, it is just nice!  Hard workouts aren't nearly as quick as I wish I could be, but like I said yesterday, that is just life.

Goals for next week:  Keep feeling solid.  I have come to the conclusion that if I can just keep the ab thing where it's at I will be alright - just no increase in discomfort.  I am going to try a few 1600's on Tuesday so that will be interesting.  Overall mileage right at the same as this week 55-60.