Running

6.3 miles with the team at north arm. Averaged 6:54 pace.  I stayed with Henry for the first half of the run and then my body remembered I hadn't ran for a week and decided to die.  Later that night I had the bright idea to run barefoot.  It's not actually a bad idea except that I ran on a road with BJ and I think I ran through some broken glass and stuff.. Either way I ended up with some massive blisters and my feet hurt for the rest of the week.  It was 3.2 miles and I averaged 7:19 pace.

7.3 miles with BJ straight up 900 to pole patch and then onto a trail where we threw rocks at imaginary rattlesnakes.  Also we daydreamed about having female friends and sitting on a hill we found. That was cool.  We averaged 8:22 pace for that and I blame the hill and my legs.  That night I ran to and from the church for mutual, and it was about 1.5 miles each way.. but on the way there I ran a 5:29 down the road and then coming home I ran like a 6:15 coming back up.

Ran with BJ down to Orion and explored some neighborhoods and parks and such. It was 8 miles and we averaged 7:39 pace.

Ran with the team on the top of the divide today.. I ran to the top and it was 4.5 miles round trip.  Averaged 8:21 pace on that.  At night I ran another 4.5 miles over past Talon's house to remember him because its been an awful long time.   I averaged 6:38 pace.

I just ran 4.5 miles easy with BJ tonight and I assume that was because of the race the next day.

So I ran the Pleasant View 5k and tailed Monson (my junior high track coach) the whole time.. And that's pretty much how the whole race went.  There were two guys that ran 14 miles and finished their run up at the starting line of the race, where they warmed up with some strides and then ran like 14:45 and 15:30 or something like that.. Turns out they are both training for the Olympic trials in the half marathon so I was not ashamed to lose to them.  Then Ben Vanbeekum beat me so that was cool and Monson had me by 7 seconds..  So I was really happy with it!  My PR from last year was a 16:48 for a 3 mile, and I just beat that in a full 5K.  Even if the course was a full mile downhill its still awesome.  After the race I did a short cool down and then ran to get the parked car about a mile way.  That night I ran up to Weber to watch the fireworks so I'm counting that as another mile.