Slowly Getting Faster

5 easy around the neighborhood to shake out the legs after yesterdays effort. 

Drove to Bountiful for the Yasso 800 workout and realized I forgot my watch.  After I drove back home to get it I didn't want to go to Bountiful again so I did a speed workout around town.  I did 1 mile warm up, then 3 at tempo pace, then 2 easy and 1 more at tempo.  Tempo splits were 7:33; 7:30; 7:35; 7:44. Average pace for the whole run was 7:55 per mile, which is much faster than it usually is for the Yasso workout.  Maybe I'll switch to this one of the two days a week. 

AM: 7.4 around town.  Pretty flat course.  When this marathon is over I'm going to have to start hitting the hills again. 

PM: 5.2 up City Creek.

Yasso 800's w/ Matt VH. 8x800. I felt tired today. Not as fast. Avg lap pace = 3:29.4

No run today because I felt sick. I probably should have pushed through a few miles. As it stands I watched a documentary on the Appalachian Trail. Now I want to attempt an FKT. The record is 47 days. If a person could get themselves in good enough shape to run 50 miles a day it could be done in 44 days. How does one get in that kind of shape? I'm relatively young so it's possible, right?

I wanted to do 18 today so I could get at least 50 this week.  That might have been a bit ambitious considering I was sick yesterday. I may try to go out for 5 more tonight if time allows. Even for as short as it was this was not as quick as I would have liked. I did 12 last week at an average pace of 8:09, but 13 today at an average pace of 8:34.  Maybe it's because I went later in the day, maybe it's because I was sick yesterday, maybe it's because I planned on doing more until I got tired then just felt defeated.  Whatever it was it needs to go away.  

On the plus side, I found a perfect 13.1 mile loop that I can take in the future.