Training for Top of Utah 2011

37 degrees with sun shining and a light breeze in places.

Sweet day for a run. Recovered well from the 14 miler on Sat. thanks to the wedding reception(lot's of carbo-loading) we went to that night.

I'm reading Born to run and am trying to incorporate some of the tips into my running.

Today I worked on running on my forefeet uphill midfoot strike during flat and downhill. Worked on keeping my back straight and staying light on my feet. I've got quite a ways to go but will get there at some point.

Overall pace was 8:34

Cold. Light wind. Tempo run. Drove to the train area in Snoqualmie. Ran to the high school track, jumped the fence then 4 mile tempo. Supposedly a tempo run is at a pace you could keep for 1 hour...not sure that I could've done it at this pace. Runners world plan said 7:27 pace so that's what I did. Not that easy but not a killer either.

1st tempo run in a long time.

Avg pace overall on run was 7:55.

Beautiful sunny morning for a run. A little windy. Mid 30's.

5 easy recovery miles after yesterday's speed work. When the run started my legs felt a little crappy, but after about a 1/4 mile they were fine.

Avg. Pace 8:35

After five miles outside went to the treadmill and ran 1 mile barefoot to strengthen the feet. I wouldn't mind running those outside but it's way too cold still and I don't think I will ever be able to part with 80 bucks for vibrams.

Sweet morning for a run...no clouds and 39 at the start.

Forgot to recharge my Garmin so this is the first time in forever since I've run without it. Fortunately I have multiple runs memorized so the distance isn't a problem.

My mp3 player died about a half mile in so it was a little bit of a boring run. Pit stop at halfway park then another at centennial at the turnaround and then again at halfway park. Saw Mark at Centennial and chatted with him. He had run an 8 miler with Sommer at 7:55 pace earlier.

Not sure on pace but was supposed to hit 8:50. Pretty sure it was faster but it doesn't matter.

Coming back up the hill wasn't a killer...happy that I'm getting better at that.