Training for Top of Utah 2011

Can't believe it snowed again overnight. What happened to all the global warming??? 8-) And now I heard on the radio(yes I believe everything that I hear on the radio) that we are in for 3 decades of global cooling. Just gonna stop listening to the radio.

Snow on the streets was the slushy kind so it's hard to run on without soaking yourself. Thus, I hit the TM yet again. I feel like the guy on ghostbusters that keeps getting zapped and says "I'm getting a little tired of this". Definitely tired of seeing the same stuff that I haven't cleaned up in the garage like the "Incredible Shrinky dinks" game. 

Going to do 5 days of 7 miles each this week in prep for bigger mileage coming up for the marathon. I'm amazed that my legs are not sore or tired after the race on Sat.

HR stayed low throughout the run even though once again I pushed the speed up a bit. High was 142 and only at the very end.

High School track. Was planning on 4 miles at my goal marathon pace (8:00). Ended up getting 8:10 pace thanks to that beastly wind kicking down from the Mtn.

1.5 warmup  4 miles at marathon pace sort of 1.5 cooldown

3 more days this week of easy running. I need to remember that.

Dropped Tori off at the high school and then went to Centennial park for my run on the Snoqualmie valley trail. They've done some weed wacking here and put new hard pack gravel in spots. It sure is nice to run on a level place. I'm so used to running on the hills that it seems really easy on the flat areas. Little drizzle but not too bad today. Nice cool temp.

A little headwind with a very slight uphill going to N. Bend.  Tailwind and slight downhill coming back was nice.

Pace 9:00

Avg HR 146 Just about right and seems to be improving all the time.

What a morning...Tori (15 year old daughter) got up at 3:30 to make some cookies for her friends at school. She is not a quiet person with anything she does. Dishes clanking and microwave beeping etc. made me want to get after her. Instead I shut the door to our room and heard a little less but still didn't sleep that well.

This is the 3rd straight day of running this week and I didn't want to get up and go...but did. Took about a mile to get my legs warmed up...otherwise it felt pretty good. I know now that I should not have done the speed workout on Wednesday. Had to grind a little bit to finish today but it wasn't killing me. 

Nice morning for a run. Wet but not raining when I was out there. 46 degrees was almost perfect running weather. Unlike yesterday I was able to stop for 2 water breaks at 2.6 and 4.9 which did help me feel better. Knees were feeling it today though not too bad.

Pace of 9.00 even was nice

HR was at 144 even nicer since it was up and down the hills here.

Got back later than expected and had to do these on the treadmill. Better than nothing though.

Had to burn off some of the rich food I had at the wedding!