Training for Top of Utah 2011

Legs were extremely stiff this morning. I was running about 15 min. pace for the first .25 mile...at least that is what my garmin said...not sure if this thing was working right but it seemed to even out. Gorgeous morning! Mild wind 50 degrees.

Ran the parkway hill and was amazed at how low my HR stayed.

Avg Pace 8:55

Avg. HR 138

HR seems to be doing great but my legs are darn tired and beat up a little.

Was supposed to do 8 miles with 2 X 1 mile repeat @ 7:02 but didn't feel like going to the track. So I ran the parkway hill twice hard. Remind me not to do that again! That will test a guys manhood- Way harder than running the track repeats.

Warm up of 2.3 miles 8:38 pace( getting easier) HR avg 139

1st hill repeat of 1 mile @ 7:44 HR of 165

1 mile easy 8:55 pace hr 143

2nd hill repeat with side ache 8:03 hr of 167

2.69mile cool down with some walking and 1 mile of  nice soft trail. 9:36 pace and hr of 144

There needs to be a place on here to put "really" slow miles. Felt great yesterday totally slow today. Day after a speed or hill workout is work I guess. 

Nice day for a run though...rain overnight with wet roadways. Very little wind and wet streets but pretty close to perfect. Saw Sean running and was actually able to give him a high five instead of a miss like the other day :-)

14 miler on Saturday...Not sure how that will go but I better fuel up better for that than I did yesterday.

Pace 9:14 There was a time when I would have felt good about this pace.

HR avg. 144

2nd long run in prep for Newport marathon. I waited too  long to get these babies started! 38 miles this week though...happy with that. 

run log today carried 16 oz gatorade

2.5 miles to main park. 6 oz water

2.5 to bottom of parkway 6 oz gatorade

2.5 to  centennial park via mill pond road 6 oz water

2.5 back to bottom of parkway 6 oz of gatorade then stretched out well as I didn't want to do what my little bro did and tweak a hamstring going up a hill.

2 miles to Fairway 4 oz gatorade - 1.5 miles to tanner jeans park to watch easter egg hunt. 4 oz water. Too wet and cold so I left before it started. .6 mile home

avg pace 9:14 - was 9:05 first ten mile then I got smacked by the parkway hill.

avg HR 142. pretty darn good.

16 next saturday 40-42 for next week