Training for Top of Utah 2011

39 degrees and cold. wore shorts though...with gloves. tried to keep my HR around 150 and was pretty close. 

splits 8:50,9:09,8:50,8:54,8:28. Last one I kicked up trying to make it back before my 5 year old got on the bus...dang it! missed. Feeling really good though.

Avg pace 8:50 and HR avg. 151

Exact same run as yesterday...except my HR was higher by an avg. of 3 bpm

This was second day in a row run and I didn't sleep as well as I did the night before...for some reason I am not sleeping as well on Monday and Thursday nights and it might have something to do with teaching the next morning. I'm not worried or anything like that but I must get anxious or something during the night...

Splits 8:45, 9:09, 8:38, 8:50, 8:48   Avg. pace 8:50 Avg. HR 155

Feeling good though.... tomorrow will be a day off and then run Thurs. and Sat. for sure and maybe Xtrain on Friday....

Monday and Tuesday street runs took their toll on my body and I was happy to do half of my run today on the trails.

The trails force me to work harder and definitely slow me down but are sure nice on the legs, etc.

Avg pace 9:18  Avg HR 155

35 minutes elliptical...easy warm-up and then moderate. Tried to keep HR around 140 and it worked except for a brief run up to 146. 

Beautiful weather here for running....looking forward to an 8 miler tomorrow morning...longest run in about 3-4 months. gonna keep an easy pace and run on flat ground.

Decided to run from home to Grandma and Grandpa's house in North Bend for my first long run in 3 or 4 months. Went quite well...dropped in elevation from my house at 890 to about 450 at their place so that was one of the reasons I wanted to do it.

Kept a nice easy pace the whole way and my HR stayed quite low. The wind was blowing like crazy and unfortunately it was against me the whole way, even down the big hill(Spirit Crusher as Sno calls it). It is Spirit Lifter when you get to go down it. Wind was super bad toward the end where the sno valley trail is and it just runs right down the trail as it's the only place for the wind to go. Ate some buttermilk pancakes, bacon, egg and a couple of dark chocolate reeses cups when I got there.

 Avg. HR was 143  and Avg. Pace was 9:04