dedication, perseverance, self-discipline

I didn't get enough sleep last night so I should have gone slower today, but I was in a time crunch so I went a little faster than I should have.  My first mile was a 6:43 and I think that it might have been my slowest mile of the run.  I made it through the half way mark in 32:45 which was a little faster than I was planning on even with the time crunch.  I decided to slow down the second half just a little bit, but that didn't happen and I finished the run in 1:04:38

I ran with Sasha, Josse and Hyrum this morning.  We dropped Hyrum off after 2 miles and then we decided to do the normal 10 mile run that we do and we ran that finishing in 1:32:54 with everything combined.

I ran with Sasha at 5am this morning and we kept the pace fairly easy but not too easy.  I could tell that Sasha wanted to go faster than we were going because he kept pushing just a little in front of me.  I didn't feel like going faster than about 6:50 pace so for the most part I held back until the end when Sasha asked if I wanted to break 1:10:00 for the run.  I said sure, so we sped up and ended up running a 1:22 last quarter to finish in 1:09:49

I ran to Sasha's house this morning.  I was going to run with him and Hyrum, but Hyrum didn't show up so it was just the two of us.  we ran out to the 4 mile mark and then back to my house which gave us 8.5 plus running to Sasha's house gave me another 1.5 for a total of 10.  I felt more awake this morning and I was able to start out a little faster than I have been lately during the morning.  There was also some nasty wind while Sasha and I were heading out.  It reminded me why I hate windy races so much.  Finished in 1:14:54

I worked late last night so I didn't get up this morning to run early and I slept in. Luckily I had time in the afternoon before I went to work to go running.  I started out with a 7:14 mile.  After that I subconsciously started speeding up and nearing on the 2 mile mark I realized it and I thought to myself that I was going a little fast.  At the same time I didn't even realize I had sped up until I was only about 400m from the 2 mile mark.  So I just maintained my speed until the 2 mile mark and when I went through that mile in 6:33 I thought that it might be better to slow down.  So I slowed down to about 6:55 per mile average for the next while.  I then warmed into a 6:45-6:50 average approximately for the last few miles.  I finished in 1:16:15

I ran with Sasha, Tyler, Josse, Cody, and Steve this morning.  It was the biggest group I have run with in quite a while.  We were pacing Josse through the uneventful half and we started out at close to 7:00 pace.  We were pretty much right on 7:00 pace through 6.6 (maybe a little slower) and then we slowly started to slow down until we hit about 7:50 pace around mile 10 or 11.  We then sped up a little to about 7:30 pace for mile 12 and we hit the last mile in 7:03 to pace Josse through a 1:34:50 for the half marathon (Sasha had a 1:34:51 by his watch but I like the even number better and that is what my watch had).  I then went out for 4 more miles after we finished.  I ran the first 2 miles with Sasha, Steve, and Cody running a 5:46 and a 5:40.  I then slowed down a bit and cruised back to Sasha's house alone for the last 2 miles running them in 12:54.  Total time for 17.1 miles 1:59:10.