Dare to be great!

Woke up early yesterday, saw it storming outside and just went back to sleep. Felt bad all day about not making it out. Run this morning was a the Ranches loop from the house, went south then up the hills and looped back around to SR-73, then back home.

It was a harder run for me this morning.  I was having a bit of a time getting going.  There were a lot of hills for most of the run.  I tried to keep a decent pace up the steepest hills.  My legs were feeling pretty fatigued by the end of the run.  AP 8:06, but felt like I was giving an 7:35 effort.

It's my wife's birthday today so I waited until my lunch time to run so I could get the kiddos up and off to school and make her breakfast this morning.

I was torn on what workout to do today. I ended up with a migrane last night and have been feeling super tired lately so I did not end up going running just tried to get to bed earlier. 

Decided on a 10 mile goal marathon pace run today.  Went to the Porter Rockwell trail in Draper.  Started at the Draper Park and did an out and back.  There is a fair amount of hills in the run, so I just tried to keep the effort even and see how it felt. 

Miles were as follows: 7:06,7:15,7:13,7:15,7:22,7:03,7:05,7:14,7:09,7:07  AP 7:11

I was shooting to hit between 7:10-7:14 so I was pleased.  Didn't red line but it was not exactly a walk in the park (which I did do once my run was done.)  If nothing else I did my first double digit marathon pace tempo for the year.

Another long run on the JRP starting at the Inlet Park.  I was planning on 17, but ran into a friend after 14 and ran a bit with him.  Probably added another .5 with him until I convinced him to go the other way with me.  No GPS just watch, just tried to keep the pace comfortable and not injure anything.  I was averaging 8:05 per mile up to 14 then the little add on messed up my mile tracking.  Kept it pretty much the same the last few miles.  Run felt ok this morning, not crazy fresh legs or anything but ok.

I was proud of my wife as she finished 11 as I did my run.  She will be good to go for the half.