Dare to be great!

Looped around town this morning, up past Richards, cut down the dirt road, up the canyon road to the foothill trail, to the hot springs, down the hills to the casa. Felt pretty good, AP 8:25

got the itch to try a track workout, first in a looong time. Ran there from the house and did eight laps with jogging a lap in between to recover. Tried to keep these pushing it, but still in control.  did 5 at 87, 2 at 86, and the last one at 29 probably because of the drill team that I had to run around.  Then ran home, felt good to run faster and push the legs, didnt' want to do any damage so I ended at 8.

Been wanting to attempt to beat my 3 mile/5k time from high school for a while, of course in my old age I need to cheat and run down the canyon but it is still fun.  I wanted to run this yesterday but my alarm did not go off and I needed to travel to Provo, so I did not get it in.  Probably for the better as the legs felt fresh.  Ran slowly up the canyon 3.2 miles to loosen up the legs, stretched at the top then let it fly.  I ran with my garmin and my I-phone, the phone always is shorter than the garmin so I will go off the garmin.  First mile 5:32, felt good letting the legs open up, breathing felt fine, second mile 5:53, lost some focus here, and the dog stopped and ran away with her new boyfriend, third mile 5:44 pushing it here.  Time for 3 miles 17:09 time for 5K 17:46 AP 5:44,  The iphone said three miles in 16:54 with 17:30 for the 5k.

It hurt while running but recovered very quickly, had to go find the dog afterwards (she was in trouble...)  Felt really good to run fast even though it was downhill, my highschool 3 mile pr was 17:20 I always wanted to be in the 16s for three, might have to cheat again and fly down the mountain again to break that.  I hope between flat track workouts, and speed work downhill, mixed with hilly trail running I can put up a good result if I sign up for something this year.  

Been wanting to run on the Sierra Vista Road for a while now, from the house, out towards Joseph, along the path until I hit 7.5 then back home the same way.  Pretty route, deer in the fields and little to no traffic.  Somewhat tired legs so it was good to push them some.  Kept the pace pretty level a little over 8 min pace until the last 4 which were in the 7:30s to get it over with.  AP right around 8 min. flat.  Been keeping the vert to a minimum this week to rest the legs.  Might do the local race for the 24th I will have to think about how to train next week.