Gettin' in Shape

8:10 min/mi

Bike miles were on the trainer.  With the shorter daylight hours it's getting harder to get the workouts in out on the road.

Short brick workout for today.  22.9 mph average on the bike.

I missed the bike ride for today.  Tonight and the next 3 Thursday nights I'm in a community education class on running technique that Ken "Hawk" Harper is teaching.  A buddy at work mentioned the class so I got signed up for it with him.  The first class was really interesting.  He gave us some background about himself, showed us the proper chest out/arms tight with feet landing flat underneath style.  We looked at our shoe wear and filmed our current running style and body position.  I'm anxious to see if I can adopt this style and how it can improve my running.

My little brother Mike and I ran down to St. George for this open water swim competition in the Sand Hollow reservoir.  It was a small event; we later found out this was the first year it was held.  There were only 30 - 32 swimmers that competed in the mile swim.  (Due to everyone's fast times we estimated the course to be somewhere around .75 miles long.)  We had fun and my 3rd place overall finish got me a free entry into the Scofield reservoir triathlon next year.  Mike took 3rd overall in the half mile race and also got a free entry into the Scofield Tri.

After the swim we went and ran a 3.5 mile section of the Ironman marathon route.  We started on Bluff Street at about 1250 N, turned onto Red Hills Pkwy, and finished at 1000 East which is the turn around point for the marathon route.  I had a 8:06 min/mile ave.