Seeking a better country...

I left work early enough to come home and do this 10 miler before dinner and leaving for the Jazz game.  Lucky--our neighbor had spare tickets.  They blew a 21 point lead before winning in overtime.

So I had been reading blogs all day, and was feeling pretty punchy.  I went pretty hard the first five miles, walked and ate jelly beans for a 9 minute #6, then alternated hard and laid back coming home.  My son came on his bike, and got one of his 10 mile rides done for Cycling merit badge. 

Overall pace for the run ended up at 7:30, which is bugging me.  Take away one lazy mile, and I look really good.  Add it in, and it's a fairly pedestrian run on a much easier course than the one I ran on Saturday.  I need to step it up a notch mentally, I think.

For snacks I had sour patch kid watermelons and hershey kisses.  11 miles, 89 minutes.  I varied the incline with a several miles of downhill, but mostly flat and slight uphill.  This run was quite momentous, as I completed Season 1 of "24".  On to season 2, although it won't be that treadmill time of year much longer.

Following the run I gorged myself on fajitas at Chilis.  I highly recommend this recovery meal.

After we went to the food bank to finish off community service for my son, I came home and watched the BYU/Wofford game while running 10 miles. 79 minutes, to keep average pace just under 8:00.

What's with Jimmer jacking up that long 3 with 8 seconds left? Not a real classy move, if you ask me. The game is out of reach, nobody is playing defense; just dribble out the clock. At least it was a miss. I hope karma doesn't bite back.

BST to the private road in Farmington, then home via Freedom Hills.  It was pretty cold.  I was gassed from aerating lawns all morning, so I never got on top of this run--obviously, since it took me 90 minutes to complete.  No punch, no spring, no lightness, just plodding along willing myself not to walk most of the time.