Kerry's Running Blog

My legs felt good this morning, but I decided that I needed to make sure that I was all caught up on sleep. Church meetings started at 6:00 a.m. yesterday morning and even though I was able to get in a nap before our block started, there were times during the day that I felt quite drowsy. Sleeping in this morning, put me a little bit late for work and some heavier than normal traffic. Just a few minutes after clearing the congestion by turning onto I-215, a black SUV cut in front of me driving around 100 mph. There was a UHP officer giving a ticket to someone on the side of the road and when he saw that guy go by, he just ran to his car and jumped in. About two seconds later, another UHP car goes screaming by on my left, followed a few seconds later by another and then all heck (family-safe term substituted) broke loose as more than a dozen police cars flew by in a couple of seconds. For at least another minute or two, the police cars kept coming. When I turned on the radio to KSL they said the guy they were after had apparently killed a guard up at the University Medical Center and had carjacked the SUV. By the time I was ready to turn off the freeway on 35th south, they said that they had caught up with him at an Arby's on 17th South and Redwood (that was a lot of ground to cover in just such a short amount of time). This is the KSL link to the story:

http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=1393844

I still need to add an entry for the WBR, but I wanted to look over my Garmin log before doing so.

Highland Glen loop. Pleasant temperatures, no wind to speak of. My calves felt a little tight from the relay, but seemed to be getting their spring back. I should be able to go back to seven miles starting tomorrow. Pushed it a little harder on the home stretch without any problems.

Kohler's loop. Pleasant temperatures. Cool canyon wind especially on the Highland Highway segment. Still feeling a little tightness in my calves, but no aches or pains to speak of. For some reason, I hardly saw anyone out this morning.

Kohler's Loop. I was definitely on auto-pilot this morning. Just woke up at 5:18 without the alarm, got dressed, headed out the door and was at least a mile into my run before I was fully conscious. I was running a pretty good warm-up pace, but as always, I picked it up when I saw a runner ahead of me. He was kind of plodding along so it didn't take too long to catch him, but I guess I was hoping that he was going my way and we could chat for a minute. On mornings when I'm more rested, I think about lessons I need to prepare or programming challenges at work or just enjoy the birds and other sounds of the morning, but there are times when I'm tired that apart from my eyes being open, I'm effectively asleep (even though I'm running an eight minute pace or so). I can understand how Dean Karnazes would fall asleep running during one of his 300 mile adventures. The brain can disassociate itself from the body and rest even when the heart, lungs and legs are still working pretty hard.

Easy run with Laureen through the golf course, up Canyon Road, along the foothills and down along the canal. Great morning for a run. Although there was a time or two when I felt tired, towards the end I felt like I could keep going forever. Laureen was running well and seems to be on track with her training for St. George. This next week I'm planning to bump up my mileage to around 50.