Kerry's Running Blog

Fairly routine run this morning except I came across a little dog that had been hit by a car. As I was looking to see if it had a tag, a lady pulled up in a van with the dog's companion. She had been looking for the owners but apparently they had recently moved. She wrote down their name on a little card and I told her that I would try to find a phone number for them. I looked it up when I got home and called them, but the number had been disconnected and it didn't give any forwarding number.

Good run this morning. Slept in a half hour because we stayed up a little late and don't have to go in to work today. Began pushing it after a warmup mile (done just under 9 minutes), just over 8 on the uphill sections and 7:30 to 7:50 on the flat to downhill sections. Overall time was 49:18.

Surprised that I felt a little stiff starting out, but it quickly went away. I felt some occasional pain in my right achilles tendon yesterday, but didn't feel anything this morning to speak of. The trails through the Adventure Park and along the creek were littered with debris from yesterday's storm. One large tree was blown over blocking the trail at the south end of the pond and another tree was blocking the trail around the north end of the creek trail (we lost three good size branches from our trees).

Felt pretty good starting out even though it was close to 90. Clouds moved in and cooled things off, but the wind also started to kick up. Pushed it after warming up for a mile. It felt good running uphill and into the wind, but once I turned the corner and the wind was behind me I suddenly started warming up. The last couple of mile I could feel myself starting to overheat. I eased back a little the last half mile. The sweat was just poring off after I got home.

A little cooler this morning after last night's rain. Clear skies and everything smelled so fresh. Someone has cleared the path around the pond of the dead tree and path along the creek. Didn't see Laureen or Janet this morning.

Felt pretty good starting out and like I'd do well today. Just over 8 minute pace to warm-up, then dropped to 7:44 and 7:15 for the downhill sections. Maintained just over an 8 minute pace through the flat and uphill sections and made it to the water stop (just before 7 miles) in about 53 minutes. Felt good after the brief rest and pushed it for the next couple of miles, but started to feel like I might have overdone it a bit on the uphill. Recovered a bit after the uphill in Alpine and the second water stop. Maintained a pretty even pace to the light on 48 and then tried to see if I could do a sub-eight minute pace on tired legs (just barely as it turned out). Felt pretty tired the last mile and slowed to about 8:30 pace. Average pace for the whole distance was 8:10 which is exactly my goal pace for St. George. Total time was 2:02:38.