10.13 miles in the morning. 8 miles in the evening. I warmed up this morning with the first 4 miles at 7:24/mile pace and then pushed up to about 7:00/mile pace for a mile and then did 6:35/mile pace for 2 miles. I did the last 3 or so miles at 6:15/mile pace. It felt really good to get the legs moving again this morning. I was happy to see the rain outside. We need all the water we can get. I did my speed workout this evening at Weber High School. I did a 2.5 mile warm-up and then did 12 x 400m with 200m recovery jogs in between. I did a half mile cooldown and then 8 x 100m barefoot strides on the grass. Here are my times: 1- 1:07 - quite surprised with this! 7- 1:09
2- 1:08 8- 1:10
3- 1:08 9- 1:08
4- 1:09 10- 1:12
5- 1:09 11- 1:09
6- 1:10 12- 1:09 I wanted to get all under 70 seconds for each one. Things were looking good until the 10th one when two ladies and their 3 "cute" dogs decided to take over the track. I had to wait for them to make sure I didn't run into them. I caught up with them and had to slow down because all 3 dogs ran right in front of me. I almost had to stop completely. I am pretty sure I would have gone under 70 seconds for this lap. I have no problem with dogs but it is a pain when people think they own the entire track. They were really "yippy" dogs so I was not very impressed. I will stop ranting and raving about the dogs now. I was still happy with the speed work. It has really helped me the last little bit. I want to make sure I keep doing it to help me at St. George.
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