El Burro Blanco

8 miles in the morning.

12.10 miles in the afternoon.

8 easy miles this morning to get the week off on the right foot.  It should be fun seeing a bunch of Fast Running Bloggers this weekend at the Striders Half.

It was frigid this afternoon.  I could see my breath at track practice today.  I did 2.6 miles with the boys and then hurried home to get another 9.5 miles in.  I was supposed to work out at the Weber State track but their was snow on it so it didn't turn out to well.  I did the 9.5 miles right around 6:20/mile overall.  I just want to keep the legs loose for this weekend.

8 miles in the morning.

12 miles in the afternoon.

Another 8 easy miles this morning.  Nothing to exciting to report.

I did 2.5 miles with the track team and then headed up to Weber State for my speed workout.  I did a 3 mile warmup and then did a breakdown type of workout.  1200- 3:42, 1000- 3:00, 800- 2:21, 600- 1:44, 400- :69, 400- :69.  I then did a 3.25 mile cooldown and called it a day.  It was a really cold day today with some slight wind.  It was nice and frigid. 

8 miles in the morning.

12 miles in the evening.

8 easy miles this morning.  The legs are still feeling really good.  Knock on wood.  When is spring supposed to start?

I got home late from the track meet but the weather was so nice so I went out for a nice 12 mile run up towards North Ogden.  It was perfect weather.  I didn't worry about pace to much.  I just enjoyed the run.  It was really funny when I ran by a police car and the officer got on the megaphone to tell me I was running at 9 miles per hour.  I waved and went on my way.  I am glad our government is making sure runners don't exceed the speed limit!

I decided to sleep in this morning.  I will plan on doing a few miles this evening. 

I ran over to Ben Lomond's track and did 6x 400m.  My splits were: :72, :71, :71, :71, :70, and :69.  I did these in my new Bandito racers.  I am breaking them in for Saturday.  3 miles total. 

4 more easy miles this morning in the Bandito racers.  Tomorrow we will be battling the elements.  Yeah!

Their were a lot of positives for this race.  There was no snow or no rain.  I had a big "positive" split, I won $50 for taking 3rd overall and finally my legs didn't hurt to bad afterwards.  Let me explain.  I got up and went to get my packet.  I did a nice 3 mile warmup and then hopped on the bus to go too the starting line.  I then did another 2 miles with Clyde, Andy, Jon, and Cody.  The weather was a little cold and slightly windy.  I saw Teren Jamesen at the starting line and decided how long I could stick with him.  I was hoping the wind didn't pick up.  I was wanting to hit 5:10 miles for the first little bit and then see what would happen.  Here are my splits for the race:

1- 5:11

2- 5:11

3- 5:05

4- 5:08

5- 5:08

6- 5:10

7- 5:21

8- 5:35

9- 5:40

10- 5:42

11- 5:54

12- 6:07

13- 5:55

.1- 5:39

As you can see, the wind picked up tremendously around mile 6.5.  I stuck with Teren for that long and was feeling fine until I took a right turn smack dap into the wind.  It was much worser wind than at the Trials last year plus the temperature was really cold.  Teren started to extend his lead and I let him go.  I tried to stay relaxed but my legs got a little tight.  At about mile 10, Alexander Tomas came up and passed me.  He pushed the pace and my body didn't respond that well.  I tried to keep everything going but the wind was a killer.  I ended up taking 3rd overall and averaged 5:27/mile overall.  I didn't get my PR but I figured it wouldn't happen with all of this wind.  I got my warm clothes on again and did a 2 mile cooldown with everyone.  I was a little disappointed that Tomas caught up to me and placed 2nd but I learned a lot from this race.  It is hard to race well with the wind conditions like they were.  Teren came in at about 1:10 something so it slowed everyone down.  Hopefully I can learn from this and get ready to do well at Ogden.  Remember, positive splits are bad and negative splits are good!