El Burro Blanco

6 miles in the early morning.

12.50 miles in the evening. 

I wanted to sleep in a touch today but I woke up at 5:30 to go for a 6 miler because I was going golfing with my father-in-law. I wanted to keep the pace slow but ended up have to push it a little bit to get home on time. I averaged 6:38/mile pace for the entire run.  I went couch shopping all day with Katey and the in-laws.  I was pretty tired so I was able to take short mini naps while they did most of the shopping.  Labor Day is busy with people couch shopping all over town.  I decided that if I fell asleep quick that should be the couch we need to buy.  I think I fell asleep a couple times in the couches that cost over $2,000.  Go figure!  I got back to the in-laws and took a nap to really get refreshed.  I went out around 7:00 and went almost all the way to Sky View High School.  It was a nice out and back 6 mile route.  Their are quite a few steep hills and then a few down hills.  It really got the legs working.  Lunch wasn't sitting to well but I survived.  I did the run at 6:42/mile pace.  Nice start to the week.

16.00 miles in the early evening.

Tonight had to have been one of the most interesting runs I have ever done.  I was getting ready to go out for my run when I saw the thunder and lightning.  I went straight back inside and waited for it to go away.  About an hour later the sun came out and the weather was nice and cool.  I got about 4 miles into it and the rain and wind came pretty quick.  I was running up towards North Ogden and eventually made it over into Pleasant View.  I got to Weber High and found shelter for about 15 minutes under the ticket booth.  It was down pouring and the wind was really bad.  It "cleared" up just enough for me to go back out.  I got another 3 miles of just wind and then the lightning and rain came back.  Luckily my cousin and her fiancee lived close by and I stopped at their house to wait for it to "clear" up.  I went back out after a 10 minute wait and finally made it home.  I was not worried about pace at all today.  It was more about survival.  I realized once again tonight how crazy us runners really are!  I was happy to get the 16 miles in though. 

16 miles in the afternoon.

I did the same route as yesterday except today their was no thunder and lightning.  There was a little bit of wind though.  I did the first 8 miles up to Weber High at a 6:23/mile pace.  The wind made me push a little harder.  I felt great and decided to push it home.  I did 5 miles at about a 5:51/mile pace.  Today's run felt really good.  I did the entire run at 6:12/mile pace.  It didn't feel to bad and I am glad to have another good long run in.  I think I will do my track workout tomorrow sometime.

4.00 miles in the morning.

13.00 miles in the evening. 

I did a nice and easy 4 miles this morning. I did not worry at all about pace. I had to put a long sleeve shirt on because it was pretty cold. I haven't worn a long sleeve shirt in a long time.  I knew I had the big workout ahead of me this evening.  I did 6 easy miles to get warmed up and then went over to Ben Lomond High School after all the football games were done.  I did interval work that I did with Paul.  It has seemed to work really well.  I did a half mile warm up around the track and then did 8 x 1000m with 200m recovery jogs in between.  I had to stop for a second or two after the second one because I got a side stitch.  I rubbed it out and it felt alright.  Here are the times as follows: 3:07, 3:08, 3:09, 3:10, 3:09, 3:10, 3:10, 3:09.  I was real happy to keep all of them under 3:10.  It was a nice push.  I had to deal with some punk kids that were standing in my way and trying to take my picture on their cell phone.  I had the shirt off and I'm sure they were wanting to post it on MySpace or YouTube.  I "politely" asked them to get off the track and they were nice enough to do it.  I ran back to the house for a nice cooldown.  I was happy to get this workout in. 

I went out for a relaxed run. I realized that I have not gone out and not worried about pace. It was really hot this afternoon but the pace was slow. The heat made it easy to go slow. I went out by the BDO and then through the fairgrounds. Nothing to exciting to report. Glad to get in the miles today.

I had to get out quick this morning because I had a bunch of duties that I needed to do at my cousin's wedding. I went up too North Ogden and got the wonderful uphills and downhills. These will help for St. George. Glad to hit 100 miles again for the week.