El Burro Blanco

6 miles in the morning.

4 miles in the afternoon.

It felt good to get the legs moving again.  It was pretty cold this morning.  I was all bundled up.  Keeping it nice and easy for the next little while.

Ran a nice and easy 4 miles with the team this afternoon.  I didn't want to overdo it with them because of region tomorrow.  The boys and girls have trained really hard for this.  I hope it will pay off for them.  Legs were a little sore for some reason.  Oh yeah!  I took a full week off of running.  Keeping it nice and easy for a while.

8 miles in the morning.

Another nice and chilly run this morning.  Hopefully the entire week isn't as sluggish as the last two days have been.  The legs need to wake up.

12.30 miles in the evening.

I am happy to report that my girls's team took 2nd yesterday at region which means they are going to state!  The boys' team ran awesome and many PRs were made.  The only problem is the other school's runners had PR's as well.  It was a great season for the boys but they are really excited for next year and are ready to work even harder.  I lose my top runner who is a senior and then everybody else comes back next year.  I am very proud of them though.  The girls made history being a first year school and going to state their first year.

I went over to the 4A region meet and watched that.  I was motivated afterwards and hurried home and went for a run.  I ran 12.3 miles at a nice and easy pace.  The weather was perfect and it made me realize how happy I am that Katey and I moved down here.  I went on a new route all over town.  I averaged 6:57/mile overall.  It felt good and I had a really fun time.  It was exactly what I needed in order to get me going again with the training.  I will keep the rest of this week light and then slowly start to bump the mileage back up.

5 miles in the morning.

7 miles in the afternoon.

I slept in today due to not having to work and went out for my run at 9:30.  It was nice running up into Snow Canyon State Park.  I will run more this afternoon at the club run.

I ran tonight with Dave, Clyde, Ken, and Mike.  Clyde took us on a crazy trail run.  It was fun and it made us keep the pace slow.  It was fun running with the guys again.  We talked about some of the upcoming races we might try and do.  The running will just be nice and easy for a while.

I worked in the yard today for 5 hours and was pretty hammered but I went on a nice run this afternoon with Katey biking alongside me.  It was fun being with her and we enjoyed one another's company.  It was really hot so I had to shed the shirt.  Katey gave me some complimentary cat calls which were much appreciated.  She is going to bike alongside me more for some of my runs.  Quality marriage time and quality exercise time!

One of the best runs I've ever had occurred this morning.  Katey was a doll and offered to drive up in the car with 8 crazy running men to Zion.  We started at the West Rim Trail and came down through Angels Landing.  It was one of those runs where words cannot describe how beautiful it was.  We started up around 7500 feet elevation and had a couple nasty hills to deal with but it was some of the best running I have ever done.  It was fun because we stopped to enjoy the scenery and we also stopped to make sure Steve was okay from his fall :)  We encountered a little bit of snow but not that much.  It was really fun popping onto the Angel's Landing trail and running with the shirts off while all of the hikers were bundled up in really warm clothes.  Clyde, Dave, and I were feeling spry so we ran all the way back down to the main entrance and found everyone else.

We all agreed that we will be doing this run more often.  At least a couple times a year.  It was so relaxing and enjoyable.  It got me really motivated for the winter of running down here in St. George.

 Thanks again Katey for driving us.  You are wonderful!