El Burro Blanco

6 miles in the morning.

6.75 miles in the afternoon.

I am back to doing 2 a days.  It was chilly this morning due to the wind but it was once again good, clean air.  I love this time of year.  I didn't worry about the watch today.  Glad to start the week off with this run.  I wasn't tired at 5 AM.  This is a good sign!  If anyone is willing, I need to get my leaves cleaned up before it snows.  I can't pay you because I am cheap but would love to go on a run with you afterwards!  I did 4 x 600meters with the cross country team for practice.  We did a fun, little grass relay.  I averaged 5:20/mile on these.  The grass really slows you down!  I did some more miles afterward and averaged 6:40/mile overall for the run.

6.00 miles in the morning.

6.15 miles in the afternoon.

Another good 6 miler in the morning.  Made sure I wore all the warm clothes.  That helps keep the pace slow.  7:04/mile for the overall run.  Still need to get those dang leaves cleaned up.  I had a lot of work to do at school and got out for my second run a little later than planned.  I was in for quite the treat.  The wind was blowing 30 + mph and it was raining.  I only had a long sleeve shirt and the short shorts.  I was freezing but gutted it out.  I got going and felt fine so I decided to see if I could fight through the weather.  I ended up doing the run at a 6:15/mile pace overall.  I was really pleased with the effort today considering 3 miles was directly into the wind.  It was a nice push.

6 miles in the morning.  (Again!)

8 miles in the afternoon.

The weather was extra chilly this morning due to the rain yesterday.  I did the run at a 7:08/mile pace.  The nose hairs were a little frozen this morning.  I saw on the way to work that the temperature was 22 degrees!  Yeah!  I ran from my house down towards the Ogden River Parkway.  I got yelled at by a dinosaur passing the dinosaur museum.  This was weird!  The cross country team met their and we did 10 x 400m sprints up a hill.  It wasn't a big push but I tried to take the top runners with me and push them a little bit.  We alternated between 15 pushups and 25 crunches for each sprint up the hill.  The cold air really got the lungs burning.  I ran home afterwards and a really big hill coming up Harrison.  It was a good run and I ended up doing the entire thing at an overall 6:25/mile pace.

6 miles in the morning.

8 miles in the afternoon.

The weather was extra chilly so I put on a light sweater.  It really helped out a lot.  Didn't wear a watch.  I got home from a long meeting and went out for my afternoon run.  I decided to bag the long pants and stick with short shorts.  I am glad I did this because I warmed up pretty quick.  I went up towards North Ogden on Fruitland Dr.  I wanted to keep the pace somewhat slow.  I did the entire run at a 6:41/mile pace.  I am for sure going to get the leaves dilemma taken care of on Saturday!  I run out of sunlight.

I ran almost 5 1/2 miles with the cross country team this afternoon.  The pace was nice and slow and I liked that.  I did some core exercises to end practice and then ran some more miles afterwards to get at least 12 in for the day.  I did the run at 6:51/mile overall pace.  The weather was surprisingly warm.

I had to run a bunch of errands today and finish cleaning up the leaves (it took me over 4 hours!)  Picking up the leaves would have taken longer but a great neighbor came over and helped.  What a lifesaver!  I am glad to have these done.  The weather today was awesome so I was thrilled to go out for my run.  I decided on a half marathon since I hadn't done one in a long time.  I ran up towards North Ogden again with all of the rolling hills.  It is the same route I did with James and Paul a couple of weeks again.  I took the first 6.5 miles pretty slow and then wanted to push the last half.  Here are my splits: 8- 5:47 = slight uphill and flat, 9- 5:21 = downhill and flat, 10- 5:39 = rolling hills and flat, 11- 5:35 = slight downhill and flat, 12- 6:11 = big uphill, 13- 5:56 = uphill and flat.  I was really glad I got the legs moving again.  This is the best workout I've done in a while.  Total time was: 1:20:20 with an overall pace of 6:08/mile.  I ended up taking first and last place today in this half marathon!  The post race party consisted of raking up more leaves!  Bummer!