El Burro Blanco

Nice to sleep in a touch this morning and go for a run when it was warm. No clothes and beanie this morning. Ran from the house and did the Barrel Roll loop. Perfect conditions and a nice enjoyable run. Perfect way to start off the week. 14.5 miles total.

Worked in the yard the rest of the day. Not fun!
 

Ran with the boys this morning due to Christmas tomorrow. Planned on doing tempo but I felt flat right after the warm up. Don't know if I am sick or what. Oliver is sick so maybe I got something from him. Chalk it up as a bad run. Hopefully next week will be better.

Now I get to drive all day up north. Yeah!

Staying in Salt Lake with family. We hit up the local Chinese restaurant last night for our annual tradition. Unfortunately no duck.

I had family duties and ended up doing my annual Christmas midnight run on the treadmill at the hotel. I got through the run watching Game 2 of the 1995 NBA Western Conference Finals. David Robinson, Doc Rivers, Avery Johnson, Dennis Rodman, Hakeem "The Dream" Olajuwon, Clyde Drexler, Kenny "The Jet" Smith were rocking it out. Brought back memories. I was feeling a little better so I wanted to try and redeem myself a little bit with the workout from yesterday. I warmed up 2 miles and then did a progression run down to 5:27 for the last mile. Felt okay but I can tell I still feel kind of sick. Happy to have a little better workout though. Merry Christmas everyone!

Up in Logan for the rest of the week with Katey's family. Slept in and got some much needed rest. Started just after 11am and it was a balmy 16 degrees. Sunny and beautiful actually made the run quite enjoyable. I still have some congestion in the chest and was hacking all during the run. Maybe it is the inversion 6:56/mile for 13 miles. Started at the in-laws and then ran towards River Heights and back. Hope to get in another workout in tomorrow or Saturday. Happy Boxing Day everyone! 

Still felt kind of yucky in the chest but I decided to do a modified workout. I was hoping to get in mile repeats but it wasn't going to happen. I ran from the in-law's house up towards Smithfield. I ran 5 miles out and then flipped it. I did a Fartlek workout between the wooden power line poles all the way back to my in-laws. It felt good to get 5 miles worth of this on the way back. I was still hacking up a bunch of stuff. Funny thing about the run is that I got honked at and it was Nick McCombs. I guess he lives in Smithfield. I think we are going to try and get a run in together in the morning. 

Icicles off my beard and off my left ear. All about the memories! 10 miles total this morning.

Got up a little earlier today to get my run in. Did my Christmas Eve loop today. It is 2 loops around the university. Lots of fun actually. Coming down with a cold for sure. Managed 7:07/mile. Survived the week despite not feeling 100%. Hopefully I can recover the rest of the weekend and feel better for redemption of the tempo run.

Peace out everyone!