A Runner at Heart.....Riding a Bike

I had the day off so I got to sleep in a bit and didn't run until 7am.  It was 42 degrees and sunny with a light breeze...best day for almost a week.  I ran 10.25 easy miles and ran the last 2 with Bret.  I bumped in to her on the top of Satterfield.  She is now going to run Utah Valley because Lowell offered to transfer his bib to her since he got injured at Ogden.  She is very excited.

It was 46 degrees and calm this morning.  I ran the fairgrounds loop and a couple laps on the track so I had a little over 3 miles before we started our group workout.  We did a 1/4 mile laps with a run up and down the stadium steps in the middle of each lap.  We did this for 20 minutes.

After the group workout, I ran Barry back to his house.  I was planning on doing 10, but I decided to push it to over 12 since I have the day off.  Total 12.53 miles.

It was 46 degrees and overcast this morning.  My right knee was a bit "tweaky" yesterday after running the stairs in our workout yesterday.  I used a roller on my IT band just in case and just took it easy today.  Total 10.33 easy miles.

It was 50 degrees and calm this morning.  I ran 2 miles before our group run.  I ran 3 miles with the faster group.  Then Barry, Erin, and I ran on Satterfield and then ran the trails up above for a couple miles.  It was a beautiful morning for this.  I was worried that the trails might have been messed up if they were used right after the heavy rains last week.  That was not the case....but, the moles have been VERY busy and there were fresh piles of dirt right in the middle of the trail and the weeds grew a ton after the rain and are hanging over the narrow parts of the trail pretty good.  After the trail run, Barry and Erin headed to their homes and I ran another 3.5 miles by myself.  Total 10.21 miles.

Another nice morning.  50 degrees with a very light breeze.  I ran 10.72 easy miles.  Planning a long run on the marathon course with Kory tomorrow.

It was 53 degrees this morning with overcast skies.  I picked up Kory at Century High School where he dropped his truck.  We drove to the top of Buckskin to run the marathon course.  The cloud cover kept it muggy, but cooler and we even had some rain sprinkles coming in to Inkom.

I kept a pretty good pace the first 13 or so and then told Kory to run ahead as usual so he wouldn't have to wait for me.  We saw hundreds of bike riders as there was a huge Ladies bike race with distances of 10/22/50/70/100 miles.  There were markers all over the road.  I got pretty distracted talking to the riders and cheering them on.  It made the run seem much shorter.

I ran 21.06 miles and didn't push it too hard with Utah Valley next Saturday.  I am planning on just a good, long run in Provo, followed by another long run the following Saturday to prepare me for the 40 mile run on June 23rd.  It was great to run with Kory and we had a fun morning.