Dave's Addiction

Muscles a little sore from Saturday so I did 1:10 on the bike, counting it as 8 EZ. Felt like a dip in an energy pool. Muscles still sore, but happy sore, not whiny sore. 3.5 of it was riding with my daughter to drivers ed. Fear the reaper, people, fear the reaper.

1.6EZ with 10 bike, not quite ready (still creaky calves)

I was thinking of a speed workout tomorrow, hopefully it will work out :)

Thought I was going to have to cut it short after 2 to the gym but the roller set the calves straight and everything felt great for the last 6. Time for some fun speed tomorrow.

Great run with Toni, Matt, Mike, Spencer, Reed, and others. Why do they have to be so far away? Matt did an uphill tempo at Provo Canyon, we had gone ahead so when he passed us I glommed on and held on for dear life. It felt good, but I could feel the lactic reservoir gradually filling and by the time I had gone .6 or so it was at the top so I dropped back. He's amazing - 5:40s and 5:30s uphill? Yoinks. I can't believe I actually beat him at HCH last year. I will be shocked if he doesn't go under 1:11. I ran a 2:20 880 with Reed on the way down, that was nice. Everything else was 6s, 7s, and one 8.

Pre-race strides with an extra mile thrown in there while waiting for Abigail to drive me to her driver's ed class. But since it's GG, instead of 14 MPH on the TM I did 15% and 7 MPH for 70 seconds.

I thought sure I had a rock in this race based on last year's times. But then we had a few track teams show up and Toni and Karl. So I switched to my original strategy - stick with the leader no matter what, then when I recover consciousness, jog it in to the finish.

So I jammed it in there with the lead pack and sprinted up the first switchback, in about 10th or so. They were already pulling ahead, but they all missed the turn! Hee hee. I was momentarily in first again but they only lost about 50 feet or so and so they all passed me in short order. I maintained distance until the grizzly hill, then they all began to pull away and I was passed by Summer and Amber and somebody else. But the top came soon enough and I began to grind forward at 6:10 on the flat, first picking off the guy that passed me and then Amber with another guy, putting me into 8th or so. About half the people missed the turn to the Mario Kart and ended up running though the weeds, they got redirected for a short extra loop after the meadow to make up distance. I got waaayy ahead of  Amber and the other two guys, and started getting close to the next group so I really jammed it on the final downhill but could not quite seal the deal. 1:27 PR though! (from 2010)

Then Toni dragged me on a nice easy run down-canyon to the water fountain. Then he decided we should run sixes back up it. Ow! No master! Please have mercy! I almost made it but not quite :) Maybe I'll go on a short run this afternoon to make it 50 for the week.