Moving Forward

Could not sleep well last night. We watched a movie that I think caused me to have some weird sleep. It was a good movie, I can't remember the name right now, it has the guy that has been the last 007. He was a jew that helped his brothers and about 200 other jews live in the forrest to get away from the Nazi's. Anyway I was up early so I decied to go for a run. Got in a few miles, felt pretty good, had a bit of tummy trouble towards the end, so it was good that I didn't run any farther.  I will probably get a few more after work.

5:00am  - 3.50 miles - 31:18

laps: 9:18, 9:11, 8:26, 8:49

After work, I ran 5 miles on the parkway. As I was passing the skatepark I was looking over at the kids there, I always do because I know sometimes my son and some of his friends will still go down and skate board some, and sure enough there was my son waving at me :) After I was done we meet up so I could drive him home. He had been biking all over today. 

5 miles - 42:44

AP- 8:33

Well today was my hap-hazard attempt at trying to do some fartlek training. After seeing Carolyn's run today I thought I would give it a try. So I ran to the 21street pond. 2 mile warm-up then I have heard that it is 1 mile around the pond. I think it's slightly more though. So My feeble brain was trying to add the 25 sec. onto the time as I was running anticipating that I would need to pick-up the pace, and I never seemed to get it right LOL I swear it should not be this hard. I ended up doing 3 laps around the pond. The I turned back and my garmin was at 5.11 miles. So here I dicided to run up the hill at a good pace. I ran up it three times... at the top of the last time my garmin was at 6.00 miles exactly. Then I ran back to my car. Definatly not as planned or organized as it should be... but I felt pretty good with it. :)

7.62 miles - 1:06:44

Laps: 8:55, 8:58, 8:32, 8:37, 8:49, 8:21, 8:59, 8:58

I knew that I needed to get a run in before work, but I still pooped around a bit and got a later start then I should have. I don't know if it was my run last night, or the turn around from running in the late afternoon to running in the morning, or maybe the combination of both. But my legs were very tired! Also had a weird pain, kinda sharp in my left heel for the first 1/4 of a mile. The middle 1/2 miles or so was about the only part of this run that felt OK. I still packed my gym bag, but I have a Dr. App. after work in SLC, so will see if I have time to get any more running in. DH wants to hike Malan's Peak again, so I might be doing that. I told him as long as it's not raining too much. I can handle running in the rain, but hikeing those reall steep hills, gets a bit too slippery for me.

4.09 miles - 38:38

laps: 9:41, 9:42, 9:04, 9:20

Didn't really have a plan to my run today, but it turned out to be pretty nice. There was only a few draw backs. 1. I forgot to pack socks so this was a bit weird to run without socks.. 2. With all the rain it has flooded the underpass at Wall ave. I didn't think it was too deep so I went for it. It was actually up to mid shin. So now I had no socks and slippy wet feet in my shoes. 3. At about the 4 mile mark I had tummy trouble. Due to the water under Wall ave. there was no one else on the path, so I thought I could do a potty break in the bushes. But I seem to have a mental block with this. Luckily there was a store that let me use their restroom. Tried to pick up the pace the last few blocks back to the car.

When I was running around the pond. I thought I saw a swan, but as I got closer to the side it was on I could see it was a pelican. I was very surprised. I know that there are some at the Great Salt Lake, but I never thought they would come this far north. It will be interesting to see if it's there again. Also there were two pretty little robin egg shells on the path, such a pretty color. I think they were just the pieces after the babies hatched.

10.25 miles - 1:29:54

laps: 9:08, 8:54, 8:41, 8:50, 8:44, 8:47, 8:54, 8:46, 8:39, 8:30

I had over heard a few of the bikers at my work comment that they had extended the parkway path that is close to our work. So I decided to run it and see the new parts. I can run from the parking lot at my work, down a dirt/gravel/sand road and on an unused portion of railroad track. Once I past all that there is a paved path by the river. As soon as they get it over/under or around the said railroad tracks it will all connect to the other path that I run. All told when it's finished it should be over 20 miles of paved path. So nice not to have to deal with cars and streets. It was a pretty nice run. At one point along the path there are businesses close to it, one car dealer had a table with water on it for people on the path... good marketing I guess. I had some on my way back. There is one thing I find rather odd on the pathway. When they were doing some of the construction there was a huge tree that was right by the edge, so the cut it down but the stump was too big to pull out. So they had someone make a sculpture out of it. Now I think this is really neat, but I can't understand why they sculpted dolphins... the dolphins are standing on their tails, at first I thought they were penguins but as I pass I could see the dorsal fins. I just think it should have been some other animal or something. I mean you wouldn't see a dolphin swimming in the river. It just didn't make any sense to me.

Where they have added the new miles, goes through a ultimate freeze bee course. I think that is what it's call. I have ran down around there before and never see anyone. Tonight there had to be about 30 people all over the course. From what I could tell the course crossed the path a few times. I was worried I was going to get a disc the the back or side of my head LOL.

Sorry for the ramble.... pretty good run, but I felt more tired then I did yesterday

9:00 miles - 1:20:48

laps: 9:08, 8:45, 8:47, 8:51, 9:04, 8:36, 8:50, 8:43, 10:04

Today did not feel good!!! It was a rough run. I met my friend at her house and ran the parkway by her house... basically the same as I ran from work yesterday. I really do not feel well today. Every muscle from my waist down hurts... and I feel very fatigued. SUCKS!! I think my friend wanted to do more, but when I made her stop back at her house for me to potty, I just could not get going again. I hope I feel better before the WBR. 

7 miles - 1:04:14