Speed only kills if you don't have it!

I went out on run today after practice. I am still sore from my race on Saturday so I went out for a moderate run. For being sore I actually felt pretty good ad was under 7 minute pace for most of my run. I ran up to Emmeline and took it over to Butterfield park, then went over to the Cove pond and looped back home along Rosecrest. Good run this evening.

AM-  Easy run at 5:30am over to Butterfield park and back.  I took it very easy, over 8:00 pace for the average.

PM-  I went out about 7:00pm after I got home from our XC meet.  I was tired from a long crazy day, but forced myself out for an easy loop around South Herriman.  I went up to Emmeline, over to Butterfield, down 6400 W to 13400 S and back home on Rosecrest.  My legs are tired so I took it extra easy because I have a big next couple days of training coming up.  7:42 ave for the run.

AM-  Early morning run in the dark to Rosecrest park and back.  I was way tired and am still going to run again with Walter this afternoon so my pace was super slow.  Long days, early mornings and tired legs are a bad combo.

PM-  Met Walter down on the Jordan River Parkway trail. just off of 12600 S.  It was hot this afternoon and we were both tired and said we would take it easy but that didn't really happen.  We ended up pushing out a pretty decent run. We ran the last ten miles of the Riverton City Half that Walt won back in March.  It was a good loop, and I was very familiar with most of it.  About 2 miles into our run we ran into Hall of Famer Jerry Sloan and his wife, kind of cool!  I knew Sloan lived in Riverton but I have never run into him before.  Walt and I had a good conversation which helped me forget how tired I was during the hot ten miler.  We ran the 10 miles in 1:10:44 (7:05 ave.)   Good run!

I was so tired and hammered this morning but I still drug myself out of bed for an easy 3 miles.  The frequency of my running has been tiring and that is on top of my way busy life right now.  I did a couple of striders in the middle.  Legs are way tired and tight.  I need to get one more 20 miler out of the way tomorrow.  I am excited to have 24 hours of rest before my next run.

Last long run, thank goodness!  No, I really need another 6 weeks of decent training but that isn't going to happen, maybe next year.  I have been so trashed this week and was not looking forward to this run at all, but it ended up being a pretty good run.  Walter came by at 5:30am, we had to start early because he had his daughter's XC meet at 9:00am.  

We did the same run as two weeks ago up Buttefield canyon from my house and back.  This time I panted some gatoaid and water in different spots.  It was dark most of the way out and we had a little headwind going on out of the canyon, but we still ran up faster than two weeks ago.  1:18:42 up.  Down was a good pace but we weren't killing ourselves either, 1:04:27.  The bummer was the wind switched when we came out of the canyon and we had a headwind for about 6 miles home.  I wasn't too bugged by the wind though, except when we were climbing back up Rosecrest with 2 miles to go.  We ended with a 2:23:09 for the 20 miler.  Good run for a couple of old tired guys.  Thanks to Walt for the company, it really helps me to have a friend on these long runs.  Now I just need to get some rest this weekend.