Larry, Wayne, and I went for an 8 mile run up Provo Canyon this morning. It was great to run with Wayne again. He's been trying to recover from a stress fracture. This was his first time back running. We also hadn't run up the canyon since before St. George, and that was nice, too. We even got to say hello to Sasha as he sped past us on his way down as we headed up.
We took it real easy going up the first 4 miles (9:43, 9:29, 9:34, 9:44). On the way down Wayne told us to go ahead and Larry and I went a little faster the next 3.5 miles (8:32, 8:14, 8:02, 4:01). I was thinking about Tom running 8x800 repeats @ 2:56 to 3:06 this week and decided to push the last half mile and see what I could do for one half mile repeat. I was encouraged to see I finished in 2:55 (5:51/mi). Now I just need to string 8 of those together. :)
I only ran about 30 miles this week, but that's 30 more than the doctor wanted me to run. I figure backing off 20 miles from my goal mileage was a pretty good sacrifice. My shoulder is feeling pretty good after the surgery, and I don't feel that running has negatively affected it at all. (I can't say the same for moving computers and monitors around in my office this week.) I go to the doctor for my post-operative exam on Monday morning. I guess I'll find out how he thinks I'm doing. I plan to pick up my mileage next week, and maybe slip in a medium pace tempo run or two, unless he convinces me otherwise.
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