Every Race is an Adventure!

Instead of interval speed work at the track, Kurt, Kent, Larry and I decided to do the 6 mile Lindon loop and push the last 3 miles as a hard tempo run. We ended up pushing the first 3 miles a little, too.

We averaged 8:06/mi for the first 3 miles. We then kicked it up a little. I ran the next 0.6 miles at 6:43/mi. I slowed to 8:28/mi for 0.2 miles up the hill, picked back up to 7:14/mi for a 0.2 mile level stretch, then 8:35/mi for 0.15 miles through the big dip on Main St. next to Lindon Park. I averaged 7:52 for the last 1.75 miles, and 7:53/mi overall for the 6 miles. It was a good hard run. I nearly caught Kurt on 280 West, but then he saw me and finished a block or so ahead of me.

I ran two miles before meeting up with Kurt, Kent, and Larry. After a half mile warmup, I ran the next half mile at 7:56/mi. This was slower than normal so I picked up the pace and ran the next half mile at 6:53/mi. That was a little too fast. I ran the last half mile at 7:17/mi before meeting up with the others.

I was feeling tired as we started up the 2000 N hill and was going to take it easy, but Kent taunted me into pushing it pretty hard. I couldn't stay with Kurt, but averaged 9:38/mi for 1.4 miles up the hill, which is good for me on that hill. We recovered on the down hill; 8:21/mi on the level then 7:51/mi down the hill.

Everyone had pushed hard up the hill and we were pretty tired at this point. We averaged 8:57/mi for 0.85 miles over to the next 0.5 mile downhill, which we ran at 7:55/mi. The others began to slowly pull away at this point. I was very tired. I ran 8:38/mi for about a mile, then could only manage to speed up to 8:06/mi for the last mile or so.

My overall average pace for the 7.75 miles (about 2.5 miles of hills) was 8:21/mi. It was a good run.

I started the day by running the normal Wednesday hills with Kurt and Kent. Once we started up the hill Kurt took off. I think Kent and I pushed pretty good, but it was no PR. We took it easy back down. We had to watch our footing through the torn up road down 1600 N, but held a pretty good pace. I didn't kick too hard because I was planning to run again at noon.

At noon, I went out with Cory to do the Lake View run across the freeway from Novell. We saw several huge trees that had been uprooted by the storm yesterday. We then noticed the downed power pole laying near the gate at the end of the trail. We cut through a yard and discovered that there were quite a few down power lines and poles, with lots of crews working to repair them. The main street was blocked off so we had to weave through some side streets. Rather than come back that way, we went north and then east under the freeway and worked our way back to Novell. Cory's GPS said we went just over 5 miles. With all the stopping early on, it was hard to figure our average pace, but I think it was around 7:40/mi.

I started with a half mile warmup. My legs felt really tired so I started quite slowly and only ran the first half mile at about 10:38/mi. I picked up the pace and ran the next three half miles at 7:52/mi, 6:52/mi, and 7:18/mi.

I then met up with Kurt, Kent, Kevin, and Larry for the normal Thursday morning run.

We ran the first 2.17 miles at 9:03/mi, followed by 0.83 miles at 8:41/mi.

I averaged 10:19/mi for the mile up the hill at 2000 North. Coming back down, we ran 9:15/mi at the start, then sped up to 7:06/mi for 0.65 miles followed by 6:24/mi for 0.49 miles to end the fun.

It was a good hard run. It was nice having the whole group together again. It's been a while.

It was a great morning for running and I got to run with a great bunch of guys...the regulars of Kevin, Kent, Larry, and Wayne, and we were joined by Kerry Southworth and Greg Wrubell. We started at the mouth of Provo Canyon and ran up to South Fork. We all went as far as South Fork Park before turning around. Kevin, Wayne, and I went on up to Trefoil to get in a 20 mile run.

I forgot to lock in my Garmin before we started and never did get it going until we stopped at Trefoil before turning around. In my opinion we ran a pretty good pace for all that uphill, in a time of around 1:37 I think, including stops.

Kevin, Wayne, and I averaged around 7:50/mi on the way back down. The pattern seemed to be that Kevin would push the pace a little, then Wayne would take the bait and they would both push the pace even more. I just tried to hang on. We ran the 10 downhill miles in around 1:20, and I believe we ran the 20 miles in just under 3 hours. My goal was just to finish without bonking. I felt strong most of the time. I really only felt stressed the times Kevin and Wayne pushed the pace to around 7:00-7:20/mi. I felt good enough at the end to run the last 1/2 mile at 7:17/mi.