"A Hefty Hunk Of Steamin Junk"

Rest day...

This week is a reduced mileage week for me, I plan on doing a progression the next 3 days 5, 6, 7or8 on Wednesday and then back down to the weekend. And then the maximum I will do on Saturday is 10 miles from there I will have a couple of weeks until Strider's Half and I will probably do a mini taper the week of Strider's... So for the 5 miles today I had an average pace of 8:38 with my heart rate average at 139 with a total time of 44:19 my legs felt okay still just a little tired from Saturdays run. I do plan on doing Harry's Hill this week and that will most likely be on Wednesday or Thursday depending on how I am feeling, we shall see. My route today was out towards Payson via canal road out and back, I threw in some strides towards the end of each mile just to simulate my race pace and turn over my legs a little quicker. That's about it just kind of boring for a Monday, sorry!

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I ran out to mini GU corner and then turned and headed back home, pace was slow and laboring and I didn't feel real productive... I picked it up on one of the middle miles and then just coasted home in cool down  mode average pace was 8:52 with my heart rate average at 137 total time was 53:27. If my legs feel better tomorrow I might tackle Harry's Hill if not I will do the rolling hills loop out to Payson Park and back, but we shall see what tomorrow brings. No strength training today as I did that yesterday, upper body workout on the Bowflex and core training on the rubber ball, tomorrow I will probably do the same workout...

See ya tomorrow.

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I was sick of running in the black of the morning so I slept in and then ran at around 6:00pm after I got home from work... I ran out towards mini GU corner via canal road out and back, I was feeling pretty good so I decided to do a tempo run and see how long I could hold my pace, I didn't feel like going marathon pace but I wanted to do a tempo that I could hold for awhile. I think they call it a tinman tempo or something like that, my splits went as follows; 7:57(141), 8:15(146), 7:59(144), 8:02(150), 8:10(156), 7:39(158) and then I cooled down with a mile at the end and that was 9:02(148)...  My average pace was 8:10 with my heart rate average at148 total time was 57:31. One thing that was pretty cool was my last tempo mile it was the fastest of them all  it felt like I was working the least on that mile, which is a good sign. I felt really good about this run because I had already walked 9 holes of golf and my legs felt pretty frisky even after that so that is a good sign as well. I will see how I feel in the morning and determine then If I am going to run in the morning or if I will wait till after work, I want to make sure I have recovered enough for tomorrow's run...

It was sure beautiful out today, shorts and top was all I needed. No beanie no gloves no tights I felt light as a feather!!!

See ya tomorrow.

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I ran out towards Payson this morning, out and back and I kept the pace nice and easy just trying to recover from yesterday's later run. My legs were pretty trashed from yesterdays tempo run but not as bad as I thought they would be, my average pace was 8:59 I didn't have my heart rate monitor on I don't have any numbers for that, total time was 46:08. Not much else to say on this one I am still keeping my miles lower this week as it is a reduced mileage week, I'm still not clear on what I will do tomorrow or Saturday but I will play it by ear... I will be running these days but I just don't know how much, I have the striders half in a couple of weeks so I will ramp the mileage back up for next week and then do some tapering the week of the race. I usually do some strength training today but I got up late and I have got to get going, so I'll see you tomorrow...

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I ran the Payson park loop but its an abbreviated route, I don't go all the way to the park, I cut it off about a mile short and then  I head back home... I took it really easy on the way out and then on the way back I did a progression run for two miles increasing my speed and then cooling down with a half mile at the end. The progression miles were as follows; 8:32(139), 7:46(150), and then I cooled down. I felt good on this run I didn't feel like I was working to hard on the faster paced miles so that was pretty cool. Tomorrow I will do Harry's Hill and then call it a week, next week I will ramp things up for one more week and then do a mini taper for the striders half. It will be interesting to see how I do in a couple of weeks I really don't know where I'm at, but I guess that will tell me...

See ya tomorrow.

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I ran out towards Harry's Hill and did the dirty deed, I took it pretty easy up the hill about a minute of my usual time as far as pace goes. My legs felt pretty good going up and my heart rate stayed in the lower 150's as opposed to when I'm running it all out it is closer to the high 160's... As I was coming down I passed Pat Loss and a few other runners just making their attempt up the hill, I then headed back down and then out to the old BYU farm and then turned for home. During that stretch I had a few faster pace miles in there so I counted those as MP miles even though they were about a minute off my actual pace... My legs were getting tired towards the end, but that's okay no pain no gain, so they say! It was a little colder today than it has been and I can't seem to get warmed up, but maybe a hot shower will do the trick. I hope anyway! My average pace was 8:50 with my heart rate average at 138 total time was 1:30:09, pretty boring I know but I Got-R-Done!

See Ya Monday.

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