"A Hefty Hunk Of Steamin Junk"

I ran the Payson Park loop this morning and it was not a very fun run! That is deadest that my legs have been yet and by the time I was almost back to the house I was basically jogging. It felt like I was hitting the wall but it started from the first mile to the last, very frustrating! My average pace was 9:02 with my total time being 1:04:37, I almost stopped and walked but I told myself no way you will not give up and you will finish... I really don't know what happened other than I had a pretty good week last week and I had a longer run on Saturday, at least it was longer than normal so I will chalked it up to just being tired and I hope I feel better as the week progresses. I finished up with 11 minutes on the elliptical and then my upper body weight training and then some push-ups, here's to a better day tomorrow.

Later.

I ran out to GU Corner, out and back, and my legs seemed a little better today still not a lot of zip but I was able to do some sub 8:30 miles in the middle of the run. The last mile I was feeling it a bit but I was in cool down mode so it really didn't matter, my average pace for the run was 8:43 with the total time being 1:10:30... After the run I jumped on the elliptical for 21 minutes at a moderate pace with a few intervals in the middle the pace was pretty up beat for the most part. I might head to the track tomorrow and do some 200's and some 800's but I will have to see how my legs are feeling and then go from there. I had some great tunes this morning, a lot of Journey from the Captured album which is my favorite and also some Escape, good stuff. Its all 70's classic's and it brings back the memories, ah to be young  again;)

Later.

I ran my old route this morning, kept it on canal road and on the flats for all of the run. The first section is out towards Payson to the base of the hill that leads into Payson and then I head back to the house and then out towards the Stake center and towards Harry's but not quite to Harry's and then back to the house. Total mileage is 7.47 and its all pretty much flat, my legs were feeling better today so I think I will go to the track tomorrow and do some speed workouts. Average pace today was 8:27 with one of those miles sub 8 minute and total time was 1:03:06, after the run I jumped on the elliptical for 11 minutes at a moderate pace no resistance and then I finished up with my strength training on my upper body and then some push-ups. I saw the ladies out this morning, the 2 Heidie's that Kelli chick and some other chick named Michelle and I think Janie Christensen, it had to be cuz I don't know any girl that tall;)

Later.

I ran out to Harry's Hill and then up to the mailboxes and then down to Mt Loafer school and then home, I pushed the second half of Harry's hill and my legs seemed to do pretty good and then I pushed the downhill pretty good too and here are the splits. 7:44 half uphill, 7:15 all downhill to flat, 7:55 backed off on this one as it was my last mile and the last half was my cool down. My pace up Harry's was 9:40 with the last half at 8:35 my average pace for the whole run was 8:18 with my total time being 59:16 after the run I jumped on the elliptical and I kept the pace moderate and threw in some intervals in the middle. I feel pretty good about this effort today, I wanted to have a little more push going up Harry's but I think that will come as I get in better shape.

See ya tomorrow

Easy day today. I ran along Canal road and ran 7- 200 meter pick-ups, at least they were close to that, I didn't have my watch set so I could check the time on each one but on the pace on my watch the first 4 were sub 7 minute mile pace. on the last 3 I picked it up and the pace was around 6:30 pace for thsoe three which is about sprinting for me, well not quite but close;) The two miles that I did the pick-ups in were 7:40 and 7:30 and then I started to cool down but then with a half of a mile left I noticed I could catch the 8 minute guy so I picked up the pace and just beat him before I got back to the house. Average pace was 7:58 with the total time being 37:20, I finished up with 15 minutes on the elliptical at a moderate pace and then my standard upper body weight training and then some push-ups. I feel really good about today and I hope this continues I really want to have a good summer.

See ya tomorrow.