"A Hefty Hunk Of Steamin Junk"

I ran out past Mini Gu corner via canal road this morning and my legs were feeling pretty good this morning so I just went with it and did some up beat miles in there. On the way back I ran into Pat loss and he ran in with me for about 2 miles and he helped keep the pace honest and up tempo. My average pace was 8:15 with a total time of 59:18, I had 3 miles that were sub 8 minute miles 7:58, 7:55, 7:45. When I was with Pat we were doing a sub 7:30 pace and it felt pretty good we would kind of speed up for a bit and then back down and then speed up again so it was a fun workout and I'm real glad that he ran with me. It really helps to have someone push and pull you along. After the run I did some one legged squats and then I did a lite upper body workout, hills tomorrow.

Later.

I ran out to mini Gu again this morning and it was pretty much a death march, I really didn't enjoy it at all. But I was able to get it done and so I guess that is some what of a victory. I thought we were doing hills today but I guess the boy's moved it to tomorrow so I will see what tomorrow brings and hopefully we can get her done. I ran into the girls and they were drinking out of someones hose, I sure hope that wasn't irrigation water:)

See ya tomorrow.

Ran the Payson canyon this morning, Started at beer can and then ran 8 miles down the canyon, very steep and a nice workout. I ran with Chad and Dan and his wife Carolyn and we had some good conversation and it was a good run. The plan is to do this run once a week and I think we increase it a little each week so it should give me a good dose of downhill training. My quads are really burning right now! Average pace was 7:54 but I had some 7:40 miles in the middle so I hope to increase my turn over each week and hopefully these miles will get quicker each week, total time was 1:01:31. I also added in some one legged squats after I stretched, I might run tomorrow but it depends on how I feel after today's run if I do run it will be short and slow.

See ya tomorrow.

I ran out to Mini Gu and about two miles into my run my calf got a real narley charlie horse! I stopped at mini Gu and tried to stretch it out but it was not having it. I kept running and it stayed about the same so when I got back to the house I drank some gatorade and then headed out to the old barn. It seemed to stay the same until on the way back and it really went crazy and I had to run walk the last mile just to get home. I have been icing and putting heat on it but it is really sore and I can barley walk so who knows if it will get better or not! Oh well at least I made it this year almost to July with out an injury I guess I'll see how it is tomorrow and then on Monday see if it is improving! Dang!!!

Later.