"A Hefty Hunk Of Steamin Junk"

I ran the old blue mailbox route, out towards Payson via canal road my achillies was a little sore to start but then it loosened up just fine, I kept the pace pretty easy and my quads were sore from Saturday so the pace was easy. Average pace was 8:40 with my total time at 40:44, after the run I jumped on the elliptical for 30 Minutes with no resistance but I did do some interval training for about 15 minutes the pace was up beat with the RPM 90 and above. No time this morning for my strength training I have to head for Grantsville to work today, I have a couple Farms I have to see today so off I go, maybe I'll get it done later tonight if time will allow.

See ya tomorrow.

I ran out to the base of Harry's Hill and then back to the house, the pace was easy at first and then I did some quarter mile pick-ups at 7:20 and 7:15 pace with the same amount of cool down. Average pace was 8:33 with the total time at 46:29 I felt good enough today to tack on a little extra after I got back to the house and that was one of the pick-ups so thats a good sign. The achillies was about the same, sore at the beginning and then it loosened up and was good the rest of the way. After the run I jumped on the elliptical and ran the contenders course which is 20 minutes with resistance up to 5 and then I cooled down with another 10 minutes, after that I did some leg lifts on the Bowflex. I ran a little bit downhill this morning and my achillies did really well, better going downhill than going up...

Ethan's UBBA Baseball tourney starts today and he started practicing for soccer today too, so when it rains it pours;)

See ya tomorrow

I ran the old blue mailbox route this morning via canal road, pace was easy and then progressed to my regular training pace. I did a small hill workout but not to much just wanted to brake it up a bit and my achillies did pretty well, it felt real good going downhill and then I could feel it a little more on the way back up the hill, but just a niggle. Average pace was 8:36 with my total time at 46:37, after the run I jumped on the good old elliptical for 20 minutes with no resistance but I did an interval for about 5 minutes with the RPM starting at 95 and then progressing up to over 100 RPM and then holding it there for a good 3 to 4 minutes, I finished up with my upper body workout and then some push-ups.

UBBA update; We won the first game 4 to 3 but then lost the second game 6 to 8, we have one more game today and its a must when to advance to the single elimination bracket tommorrow. To be honest with you I'm about ready for baseball to be over and I think Ethan is too although he won't admit it, I think he is ready to start soccer...:)

See ya tomorrow.

My goal this morning was to run out past Mini GU corner and maybe cut out the elliptical for the day just to brake it up a little bit but it all hinged on how my foot was doing. it seemed to loosen up a little quicker so I decided to just take it mile by mile and see what happens, I wanted to build the pace each mile but I didn't want to run anything to serious as this was all about distance not speed. My splits went like this: 8:43, 8:41, 8:32, 8:23, 8:04, 8:27, 8:16, .12 8:08. Mile 5 I don't even remember that mile to much cuz I kind of zoned out and then I noticed on the split that it was my fastest mile and I wasn't trying to go that pace, I should zone out more often;) No elliptical today just some stretching and taking it easy, I'm very happy with my training so far this week the effort seems to be there and I like that a lot.

UBBA update: Our boys just keep winning, it truley is a amazing!!! We beat two undefeated teams yesterday and its just so cool.  If we win our first game tonight then we play for the championship later tonight, I'm so proud of our boys they just never give up!

See ya tomorrow.

Rest.

I wanted to get up a little earlier this morning but it didn't workout that way but I was out the door by 6:30 and man was it hot!!! I headed out to GU corner and on the way out I ran into my brother Curtis and chatted for a minute, I wanted to run some with him on the way back but he must have went a different way cuz I couldn't find him on my way back. My legs were pretty dead the whole run, I dont' now why maybe from the heat the last few days and I haven't hydrated very good as usual. My average pace was 8:22 and my total time was 1:24:19, I tacked on a couple more miles when I got back to the house to make it an even 10 out on the road and my legs couldn't have gone another step. After the run I was able to jump on the elliptical for 45 minutes with the pace upbeat, between 95 and 100 on the RPM, with no resistance. I finished up with some strength training on my upper body and then some push-ups. 4 of the miles on the run were as follows: 8:09, 8:17, 8:11, 8:02, I wasn't really trying to hard on these but my legs were tired and so it seemed like it was harder than it really was;)

I Took yesterday off as I was tired from UBBA, emotionally and physically but I am way proud of our boys they did really well. the first game went into extra innings after we came back and tied them at 3 all in the last inning but we ended up losing 4 to 3 on an error, bummer. The second game we were playing for 3rd or 4th and we jumped on them early 10 to 1 but then our boys started getting tired and the other team came back and almost beat us but our boys hung on to win 12 to 11. So both games were close and exciting and the boys over excelled and never gave up. So 3rd over all is pretty good considering everyone thought we wouldn't even make it out of pool play and we were one run from being in the championship game so pretty darn good!!! I think this is Ethan's last year of playing which is kind of sad, he's a great player but I think he wants to concentrate  on soccer, maybe he will change his mind.

See ya on Monday.