"A Hefty Hunk Of Steamin Junk"

Ran on the treadmill at our Hotel I did a 3 mile tempo with a 3 .25 cool down...  Not much else to say except I realized how much I hate running in doors on treadmills. I will be running with Jeff tomorrow...

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Ran with Jeff C. from Las Vegas who is on the blog, we did a mile in a half loop around his house and then headed out and I saw a different part of  Las Vegas that you never see if your just driving through and it was a lot of fun getting to know Jeff a good runner, I think I slowed him down a bit but he was a good sport about it. We kept the pace at around 8:30 which was just fine with me,  my legs have been dead since last Saturday's down hiller so it felt good to take it easy.  It was pretty hot for 5:00am in the morning but it was still tolerable with alittle breeze, I wish Jeff all the best in his training and I will see him in SG it was good to meet a fellow runner and fastrunning blogger.

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Travil day today, no running...

I am doing a mini taper for the Provo Riverwoods Half Marathon which is on Saturday. I just did a mini tempo run to wakeup the legs from a day off from traviling, I started out easy with a warm up mile and then eased into the 2 mile tempo. First split was 8:23 and it felt comfortable and then I eased into the 2 mile tempo, 8:16, 7:05, and then a cool down mile of 8:28... Tomorrow I may do a easy recovery run of 6 miles or less and a real easy pace just to keep my legs loose, my tipia is still sore and I am beginning to think that it is Shin Splints Because today it was hurting at first and on the fast miles it hurt less than on the warmup and cool down miles where it seemed to be more painful. I don't know what to do for shin splints if anyone reads this and you have some good suggestions then please let me know, I have never had to deal with this before, even when I was younger.

Well that is about it, see ya tomorrow...

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Easy recovery run today... My shin and calf where really giving me problems this morning, very painful.  After about 2 miles the pain started to subside but it was still there, I will just have to get through those first couple of miles tomorrow and then hopefully I will be able to do it and finish strong. Not much else to say except I will be up early tomorrow for the Provo Riverwoods Half Marathon, so I will see how that goes... Average pace today was 9:00, total time was 45:24, my heart rate average was 139.

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I don't know where I finished, one print out said 78th but who knows and I don't know how I did in my age divison, I am hoping maybe a top 10. I felt pretty good throughout the whole race started out a little faster than I should have but I just went with it. My shin splints on my left tibia where okay during the race, but right now it is really sore,  I iced for about 15 minutes but it is still really sore. My splits went as follows; 6:48(148), 6:55(161), 6:57(157), 7:11(158), 7:17(158), 7:29(160) hill, 7:39(166)hill & headwind, 7:14(162), 7:19(161), 7:16(162), 7:28(162) this split seems  to be wrong, because the next one was 7:03(166) I was crusing pretty good the last three miles so miles 11 and 13 seemed wrong 7:17(168), 43.15 for the last little bit... My splits for miles 11 and 13 seemed more like mile 12,  7:03ish my heart rate was around the same as mile 12 there was alot of variance that just didn't seem right.

All in all I PR'd from last year, average pace was 7:13 and the heart rate average was 160 so a good tempo run. I wanted to do some cool down miles but had to get back home for the Salem Day's Parade, so I only was able to do the race miles today, once they have the results listed I will update...

Good job goes out to Sasha and the other fast running blog participants...

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