Met Fritz at Shopko at 7:20 to drive down and meet the Utah Co. guys. Got a call from Scott saying it was windy down there, but barely a flutter in Sugarhouse. We drove down to Reed's house where it was crazy windy. So the decision was made to trek up to Riverton to do the run on the Jordan River Trail. Mike, Scott, Reed, Dan, Fritz and I started out south and did 10 out and back to the cars in 70 minutes. Then after fueling up we headed north for the workout portion of the run, five miles into the wind at 6:00 pace then whatever we could muster coming back. Fritz and Scott took off and Mike and I worked our way back up to them to get some of the wind break. Fritz and Scott did a lion's share of the work while Mike and I helped out when we could. Ended up running 5 miles out in 28:18 (5:42, 5:44, 5:38, 5:36, 5:38). Took a short break then headed back, my legs were extra sore the first mile and Fritz and Scott ended putting a few seconds on me in the three miles out hard. My splits were 5:22, 5:25, 5:25 then we eased back and while it felt like 7+ minute pace ended up running 6:11, Mike caught back up with about 1/2 mile to go and we started picking the pace back up and the last mile was 5:45 with the last half a lot closer to 5:00 pace. So the last five was run in 28:08. Great workout and couldn't have done it without everyone there, not time to have some pizza and beer and watch some basketball.
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