Rhett

I knew I was going to get out of work earlier than normal today, so I decided to take advantage of the cool morning and run, then do my swim right after work.

After 1 mile warm up, I did 4 x 1 mile (6:12, 6:09, 6:13, 6:02) with half mile recovery jogs and then a cool down until I hit 8 miles.  I entertained ideas of doing a fifth repeat, but decided it would be better to end on a fast mile than throw in another that would probably be in a disappointing time. 

I finished work about 3:15 this afternoon and headed straight to the lake. Afer a 1 mile run barefoot in the grass with strides, I decided to do my swim without a wetsuite.  It was cold, but not too bad.  I did a full 40 minutes and swam pretty much the same distance I've been doing with the wetsuite in that amount of time.

7 trail miles this morning at a decent pace...for trails.   This evening I was going to to go biking, but the boys wanted me to play basketball with them and by the time we got done the sun was setting.  Chase and I then lifted weights.  Upper body, lower body, and core.

I woke up to 30+ mph winds so I decided I better not go swim in the lake as planned. Instead I went for a ride.  I biked 19 miles. 

Tonight I did a fartlek hill run with 12 hills at a strong effort and everything else easy for a total of 5.5 miles. 

Since the high school kids are doing testing today, we didn't have seminary this morning, so  I had a little extra time to go out in the desert and play.  I took off running and just followed trails I hadn't tried before.  I just ran all over the place and had a blast doing it.  I ended up going 11 miles before I called it a morning.  

I lifted with Chase this evening...upper body and core.

Another beautiful morning in Havasu...high 50s, slight breeze.  I ran out to the trail I've been doing the last few Fridays, were I met Blake.  We did the 10 mile trail, and then I ran home for a total of 17 miles.  AP for the run was 8:00.  I did stop and talk with Blake a few times, so there was some recovery time in there when the clock was not running.  It was fun to be out on the trails with my best buddy.  I think it surprised him how much tougher trail running is than running the roads. 

I got up and ran 6.5 trail miles early this morning. A few hours later I went riding with Blake.  We put in 26 miles.  Then this evening Cade decided he wanted to head down to the lake to practice some open water swimming with his new wetsuit, so I got in 11 minutes of swimming.  Now I'm sitting around eating way too much watching some hoops.