5:15 am. Decided to run my nemesis 18 miler today, down around the point of the mountain, up the Draper side of Suncrest, down the Utah County side and back home. 2500 foot climb in 4 miles. Felt OK the whole time, my legs were a little soar but didn't really feel like it was keeping me from running at a pace I wanted. Going up the hill was pretty tough this morning, strong headwind the whole way up, took a quick gel and water break at the top and then started back down. I started down the 8% grade pretty fast (5:30/mile pace) and felt like it was beating me up a little to much, I tried to slow it down to around 5:50 pace just cause I didn't want to pay for it to much later in the run. I did pick up the pace when I passed the cyclist coming up, just to look cool :). Did the whole run in 2:10:?? 7:16/mile avg pace. Which I thought was pretty good, but I just looked back at the last time I did this run in April, training for Ogden and I did it 2 minutes faster back then, so now I feel bad. There are a lot of other factors but it looks like I did the downhills a lot faster back then but I did the uphill faster this time. If I remember correctly I thought I was going to die after that run in April, I'm going to go mow the lawn now. I did say just the other day, that I feel like I was faster back training for Ogden but I have a lot more endurance now. Hopefully the trade off will work in my favor 4 weeks from today.
Just found out that my training partner Ryan Jonson who just turned 40 2 weeks ago took first place in the Masters Catagory at Hobble Creek. 1:14:07. That's pretty dang fast for an old guy. Since I can't convince him to blog I thought I'd put in a word for him, good job Ryan. Hope I don't slow you down to much in Logan.
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