What ever it takes!

I woke up at 4:00am for that? Actually, Meb was amazing, apparently he beat the little English Bulldog.

Now what do we talk about that the Olympics are over?  I'm glad they're over, I was wasting to much time on the couch.

 I'm still pretty beat up from my wreck on Saturday so I just wimped out and did the elliptical trainer today.  Perhaps I'll give my bike another try tomorrow.

I just learned why Sketchers used a dumb dog as their advertising mascot instead of Meb,  It's the same reason every Nike sponsored person with yellow shoes never mentioned their shoes, and there were no adds talking about them.  Apparently if they use the Olympics as part of their advertising they have to pay the IOC tons of money.  Lame!!

20 mile Zoo loop bike ride with an old High school friend, I haven't gone on a bike ride with him in like 20 years.  Awesome thing about it was back in high school I was the least in shape of all my friends, today was a day for pay backs. :)

Longer Zoo loop than yesterday's loop.  Next week I go to San Francisco for pretty much a whole month so the running will continue then.  I just wanted to take advantage of the nice mornings while in town to enjoy my new bike.  I have now been on more rides without crashing my new bike than with.

I could probably use a whole body suit, not just the invisible helmet.

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I noticed signs at LifeTime that they have a running club that meets Tuesday and Thursdays at 5:30 am, well last week I decided to go run with them and when I showed up at 5:30 I was told that they left at 5:00.  So today I decided to try again, I showed up at 5:00 and there were a group of runners getting ready to head out so I just went with them, turns out they weren't the official Lifetime running group so I'm not really sure if there actually is a real running club at Lifetime.  Anyway, the group I did go with was heading up Bingham High school to run on the track which sounded OK but I wasn't wanting to do sprints or anything, lucky for me I was the fastest one there so even if they were doing sprints I didn't have to kill myself.  We did all sorts of weird things running groups do at tracks, ladders on the football field, walking squats, run a lap and then do the bleacher stairs, you know those kind of things.  There was a girl who was trying to run a 6:30 mile so I paced her 4 laps, my Garmin is buggered so I had to go on feel, and lap splits,were pretty close to 100 for the first 3, on the last one I told here we would need to pick it up a bit to get 6:30, I think I went a bit fast but she stayed with me for 1200 meters then started slowing down, with 200 to go she stopped, I think she was confused on where we started and thought we were done but I'm sure we would have broke 6:30 if she'd finished.  Anyway, it was a fun morning, I'm not used to running with people, I now understand the appeal of group runs on a track, people of all different abilities can still basically run together and make it a social event instead of groups just breaking off.

My wife, who hasn't worked in 10 years but went back to school and just Graduated with her teaching degree in June, just found out she is the new 2nd grade teacher at the Elementary school all 3 of my kids go to.  She has been very busy getting her room ready so it's pretty crazy around the Rohde house,  I have no idea how she is going to be a full time mom, primary president, soccer coach, and now have a full time job with me being out of town the rest of the year.   Crazy, crazy women.

That was a little bit different morning than usual.  I have been wanting to bike commute to work all week but it never worked out, so today I decided to make it happen since it's my last day in the office for the next month.  I woke up at 4:30 and decided to go for a jog while I was waiting for it to get light, well my wife, who is not a morning person AT ALL was wide awake and said she was too stressed out to sleep, at the risk of getting yelled at I asked if she would like to go for a run with me anyway, to my surprise she said yes, so for the first time ever I went jogging with my wife at 5:00 in the morning, we took the pup and just had a nice easy little jog down and back for a total of 3 miles.

When we got back it was still dark, but I changed into my cycling clothes and went anyway, it was a bit warm but not horrible, I'm sure the ride home this afternoon will be much worse.  It was actually a much easier ride than I had remembered, the hill up to Wasatch is still a butt kicker but not bad.  Made it to work in 1:12:00  3:24 avg pace :) my watch is still in run mode,  17.6mph avg.  Pretty good I think, it's not an easy ride.

Oh, and one more thing.  My son was bugging me that he wanted to track his running miles too, so I helped set him up with a fastrunning blog account, say hi to Bradin.

P.M. Rode my bike home from work in almost exactly the same time as it took to get there, but I had a great tail wind coming over the point of the mountain.

All bike and no run makes Rob a slow boy!!

Blah!  Went OK at first, but at mile 11 my knee started hurting, my stomach started churning, and by 13 I was a wreck.  Cut the run short and then Ryan went and finished off his 20 miler without me.  I felt bad about bailing but only running once this week didn't work out so great.  The next month in San Francisco should get me back into running shape.