What ever it takes!

Kind of a make up run for Saturdays slack off, met Ryan at Maverik to try again, he ended up running the full 22 on Saturday so he didn't want to go as far as me today, we compromised on 16.  I'm going to play soccer now to make up the difference.

7:08 avg pace.

Bradin came with us on his bike this morning, he hasn't been blogging cause when I'm out of town Mom doesn't let him get on the computer :)

2 hours of soccer after my run yesterday beat me up pretty good so I just did an easy 5 with Nellie and may try to fit in a bike ride today.

I made the mistake of letting my wife know I wasn't going to work today, so my only real day off  in an entire month turned into a huge honey do list.  Long story short my nice long enjoyable bike ride I had been planning on taking today turned into a rushed 15 mile time trial in between getting the oil changed and picking up Zach from Kindergarden.  15 miles out to Alpine and back in 46:22 19.3 mph average.

I was in a hurry this morning, apparently too big of a hurry cause now I'm sitting in the Airport 1 1/2 hours early.  Woke up at 4:00 went to the gym for a quick treadmill workout. 10 mile progressive tempo run in 1:05:50.  6:35 avg pace.  Goal was to average 6:30 but I guess my slow first mile was to much to make up.  Started at 7:30 pace for 1 mile then went to 7:00 pace, bumped it up every 1/2 mile finishing last mile at 5:50 pace.  Felt good, I definately had to work at it towards the end but it was very sustainable so I'm pretty happy about it.  If I could somehow manage to drop 10 - 15 lbs I'm sure I'd be back where I was last year, but for some reason I just can't seem to loose the weight, even 80+ mile weeks can't make up for conference food.

Back to San Francisco, expect a lot more 12 milers in my future.

The good thing about being the boss is I can sometimes set my hours.   I told everyone to sleep in an extra hour this morning so I could get in a long run.  Out across the Golden Gate bridge and back.  There were a lot of people out running this morning, maybe because I was running a bit later than usual.  Nice run, warmer than I was expecting in my long sleeve shirt, quads were a bit sore but a pretty good run none the less.

12 miles on thrashed legs, I'm not sure why I'm not recovering as well as I was last week.  

I have a dilemma, I signed up for the Big Cottonwood Marathon as my primary goal marathon for the year.  Then when Walter posted that he wanted pacers for this marathon I told him if he could get my entry fee back I would pace it.  Well apparently I don't get my fee back, they are willing to give me credit for next year, but I am down as the 3:05 BQ Pacer.  I actually think I'm in better shape that I thought I would be at this point, maybe not PR shape yet but I think I could run a decent time, and seeing who is signed up for this marathon I think I could place pretty high.  Problem is I'm signed up as a pacer and have already bailed on Walter twice before and don't want to let him down again.  I like pacing, and 3:05 would be a really fun pace group I think so I just don't know.

Very windy this morning, which is nice cause it's always a headwind going out and I know coming back with be fast.  I decided to do an improptu tempo run due to the wind, goal pace 6:30.  Well 2 miles into it I came to the Pier at about 5:30 and I ran smack dab in the middle of packet pickup for some triathlon, it seriously took me a good 3-4 minutes to push my way through hundreds of people, that kind of screwed up my tempo run but after I got through I tried hard to get back into it.  I'll put it down for 4 miles of Marathon pace.  I'm not sure what my deal is, 6:30 and faster pace just doesn't feel natural like it used to, I don't hurt, I just feel clumsy and out of sorts for some reason.