This is the last week of any type of real prep for the Des News Marathon; that is, the marathon falls on a Monday this year, but I’ll try my hardest to keep it light next weekend. I started out this Saturday morning by running 7.6 miles up to Hogle Zoo at an easy pace. Then at Sunnyside and Crestview, I commenced running the last 10.6 miles of the Des News course. It was late in the morning and getting pretty hot, so my aim was to keep it at a sub-6:50 pace, which I managed to accomplish with a 1:10:54 or a 6:41 pace. However at the end I was completely exhausted and gasping for air. In short, thanks to UDOT, there is some major road work just beginning on Foothill Boulevard (hopefully they can finish it up in a week), thus I encountered lots of dust and tar fumes around 2.5 miles into the run and spent the last 8 miles trying to catch my breath. It was one of the worst runs that I have ever put myself through. I wanted to stop a few times along the way, but just kept pushing through it even running across a parade route on 300 East and 500 South just to keep my momentum going in order to put an end to it sooner than later. After this run, I jogged 0.6 of a mile over to 900 East to catch the bus home.
For my daily non-running workout, it was another 300 sit-up day for me.
Five-Minute Plank Challenge: 30 second plank and side planks
Trying-To-Go-Out-Of-My-Way-To-Eat-Healthy Challenge: a service of green peas and a fruit smoothie
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