Following a short night of sleep, soon after I got up, I headed out the door with the aim of catching up on my weekly mileage. The air quality was terrible (in fact, before I left I read in the Tribune that Logan, Salt Lake, Provo, and Ogden were ranked yesterday as 4 of the top 5 locations for worst air quality in the nation); therefore, I wore my Techno mask. These masks are a little expensive, it takes awhile to get use to running with it, and you look sort of like Hannibal Lecter. However, now that I’m learning about all the awful lung diseases (scaring of the lungs does not sound good) through my volunteer work with the American Lung Association, I purchased one and have been trying to get use to wearing it anytime I run outside on a red-burn day. Anyway, I jogged 2.3 miles over to catch the bus out to the west end of the Valley, then I jogged another 2 miles to the Utah Olympic Oval where I met up with a few members our SLRC group.
With the clean, indoor air of the Oval, I was able to get in a total of 73 laps (a PR topping my last record of 66). With just over 36 laps being 10 miles, this was a solid 20 miles by my Garmin at a 7:25 pace. I’m not in the same league as Burt, but I was able to almost double the amount of FRBers that I have met in person with this run. It was great to meet and talk with Allie and RAD who were both putting in a long run on the track. Consequently, they join the short, but prestigious FRB-runners-that-Rossy-has-met-in-person, which includes Cheryl, Mogli, and Bonnie. Okay, I’m counting the latter even though it was just a friendly head nod and waive in Sugar House Park this past summer. For the record, my defense for my shyness on this occasion is that having disappointed a handful of random people who have stopped me during a run to ask me if I was Jazz forward Andrei Kirilenko, I did not want to stop this potential Bonnie lookalike to ask her if she was in fact The All-Star FRB Bonnie from Arizona. Just my luck, it was actually The Bonnie.
Back to my workout, after eating a quick breakfast to refuel while pedaling a slow mile on the stationary bike, I jogged the 4.3 miles back to the bus stop then to home. Overall, it was a nice running workout on a day where the outside air was filthy.
In regards to my non-running workout, I completed 300 sit-ups, 30 push-ups, and a 100 second wall-sit.
5-minute Plank Challenge: 2:00 and 1:00 side planks both left and right (the typical routine for the week)
Trying-To-Go-Out-Of-My-Way-To-Eat-Healthy Daily Challenge: banana, bowl of whole-wheat rice, and a serving of peas. | 