Due to all the Wasatch Back training and race preparations, for the first time since May 15th I was able to get in a run with the Salt Lake Running Company group. After running 3.4 miles down to the store, I met up with the group that only consisted of two other runners (i.e., lots of races going on the next two weekends). We head out to Liberty Park (which is still partially roped off as workers are trying to clean up the awful Red Butte oil spill that happened two Saturdays ago). After taking two laps on the woodchip trail around park, we headed back to the store. The total distance of this run was 6.5 miles at a relatively easy pace (i.e., 8:18 minutes per mile).
For a follow-up workout, I jogged 3.7 miles to and from Trax while heading up to Hogle Zoo where I ran the last part of the Deseret News Marathon course (i.e., my next race); that is, starting just above Crestview Drive and ending at the Liberty-Park finish line. The total distance of this run was 10.7 miles entirely at an easy pace (i.e., 8:07 minutes per mile). The last ten miles of any marathon is challenging; however, the last ten miles of the D-News Marathon is particularly difficult because of the transition from the Emigration Canyon descent to the flats and rolling terrain of Wasatch Drive and Foothill Boulevard. As a result, the purpose of this run was to spend some time on this part of the course (which I’ll be doing over the next few weeks) in order to become comfortable and familiar with it. I completed my running workout for the day with an even 1.1-mile cool-down run to and from the bus stop to home.
Finally, for my non-running workout, I was able to get in 300 sit-ups and 30 push-ups. | 