This Sunday morning, I woke up early and jogged 0.65 of a mile over to Big Cottonwood Park to meet up with a couple of friends for a hill workout. This workout consisted of running through the Holladay neighborhoods up and over the Wasatch Boulevard and through the Olympus Cove neighborhoods to the Mt. Olympus trailhead. We completed this brutal 5.3-mile ascent in a personal best time for me of 45:50 (i.e., a pace of 8:41 minutes per mile with my average heart rate being 161 bpm). After taking a few minutes to cool down while overlooking the Salt Lake Valley, we took it relatively easy and coasted the 5.25 miles back to the park. I then did a 0.65-mile cool-down run back to home.
In order to get in a few extra miles, I put on my Vibram Five Fingers and ran over to the Big Cottonwood Park where I completed a single lap around the softball complex before heading back. After switching into my Adidas Sequence road shoes, I headed back out by running over to Murray-Holladay Road and Highland Drive then back. In total, this run covered 5.25 miles at an easy/recovery pace.
While watching my Broncos win a close game over the Titans, I was able to get in 300 sit-ups and 30 push-ups for my non-running workout. | 