On the road to BOSTON!

I started @ home and ran most of the Painter's course. A beautiful sunny day today. I got going with long pants and long sleeve shirt and gloves. The gloves came off after 1 1/2 miles. I was wishing I had put on the shorts and short sleeve shirt today....got hot. I started out @ 1pm, 54 degrees. I felt very good about todays run! I averaged 7:43 splits: 8:03/ 7:38/ 8:02/ 7:56/ 8:04/ 7:10/ 7:14/ 7:45/ 7:43/ 7:42/ 7:09  I especially enjoyed miles 6 & 7. I had a guy pass me on one of those 3 wheeled contraptions that you ride by swaying your body. I let him go a bit then decided to try and at least keep pace with him. That got me going to around a 6:45 pace for a good peice of the way. I caught him then took a break and let him go again. Then I took off after him and caught him again on a hill just as he reached the top. I also passed a biker on the same hill as he was going up. That section was fun because it became a game. Those 2 miles I averaged 7:10 & 7:14.

I broke off without the Bloomington Drive portion because I wanted to make sure this was a very positive run and didn't want to burn out. I am going to try and take it easy this week in preparation for the Half this weekend. A 1:40 looks like a good chance of happening!

Bloomington Drive run.....easy run. (8:13 pace) Recouping from yesterdays and Saturday's run, didn't want to push much. Plan on a couple more short runs this week so that I can be well rested for Saturday's race.

I ran the first 6+ miles of the Painter's course this morning. (8:02 pace) I didn't push it hard, probably @ 85% and felt pretty good. The morning was beautiful. 32 when I started and 42 at the end.

Looking forward now to Saturday. I may run a couple friday but nothing hard.

This morning was the St. George Half marathon. What a great day to run! I started out with a garmin issue.....I started it up and the battery was dead!! I would have to run the race a natural. I didn't go with music this run as well.

I had a goal of hitting 1:40, I did it! PR I started out too fast and it caught me at the end but I still feel very good about the outcome. I only wish I would have been 3 seconds fater to go under 1:40 but I will definatly take this one. Thanks guys for the encouragment, You are all awesome!

Decided to go for a fast walk/jog of 1 mile to burn off some of the Double Double and fries from In and Out........