On the road to BOSTON!

AM  ran up over Tonaquint to the Dixie Center taking it easy- feeling pretty fresh considering the tough 2 weeks and the 26 mile run on Saturday- Ran in to Clyde and ran with him for 1 1/2 miles with a pace the seemed very controlled- was 7:09 and 6:49 pace. Turned around and headed for home on the path and kept the pace in the low 7's to home and ended up with a 7:27 average pace for the run including the first 2 miles @ 8:32 and 8:15

Body feels amazing coming off the hard training- now I am cutting back this week to 60-65 miles for some healing and then bump back up for an 80 next-

Ran from Dixie Eye up Diagonal to Snow Canyon Parkway. Then over to the Ball fields turned and headed past Snow Canyon High into Santa Clara to the City Hall. Went back home through Country Lane to Tonaquint- Kept the pace steady, not pushing much until the last 2 miles and wanted to get the legs moving a bit faster. Average pace for the run was 8:0.

Body feels great- just a little tight in the calves. Both feet are getting some hot spots right at the ball....need to work that out so I don't get into blisters.

Got my number for boston- 13363- My goal is to finish in the top 9000 so I need to be able to have a lot of  'road kills' LOL  in 2011 I qualified with a time 1 minute faster and my number was 10935- so the overall field must be faster!

AM 8 1/2 miles out and back on the path- warmed up at 8:40 pace for 1 1/2 miles then started a marathon pace or under run to the finish. Overall pace was 7:39 so I accomplished my goal- I need to run 7:49 to meet my goal of PR @ 3:25:00---I felt very relaxed running 7:40 pace and under that wasn't hard just a bit more focused is all.

Trail out and back- over to DC slow 8:00 pace then headed back and went over the foot bridge to the top of the hill and did the climb 3 times with an average pace of 7:25, legs felt very light going up. Came back over and finished the run to home. I stopped and ran with Dan Woodside for the last mile at 9:00 pace and finished with 8:02 average for the 6 miles-  55 degrees @ 9:30am

PM didn't get enough rest between runs- went out on the trail to River Road crossed over to the other side to the path and home- 8:29 pace, didn't get enough hydration either with the 79 degree sunny afternoon-

Ran on the trail looping the river from the Dixie Center with Matt Harrison- 6:45 pace

Report to come later....... I went in to this run to check my conditioning compared to 2011. I had run a 41:57 and hoped that I could do better...I actually had myself believing I could run under 40:00. When I got up this morning I wasn't feeling it, The legs were just not full of life, I thought that I had set myself up for failure. I ran a couple of miles before getting on the bus. Once up at the course I did a couple of runs up the hill and back and started to feel better. I went out strong not looking at my Harmon for the whole race.....first mile was too fast but it felt under control. Second mile was better at 6:23 and now I felt under control. I just tried to maintain the pace and not let the hills take me down. At mile 4.50 I just churned up the hill, slowing down but fighting to keep the legs moving. I was able to regain some speed coming down a hill and then the next hill, this one kind of got me as I slowed to 7:25 pace then was able to make up the pace on the downhill section down to the finish. I brought the pace to where it was comfortable but pushing. On the last turn I had someone pushing from behind and then pushed by me.....I tried to out kick her but didn't want to do something stupid. Coming across the finish I looked up and saw that I was under 40! 39:46 and first place in the age group.

Boston is going to be great!

SPLITS: 5:47/ 6:23/ 6:16/ 6:31/ 6:54/ 6:54/ 5:50