On the road to BOSTON!

I went out late morning to run and got 1/4 mile down the road and turned around...too hot and the legs just didn't feel right....I am a wuss, I know.

Late rin the afternoon when it was even hotter I went out for a bike ride. I pushed it pretty hard for 10.5 miles. Coming back it was a major fight with the wind...good workout. I am letting the foot heal as much as possible. The knees were sore when I first started but they worked themselves out.

I am hoping to be feeling a little more fresh in the morning, need to get out early.

Nice and easy Bloomington Drive loop. Still have a tight left calf. I had to stop and massage it after a mile then it did pretty good. It is amazing how much better I feel running when that thing is loose, I have got to figure that thing out. 3.52 miles (8:13 pace)My quads felt heavy and non responsive this morning, hopefully just from the bike riding yesterday. I have got to get my mental energy up for this race on Saturday, just not feeling it!

Added on some bike miles this evening wanting get the legs moving. Went out and tried to keep 15-20 miles per hour for 4.5 miles.

On my way up to Ogden I syopped to see a construction site in Midway. I ran 1/2 mile up, very steep rough dirt road and then back down. This was at 6800 feet elevation.

I will write more about this Sunday. I just got back to St. George. Descent race, had issues with shooting pain in my toes of the left foot for the last approx. 4 miles. They cleared up the last 1/4 mile.......They could have waited to hurt til the last mile and I could have slugges through it. I missed my BQ in the last 5 miles of the race....got a bit tired at mile 20 but still did okay, a little slower than I had planned but I had done better on the first half and those minutes offset the slower miles in the canyon. With  5 to go all I needed to do was keep a 8 minute pace for BQ and then the toes went off.......... beautiful day!

Monday: Finally felt like looking at my splits:

8:13/ 7:53/ 7:39/ 8:11/ 7:34/ 7:50/ 7:42/ 7:59---59 seconds ahead of my plan, feeling great!

7:58/ 8:13/ 8:13/ 8:24/ 8:25---- 2:31 ahead of my goal at this point, feeling good, getting a bit tired but I should half way through a marathon.

8:43/ 9:28/ 8:30/ 9:06/ 8:32/ 8:51/ 8:59--- This section was not what I had expected. After the hill at 14 it seemed like it was continuous hills really slowing me down. Even with that I was still 7 seconds ahead of my plan. So all is great because I have the down hill section....

Top of the damn, damn: 8:51/ 8:59/ 9:37/ 8:13/ 8:09/ 9:38--- I am 1:51 ahead of my plan at the top of the damn.....getting excitied.... tried to let the legs go, hoping to have 7:45 for the next few miles. Legs just didn't have anything left. A couple of miles that were okay but I did a lot of walking in this stretch. I was so looking forward to this section to have some good splits. I got to the bottom of the canyon and I am now 2:53 behind schedule, knowing the BQ is not happening today. For the last couple of miles my left foot atarted having sharp pains, electrical shocks each time I planted.

9:38/ 10:06/ 9:54/ 8:09--- I finally decided to do some walking and try to finish respectfully. Then they really hurt, but my mind was not strong enough to push through the last 3 miles.

One day I will figure things out and have a great marathon where the body says "today is the day let's do this thing".