On the road to BOSTON!

AM 5 miles on the trail over the bridge and to the top of the hill and back. Right foot is sore from Friday, wearing some older flats, then the 16 miles on Saturday. Almost turned around after the first .4 mile and decided to keep going. The pain went down enough to get my run in. I did more of a speed workout moving my pace down to 6:00- 6:30 for 1/4 to 1/5 miles at a time with 10-30 second walks between. Felt good to do some faster work rather than the slow grinding it out. I need to get out and do some good long downhill runs before Utah Valley.

7:33 average pace-

PM 2.75 miles in Bloomington- Ran over to a FHE activity and back; no warmup just went out against the wind and averaged 7:20 for the first half.

7:36/ 7:19/ 7:13  7:24 average pace-

Ran out to Bloomington Hills Park and back. Took it slow today 8:22 pace. foot still a bit sore.

Went out on the trail to Bloomington Hills Park then continued through Bloomington Hills up to Brigham Road turned left to River Road, then down to the Bloomington Hills Trail back to home. Saw Clyde twice while out. Pretty labored run this morning. The temps were very nice and some cool sprinkles towards the end. Didn't care for the head wind for the last 5 miles. 8:26 average pace

Lazy run today- It was actually kind of cold- I went out @ 6am and it was 42. I didn't look at the temp till I got home, thats why my hands were so dang cold! 2 slower miles then 7:18 and 7:17 to finish up

After taking a day off yesterday due to a cold coming on I ran with the gang on the SG course. I say ran with it was more like drove up with.

Beautiful day in St. George temps in the upper 40's to 50 or so at the finish. Started at Veyo and purposely went out slow not wanting to use all my energy on the hills. That ended up being a great warmup just trying to keep a 8:30 average pace through Dammeron. 6miles in I had an 8:25 average-

From this point on I carried a 7:42 pace through 13 miles and the last .25 was at 6:52 trying to catch Dustin in the last 1/2 mile. Didn't catch him.

Felt very good with this run considering I was somewhat under the weather and had some stomach issues towards the end- too much salsa and spices yesterday.

Overall average pace was 7:54 and I was hoping to run 8:30 pace. I am feeling confident that I can have a good Utah Valley race and feel that 3:25 may be in sight if things go well-