On the road to BOSTON!

Dixie Center and Back. 8:09 pace

First run since Friday. Hips still sore, Quads sore but seemed to get better with the run. Legs still a bit heavy but all in all they feel alright. Need to do some speed work this week to be ready for the Save A Sister 5K. This will be a good test to see how I have improved over the past year. Save A Sister was my first 5K race. I worked very hard last year to be ready and that was my PR run until Swiss Days. I would like to go under 20:30  for this race. We share see! That will be a BIG stretch for me.

Went over and ran the Save A Sister 5k course. It was hard to get the legs going very fast, then on the way back I was running directly into a head wind. Oh well, it was good to go run that distance, hoping the legs can figure out how to run fast on Saturday...lol (7:32 pace). I need to bring that down to 6:35 to meet my ambitious goal of 20:30. I am going to be running short runs all week to prepare. Then it is back to longer runs to get ready for the Snow Canyon Half two weeks later.

Evening run in the dark. Bloomington Drive. Trying out the new Saucony Type A2 shoes.....I liked the light weight. Ran 3.10 including my warmup in 22:55 (7:25 pace) I liked that alot. Should be able to knock off 2 minutes with a race environment...

Didn't get out yesterday. Rode the bike over to the DC and then ran the 5k course for Save A Sister. 2nd time running in my Saucony A2's. They are so light! My wide feet barely fit in them so nothing but short runs in these. I went out what I thought was slow..thinking 8:30 and I was going 7:00. I just kept it steady the rest of the way just wanting to get a good run in. I was .10 short because they didn't have it marked yet. did the 3 miles in 21:00 (7:00 pace) I would need a 6:35 to meet my ultimate goal of 20:30. I f I am feeling good in the morning I am going to go all out and try to make that goal. Today I really didn't feel very good......just average. Beautiful day!

Decided to compare wednesday's run with todays. As far as I can remember I used the same effort both times. Wednesday I did have some head wind for the last 1/2 mile but other than that pretty equal efforts.

Wednesday: 7:57/ 7:12/ 7:05 (7:25 pace)

Today: 7:06/ 6:57/ 7:00 (7:00 pace) Today was 1:15 faster.... the difference was the shoes.

A great morning in Dixie! Ran the Save A Sister 5K. Hoping to do better than last year. I did! Set a PR in the 5k @ 20:25 (6:34 pace) I went out probably too fast but there was very little effort so I kept it up for as long as I could. After 1/2 mile I was passed by 2 guys. I slowed down a bit but not much, eventually was passed by a few more but was mainly focused on age group. Won the 50-54 age group.

My ultimate goal for this morning was 20:30-

6:25/ 6:50/ 6:45/ 5:49 last .10 overall a pretty consistent race.

Went out for a short run around the block  1.10 miles 8:04 pace