On the road to BOSTON!

Went out and voted then took a 3.50 mile run in the neighborhood. Nothing special other than I was planning on doing some sprints and just couldn't get my legs moving like I wanted. I decided to take a break for a few hours and try it again this afternoon. (8:13 pace)

Afternoon run: easy 1/4 mile @8:10 then 1/4 mile @ 4:36 then finished of the run with 2 3/4 miles @ 8:03 pace. This run felt much better than this morning. I have decided that I need to go find some fun trail runs around 8-15 miles and take as much time as I want to...speed hike. It is time to enjoy the running rather than training all the time. I really admire you guys that run so diligently, training for the next run. This is so new to me. I am glad that I have found the sport of running, now I need to make sure I can continue to have fun with it!

I am hoping the the run Saturday, the Snow Canyon Half Marathon, is an enjoyable and fast run for me. I am plotting things out for a 1:40.

My upper hip has been sore since my saturday run and I aggrivated it more yesterday with my sprint and hill run. I took the day off and it started feeling somewhat better. I went out this evening to loosen it up. It was tight to start with and felt better after about a block and then made a climb up a hill. The hip feels good now. I think the cool weather really helped. I have not run in the dark since before the marathon over 5 weeks ago. I really enjoyed it this evening. I just may go out again this evening for another short run.......

Waited til 9 to run this morning---lazy!

Ran the Tonaquint loop. I have run this several times over the past 3 months and today was the best of all of them. I set out to do an easy run to loosen up my hip and just get 6 miles in. splits: 8:31/8:41/7:43/7:53/7:58/7:50/7:24for the last .17 (8:03 average 49:54) I have had it in the back of my mind to run this loop in under 50 minutes, when I got home I looked down and couldn't believe that I had done it. It is fun to look back at the other times and see the change: 7-31 11:06 pace/ 8-6 11:02/ 8-11 10:38/ 8-18 9:54/ 8-27 12:09/ 9-3 8:44/ 9-19 9:02/ 9-22 9:34/ 10-9 8:19

I need to go nurse a small blister and get the hip taken care of. I am looking foward to Saturday now more than ever. I feel real good about this run.

Took today off to heal. The hip is still sore today. I am doing some stretching and rubbing in the Wintercrest. I am sure that it will be good to go in the morning but I really wanted to put up some fast miles on the steep beginning. I will have to take them mellow.....dang!

Oh well, the weather is supposed to be perfect and I am still hopeful of a 1:40 run.

I ran the Snow Canyon Half Marathon this morning. What a beautiful day! The race started about 25 minutes late...bummer. We stood at the start line for ever. The race went well just a bit harder than I expected for the last 3 miles through Entrada. There was more hills in that area than I expected. The hip acted up for most of the race and keep me thinking about it....I was shooting for a 1:40 but it wasn't there today.

I feel good about my time and it is is my new PR 1:44:32 3rd in age division

splits: 5:46/ 6:18/ 7:44/ 8:56/ 9:30 restroom break..dang/ 7:51/ 8:42/ 7:45/ 8:22/ 8:01/ 8:41 started to get tired/ 8:38/ 8:10 (7:58 pace)

Great job Logan!