Bill, Dustin and Clyde came up to our place in Central, UT this morning for our group run. It was nice being able to sleep an extra hour on a Sat. until 6:50am. The run was pretty fun, we did loose the trail for about 1 1/2 miles towards the beginning of the run so it slowed us down a little. We basically did a loop around Central and Baker Lake. Probably Climbed about 500 ft. the first 3 miles and spent the next 6 coming down. Then got on RT 18 3 miles down from the start of the St. George Marathon and ran back towards the Starting line and back to my house. I started having some issues around the Baker Dam. My legs, lungs seemed to be working just fine, I wasn't hurting at all I just had a complete system shut down. I probably was a little dehydrated and just not used to be out running as long as we were. The humidity was also very high to it raining the day before. So I had been sweating like a mad man. Anyways, I pretty much got dropped by everyone once we hit RT 18 for the last 3 miles. By the time we stopped I was light-headed and not doing too well. I haven't felt like this during a training run - ever. I think my problem basically boils down to my training. I'm just not where I should be and I pushed it a little too much. When we got done everyone, including me said it was between 12-13 miles. So I mapped it out on Google Earth and got only 11. If you guys get a distance different than that let me know. It sure in the heck felt more than 11. | 