St. George Running Center - Run For Life.

AM - Nice cool morning with a little breeze. Did a little warm-up and picked it for a 6:10 ave for 7 miles and slowed it down for the last mile.Felt nice and relaxed and smooth. Hamstring started to tighten up a little towards the end but it was much better than it has been.

AM - 8 miles. Not doing too hot this morning. My hamstring started acting up. I have a massage tonight.

 PM- Spent a little time stretching and I'm feeling a bit better. 6 miles.

AM - Didn't get up and run with the guys. I ended up not having to go into the store until 3pm so I ran a little later in the morning. 10 miles. Felt pretty good but just took it easy.

am - 10 miles into the fields out and back. Saw Justin and chatted with him for a while.

AM - 10 miles Steady. Out and back on Telegraph.

AM - Met with Dave & Clyde up at the Harley Shop to do a little warm-up.  5 miles. Then went down to Mindy's and got my socks that Kendra has brought because I drop them on myu way out of the house. 1 mile.

Dog Town Half Marathon:

I have been using my new Timex GPS and I still haven't figured out how to have it take "auto splits" so I don't have a break-down of my mile splits.  The first 5 miles of the race was a pretty good down hill from the top of Coral Canyon to the Virgin River.  I stayed about 10 meters behind Tyson and averaged about 5:35 pace until we hit the river bottom.  Once we hit the slight uphill to the bridge my pace dropped to about 5:51 and Tyson began to drop me.  I could still see Dave and Clyde up ahead  as well and crossing the bridge right before I hit the dirt.  Once I crossed the bridge and started going up Dam Rd I really started dropping off the back of Tyson.  My pace really slowed, I think I was about 6:25 going up the hill.  After cresting the hill and heading down towards Washington Fields Rd. I  was back to a 5:51 ave, but couldn't seem to get myself below 4:45 pace.  This is about when I started getting really pissed at myself for being such a baby. From there it was all the same - me just getting upset with sucking so bad.  Going up Majestic I hit an amazing high speed of 7:50 pace at one point and started looking back to make sure no one was coming.  After hitting the top of the hill I was able to get rolling a bit more and got my pace back down to 5:45-5:50 pace to the finish.

I really wasn't too happy about this race. I think I should have been about 1 min faster. Once I started having to work hard I got a bad attitude and It was all downhill for me from there.  Part of my problem could have been having a 10 hr non-stop day at the store on Friday.  I never really do well if I'm working on my feet all day before a race.  Although, I think most of it had to do with my attitude.  Live and Learn!

For anyone thinking about doing this race, I highly suggest it.  It was well organized and a good course.