St. George Running Center - Run For Life.

AM - Got up and ran with the club. Did the river loop, easy pace. 6 miles. Then ran home with Scott H. for an extra 3 miles.  9 miles total.

PM - Ran hom from the store. Hip was a little tight, but SI Joint still feeling pretty good. 8 miles.

AM - Track workout with the club. Had a good time chatting with everyone and got in a good workout.  Decided to bring the watch today and start tracking my times a little better. Man, was that an awaking! I'm way off where I thought I was - pretty depressing. It took a while for my hip to warm-up but SI did really well.  I just feeling like I have no top-end speed.

Warm-up, Dynamic stretches, 4x100m strides (jog curves)

400M (1:14), 800 (2:34), 400M (1:17), 800M (2:37), 400M (1:17), 800M (2:39), 400M (1:16)

 6 x Stairs, Recovery

 PM - 6 miles. Hips flexors started acting up - SI joint still doing much better.  I just need to keep working these hips out.

AM, PM - No run. Kendra's pretty sick today and I have a crazy bad head ache. Stayed home from work and helped out with the kids.

AM - 5 Miles, around the Bloomington Loop and around the hood a few times. Really nice morning. Just went out and got it done. Head feeling much better this morning.

PM - Met up with Aaron at the Man-of-War Park for Thurs tempo.  Was planning on doing a 6 mile tempo, but my watch went dead (of course) and it ended up being 5.25 miles.  I'm not sure what my pace was, but I know I atleast started off faster than last week with Mr. M being there.  Really happy with how I felt - I think I was in the low 5:50's high 5:40's. 11 miles total.

AM - Got up early and did an easy 5. It was nice to workout the muscles a bit after last nights tempo. Really nice morning - I love this time of year! 

PM - Closed up the store and ran home 8 miles. Really long day and very tired.

AM - We got to the race a little early to have the kids run the 1k - Isabel won overall girls and Elijah and Sophia really had a good time. Isaac wanted to run the 5k. I'm really proud of him - he's really starting to catch the vision of running and competition.

As far as my race went, I spent a little bit of time warming up, hit the bathrooms, found Quadsi and headed to the starting line. I hadn't really thought much about how I was going to do. I just did a tempo with Aaron on thurs. so, I thought I might still be a little tired from that workout and didn't really expect too much.

After the race started I decided I would just try and see if I could keep Logan in sight. As we were going through Coral Canyon I did fairly well keeping him somewhat close but by the time we turned the corner to go up Telegraph he was starting to pull ahead a little more ( about 20-30 sec). I knew I wasn't going to mantain that distance up the hill, but it was looking like he had almost stopped racing or pushing.  I just kept trying to motor up as fast I could but, even with him taking it easier, I still wan't gaining ground.  By the time we reached the top of the hill I just tried to change gears and get my legs going  for the down hill finish. I was able to kick it in pretty good at the end and really felt good most the race.  Here are my splits:

5:29, 5:25, 5:38, 5:54, 6:27, 5:50, 5:17 (last .2) 35:08 - 10k

Overall, I was really happy with the race today mostly because of how I felt and being able to "push" most the way. After the race Logan and I went and ran the course again to get in some more miles. About 14 total for the day including warm-up, race, and running the course again.