Don't wanna be FAT!

About a 4 mile hike with the whole family. It was very nice weather and a beautiful hike.  Great family time!

It is time to get back to the grind I think I am recovered now and it is time to get going. I didn't run yesterday because of two bad nights in a row sleeping. Penny is not a happy camper and I was up for over half the night with her two nights in a row while camping.  Luckily she slept much better last night, being in her own bed.  This morning it felt good to get out and going again and hopefully I can get going with my training again now.  AP:  6:55.  

I Couldn't get my butt out of bed this morning in time to do more than 7.5 miles after another long night with the kiddos (This time it was Payson that was up for much of the night). I finally got out of bed around 6:30 and pushed it to get 7.5 miles in before I needed to get ready for work. I ran a couple of miles right at 6:00 minute pace.  It felt good to open up and run a little faster.  This is the fastest I have run since the marathon.  AP:  6:35  

Well I couldn't get my butt out of bed again this morning so this ended up being a late night run.  After going to my son's t-ball game and being barefoot on the grass I decided I wanted to do something faster barefooted at the park near my house.  So I did barefoot mile repeats on the grass at the park at 9:30 p.m.  

I warmed up 2 miles then did 4x100 meter strides, then 4x1 mile repeats with 1/2 mile jogging recovery inbetween, then 2 miles of cool down.  Splits were 5:05, 5:09, 5:06, 5:12.  Considering this was my first workout back after the marathon and that they were done on the grass I don't feel bad about this workout at all.  I was hoping to do 5 and I might have been able to, but my bowels simply would not allow it.  I find that I almost always have bowel issues when I right at night.  Overall I was pleased with the workout and pleased to find that my legs have recovered.  

This was a recovery run.  I started this run exactly 8 hours after the time I finished my workout last night.  Probably not the smartest move, but I wanted to get back to running in the mornings right away.  Once my legs loosened up I felt great.  AP: 7:00.

I only ran 13 miles, but they were hard miles. At first I started from the corrals at North Fork Park and headed up the trail that goes up to Ben Lomand Peak.  I only made it about 3.5 miles up before I started getting into a lot of snow.  I turned around at 4 miles and came back down as I was doing more hiking than running at that point.  I gained a lot of elevation in that 4 miles and only averaged about 11 minute mile pace going up and about 7:45 pace going down.   

After getting back to my car I drove up to the top of the North Ogden Divide (about a 10 minute drive) and took the trail off to the south that goes up to Lewis Peak.  For the first .5 miles this trail isn't bad, but it then gets very steep after that for the next 2 miles.  I averaged about 13:30 pace for those 2.5 miles up.  At one point I was going 16:45 pace, but my heart rate was way up.  I averaged about 8:45 pace coming down because it was too steep and technical to go any faster.  

Both of these sections of trail are part of the Skyline Mountain Marathon which I plan on running in August.  Even though my paces were slow and I only ran 13 miles total, given the effort I feel like this was probably worth the same as about 20 miles at 6:45 pace on the road.  Just a different currency.