Every Run is a Great Run!

Nice 6-miler in the morning with Kim. Did 5 15-30 sec striders along the way for fun. Later at the gym did 40 minutes XT (eliptical, bike, stairs).

Might just hit 50 miles this week. Plan is to hold at 40-50 through the end of the year, with another 10-15 miles equilavent in cross-training. 

Thinking of doing an experiment in my training for UVM next year. Not going to do any speedwork, nothing faster than tempo runs at marathon pace. Only thing faster than that would be 15-30 sec strides.  Goal MP is in the 7-7:30 range.

9:14/142

Enjoyed a great Payson canyon  run with Kim, 3.4 miles up and 6.6 down. Beautiful morning, foxy running partner, great scenery and mild temps. Wildlife sightings included a bunch of deer and Kim's cousin-in-law on his bike.

I really seem to be getting my legs back lately, and the chronic ache & pain areas have mellowed out (hamstring, lower abs, etc), feet happy too. Took off the last downhill mile into town and ran a 6:42. I'll call it MP since it was downhill and it felt like MP.

Great way to start the day.

9:01/145

Looks like the warmer, windier, muggier weather is back for a couple days. Not as nice for running but I do like any rain showers we can get in the summer.  Ran 6 with Kim this morning at don't-care pace (DCP?). Later went to the gym for 40 minutes of XT.

Ran Payson canyon up/down run with Darin and Carl on a kinda dark and muggy morning.  Tough run, especially uphill as the pace was already into the 7's by the end of the first mile. Usually the pace stays mostly in the 8-9 range on the uphill but for whatever reason things were quicker today. Maybe because this is the last time they're doing this particular run for the year and they wanted to finish with a bang? 

I hung on for about 2 1/2 miles but then I was major sucking wind and I noticed my HR pushing into the 190's which is about where I max out at the end of a 5K race. So I finally told Darin to take off and I slowed down up to Beercan where I turned around. Went a little slower coming down than past weeks as those early fast uphill miles took it out of me. But I suppose it was good for me?

On a positive note my weight was just over 141 yesterday which is lowest it's been since May.

7:51/173

Doing 18 tomorrow so decided to do only XT today and wait until next month to venture into 50-mile week territory. Legs/body felt pretty peppy when I got to the gym and was tempted to jump on the treadmill for a few run miles but decided to hold off and put the energy into 20-minutes each on eliptical machine, stair-stepper, and bike for 60-min total XT.

Looks like my oldest son Camron survived his operation to fix his deviated septum and is doing well albeit a little loopy from the anesthesia and feeling like he got punched hard in the nose. As Kim pointed out on her blog yesterday, ironically both the name "Camron" and "deviated septum" basically mean "crooked nose". So after this operation our boy might be due for a name change.

Good luck to all the PCM and HCHM runners tomorrow!

Longest post-injury run of the year today with Kim.  A bit warm and windy but the plan was to take things slower than the last few weeks so everything went well and we finished with a little gas still in the tank.  Had the roads mostly to ourselves today as most runners were over at Hobble Creek.  Check out Kim's blog for more details about the happenings of the run and the day.

9:37/148