Every Run is a Great Run!

Early AM: Ran 7.5 in the bottoms and around ballpark area. Still a few minor aches & pains from the downhill miles at slower than usual pace on Saturday. But overall felt OK.

8:25/155

Lunch: Ran 3 more in the sun.

7:55/155 

Easy recovery run on an overcast but warmish morning.  Toward the end I got a few drops of rain on my head but luckily missed out on the heavy duty wet stuff.

8:43/148 

Feels a bit too much like December/January today. Brrrrr!  So today it was finally time to test out the (hopefully) marathon-recovered legs and try a nice 4 mile tempo run.  Wanted to see how 6:45-6:55 pace felt as I haven't run this pace for quite a while and this is where I'd like to be for the SG/Painters 1/2 marathon in January.

I cheated a little bit and gave myself some tailwind and slight downhill. But hey I figure since SG is over 2000 feet lower elevation that this balanced things out and mimiced what I might feel like down there.

Things went OK although I probably went out a little too fast and was pretty maxed out the last mile as indicated by my HR in the 190s.  So I've got some work to do to be able to hold this pace for 13.1.

Tempo mile splits/HR:

1 - 6:43/166 (most the good downhill is in this mile)

2 - 6:47/182

3 - 6:47/187

4 - 6:46/190

Overall: 6:46/181 (max HR 193) 

AM: Went out early for 6 on a cold/windy morning. Just took it easy.

8:38/148

Noon: Ran 3 more miles watch-free. Still chilly but warmer than yesterday and the sun was great.

Ran 6 with Kim on a sunny, fairly warm, but VERY windy late morning. Kim had some good mojo going she was cutting through that wind like a hot razor thru butter, I had a hard time keeping up and I actually wimped out and backed off the last mile when she turned on the jets for a sub-8 min mile. Looks like the long run tomorrow morning could get interesting weather-wise.

8:47/140 

Had some good snowy, windy weather for some of the run today. Was a bit crazy at times when running west but overall it wasn't too bad. We've certainly ran in a lot worse.  Kim and I went at 6 to meet others at the stake center. Bad weather must have scared most folks away as Alan N was the only other runner to show up. So the 3 of us had a nice little run in the snow with just a mile or 2 of windy with snow pellets blasting us in the eyes.

I parted ways with Kim around mile 8 or 9 and then with Alan shortly after that. Finished up solo go on the river trail and checking out some of the recently added sections. Just kept the pace nice and easy. Overall I thought is was a quite enjoyable run.

8:55/146