Well I didn't think I'd make it this far....

AM: Went for my usual ten this Sunday morning. I forgot to start my time at a light, so I don't have my total time, but I was at around 6:30 pace. I'm hitting 100 this week, so I might to try to get in a PM run but it depends how work goes. 

AM: At practice this morning, we warmed up a big grass lap around SHP, then we jogged over to the Northwestern hill on the state course and did that loop 10 times continuously. I was feeling pretty tired and crappy on the warm up, but as we did hills I started to loosen up. After those, the guys went over to the state hill, and we did that four times with two minutes recovery between each. Then we did another big grass lap cool down and afterwards Chris and I added the 4.5 along the warm up run we have to get to 12.5.

PM: I was exhausted after work but managed to get out the door to do 4.  

AM: Practice was at Wheeler Farm today. We warmed up on our outer loop, got to 2.5, then did 8X80 meters strides in the field. After that we went over to the dirt loop which bill marked for 800's. We did 4X800 and I was doing them at 2:30. I hit 2:25, then 2:27 for the rest. It was a solid, relaxed effort. Then we cooled down to get to 9. Bill brought over a watermelon and I ate a ton of that so I wasn't able to add on.

PM: Today I decided to run before work since it is so hard to run when my shift is over. We recently got a treadmill, so I hopped on that and did 6 at 7.5-8 mph. One of the reasons I hate running on treadmills, is that my sweat doesn't evaporate nearly as much and I am always drenched. But, it beats running outside at this time of day. 

Later PM: It was a really slow day at work, so I got off pretty early and I was feeling okay so I went for another run. Did four miles right when the sun set in about 26 minutes. 

AM: Woke up this morning feeling like a train hit me. My legs were totally shot, probably from running three times yesterday, and working a lot lately. I rolled out my legs before running, then started my run nice and slow. I stopped at around 4.5 miles to stretch, then felt better and was holding down a good pace for the second half of my run. I did 10 miles in 1:08. I foam rolled after and then took an ice bath. My lets felt a lot better once I took an ice bath.

PM: Today was my day off so I was able to get plenty of rest and went out for 6 miles. I felt a lot better than this morning.

AM: This morning was the annual Slurpee Run! We usually meet at Sunnyside Park for this run, then finish at Liberty and we have to run back up to Sunnyside. Well this year I decided to park at Liberty, and run up to Sunnyside before we started so that I could just be done right when we finished. I parked by the fountain and ran up 900 S, then down 1500 E to the gulley, I did a lap and a half in there, then went out the upper exit and across Greenwood Terrace, did a lap around the park and then met up with the team to start the Slurpee Run. I got 4.5 miles before we started.

     What makes this race fun is being competitive and actually racing, so I planned to continue my reign as champion of this run for two years now. Bill decided to take out one location, but add in two more, so this year there was nine 7-11's we had to go to. Oh, and the free cups this year are larger than they were last year too. In total, we had 64 oz of slurpee.... YUM. The first three were easy, then at 4 they started to get tougher. Clayton did this run this year, so I had someone to race against. He can down them a little faster than I can, but I can hold them down better than he can. At the second to last location, on 175 E and 800 S, we were tied and finished our Slurpees together. From there I went up to 300 E since it's residential for the stretch from 800 S to 1300 S, and started hauling. I was probably throwing down five minute pace for that stretch. I knew if I wanted to win, I would have to break Clayton here. I got to the last location, chugged the slurpee like it was nobodies business, then hauled it over to the fountain for the win! 3X SLURPEE RUN CHAMPION BABY!!!! The run was 8 miles total. 

AM: Didn't go to practice today since they were doing a very light workout for tonight's race, so I went out on my own. I slept in a bit since it was cloudy, then got out the door and did my ten mile loop with a 1/2 mile out and back added at the end for 11.

AM: This morning I went over to East for my long run. I did the loop that I did with Bill and Natalie last year during track, where I got super pissed at Bill for lying to me that it was only 9 miles but it was actually 15. (lol remember that Nat/Bill?) Anyway, it's a good run when you need 15 miles :) So I ran up 900 S to Greenwood Terrace, then up Sunnyside to Foothill, then over and up Wakara to Red Butte. I got a drink there, then headed over to JCC. There was so many bikers I had to weave through and pass on the trial, then let them pass me once the downhill came. I followed the trail all the way down to City Creek where I got another drink (I slept in, so by now it was getting hot), stretched a little, then finished my run. I went down Memory Grove, then up South Temple until 800 E, then down that to 900 S, where I went back up to my car parked behind East. I added about .2 once up there to make it the full fifteen. It's getting easier to do some of these longer run on my own now. That's one week at 100!