8 hours of sleep last night was great and I felt good this morning. I ran 11.1 miles at a 6:48 pace in 1:15. I did about two MP miles in the run, but it was mostly a relaxing run not pushing too hard. The last mile I ran a 6:07 to get back home and get ready for work. I'll see if I can get out on my lunch hour today vs running after work. The weather was nice at 36 degrees, and I was overdressed. I think I've decided to run the Salt Lake City full marathon rather than the half and see if I can keep up with Adam. I'm not sure how I'm going to approach training after this week other than I want to get one 20 miler in before the marathon. I feel a little overtrained so I think the next few weeks leading up to the marathon I will cut the miles back and get the fresh leg feeling back. I'm still going to run the Ogden marathon though (who knows these plans could change). I'm coming up with my friend/cousin Barry (who's on the blog) and he's running the half marathon. Those that have run the half marathon in SLC if you could give him advice it would be appreciated. He's blog name is "Barry". Lunch: Very cold outside with the wind blowing 30mph in a circular direction, but I decided shorts and a long sleeve shirt and gloves would work. This time I was wrong it was down right cold! I didn't know what type of run to do so I just started running and the wind was making it cold and then a soft rain came. I decided to keep everything under 7 minutes because I needed to be back for a meeting in a little over an hour. I ran around campus and then I hit the Idaho State University Davis field track and ran twice around it, and then back out the gate and on the street again. You can sure tell the speed difference between running on a track and the road. The cold started to get to me where I was feeling disoriented. The last four miles I decided to do a tempo run, but start the first mile at a warm-up pace. 6:28 felt easy, but I felt my mind or nervous system was somewhere else 6:12: felt easy, but same as above ( on a flat stretch little uphill) 5:53: wind was really picking up and I was getting really cold, even my hands felt frozen. What a weird experience. 5:47: didn't felt too bad, but harder than it should have, (but I'm not real fast either, something I need to prove to myself). Totals 7.2 miles at an overall 6:25 pace in 46:17 minutes. I was staggering when I was done, and very cold. It took me about a minute to start to walk straight without wanting to fall. I think the cold got to my nervous system and just chilled everything.
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