This morning it was 42 degrees and I wore some thin insulated gloves (the dollars gloves you get at the store). I'm really not looking follow to winter. Before I started running in the morning now over two years ago, I used to love winter and hate the heat. Now I'm thinking that running in the winter isn't fun, and the heat I still hate but isn't that bad. Oh well you can't have a box of donuts at your door step every day that's just life This morning I ran 9.20 miles at an overall 7:17 pace in 1:07. I did a major hill climb today of over 2 miles from my house all the way to the top of Hospital Way Rd. On the downhill I did some faster miles, but still taking it easy to keep the recovery going (6:21, 6:57). This will be the only run again. When you go over Hospital Way Rd. it will drop you down in the upper campus area of Idaho State University. Our football team got destroyed this weekend by Boise State, 49 - 7. (Saucony Tangent 3 - 269 miles) Lunch I did 300 situps and 100 pushups. 3 one minute stomach tighting technique. I tripled my situp and pushup toning exercises to prepare for the Pocatello Marathon, and they seemed to help. My own theory was you needed a strong upper core to prepare for 10 miles of downhill running (That's really all Pocatello has is only 10 mile downhill not 13). This really seemed to help in the marathon.
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