Psalm 91:1 NKJV He who dwells in the secret place

Not much time.  Totals 11.25 miles at an overall 6:53 pace in 1:17:30. All over basically not plan for pace.

It was 27 degrees this morning but really didn't feel cold even though I could see the fog coming out of my mouth (ya right fog).  I ran a pretty tough course going up Tuscany Rd. and over Hospital Way.  Good hills (up/down) and I felt pretty good.  Right now running is just running for fitness and nothing more.  12.10 miles at an overall 6:53 pace in 1:23:20. 

Each day I wake up and don't know how far I'm going to run.  It depends on how long my devotion is with my wife every morning.  This is the most important thing to me right now.  We live in a world where we always want a edge on something (getting preachy), but do we ever stop and recognize where God wants us to be...

22 degrees this morning.  Sore from all the rolling hills yesterday so I took it easy today.  11.31 miles at an overall 7:01 pace in 1:19.  My left foot in the middle is still bothering me now for three or more weeks.  Especially on sharp turns.  Oh well at least I'm not racing so it don't matter.

Tired this morning because of long work days and just flat out mentally busy at work.  Ran this morning and didn't even look at the Garmin and didn't care about the pace.  Ran 11.30 miles at an overall 7:11 pace in 1:21:12. 

Great devotion this morning.  About we have to step out on faith with decision making.  Sometimes we are wrong but that's the only way you gain success is by failing.  We have to trust in God when he tells us what to do even if it's not what we want.

Had to work till 1am this morning.  I felt so tired and sluggish today getting up at 6am.  This week has been so busy that I will not run the Half Marathon tomorrow that I was going to do for fun.  My foot is bothering me has it is so that's a good sign not to push in a race or not run the race. I'm just too busy and really not trained to run it the way I would want to .  It's not a big deal its only a fun race and not big.

 Ran 13.31 miles at an overall 7:23 pace in 1:38:12. 
 

Ran with Barry this morning.  Neither one of us did the Half Marathon in Pocatello.  I had good reasons.  1.  I worked till 1am last night.  2.  My foot is a little sore and didn't want to risk running in flats.  3. I didn't want to pay the $55.00 registration fee.  4.  I had to work this morning anyway after the run with Barry.

 Ran 7:38 miles at an overall 6:19 pace in 46:39.  Did a fast run because I had to work after the run.  Splits (6:49, 6:15, 6:15, 6:12, 6:25, (flat) 5:23, (cool down)  6:32)

Day off.  Wonderful church service.  Watched football most of the day.  Winterized our RV batteries taking them out and storing them in our basement on a shelf. 

I've had a headache the last two days that I'm trying to get rid of.  I believe it's due to lack of sleep the last few nights.

8.4 miles.  Not a lot of time today.  Have to rebuild our Calendar Server that died Friday.  Our ISU campus Departments us this for scheduling.

Good run in  20 degree weahter.

Ran a 100 meter stride in my crocs just to see what it felt like.  They definitely have cushion and are light, but not something I would get accustom to doing.

It was 35 degrees when I started this morning.  Great weather for a run and I was overdressed.  I ran into Bill M.  at the top of Satterfield Rd.  and we ran 5 miles together.  Great conversation and nice to run with someone, and not really caring about the pace.  We talked about doing some adventure races next year for fun together.  Bill is great at ultra's, and can teach me a few things.  That's probably my plan for next year fun races and not serious training. 

After I left Bill I headed home and decided to pick the pace up  a bit for the last 3 miles.  (6:34, 6:01, 6:21).  Finished with 12.61 miles at an overall 7:22 pace in 1:32:44.   No hurry just a fun visit and enjoyable run.

35 degrees outside and very nice.   I did 12.21 miles at an overall 7:11 easy pace in 1:27:43.  Nothing amazing about this run, other than I saw my wife driving around twice when I was running my route.  She was teasing me by holding up a thermo of coffee, or a Big Train Streamer.   

 My left foot is still giving me issues.  I think to completely heal I would need to take at least three days off.
 

Started the run at 39 degrees with a very grayish sky.  Were definitely in for snow soon.  Ran 11.6 miles at a 7:04 pace in 1:22.  Ran up Olympus Rd and done Bench Rd.. 

I actually ran in my tie and dress shoes at work this morning.  When I got to work I had to go get  a Hard Disk that was being delivered from Salt Lake City.  The delivery guy couldn't find our building so he called me from across campus.  I told the delivery guy to stay where he was at, and I would run over to get the part.  This was a high priority drive that needed to be replaced in our mail server were the one failed.  It's mirrored (hardware array)  and the server has a (Hot Spare) so there was no down time.  I just thought it was funny running across campus in my dress clothes. I'm sure students gave me a few looks.

20 degrees when I started running at 6am, and it started to snow.  Luckily it didn't snow too hard.  Ran 8:03 miles at a 6:49 pace in 54:43.  Then I headed off to my daughter's parent teacher conference at 7:30am .

 Bunch run:

Ran another 5.22 miles.   Nothing real fast just a nice easy 7:12 pace.  Snow was still lightly coming down, but almost nothing.

Ran with Barry at the top of Pocatello Creek down to my house at 7:30am.  It was an absolute blizzard the first few miles that I considered running back to the vehicle.  The wind had to be blowing 20mph the first 3 miles.

 Anyway I ran 11.20 miles at an overall 6:52 pace in 1:16:28 in very slick weather.  Barry fall down by the corner near my house and hurt the wrist a bit.   The whole run was in nice powdered snow that was slick at times.  It never stopped snowing the whole run.

Did 11.31 miles at an overall 6:53 pace in 1:17:50 this morning in 12 degree weather. I did the last three faster 6:38, 6:32, 6:35. Didn't feel cold at all, but there was very little wind so that really helps with the low temps. Everything clicked on the run. I didn't feel tired or legs didn't feel heavy either, especially after all the junk food I ate yesterday.

Evening

Ran .2 tonight for the heck of it... acceleration time.

I ran 11.53 miles at an overall 6:54 pace in 1:19:27.  I hit some pretty good splits coming down Bench Rd. and turning on Hiline Rd.  (6:40, 6:06, 6:31, 6:57, 6:39, 6:46, 6:30).  Temperature was 14 degrees and one of my toes was numb after the run because I had a hole in the sock that I didn't recognize.  My toe was frozen by the end of the run and almost took an hour to get back at the right temperature.
 

Evening:

Ran another acceleration this evening in the cold weather.

19 degrees this morning but sunny.  It really didn't feel cold, and we had no wind.   I ran 14.21 miles at an overall 7;10 pace in 1:41:49 just nice and easy.  I was tired from working late last night on a system that needed rebooted at our 11pm maintenance window.   Not much else happening just staying busy at work configuring two new $50,000 Solaris systems.

Finally got a break to post something today (Busy, Busy I've taken a lunch hour for the past week).  

This morning it was 20 degrees with a 5mph wind, but it didn't feel too cold.  I ran a hilly route (mostly uphill).  Went up Chubbuck Rd.  and over to Olympus Rd.  Did 12.34 miles at an overall 7:06 pace in1:27:39.  Really wasn't trying for any speed today but I did run the last 4 miles pretty decent just to get home earlier.  (6:46, 6:39, 6:42, 6:53).
 

Evening:

Decided to run to the bank and back which is almost a mile.  .8

This morning it was 18 degrees with wind that made the run interesting heading up towards Satterfield Rd. I took it easy the first few miles. I saw Bill on Satterfield Rd. running the opposite direction as I was headed back to my house. He had good form, and look like he was running with ease.

Did sort of a 3 mile tempo towards the end of the run for fun (5:49, 5:49,5:56) and a cool down mile of 6:24. Overall 12.11 miles at an overall 6:48 pace in 1:22:23. Very windy at times that it popped my headphones off even with my hooded mask on.

Ran with Barry this morning down Pocatello Creek Rd and it wasn't fun because of the 20 to 30 mph winds in our face for about 9 miles.  We pushed hard at times to get a faster run..  I ran 13.1 miles at an overall 6:44 pace in 1:28:10.  I really did get cold even though it was windy and wet.  Barry did a great job running.  By mile 6 my legs felt a little sore and it could have been because of trying to fight the wind.  

Temps this morning were 20 degrees and with the wind blowing it was 12 degrees.  I got attacked by a pitbull this morning that tried biting my ankle, but I managed to kick him away and the dog slipped and fall on the ice on my first escape attempt.  This gave me a few seconds to split out of the sub-division on Sawtooth Rd.  But he quickly caught up to me trying to bite my bum and calf's.  I was scared so I decided to stop (hoping he wouldn't jump at me) and turn around and I gave him a big kick, and it caused the dog to stumble on the road.  I took off again and this time he stopped chasing me, and went back to wherever.  He did nip me but it left no open wound or bite mark I could see.

Ran 10.31 miles at an overall 7:01 pace in 1:12:28.  My work canceled our football Turkey Bowl game outside today against our Networking Department (second annual one), because everyone on both teams had too many people sick and we couldn't field a team because of it.  I'm not sick and I'm kind of glad not to play because of the weather.

 Evening:

Ran a couple strides tonight for the fun of it.

Ran 12.31 miles at an overall 6:59 pace in 1:25.  I did the last 4 at (5:56, 5:42, 5:45) cool-down 6:36.   Have to work tonight at 11pm and won't have to work tomorrow because of the late night maintenance on our systems tonight.

To go with that I have a swollen lymph node in my neck and a bump on my shoulder that's the size of a golf ball that's infected, and a spider bite on my ear that's infected which my wife drained out the puss last night.  That actually looks better now.   I also woke up with a mild sour throat and a stuffy nose, but that has gotten better through-out the day.  I'm going to try to get into the doctor.

Ran 6.5 on the treadmill this morning.  I didn't have time to run anymore today.  I worked till 3am in the morning then got up at 9am and ran the 6.5 miles and then went to my doctor's appointment at 10am.

This appointment was to look at my infection on my shoulder and my Lymph node.  He was worry about the lump on the shoulder because of the size.  I'll  be taking the antibiotic Doxycycline Hyclate (100mg) twice a day.  If that doesn't bring the infection down then they will cut into it for analysis.  I'm not worried, because this is a strong Antibiotic.

Good race tough course... Mostly uphill.

Mile 1; (6:09 mostly uphill and was in 4th) 

Mile 2: (6:08 Again Mostly uphill flat tied for second place).

Mile 3: (5:20 Downhill for first .3 and then flat for .7  was in first but got legged out by a High school track runner and finished in second by one second).

 Not a bad race... not feeling the best, lack of sleep and on an antibiotic.

Ran another 12.30 miles after the race at a 6:58 pace in 1:25:42.

No Running.. Shopping at 3am for Black Friday sales.  I needed a day-off anyway.   I did run a couple 100 meters sprints though with my Son.  I'll count that.

It was such a beautiful day that I wanted to run long.  I didn't have to be anywhere.  No time constraints like it is with every run I do it seems lately.  I just ran to be free and enjoy the weather at a sunny 32 degrees.  I ran tons of hills on the Satterfield, Fairfield and Olympus roads.    I slept in till 8am and started the run at almost 9am, because I was watching cartoons with my son.

I ran 20.21 miles at an overall easy 7:15 pace in 2:26:26.  First 20 miler since my September marathon.  Now eat, shop, and maybe play some Call Of Duty on my Xbox 360 ....

Evening

Ran 200 meters to loosen the legs up after the long run today.  I think its important just like stretching.

Rest Day.  We put the tree up and my kids decorated it, and we did the rest of the house.  I was putting lights up in our entertainment room and I fell off a chair and bruise my knee and hurt the top of my foot.  Hopefully, I'll be okay to run tomorrow.

16 degrees outside, but calm and sunny. The run wasn't the greatest because of the fall yesterday. The top of my right foot hurts and I pretty much limped home the last mile of the run. Ran 8.32 at an overall 7:18 pace in 1:00:43. Oh well such is life and maybe it will be better by tomorrow morning.