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

Ran an easy 3.1 on the home treadmill.  Did run the last mile under a 7 minute pace.  I should have taken the day-off ... but really 3 miles is taking the day-off.   Funny thing is I told my wife not to let me  run past a 5k distance on the treadmill.  If I did I wanted her to kill the power on the treadmill.  I got so involved with a movie I was watching that she did have to come and kill the power.  I can't be trusted :-)

It  seems my home treadmill affects my achillies more than anything. 

Ran 12.33 miles at an overall 7:09 pace in 1:28 on a very gorgeous morning.  Foot feels fine so far.  Ran the distance on a completely empty stomach.

After my morning devotion with my wife I ran 12.22 miles at an overall 7:13 pace in 1:28.   I was tired this morning from staying up almost till midnight watching the movie "Swing Vote".  I spent most of the night working on computers that I have at home that I'm fixing for individuals that have hired me to do so.

I decided to run a flat course today which I never seem to do for a whole run.  I did have a few small hilly areas but not much.  The foot seems to be okay.  With trying to get higher miles this week will see how it feels by Sunday.

I didn't do any miles under a 7 minute pace which is what I wanted.    I didn't do any pickups in the run at all.

Evening:

Ran .1 with my son making him run after his tee ball game.  He pounded the ball in his teeball game and he doesn't use the tee they pitch to him.

I had to work till 2am last night installing security patches on our Sun systems so when I got up for the run a little before 7am I was unmotivated and not in a pleasant mood.  With less than 5 hours of sleep and not too much sleep yesterday I was tired.

 I did run 14.52 miles at a 7:13 pace in 1:44.  I did the Satterfield loop but did some extra hills.  I wanted a good hilly workout to see how I could do feeling tired.  I like to push myself when tired because that gets you through the last 6 miles of a marathon.

I left the house this morning around 7:20am, and it was sprinkling a little but was 40 degrees and windy.  By the time I was in the 4th mile the rain was coming down heavy.  I wished I would have got out the door sooner.  I would have than missed at least most of the rain.  By mile 10 I was completely soaked, and all I was thinking about was drinking some coffee.

Finished the run at 12:11 miles at an overall 7:19 pace in 1:29.  I was very tired.  I think the reason behind that is I had only about 1500 calories worth of food yesterday and about 1800 the day before.  I haven't felt like eating because of the late work hours make me tired and not really that hungry.    

Barry and I this morning ran at the top of the Pocatello Marathon course down to Pocatello Creek Rd starting at 6am.  Barry wanted to do some tempo miles, and I wanted to make sure I was cautious doing them.  I decided to do a tinman tempo, but that would be right at Barry's tempo pace. That way I wouldn't push too hard.  We did a good warm-up mile then did (6:23, 6:20).   I was feeling good so I left Barry a bit and did

6:14 - downhill,
6:05 downhill most of the way,
5:45 flat surface very encouraging 

Then I slowed down and went back to find Barry and did the last splits slower.  Again I was being cautious (6:38, 6:45, 6:31, 6:34, 6:46, 6:55, 7:13)

Barry said he felt tired, sluggish and I reassured his confidence that this always happens when you taper.  I believe because your body is used to the higher miles that when it slows down it makes you feel tired.  But I told him he'll have race day magic for the SLC Half Marathon.

It really did feel good running sort of fast and being below a 6 minute mile.  I really felt emotional and thanked God for allowing me to do some faster miles and blessing my foot.  My foot doesn't hurt, but I can feel a little something, but nothing bad.

Finished at 13.1 at an overall 6:34 pace in 1:26.

 Not sure what to run tomorrow?

This morning Barry and I decided to start at Century High School and run the Pocatello Marathon course the opposite direction.  Barry was only running 6 miles for his taper.  He would run three miles the opposite direction and three miles and turn around and run three miles on the marathon course.

I orignially was going to do 13 miles, six the opposite direction and six miles turning around.  But I decided to run all the way to the Pocatello Half start and then turn aroound.  When I turned around I had a nasty headwind.  Overall I ran 19.5 miles at an overall 7:06 pace in 2:17.  Good training on rolling hills portion of the course and mentally tough to know you have to turn around and run the opposite direction from what you came from.  Great to get my second longest run in since St. George.

Foot no pain at all.  It's seems to be healed, but will see.