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

After working about 26 hours in two days for our system conversion I didn't want to get up this morning.  But my legs felt real fresh, because I took yesterday off.  I decided to mix in some marathon pace mile in my run, or lower than marathon pace miles: 6:13, 6:13, 6:02, 6:12 and 6:22.  I only did 8.6 miles today because I needed to get to work earlier.  I felt really good, no soreness after my 20 miler on Saturday.

Totals: 8.6 miles at a 6:36 pace in 57 minutes.

 I'm shooting for June 9th to run the Teton Marathon, so this week I'll probably hit around 80 miles .

I'll do yasso 800s'm tomorrow and maybe mix a couple tempo miles after afterward.

Wednesday: an easy  run:  I'll probably run a course that has a lot of up and down hills.

Thursday:  Tempo run (not sure yet how many miles)

Friday:  Easy run (at least 10 miles)

Saturday: 18 miles and mix in some marathon pace miles.  I'm hoping to do this run on the Pocatello Marathon course.

Today I did 5 x 800's in a strong wind along with a few temop/mp miles afterwards at the track.

Again my 800's are not very good  2:54, 2:50, 2:54, 248, and I messed up on the last one.

Then I ran another 5:50 6:05 and 6:24 tempo/p miles.  I totaled 11.4 miles at an average pace 6:31 in 1:14.  I didn't run anymore today, because I didn't take a lunch and I didn't get home until late.  I worked over 12 hours today on putting little fires out from our system conversion.  I so looking forward to this 3 day weekend.

Ran an easy run today... 12.1 miles at a 7:07 pace in 1:26. Ran the first 3.5 with the dog at a 7:17 pace. My golden retriever is getting very easy to run with, and he does a good job of not allow anything to interfere with the run. I ran up Satterfield hill which is a 500ft climb and then back down the other side to get practice on the downhill. I did mix in 3 MP miles in this run.

I've started experimenting with my stride. I noticed if I take shorter step per minute my pace is faster because of the rapid return and pushing off more. I also experimented with this yesterday in my speedwork. I don't want to make changes in my stride right now, but has anyone else experimented with this.

I haven't registered for the Teton Dam marathon yet, but I will run a 18 miler this weekend to get that last long run in. I'm not sure how I'm going to approach this training run yet. Last week I did 12 MP on my 20 miler.

Lunch hour  4.1 miles at a 6:50 pace. 

What a rough night last night... my youngest daughter we found out has strip throat, my wife and son were vomiting all night, and to top it off I had the worst headache last night and still had it this morning. I wasn't sick I just think it's all the hours I've been putting in at work and not getting rest.

My oldest daughter was at an end of the year soccer party, and she was fine.

I wanted to run a 5 mile tempo run today and I thought with a headache I would be alright. The first mile wasn't to bad 5:59. The second mile seemed to be a lot more effort 5:50. The third mile I turned into a 25 mph wind and I couldn't hold the pace in the 5's 6:10, previous to this point the wind was pushing from the side, and it kept pushing me off the road. The fourth mile I turned with the wind at my side, but still the effort was hard 5:52. The fifth mile the effort again felt hard and not easy 5:49. Then I did a couple MP miles after that 6:19, 6:13.

I really wish running in the high five minute miles would get easier, but it still seems tough at this point, and I know it takes time and dedicated training. My headache is still there and I want to run a 18 miler Friday rather than Saturday. But maybe after a hard tempo run it might not be a good idea.

Faith is something you can't see but you must believe in and trust that God is with you.  My faith has really been tested this week.  First off on Monday my Grandma was admitted into the hospital, because her right leg/hip has a spur that is being touched by a nerve.  This was caused because her back alignment is out of place.  Also her left leg was fractured about a month ago, and it's healing up good.  But she was in so much pain Monday that I had to help my Grandpa admit her in the Hospital right in the middle of all faculty/staff at work coming online on our new system.  If you can't rely on God in these situations than there is nothing else that matters.

They moved her over to physical therapy yesterday to see if that will help, if not than the alternative is to have surgery to remove the spur.  Which isn't good because she's 85 years old.   Well last night she was trying to get out of bed, and the nurse didn't put the bed rail up so she fell out and completely broke her wrist.  This happened at 1am I went up and stayed till 5am.  They had to reset her wrist and cast her arm so this might delay the physical therapy.  I owe a lot to my Grandma because she paid for my first year of college, when I was trying to save enough money to go.  She didn't want me to wait to long to go because she was afraid I'd change my mind.  She's always been a hard worker and an inspiration to me, and I would do anything for her.

Run 5 miles with the dog at an easy 8 minute mile pace then ran three miles at MP pace. I ran around the city very uneventful run.  I did do 5 x 100 strides at the end of the run.