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

No running today.  I called every hotel in Logan for the Top Of Utah Marathon and not one room is available.  I guess I will not be running the Top Of Utah Marathon this year.

I did my standard Satterfield hill climb and back down. 10.21 miles at a 7:05 pace with the dog. I left the house late today and won't have time to drop the dog off and do some Marathon pace miles so I thought how would the dog handle the marathon pace miles. The last four miles I started the MP miles (6:30, 6:16, :6:29, 6:35) the dog kind of lagged on the last one. I really like this hard climb because it's a really good fitness tester, and it gives me the uphill work.

There's a 10k race this Saturday and I'm debating if I should run it or not, being that the marathon is on September 1st. What do you guys think?

Update, I decided to run on the treadmill tonight while watching Monday Night Football (Yeh! it's back) 2.5 miles average pace of 7:20.

Speed work today on a very tired mind, body, and everything else. My son woke us up from 11pm to 5am every hour complaining that his leg hurt. We know it was growing pains, because I remember our girls going through this.

My sister-in-law and pastor who are also running the Pocatello Marathon (at a 9:30 pace per mile) asked if I wanted to run the back side of the Pocatello marathon. My sister-in-law's house is right down the street from mine, which is nice. This course is downhill and is 8 miles. My mom was driving them up to the top of Rapid Creek/Buckskin where the marathon starts. I decided not to because I wanted to stayed dedicated and do speed work, but I guess I could have set my Garmin to run the repeats every 400s on the downhill course? Oh well they were leaving by 5:30am and I didn't even get out of bed until 6:20am.

Back to this morning run. First off I did about a 3 mile warm-up.
I then did 7 x 400 and 2 x800 (didn't keep the time on the 800's) not very good times. I even took a lap rest in-between each one.

Times

78 (slow)

82 (Hey even slower)

81 (I'm following a slow routine here)

83 (Wow I must have had rocks in my shoes)

86 (Must have feel asleep very poor performance)

80 (I must have woke up for a second)

95 (now this one I had an excuse the wind picked up and it starting hailing)

My goal was to hit 70 seconds as you can see not even close . Oh well just need more training.

Totals: 12.10 miles at a overall pace 6:32 in 1:19.

The run today I started at 6:30am and I chose a different route than I normally run, because I wanted something different. More of a flat course with some small uphills. The first 8 miler were slow with the dog at a 7:19 pace. I dropped the dog back home and ran (6:57, 6:31, 6:19, 6:12). This took more effort than it should have, but this was suppose to be a easy run anyway.

My schedule is all messed up for this week and probably will have to do my long run tomorrow of 14-16 miles. I want to hit over 70 miles this week and start the two week taper.

Lunch: Ran 4.6 miles on the treadmill at the health club in 30 minutes. Did some light lifting on the hamstrings and quads.

I did my long run today, because of a scheduling conflict the next two days.  I went up to the Pocatello Marathon course and ran down the other side, not the side where the course runs.  The first half mile of the course is uphill then it's downhill for the next 6 miles. I started out around 5:51am and needed to be home by 7:30, and I was wanting to run 16 miles.  Well, you know when your in a hurry than you get all your cylinders in gear at tempo speed.  

The first mile I took slow 7:29 then I got in a groove (5:59, 6:00, 6:16, 6:11, 6:07).  Then start the uphill which is a steep climb (6:48, 7:03).   I really was feeling good at this point and knew I needed to hurry to get home by 7:30.  The reason I needed to be home is my wife and I were picking our kids up from church camp in Tooele, Utah. 

Okay, time to pick the pace up (6:06) flat surface for this mile.  Now back into a two mile downhill off Satterfield down Jeremy St, (5:56, 6:04). 

Now I wanted to get in some marathon pace miles on a course that was flat the rest of the way home (6:30, 6:24, 6:36, 6:27, and 6:27).  Well I was 5 minutes late back 7:35am, and I repented to my wife and she forgave me.  Then we headed to Tooele  which is roughly 3 hours away from Pocatello. 
 

(Olympus Run)

This was the first easy run I've done in a long time. 10.4 miles at a 7:38 pace in 1:19. I ran up Olympus Dr. with the dog which is a pretty decent hill then back downhill on Booth Rd.. I would say half of the run was uphill and half downhill. I would have been tempted to run some miles under 7 if I didn't have the dog, but it's a good idea to have some easy days.

Lunch:

I decided to run around the street where I work at, because I didn't have time to run to the gym.  I didn't want to do anything hard, because I wanted this to be an easy day.  I ran 4.41 miles at a 6:59 pace.  The temperature was 88 degrees, but it didn't seem that hot.   The sweat off the body though recognized the hot conditions.  The course was totally flat and kind of fun and different.

Today I started from my house and decided to run the 10k race course that was already in progress by about 15 minutes by the time I ran there. I passed quite a bit of runner's but didn't push too hard. I reached the course about two miles into my run, and started picking the pace up (6:32, 6:20, 6:05, 6:02, 6:16, 6:50) then another cool-down mile.

Totals 9 miles at a 6:38 pace in 59.54 nothing that great and not pushing real hard today, but I did get some good quality miles in.

Afterwards I took an ice bath. I like to do this every once in a while to freshen up the leg muscles

The rest of the day my wife and I went looking at Toy Hauler RV's. We want to buy an RV that
feels like home, but will also carry two ATV's. We liked the Weekend Warrior Superlite fs23. We our both big time into taking the family camping, and I'm a whip anymore and don't like to sleep in tents.

I hit over 80 miles for the week now I will taper to 50 miles than 30-25.