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

This morning was nice, and I was way over-dress (don't know what I was thinking).  I had on tights, long sleeve shirt, and jacket.  I should have just wore a long sleeve shirt and shorts.  I tried out my new Brooks Adrenaline 8 shoes and I like them.  I got them for $5.00 at Barries Sport (regular $95.00 shoes)  from the gift certificate that I received winning the Pocatello Marathon.

My legs felt kind of weird with the deep leg massage I got yesterday, but not weird in a bad way.  I ran 8.63 miles at an overall  pace 7:08 pace in 1:01:30.  Very nice run before church.  I think I'm even going to ride my bike to church since it's such a nice day, and it may be only a one of few left before the cold comes in.

(Brooks Adrenaline 8 -  8.63 miles)

Rode my bike over 6 miles today I'll just count 1.5 miles as running miles.  I was trying to ride as fast as I could to get a good workout.

No running today.  I ran yesterday which is usually my day-offf so I decided to take today off.  I needed a day-off anyway.  The bottom of my left foot underneath my toes has some discomfort not real bad so I though maybe taking today and tomorrow off would be good.  Since the St.  George marathon I only took off one day.  I need to have some type of excitement for running again anyway,  maybe I can find that with a dayoff.

 I ate bad yesterday  (two doughnuts, cupcake, two hamburgers, 10 oatmeal cookies, Cinn. Roll, cand bar, red licorce and more)  weight 136 pounds.  For some reason I wanted to snack all day long.  Maybe watching the Cowboys made me depressed.

This morning we had 30mph winds and the temperature was 36 degree.  I bundled up and headed out and ran  10.52 miles at an overall 7:08 pace in 1:15.   The run was smooth, and I had a lot of energy.   I was considering taking the today off from running to get more inspired, but I wanted the exercise.  I did my standard Satterfield Rd.  loop.  For some reason I've been down lately, so I need to prep-up a little bit.  Ran two pickup miles 6:27, 6:27.

Note:  I got my Garmin back today and they sent me a brand new one and I didn't have to pay a thing.  God has blessed me on this one.

Brooks Adrenaline 8  - (19 miles)

 Lunch

I could have ran on my lunch hour today but I was unmotivated and the wind was blowing strong.   In my office I did 300 sit-ups and over a 100 push-ups.

Very cold morning at 20 degrees I really had to bundle up warm.  Last year I had more weight on me so I think this year I'm going to hate the cold.  I ran 10.61 miles at an overall 7:09 pace in 1:15.  Mostly flat course;  I ran out by highway 30, then down Yellowstone Rd. then where ever I could think to go to extend the run out.  Really no sort of training on this run I just ran by feel.

(Asics Trainers 13  -  488.6 miles)

Lunch:

Thought about running on my lunch hour, but I had a nasty headache, because of lack of sleep.  We had a gunmen running around our neighborhood last night that the police were trying to catch.  At one point he was in our yard, so my wife and I were up because the Cops were everywhere.  By midnight they still didn't have him in custody yet.  We didn't want to go to bed knowing that someone's running around the neighborhood with a gun.  

Anyway,  I did 300 sit-ups and 200 push-up in my office at lunch.   I needed the rest from running anyways and don't need to pile on the miles this week.

I ran 11.10 miles at a 7:20 pace in 1:21 on a cold chilly morning at 20 degrees again, but there was no wind which was good.   I went up Buckskin Rd.  than over Hospital Way then down Jefferson st. and then I turned on Wayne St. then back to Yellowstone St then down back home on Mckinley St.  Very good hilly route.  I did pickup miles on the downhills but only a 6:13 pace for one of the miles then a 6:57.  Just ran by feel, as far as speed work goes I haven't done any to prepare for next week's Half Marathon.  Oh well maybe I can get some in tomorrow.  

Really don't care what I run the Half Marathon in... I may run it for fun and pace my friend Barry to PR at 1:30.  I'm not sure yet.  The batteries for training right now are not charged.  I just want to run to run.

(Brooks Adrenaline 8  -  30 miles)

This morning it was 18 degrees when I started running after 9 hours of sleep last night.  I wanted to run some faster miles.   It was really cold to getting the muscles moving today.  But I stuck to the plan and did one warm-up mile at 7:20,  then wanted to decrease that down at least 45 seconds of for the next mile (6:20).  Now I decided to do two tempo miles:

5:57 -  The wind was blowing and my muscle were started to get warmed up.

5:50 -  Not bad feeling pretty good

6:37 -  slowing down after the two mile tempo.

6:10 -  thought I would pick it up again a bit.

Only did 6.22 miles at an overall 6:23 pace in 39:46 minutes.  I plan on running 6 miles on the HM course on my lunch hour with Barry.  Very busy day at work (back to back meetings).

Lunch:

Barry and I ran the Pocatello Just Be Cuz  Half Marathon course today.  He ran close to 7 miles and I ran 8.11 miles at an overall 7:02 pace in 57:04.  I pushed him a bit to get some faster miles in.  Barry's doing great and will do good next week.  The cours has a lot of rolling hills so it will be interesting even for me.

Last night I started not to feel very good and it showed today.  I was going to run with Bill Mander and his friend today at 6am (sorry), but I slept 10 hours and got up after 9am.  I can't remember the last time that I wasn't up before 7am on a Saturday to run.  I still wasn't feeling good but I decided to go for a run.   At mile 13 I hit the wall my head was spinning, I was weak, I dressed way to warm, and to top it off I ran a mostly uphill course.   I survived the last two miles and ran 15.11 at a 7:13 pace in 1:49.  I felt like a brick and sick pretty much the whole run. My fastest mile was on a downhill at 6:14, but I really didn't care about my spilts today.  I ran from my house, down Pole Line St., up Chubbuck Rd, then up a dirt trail that leads all the wayto Satterfield St., then down Pocatello Creek Rd and back home (after zig zagging through some streets).

After I take my son to tee ball today I'm doing nothing the rest of the day until church tonight.  We have a three day conference which we got home late last night.  My wife is also sick so were a lovely couple today.