On the road to BOSTON!

First run of 2011 is in the snow! What a shock to wake up to 3 inches of snow in my yard. Went out for a nice run and it was fun.  8:45 pace

Drove in to town with my wife. Ran from her office out to River Road then down to the Post Office on to the trail to home. Just wanted a nice, easy pain free run....accomplished! I was wanting to stay right about 9 min pace but ended up 8:33.

I had tweaked my right hammy on the 31st, really worked it over with Wintercrest, compression sleeve and massaging and no running on Saturday or Sunday. Mondays run I didn't feel it all all...healed!  I do have a minor pain in my left shin again so I am working on keeping that massaged and wintercrested.

Beautiful crisp 30 degree 8 mile run with sun. Went out on the trail through Bloomington Hills up to Brigham Road and then home. kept it easy but steady pace 8:42 average. The feet are doing great since I started with my orthotics. I still haven't tried anything really long yet but this is very encouraging with 8-10 mile runs without foot pain!

Evening run: Bloomington Drive 3.50 @ 8:01

Nice run, east 8:59 pace. Over Tonaquint into town then to the Dixie Center to home-Pain Free again!

Slow cold dark run- Went out over Tonaquint to Dixie High School to River Road then out to the Arizona Strip to Sun River to home- 24 degrees when I left at 5:30am Feet did great, I am just real tired from the run- no energy today but all in all a good run- 9:30 pace

6 am run over to Deseret Hills High left on River Road to the Post office and home. 9:16 pace 25 degrees and much colder along the river!

8 miles @ 21 degrees. It is so hard to get the legs moving fast when the temps are like this. 9:17 average with the last 2 miles at 8:15 and 7:29

Late morning sunny 40 degree run- it actually felt hot out there- shorts and a tshirt  8:22 pace

Deseret Hills/ River Road/ Post Office loop. A bit chilly this morning 25 degrees 9;12 pace feet still doing good

Waited till the sun was up and the temp was 38. Went out on the trails then over the bridges to Bloomington Hills to River Road and up the hill to Brigham Road to home. 8:09 pace- The body was pretty tired from the long week already. Right hammy felt a little sore at the 9 mile mark after pushing it down Brigham Road into Bloomington. Nothing serious-

Ran out towards the new airport. The body had zero energy today and I should have just stayed home. But the stupid mind says it will be okay....I went out 9 miles and turned back for home. A very slow run with many sections of walking. I really didn't care either. I suppose it was good to be out for a long period of time on the feet even if it was slow. Going to take it easy next week and drop the mileage back down a bit. Over 64 miles is a lot for me and now I will go back to the 40's for the next month then ramp up a bit more prior to Boston.

Added .75 mile with my dog in the afternoon

Bloomington Drive extended to 3.75 miles. First mile at 9:10 and then pushed it to the end and the average pace for the whole run is 7:50, not bad for the first one being 9:05- Everything on the body feeling good today- decided to keep the mileage lower this week and focus on keeping the body feeling good, get rid of the minors aches. 58 degrees WOW!

Split: 9:05 warmup/ 7:40 slightly up hill for for 1/2mile/ 7:14/ 6:52

This was a 3 segment run.

Started out with a warmup through Bloomington to the truck stop over to the Dixie Center 3.75 miles @ 9:15 pace. Then I ran the St. George 5k course @ 7:26 pace. Then my cool down 3.15 miles to home @ 8:29. Overall felt good just need to get the stamina built up again. Started out at 42 degrees and ended at 36.

Same 3 runs as Tuesday:  3.75 miles warm up to the Dixie Center @ 8:21 pace St. George 5k course 7:21 pace Cool down to home @ 8:30 pace

Ran the St. George 5K this morning. Having a mild sprain on the right hammy I worried about that the whole race, not wanting to re aggrivate it. After 2.90 miles I did! Oh well the race was fun anyway. Good to see so many of the Running Center do so well. 1st place in the age group...woo hoo

Started out easy- hammy still tender. Ended up running faster than I had planned 9:00 1st mile and averages 7:30- 7:50 for the balance of the run, overall 8:09 pace

Ran into Dixie College, ran a few laps and a set of stairs and then home....8:50 pace

Past Deseret Hills Hugh left on River Road and run past the post Office 1/2 mile then back to the trail to home. 8:28 pace- very tired after yesterdays run, should have gone for 8-10 today.

Ran from the top of Snow Canyon down Bluff to the Dixie Center to home. No Garmin today but looks like I averaged right about 8:00 average pace. Cool morning in the mid 25's at the top and 28 when I finished

Tonaquint/ dixie center loop  1 1/2 mile warmup, 2 mile tempo at approx 7:30. 2 rest miles then 2 mile tempo at 6:45ish cooldown. I took a bit to get the body wanting to run after Saturdays run. Legs a bit sore. When I got to the downhill I let it go a bit and it felt great. The second set of tempo miles I was moving along and saw someone ahead and decided to work to catch them. In passing I decided that I wanted to maintain everything and pushed harder the next mile to match sure I didn't get passed.....kind of a race feel. Great way to end the first run of the week!