Training for Top of Utah 2011

Softball again...no idea how much running but we got spanked the first game and lost respectably in the second game. We gave up 15 runs in the first inning of the first game and then only one more run the rest of the game.

Will run Wed. and Thursday and Saturday this week. All 5 milers

Got out at 6 am on the nose this a.m. and the weather was EXCELLENT for a run. 57 degrees and semi cloudy. No wind at all really.

Did sort of a different route today...went around town then to industrial loop and then up the Parkway and finally back home.

Tried to keep it easy as my legs are beat up a bit from softball on Monday evening plus 2 of the last 3 nights I haven't gotten much sleep. Picked up a friend at the airport at 1:00 am and the other night went to visit a friend at childrens hospital another night.

I pushed it just a bit up the hill to get a good workout.

Splits: 8:48, 8:56, 9:00, 8:13, 8:33

Overall pace 8:41

The legs were not feeling hills today so ran the tread...even though it was a perfect day for a run. Will run tomorrow on the SVT for some flat and soft.

Felt good...used the HR moniter today just to see where I am and it wasn't pretty...got up to 148 at the top.

Ran 5 minutes without shoes at the end.

Felt much better today so ran here at the parkway instead of going down to SVT. Easy 5 with very small hills involved. I figured I would just run easy and see how slow it was...surprisingly ended with an 8:41 pace.

 Great weather...overcast and 55 degrees...a little wind but not bad at all.

As I was running in the same area where I was bit by a dog a while back I saw the same couple with the same 2 dogs...I had to hold my tongue so as not to say anything rude to them and was happy to see that they took the dogs way off the sidewalk and into the weeds when they saw me. I figure that they probably felt bad enough that one of their dogs bit someone...

Next week 4 days of running.