Today is my first official day of following my Ogden Marathon training schedule, I already didn't follow it since I was suppose to do 9 miles with a 4 mile Tempo run. I figure my race yesterday more than makes up for a 4 mile tempo run :). I am feeling really good today despite running a race just yesterday, I think those downhill Utah races really beat up your legs compared to a flat course. I felt a little bit depleted today and just did a nice recovery run but all and all feel pretty good and am excited to start following a program again. I officially retired my first pair of Nike Free's today, I am totally amazed by those shoes, over 1,000 miles on them never had an insole in them other than the original and they are still as comfortable now as the day I bought them. When I first got them I would only run 1 - 2 easy runs per week in them and only on the treadmill, but right after Top of Utah, (which I wore them in) I switched over to them exclusively and now I only train in Nike Free's and truly attribute getting over all of my leg injuries because of it. (I should get a sponser from Nike for that, Right?) I'm staying at the Anaheim Hilton right across the street from Disney Land for the next 2 weeks, back 4 years ago when I started running I remember I used to love to come here cause I would love the loop from the hotel through Downtown Disney and back, I thought it was at least 4 miles cause I remember it was about all I could manage, and going up the (uphill) to downtown Disney I always had to walk cause the hill was to big, well turns out the loop is only 2 miles and the uphill would for all intents and purposes be considered flat, so I ran the loop once today and ran into my co-worker who was nice enough to go with me at 5:00am yesterday to the race, he was running the opposite direction as me, so I ran an easy 10 min/mil pace mile with him and when we got to the infamous (uphill) he told me to go without him so I left and ran the loop 2 more times. As you can probably tell, I'm a little bit excited this morning, happy to be in perfect weather for running, and excited to really pick it up and make this year of running spectacular. | Distance | Time | Avg Pace
| Incline
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| Max HR
| | 1 | 7:12 | 7:12 | | | | | 2 | 7:20 | 7:20 | | | | | 3 | 8:56 | 8:56 | | | | | 4 | 6:53 | 6:53 | | | | | 5 | 7:08 | 7:08 | | | | | 6 | 7:18 | 7:18 | | | | | 7 | 6:57 | 6:57 | | | | | Total | 51:46 | 7:24 | | | |
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