What ever it takes!

Well I've just made a fine mess of myself.  I haven't weighed myself in a while cause I was scared, and today I found out it was for good reason.  I've gained 15 lbs since Christmas, and can barely run a 7:00 pace.

8 miles on the ol' treadmill at Lifetime in 58:00  7:15 avg pace.

I know it will all come back, but dang.  How did I let myself go so bad?

Pretty nice little run this morning, I am Mr. Mom for the week, my wife is going back to school to be a teacher (no I'm not sure why) anyway her mom has been living with us since the first of the year taking care of the kids while my wife does student teaching, but she needed to go back to Wyoming for the week to take care of stuff at home so I took the week off to run the house.  What a job, I tell you.

The plan was to drop Zach off at pre-school and then go to the gym but I had a last minute thought that that was real stupid when it was a perfectly good day outside,  so at 9:05 on the dot, like a good parent does I dropped Zach off at the school wearing really dorky running clothes and then took off from there,  ran the hard way, up the hill out of the neighborhood down to the highway and followed what will be the new bike path, but its still dirt into Alpine and then back.  My watch was dead so I had to estimate distance but I think it was over 13 but not quite 14.

Nice run, I just ran slow and easy and tried to run on dirt as much as possible, I would guess 9 of the miles were on dirt.

Now off to pick Zach back up.

Decided to go to the gym today so I could get some weights in even though it was a perfect day outside. 

Not to stereotype but the type of people at the gym at 9:30 is considerably 'different' than the 5:30 crew.

6 easy miles in 46:30 7:45 avg pace with a 2% incline.

For some reason 3 hours isn't enough time to drop Zach off, get to the gym, run 11 miles and get the oil changed in my car.  So I only ran 10 and barely made it back in time to pick Zach back up.  Boy, this mom stuff is hard.

10 miles in 1:14:30 7:27 avg pace

What an awesome spring like day for a run.  Dropped Zach off at school and just ran the dirt roads around the neighborhood.  Schedule called for an easy 6 but it was to nice of a day to turn around at 3 so I kept going.  Started out a bit chilly in my shorts and T-shirt but about 2 miles into it everything felt perfect.

I tried to keep the pace right at 8:00 the whole way so I could still call it a recovery run.

Needed a longer run today, I sent Ryan a text last night to see if he was up for a early long run, he said he was up for a later not so long run, so I decided to get an early start get some miles in and then meet up with him.  I ran from my house down to Thanksgiving point and back to the Maverik for an extra 4, I could have got 5 in and should have but o'well.  Met Ryan and we set off at a pretty slow pace, his foot is still causing him pain.  We ran down Main Street Lehi and noticed a runner up ahead, I told Ryan we should try and catch him so we sped up,  as we went on I realized this runner was pretty darn fast cause we were doing close to 6:15 pace and not making up much ground.  Eventually he stopped at a park for a drink and we caught him.  Turned out it was Jeff L from the blog, which I had actually kind of suspected ahead of time due to the speed and the area we were in.  Jeff joined us for about 3 miles out to Willow Park and then split off cause he was already done for the day.  Nice to meet Jeff officially.

Finished off running the JRP trail back to Maverik, Only got 16 instead of the intended 17 but I'm OK with it.

Now off to go GeoCaching with the boys, I've been promising them for weeks and the weather is nice for at least another 3 hours hopefully.

16.1 miles in 2:04:19 7:43 avg pace.