What ever it takes!

So, I'm doing a conference for Omniture/Adobe downtown Salt Lake this week.  They have me staying at the Grand America which is really odd since I live 25 miles away but anyway it gave me a good chance to explore this morning.  I've lived in Utah pretty much my whole life but sadly don't know the Salt Lake City area real well, I was a sheltered child :)   Was really glad when I woke up and it wasn't raining or snowing out I really didn't want to run on the stuffy hotel treadmill.

Very Humbling run this morning, it really kicked my butt.  Ran from the hotel to 800 S. Up 800 (killer hill from 10th to 13th) wouldn't even really call that part "running" up Sunny Side around the Zoo and then pretty much followed the D-News marathon path for about 5 miles.  It made me have second thoughts about running D-News again.  I think that is the hardest 5 miles of the whole race, and just being there again brought dark memories.

All and all a good run, nice morning for a run.  Very slow going, but I probably needed a good change of pace and elevation.

Distance	Time	Avg Pace		Avg HR	Max HR
1	6:53	6:53
2	14:25	7:32
3	22:46	8:21
4	30:28	7:52
5	37:56	7:28
6	44:39	6:43
7	51:51	7:12
8	59:11	7:20
9	1:06:13	7:02
10	1:13:15	7:02
11	1:20:21	7:06
11.5	1:23:45	6:56
Total	1:23:45	7:17

What happened to spring?  I saw it here just yesterday.  

Progressive 12 mile tempo run on the hotel treadmill, same type of treadmills as at LifeTime so I felt kind of at home.  

Distance	Time	Avg Pace
1	6:34	6:34
2	13:05	6:31
3	19:27	6:22
4	25:41	6:14
5	31:51	6:10
6	37:58	6:07
7	44:01	6:03
8	50:02	6:01
9	56:03	6:01
10	1:02:10	6:07
11	1:08:09	5:59
12	1:13:58	5:49
Total	1:14:04	6:10

 

I really didn't want to run this morning, I was up late last night fixing some self inflicted network issue and woke up sore and tired.  But I went anyway, decided to just take it nice and slow today, which I did.  I don't think I had a single mile under 7 minutes, probably 7:45 avg for the entire run.

I've always wanted to run in Liberty park, I had visions of it being like running in Central Park but smaller, and in Utah.  Well, it wasn't even close to Central Park, me and some guy walking his dog, and really wet and drippy.  (from the trees)  I took 2 loops around the park and decided that was enough so I headed up to the Avenues, worked my way up thinking I could get to the Capitol and found out I had to go down a really slippery trail and back up one.  So down and up around the Capitol building and then back down the hill along main street back to the hotel.

OK run,  Today is my last day downtown Salt Lake, I'm off to New Orleans tomorrow.  That should make for some interesting running stories, the week after Marti Gras and spring break.

No splits today, my watch was wiggin out the whole time so I gave up on it.

Well, I got to see my family for about 6 hours last night for the month.  Had a 7:00am flight this morning (I'm using GoGo In flight service right now) So I was up at 3:30am and on the treadmill by 4:10.  Figured today was a perfect day to run a fast sub 1 hour 10 miler since I was in a hurry.  Didn't really feel up to it but did it anyway and feel good for it now.

Pretty nervous about getting my training in in New Orleans for the next 2 weeks, anyone have experience running there?  Is it safe to run early in the morning there?  I was thinking last night if there was any place in the US. I would least rather go to for 2 weeks than New Orleans.  Philidelphia and Detroit were the only other ones I could come up with.

Anyway, good hard run.  Probably my second or third fastest 10 miler ever, and the other times were either downhill, or I cheated and put the treadmill on negative incline for part of it.  Didn't do that today.  HR monitor was packed in my suitcase, I wish I would have had it.

Distance	Time	Avg Pace
1	5:56	5:56
2	11:52	5:56
3	17:45	5:53
4	23:38	5:53
5	29:26	5:48
6	35:14	5:47
7	40:59	5:45
8	46:41	5:42
9	52:20	5:39
10	57:51	5:31
Total	57:53	5:48

Wasn't feeling adventurous enough to run around NewOrleans in the dark this morning, so I went to the Hotel Gym,  Got on the treadmill and my toenail was bothering me so I did something wild and crazy and did the eliptical trainer for 1 hour instead. 

Cut my toenails and now it's all good.

Well, I did it.  I've been worried for weeks how I was going to get my long run in in New Orleans.  I asked my Sister In Law who is from New Orleans if it was safe to run from Canal street out to Autobahn park, she told me "No, it's to far"  this morning I asked the same question to the Hotel Front Desk clerk he said "It's kind of far"  I take it distance running isn't a big thing here in the deep south.  That's not really what I had in mind as being safe.

Anyway, great run.  Perfect temperatures, beautiful route and just a lot of fun, actually a good amount of runners in the Park,  I planned on doing a sort of loop, out St. Charles Ave. around the Zoo and back along the Mississippi, but I couldn't find my road back and decided to turn around and come back the same way I went which added about 1 mile to the run.

I actually started on the hotel treadmill at 5:00am and ran 6 miles waiting for it to get light and then did the 13 mile outside run.  Very fast average pace for 19 miles, not sure if it's because it's negative sea level, or just a completely flat route.

Distance	Time	Avg Pace		Avg HR	Max HR
1	6:35	6:35		166	199
2	13:10	6:35		138	141
3	19:40	6:30		142	144
4	26:06	6:26		145	148
5	32:28	6:22		147	150
6	38:46	6:18		150	153
Total	38:49	6:27		148	153

Oh, man.  I forgot to turn auto lap on.  So I had to do some creative math to get my splits.  Total time and pace is correct.

Distance	Time	Avg Pace		Avg HR	Max HR
1	6:12	6:12
2	12:38	6:26
3	19:00	6:22
4	25:36	6:36
5	31:56	6:20
6	38:25	6:29
7	44:47	6:22
8	51:10	6:23
9	57:30	6:20
10	1:04:07	6:37
11	1:10:45	6:38
12	1:17:05	6:20
13	1:23:25	6:20
Total	1:23:25	6:25		161	166