What ever it takes!

5:00 am.  Not a good way to start out my run, both my ipod battery and Garmin battery where dead when I started today.  Luckily it was only an 8 mile run.

General Aerobic, started out at easy 7:00 min/mil pace for 1 and then worked up to 6:20's, for 6 miles.  Finished off run with 8x100's.  Feel really good considering hill run on Saturday.

Finished off workout with some leg and core strength training.

4:55am 7.5 mile recovery run today, easy 7:00 min/mil pace for first 3 tried to keep HR below 140, averaged about 142.  Bumped up to 6:40 for 2 miles Average HR ~145.  Then for my final 1.5 miles I decided to speed it up a little, mostly cause I was bored.  Ran 5:47 final mile.

 Finished workout with a 1/2 mile swim.

5:00 am.  Today was scheduled to be a 9 mile run with 3x1600's, but last night I had nightmares that I was running Ogden Marathon in slow motion and no matter what I did I couldn't go any faster.  Since I started Marathon training last May I have had a goal to run 10 miles on the treadmill in exactly 1 hour before I had to do a reset, so I decided since today was my last day close to 10 miles it would be a good day to try it.  For what ever reason, because of warm up's water breaks whatever else I have never ran 10 miles in under 1 hour before.  I started out at 9.2 mph and gradually every 5 minutes increased the speed up .2 mph, I did take a quick 1 minute water break at mile 5, and by mile 8 I was up to 10.8 mph.  I actually felt really good, I started feeling a little shaky in the knees at that speed, but cardio and lungs felt great.   Ended up running the last 1/2 mile at 11 mph just to make it in time.  Think I ended up with 2 seconds to spare, but we'll call it an even hour.

4:45 am.  Wow, only a 5 mile run today.  I could get use to this tapering.  Ran 4 miles really slow,  7:20 pace, then ran my final mile in 5:45 just to get the kinks out.  Finished off workout with a 3/4 mile swim.   35 minutes total run.

Got a nice 1 hour massage from Britt last night, feeling relaxed and good.

5:15am, 9 Mile run with 2 miles at Marathon pace.

Found out I didn't get into St. George for the second year in a row.  Pretty upset about it,  It's kind of been my goal race for the last 2 years now.

6:00 am,  13 mile loop with Ryan, met at Cabelas and did the old out to the trail loop.  Wanted to run about 1 mile at Marathon pace so when we hit the trail we bumped up the pace a little bit to about 5:50 min/mile.  Ended up going about 1.5 miles like that.  Took the rest of the run fairly easy and ended up with a 6:40 average for the whole run.

 Felt pretty good, I know I could go do a 1/2 pretty easy, now I just need to do that twice.