What ever it takes!

Still on East coast time, usually don't run on Sunday but I was up at 4:00am with nothing to do and didn't want to wake the rest of the family so I went and got the dog (she doesn't get mad when I wake her up at 4:00am) and went for a nice easy 5 mile run around the neighborhood trail system.

That poor dog is out of shape, or getting old, she is only good for about 4 miles anymore.

My Garmin battery died at mile 1 so I ended up going on my old reliable 10 mile out and back.  We'll just call it 10 miles in 1:10.

5:00 am.  First time on a treadmill in over 2 weeks,  but I didn't feel like running in the dark this morning plus it seemed kind of windy.  Did 4 miles at about 6:45 pace, then decided to do a quick 5K sim.  I started out trying to hold a 5:40 pace but that only lasted for about 1.6 miles, had to slow it down for 1/4 mile and then got back up to 5:50 pace to finish it off.  Ended up doing the 5K in 18:42.  I'm sure I could have done it in 18:00 but I went out to hard to start.  Need to stop doing that.

 Just put my 12 week training schedule together for TOU.  Pretty Brutal, up to 100 miles a week,  and considerably more speed work than my last schedule.

Started a speed and agility class yesterday as kind of a filler before training for TOU begins, my legs hurt more today than after Ogden Marathon, squats and plate pushes for an hour.  Today was more upper body and core. 

Ran a really, really slow 5 miles before class started this morning..  Hopefully it all pays off in the end.

5:00 am.  Ran 4 miles on the treadmill while it was still dark, after 4 miles I decided to go hit the river trail, took it to the end and back which was 5.4 miles round trip.

Nothing like a mouth-full of bugs for a high protein breakfast.

Going to speed class for lunch today, I have muscles I didn't even know I had hurting all over my body.  Must mean it's working huh?

Ran 5.25 before speed training this morning,  2 miles in class, according to Garmin.  Glad this week is over, I hurt everywhere.  Going camping tonight so I may not get a long Saturday run in this week.  Not really worried about it.

Stayed at the Spruces campground up Big Cottonwood canyon for Father Son's outing last night.  Woke up at 5:30am freezing cold and figured there where 2 ways to get warm, go make a fire with wet wood, or go run.  Luckily I had left my gym bag in the trunk of my car and had running shoes with me.  So before the kids woke up I headed up the canyon to Brighton ski resort.  Pretty tough climb 7% grade in some places starting at 7500ft ending at 8500.  I didn't have my Garmin with me so I'm just guessing on the distance but Map my Run says about 5 miles total.  Did it in about 40 minutes.  Not as far as I would like my Saturday run to be but at least I got something in.