What ever it takes!

A little bit sore from Saturday, not terrible but enough to make me think running wouldn't be enjoyable.  1 hour on the elliptical followed by weights.

8 miles easy, then 2 mile progression 6:20 avg pace.  I think I can maintain 6:18 for a good while.  I just may try and find out, maybe the day before Thanksgiving.

Met with Smooth, Rachelle, RAD, and Chad, and 2 others that were with Smooth at Willow Park this morning.  I got there 40 minutes too early so I just ran up to the Jr. High school and ran laps around the track while I waited.  I got 3 miles in went back to my car and still had 15 minutes left so I started running again but then Chad pulled up so I turned around and waited with him.

Very nice morning, chilly but nice.  I was glad I had my free pair of gloves that I got in my Big Cottonwood Marathon bag with me or my hands would have froze.

Rachelle, Rachel, Chad and I started out together, ran out to the lake, over the bridge, through the spooky forest and then Chad started running ahead, I was torn.  I liked running slow with the Rachelles but it seemed more manly to go off and run fast with Chad.  I wasn't in a real manly mood but I said thanks for inviting me to the Rachelles and took off to catch Chad, we started a pretty good little marathon pace tempo run right at 6:20 pace, it felt fine but all of a sudden my heart went crazy and wouldn't stop beating.  I had to stop and let it slow down and told Chad to go ahead.  After my heart calmed down I continued my tempo run and caught Chad with about 1 mile to the end.   He was working me hard, we ended up running the last .5 at about 5:45 pace.  I think.

Nice run, I had fun, thanks everyone.

8 miles on the treadmill all alone in a crowded gym.

Not sure if I was just having a bad day or I'm not in as good of shape as I thought I was.  Plan was to run a test tempo run at 6:20 pace.  Started with a 2 mile warmup, then bumped up to 6:30 pace.   I ended up pulling the plug after 1 mile, it just kind of hurt and made me sick so I just slowed down and finished my run at 7:30 pace.  I did do 5 X .1's at sub 5 pace the last mile just to feel better about myself.

I would have ended up at the gym this morning but last night Bradin asked if he could go with me this morning on his bike.  What a cool kid, what 10 year old volunteers to wake up at 5:30am and go on a bike ride in the cold with his dad?  7 miles out and back on the JRP, I put my really bright bike light on his bike and he rode behind me lighting the way.  It was really nice.  We had to stop 2 times to try and find GeoCaches, but it was a really nice run, just a bit cold.  I feel bad I didn't go run Just Cuz today, it would have been perfect.