What ever it takes!

5:00 am.  Still a little bit sore from my 16 minute 5K, and 10 mile Tempo run on Saturday but not as bad as I would have thought I'd be.  Did the eliptical trainer for 15 minutes and then ran on the treadmill for an easy 5 miles in 36 minutes, 7:11 pace.  Lifted some weights and stretches for a bit and then sat in the hot tub.

5:00 am.  My right calf is pretty sore today, I got on the treadmill and took it real easy at first, ramped up to about a 7:00 pace but it never really got any better, right about the time I decided this run was doing more harm than good the treadmill reset on me, I took this as a sign and finished my workout on the Eliptical for 30 minutes.  I'm not to worried about it, since I really have nothing coming up and it's probably a really good thing for me to take it easy the rest of the year before build up to Ogden begins in January.

5:15 am.  Today was suppose to be a tempo run day but I really felt like I needed one more day off of running so I opted to swim instead.  2400meters in right around 1 hour,  now I feel incredibly refreshed, I think at least 1 day of swimming per week is a great way to recover. 

I'll shoot for that tempo run tomorrow.  Maybe!  I may start following the Ryan Hall training schedule.  

Woke up early this morning 4:00am and figured it wasn't worth going back to sleep so I just got ready and went to the gym.  Feeling only about 80% recovered from Saturday I really had a hard time getting motivated but my non-motivation gave me enough motivation to kick my-self in the butt and say "Rob, get out there and do that Tempo run"  I've been such a sludge this week I really wanted a good run. 

Did a 3 mile warm up in 20 minutes  6:40 pace

Then kicked it up and did 5 miles in 28:55  5:47 pace, which really wasn't as pleasant as it sounds, legs were crampy, stomach hurt, and all in all a little awkward feeling.  But I did it and I'm sure am better for it.

Then I did an easy 1 mile cool down in ~7:30.

Got done way too soon, and didn't really feel like doing a 13 milear so I stopped, talked to Paul for a bit, lifted weights for a bit, sat in the hot tub for a bit, and now I'm at work for a bit.  But I did get a fancy new iPad yesterday, so that should keep me occupied for the day,  I head out to Portland for the week on Saturday,  I hear Portland is a great place to run, anyone have experience?  I'm staying at the Marriott Waterfront, I'm guessing right on the Waterfront, where ever that is!!

Keep waking up at 4:00 am all stuffy and yucky feeling and can't get back to sleep, seems that the only way to get over it is to get up and move.  Happy that today was an "easy" day got ready and headed to the gym.  It's always comforting that there is a happy place with other crazies that wake up at 4 in the morning to keep me company.

8 miles in 51:35  6:27 avg pace, last mile in 6:00.  I hope to get an outside run in tomorrow morning, maybe I can convince Ryan to go with me.  Then I'm off to Portland, oh by the way I love my new iPad, I spent way to much money in the iTunes store yesterday and got some good running books to read on long plane rides, say to Paris in 3 weeks.

5:45 am.  Met Ryan at the Maverik to do our 13 mile Lehi, Willow Park, Thanksgiving point loop.  I wanted to try and maintain a 6:30 - 6:40 pace, that lasted about 5 miles, both of us seemed to be dealing with poor pre-run dinner choices last night and around Willow Park really started to struggle,  after I dealt with my stomach issues I felt a little better but never really could get myself back into it.   Ended up just really struggling to want to even finish, then to make matters worse construction had totally torn the heck out of the trail and really got us out of a groove.  I joked that I can't run anywhere anymore without construction getting in the way and that one morning I'm expecting to show up at the gym and find construction tape across my treadmill :).

Ended up cutting our losses and taking the shortcut back to the car,  11.1 miles in 1:16:30 about 6:52 avg pace, but with all the stops that's not really an accurate number anyway.  Oh well, can't always be 100%.  I really feel like I'm coming down with a cold or something, I hope going to a more humid sea level climate for the next week will help.