I run therefore, I am!

I swam 800 yards this morning.  I did 400 in 7:59, the other in 8:05.  Then I ran 3 miles with a 7:19 pace.  I felt like doo doo and it took me a mile to get my legs to move. My first mile was 7:57, 2nd was 7:19, 3rd was 6:40.  I will try to get out tonight if possible. 

I ran 5.5 miles of interval speed workout.  6-200's and 4-400's with lots of rest in between and the last 2 400's with 1 minute rest.  I saw James at the track with a ton of high school kids.  Ahh to be back in high school!  

I ran the park trail this morning with Danielle and Misty and it was actually cooler this morning.  It felt good. I ended up with 6 miles in 50 minutes. Then I went to Dimple Dell and swam 800 yards without stopping.  I did it in 16:15. 

I ran the Blacksmith Fork Canyon 15k today, my goal was to try and keep Josh Steffen in my sites and see if I had enough to strike at the end. My goal was to run a 5:35 Average and I met that goal. The keeping up with Josh was not acheived!  He is a freekin' amazing runner.  He has come a long way in a short time.  He ended up in second behind I think his name is Lane or something like that.  Carson Cambell was up there also and was a 1/4 mile ahead of me most the way.  I got a PR today in the 15k and I had Cody Draper to thank for it.  He came up the canyon on his bike and assisted me with some water and encouragement as I ran.  I was about 12th overall at the 3 mile mark and chewed my way slowly to 6th place from alot of high school kids dropping there times after 3 or 4 miles.   When I  overtook the 6th place it was the hardest.  I dont know who the runner was but he had me up the hill at the end and was putting distance on me and then stopped and puked!  I caught him and cody kept an eye on him while I had 2 miles to go.  It was a rough 2 miles knowing he had some strength left and he chewed up my gap of 200 feet to a few seconds.  I had a half a mile to go and I pushed as hard as I could and kept him from striking distance and finished in 51:57! YES! Thanks Cody! although I felt like jumping on your bike in a few spots.  Just let me know when you want me to return the favor!  Ill help you PR anytime!  Congrats to Josh and His Wife Meagan who won for the Women!  Awesome. Now get yourself on this Blog!  I know your reading this! 

I drove to first Dam up logan canyon and ran up the canyon until I caught the trail and did 4 miles up and 4 miles back.  It was a nice slow pace and it was windy.  I caught part of the newspaper article from the Herald journal of the race yesterday and it commented on the results and said the names of the 4 other guys that beat me overall and called me a marathon veteran.  Wow, Im not worthy!  I thought that was a nice gesture for a me.

I havnt been running the past two days because of some abdomen pain.  I went to a doctor today and they told me I had a hernia.  I have to meet with a surgeon on thursday at 10 am and I will let you all know what is up.  If they do surgery, I will be out close to a month.  Im going to ask if I can get away with putting it off until the winter and then doing it. Ive never had problems with my body before, Ive always been in a laboring position and my body is starting to catch up with me.   I did have a funny thing happen when I went in to the doctor, the nurse took my weight and started shaking her head.  132! Then I told her my cell phone probably weighed close to a pound. lol She then took my pulse and couldnt believe it. It was 44!  I asked her what the matter was and she told me my pulse was freakishly low.  I laughed as she left the room and could hear her talking to my doctor.  When my doctor opened the door, she was still talking to the nurse and said "he's a freak of nature that runs too much and it wasnt anything to worry about."  I asked her as she came into the room if I blew her nurse away and she said "yeah you freak!"  I will keep you all posted.

I ran 6 miles this morning slow and then 1 mile at a 5:30 pace. 7 miles total and it felt alright. 

I went to Riverton High School this morning and did a light speed workout.  I ran 2 miles to warmup. Then I did 8x200's and 4x400's.  I felt alright, I see my surgeon today and I have got alot of questions now because obviously my running hard doesnt seem to bother it.  Maybe a marathon would who knows.  Ive never had to deal with anything like that.  Ill let you all know whats up. keep on it!

I ran 3 miles and then jumped into the pool this morning and did my half mile swim.  I think swimming irritates my hernia so i may slow it down a bit and just concentrate on running.  It sucks getting old and worn out.  Im not old. Im fighting it!

I ran with Chad, Adam, Steve, and the lurkers, Josh, Meagan and Lisa. Sorry if you guys read this, im not trying to be hurtful here, just tough love ok!?  Get on this blog asap and you'll be guilt free.  Ok. So, we started at the powerplant up at the start of the SLC half marathon and we ran up to emigration and down and followed the desnews course and ended on foothill blvd at the kmart.  We actually backtracked a mile or so and made it a good 16.5 miles.  My legs were a bit sore and it felt good.  Ill take it easy now as I have the rest of the day to rest.  Instead of rocking around a pier at my house I found a guy to do it for 50 bucks!  No heavy lifting right?!

I ran 7.50 miles this morning without stopping. I did a 7.08 average. I ran and ran and ran. Thats all I got to say about that.

I ran this evening at 8:30 and it was still hot!  I did another 7.51 miles with some tempo speed of 5:50 to 6 minutes for a mile.  My average was 6:30 and I ran in 48:48.   My last half mile was a 2:43 which is a 5:22 mile.  Ive got to get that down to 5 even if  im going to show my face around at races. 

I ran the Daybreak loop which was 6 miles and I went counterclockwise on it today.  I averaged 7:20 miles and my first mile was 8:40.  I felt tired and it took 3 miles to get my legs to function. 

I did 1.5 mile warm up and 3.5 speed, I ran 6 200's, 4x400's and 1x800.  .5 cooldown. My times were slow at the start and I did progressively better as I got through them.  my 200's were right around 41 and my 400's were 1.25, 1.24, 1.19, 1.16.  My 800 was a 2.34.  There was a good 10 or so people on the track early this morning.  

I ran 6 miles this morning on the park trail starting at gardner villiage out 3 miles to murray and back.  It was dusk when I started and there were a ton of nats and flying critters!  I ate a couple, some went in my eyes, some in my ears and im just glad my shorts were on!  This concludes my morning run. out

I ran 10 on the jordan park trail this morning and it was very quiet and felt good.  Lots of ducks this morning.  Saw a few familiar faces on the trail.

I got up to the capitol this morning at 7am and ran to shriners and back to city creek canyon  and then up the canyon to the top which is 6 miles and back down.  On mile 15 I was extremely tired and hungry.  I pushed myself to a 5:40 pace even though I couldve done alot faster considering how steep  is was coming down.  I passed 5 joggers and 4 bikers going up and was using them to motivate myself for speed going up.  My total time was 2 hours and 20 seconds.  I ran my last 6 miles down the canyon in 35 minutes. I wished I could go up that in 35! 

I ran 12 hard fought miles up city creek this evening and I got a migraine headache probably from not enough water. 

Did a speed workout this morning at riverton HS. did a 1 mile warmup then did 2x200's and 12x400's with 1 minute rest.  200's were 42, and 39. 400's were 1.22,1.17,1.16,1.16,1.16,1.15,1.16,1.14,1.13,1.13,1.13,1.12.  I actually felt good and was getting faster instead of slower.  Finished with a mile and half cool down.

Ran 8 miles at 4:30 in 96 degrees and im wiped out.  It feels like i havnt run in a week.  oops, thats right, I havnt. 

I ran at 5:30 AM this morning on the parkway trail with Misty, Danielle, and Charity.  I felt pretty good and was running about a 8:30 mile until the last mile I did a 6:00 even mile.  It was rather humid this morning and when the sun came up it was better. 

I did a speed workout this morning with Trick and Misty. I did 4x200's and 4x400's and 1x800. I did 42's on my 200s and 1:17 on my 400's, and 2:35 on the 800. I have a headache from lack of water yesterday. Ive got to carry water with me at all times at work. Im too dang skinny and have no reserve to help me through the day. I warmed up with 2 miles and finished with a 1 mile cool down.