Running - The Best RESET Button!

Evening run today, I drove to the Salem Stake Center hoping to meet up with Pat and Kent but they no showed so I was all by myself.  I ran over to pretty little road and ran around the loop and then ran up Harry's Hill and then over to Woodland Hills Dr and up to the mail boxes, then across to Loafer Dr and then back to the Stake Center, I had to run an extra .75 to get to 10 miles.  It felt good to run hills today, I did fight a side ache for about 2 miles.  I think it was from the lunch that I had today.

ave pace 7:22

Met up tonight and ran with Mike L, he has not been running for about 2 months now because his knee has been hurting him.  We were running really, really slow before he got hurt he was running like 9:45's and we were struggling hitting 11:30 pace.  That was way to slow for me, it was pretty much a speed walk.  I thought to myself, should I run ahead and then turn around or just hang with him.  When we hit mile 2 he said why don't you run up and around pretty little road and I will run down the BYU dairy road and you try and catch me by the time I hit the Orton dairy.  I quickly said that would be great.  I left him when my watch said 2.2 miles

mile 1 10:52 :)

mile 2 11:14 :( :( :(

mile 3 7:38 this had .2 at a really slow pace

mile 4 6:18 this is an up hill section, about mile 7 of the spanish fork half.

mile 5 5:47 :) trying to catch Mike and as I turn down on the BYU dairy road I can't see him in sight, so I know that I need to kick it to catch him.  I thought that I would catch him by the time he hit the turn, but I think he kicked his pace up a bit too.  I hit mile 5 right before the hill at the dairy, I ran up the hill and caught him just past the dairy when he was getting ready to cross woodland hills dr.  I asked him if he caught a ride, he laughed and said that he had a goal to not let me catch him.  I had a flashing light on and he said that he could see me coming?

Mile 6 9:42

Mile .4 11:34, we had to wait a while to cross the highway.

ave pace 8:52

This was kind of a fun game, I would like to try it again and see if I could catch him sooner than the time before.

I got home from work and had enough time to go and run before Evan's karate practice.  I ran up to the Woodland Hill's mail boxes and thenback to Salem Canal Rd and home.  I tried to run the up hills slow and the run the down hill at MP and then hit the flat kind of hard.  I found today that I have an easier time hitting the low 6:00 to 6:20 pace on flat ground rather than on the down hill?  Everyhting felt good today, no real pains to speak of, I hope to get some longer miles in tomorrow.

ave pace 7:00