Today I started the Garmin watch @ 4:25 am. I wanted to get on the road early so that I could be home at a decent time. I have 3 UDOT jobs that bid on tuesday so i have a lot of work to do. I needed to make up some miles from Saturday since I didn't ge to run. Kellie ran the Provo half so I woke the boys up and headed over to watch her finish. She did awesome, she wanted to finish under 1:50, I thought she was capable of 1:45 and she finished under that at 1:44 and some change. She did awesome, so I was glad that I made it over to watch her.
This morning was one of those mornings where you wish you had a bib on your shirt and a finish line waiting for you at the end. I felt so good today, I don;t know if it was because of the short mileage week last week or beacuse I am actually in better shape than I think. I ran out to Osborne Corner dropped my 20 oz of water and then made two complete loops around the golf course. I like the feeling when I can finally ditch the water off of my hips and run with out it for 10 miles. I carried a little flash light with me, moslty to be safe but it was real nice for spot lighting deer. I ran past 2 on power house rd that were with in 5 feet of me and about 12 others through out the river bottoms. 3 bucks and a lot of does. One buck had the one side if his horns busted off and it was hanging in his face? I don't know if he got hit by a car or just banged it on a tree? It is to early for then to be fighting? Oh well enough about deer, can you tell that I am starting to get into the hunting mode?
At mile 13.75 I decided to run up Heart Break and back down so I could get an exrta .5 mile in so that I wouldn't have to run past my house to hit the 20. I saw Kim and Tom right at tree road, tried to stop and say hi, but they were on a TEMPO run and could not stop. I ran under 7's the rest of the way home the last 6 miles. I felt no fatigue today, maybe a little ache now and again but nothing serious. I really didn't pay any attention to my watch today either just moslty ran off feel. I checked my spit's when I was doing my cool down and I was surprised to see that I averaged my St. George pace from last year 7:15 on a some what of a flat course. I felt like I could have ran another 6.2 miles with no problems what so ever.
This week I am going to try and run more miles and try some good speed work. We are going to the house in St. George this weekend I anticipate running 20 miles on the course on Saturday for a long run. I am excited for Hobble Creek in less than 2 weeks.
Ave pace 7:15 | 