EXTREME MAKEOVER 2012

This morning Kellie went to spin class so I had to resort to the treadmill.  I hate the treadmill, it always feels like you have ran 5 miles and really you have only ran 2.  I put a towel over the display so that I couldn't see the time and distance.  I watched The Italian Job on the PSP hoping to make it go by faster.  No such luck, at mile 2 I thought that I would have been on mile 4 I looked and I had only gone 1.87 miles... AAAAAAHHHHHHH.  I was going to run 6 but I knew that I had about 1 hour of snow plowing ahead of me.  I think that we got about 12-14 inches at our house, it was deep and wet on the bottom.  The school bus couldn't make it up the hill so all of the kids had to walk down to it, kind of funny.  If the roads clear up I would like to get another 5 in tonight on the roads.  Legs felt great and fresh, but they should after a week of golfing and Las Vegas sun.  Now back to reality.

It was a little chilly this morning and the roads were horrible.  I ran in my Yak Trax this morning and I was glad that I had them on.  I felt ok today, lower back and quads were a little sore from snow boarding yesterday.  It was a great day snow boarding, the powder was knee deep and deeper in spots.  It was a quiet morning, light snow the whole time and no wind.

ave pace 7:40

Kellie had spin this morning so I had to resort to the treadmill.  I took my old iMac and put it in front of the treadmill so that I could at least watch a movie on a larger screen, the PSP was just not big enough.  I need to start running longer so that I can at least finish a movie.  Today the move of choice was You, Me and Dupree.  I like the movie, but I still hate running on the treadmill.  Total running time 47:00, finished the 10k in 45 min and then walked for 2 more minutes.

This morning I had a bad headache so I really didn't feel like getting up and running.  Kellie is going running with some friends in the morning so she asked if I knew of a good 11 mile route.  I mapped a route and so I had to go and run it to see how the course was.  It was a good course and I felt really good.  I don't know if it was the warm temp's (34 deg) or the fact that I was able to wear shorts and a short sleeve shirt with sleeves.  I decided early in the run that I would treat this as a long tempo run with 3 quick miles between 7 and 10.  I am running long tomorrow morning but it will be cold and slower so I decided to tempo this run. 

Splits

1 - 6:52 (down hill)

2 -  6:58

3 - 7:03

4 - 7:01

5 - 6:58

6 - 6:58

7 - 6:59

8 - 6:49

9 - 6:50

10 - 6:40

11 - 7:04

total running time 1:16:13 - ave pace 6:56

Got home and rolled the legs with the roller stick and about 20 minutes of stretching.  I love dry roads and cool temps!

Today I met up with a new running buddy, Rich C.  He is from Spanish Fork and has been in my age division for the past 2 years but he is now 35 and is no longer in my division thank goodness because he is a fast runner.  WE have talked via email, blog and facebook but have never hooked up for a run until now.  We met at bishops corner and ran through the river bottoms and then up to Harry's Hill and then back to bishops corner.  It was a cold morning, i know that when I was driving to meet Rich my truck was registering 3-4 degrees.  When we hit the top of Harry's it was actually warmer up top than it was in the River Bottoms.  It was a great run we had a ton to chat about and it seemed to fly by.  I look forward to running with him more, especially this summer.

ave pace 7:40

Rich has signed up for the blog so if you see him on the blog make sure and tell him hi.