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Adidas Blue Lifetime Miles: 408.20
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Adidas Gold Lifetime Miles: 503.75
Ace Black Lifetime Miles: 346.23
Black Pearls Lifetime Miles: 313.75
Brooks Uglies Lifetime Miles: 191.25
Nike Black Trainers Lifetime Miles: 12.50
Adidas Orange Lifetime Miles: 280.25
Blue Skulls Lifetime Miles: 227.50
Grey Rides Lifetime Miles: 266.75
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
83.5071.009.000.000.000.000.00163.50
Blue Skulls Miles: 37.00Grey Rides Miles: 48.50Adidas Orange Miles: 65.00Ace Black Miles: 10.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
3.508.000.000.000.000.000.0011.50

AM-Ran the Tamarisk loop w/ mark, and the girls.

PM-Ran the virgin river loop from the house.  Decide after mile 1 to run at marathon pace.  When I got home, I realized I was exactly at 7:25 a mile.  I was a little tired the 1st 2 miles, but then I got feeling pretty good in the middle and made a up some time.  The last 2 I just want to to be done.   The race made me a little more tired than normal on Monday.

Blue Skulls Miles: 3.50Grey Rides Miles: 8.00
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6.000.000.000.000.000.000.006.00

AM-Got up a little late, but I decided to do the old GW loop before school.The sun was completely up, but the temps were still cool.  It was a runners dream this AM.  I just cruised along and enjoyed it.  Toobad I got up late and stressed about being to work on time.  I missed my dang dept. meeting anyway-which really sucked.

PM-Laur and I did the gw loop backwards after our impromptu T&F party at the house.  The run was nice and slow.  Laurie just talked about the daily stuff.  It was very fun to run with my hot wife!

Blue Skulls Miles: 3.00Grey Rides Miles: 3.00
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PM-I didnt go out until 9:30pm.  I wasn't going to run, but then I felt fidgety by then.  I ran the town square out/back at 6:58 a mile.  A beautiful run, except the dog by the music store that tried to attack me.  I did the dog whisperer thing and just stopped and stared at him.  The owner just yelled at him until he finally walked back to the house.  I wish I would have had that pepper spray for dogs.  I may have sprayed the owner too.  Buy a leash for hell sakes!  BYU tomorrow.  We will see how things go.

Adidas Orange Miles: 10.00
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0.004.000.000.000.000.000.004.00

I got in 1 run at provo.  A quick one up to the temple and down by the creamery. 

 

Adidas Orange Miles: 4.00
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A massive flake this morning.  I slept like crap, so i just didn't want to get up when I finally went to bed.  Being away from home messes with my running!

 

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+60 again this week! 

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AM-got out early enough to do the town square run.  I felt really crappy after i got to the square.  by the time I got home, I was feeling so bad that I thought I might have the flu.  I took the am of from work and slept from 8 until 11AM.  When I woke up, I realized that I had not drank enough during the track meet and then fasted on Sunday.  The morning run finally pushed me into bad dehydration.  I really pushed the liquids during the day and felt much better by the afternoon. 

PM-I did the usual out and back to the bridge.  I kept it at 7:25 for the 1st mile then droped down to 7:10 for the next 3. 

Blue Skulls Miles: 4.00Grey Rides Miles: 10.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
7.000.003.000.000.000.000.0010.00

PM-I hate running in the wind, so I went over to wccc and ran the treadmill for 10.  It was so boring.  I had some earphones that shocked me because there was an exposed wire.  I took them off after the 1st 1/2 mile.  I watched atl play chi in b-ball.  I got so bored that I turned the treadmill up to 9.8 and hammered out the last 3 miles.  I was 18 minutes for the last 3, so a little faster than marathon pace!!  oh well.

Adidas Orange Miles: 10.00
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0.003.000.000.000.000.000.003.00

I didn't have my watch this am, but I felt pretty good. 

Yesterday I noticed that I have some pain in my right heel.  I think it is the beginnings of plantar fasciitis.  I am going to back off tomorrow and then get my long in Saturday.

No 60 mile week this week.

Blue Skulls Miles: 3.00
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24.000.000.000.000.000.000.0024.00

Chad and I started above the cinder cone.  The 1st 12 were just a nice easy downhill go.  We decided to go out toward ivins to get all of our miles in-bad mistake.  We got back to the maverick on sunset blvd and we were at 22 already.  I called laur and she picked us up on diagonal right after our 24th mile.  I didn't feel  great between mile 19 and 22, but after I knew laur was coming and we would have to hurry to get our miles in, we pushed to 7:45 a mile for the last 2.  I felt really good on saturday pm, except a little catch in my left knee.  I think things are looking pretty good.  we were 7.46 a mile for the total.

Adidas Orange Miles: 24.00
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3.005.000.000.000.000.000.008.00

AM-ran with mark and darian to spectrum.  Laurie left the slide and fountain going and shut the pool cover, so I had to bail water off the cover last night for an hour and a half.  My quads and back are feeling it this AM.  

PM-ran the big house loop.  I didn't feel great the 1st couple miles, but then things started to come around a little bit.  I was at 7:18 a mile for 5. 

Blue Skulls Miles: 3.00Grey Rides Miles: 5.00
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My heel feels not good and my ankle is now bothering me.  It may be from adjusting my foot fall.  I am taking the day off.  Things are unraveling a little.  I am not feeling like running, but I have worked too hard to lose conditioning now.  

I hope a day of rest after the long Saturday run will rejuvenate me.   

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
2.502.006.000.000.000.000.0010.50

PM-went to wccc and did speed work on the treadmill.  warm up then 1600 on and 800 off for the 10 miles.

1-6:25

2-6:20

3-6:20

4-6:15

5-6:15

6-6:10

Cool down mile to end.

It is amazing what 1 day of rest can do.  I felt way better and I was looking forward to the run.  It is crazy how my body can tell when it is time to back off.  I couldn't sit down monday and tuesday without falling asleep, but today things were great.

It is still really windy.  It has never been this windy and rainy since I can remember.

Blue Skulls Miles: 10.50
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3.000.000.000.000.000.000.003.00

AM-easy run before leaving for T&F state

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6.000.000.000.000.000.000.006.00

AM-This was a crappy run up toward provo canyon and back.  I felt so crappy that I just walked part of it on the way up and then run back down.  I did not eat right and get enough water during the meet yesterday. 

Blue Skulls Miles: 6.00
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6.008.000.000.000.000.000.0014.00

AM-3 @ 7:09 per mile.  I was going to just run around marathon pace, but I felt pretty good.  I a m nervous that I haven't gotten enough miles in the last few weeks and I didn't get a long run on Saturday.  My mind is messing with me leading up to the race.  I am going to do a little longer pm run today just to get a little confidence back.  

The temps this morning were a little warm but a beautiful day.  I will miss not running with Mark, lex, and darian.  They all did great at state.  The work paid off, because they all PRed by significant amounts. 

PM-I wanted to do a little longer run to gain some confidence back after the fiasco in provo.  It didn't work.  I think the wind and heat ate me up the last couple miles.  I did the GW virgin river north loop.  I tried to stay right at marathon pace for the whole thing, but I started to really overheat after the bloomington hills climb.  I didn't have enough water, so things went south after that.  I got to Mr. D's to walk up the hill and Laur came by from shopping.  I flagged a ride with her and ended a mile early. 

Adidas Orange Miles: 3.00Grey Rides Miles: 11.00
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4.000.000.000.000.000.000.004.00

PM-4 miles easy with laur. big house and back.  Feeling okay, but the mental game is starting already with the marathon.  Did i peak too early? did I stop doing mileage too early?  do I need to do more or less? 

Blue Skulls Miles: 4.00
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10.000.000.000.000.000.000.0010.00

Easy 10 with chad on the virgin river figure 8.  Felt really good.

Ace Black Miles: 10.00
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AM-kire laur and i got up at 5am to get to Kires trak meet in provo.  He ran the 1500 and then I had them take me up the canyon.  I ran the last 14 of the marathon.  I didn't wnat to miss his other race so I push pretty hard through the whole run.  My 1st mile was 7:01 and then I dropped down from there.  the last 3 i back off a little, because I didn't want to wear myself out and not recover for the marathon.  I went 6:54 overall so I was quite excited about that.  I am feeling pretty confident abou the race, althoug the feeling of the last few miles started to creep into my head on the course.  I have to just battle the last few miles and get a good time.

I went fly fishing with allen on friday and had a blast.  I think I will do more of the easy recreation this summer and not so much running.  I am feeling a little burned out with it right now.  Although with the taper, I imgine I will be ready to run by the time the marathon gets here.

Adidas Orange Miles: 14.00
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8.503.000.000.000.000.000.0011.50

AM-Laur asked me to run with her today.  I was gald because the 14 on Saturday was a little too fast, so I needed something easy.  We went around the virgin river loop and added the bloomington loop to it.  By the time we got to flying j, laur was feeling like we went too fast and told me I was pulling her too much.  She told me to go ahead, so I finished the last 3 around marathon pace.  The last 3 miles I was ready to be done.  I took a 2 hour nap and enjoyed it. 

The rest of the day was a waste.  I just hung out by the pool.

Grey Rides Miles: 11.50
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
83.5071.009.000.000.000.000.00163.50
Blue Skulls Miles: 37.00Grey Rides Miles: 48.50Adidas Orange Miles: 65.00Ace Black Miles: 10.00
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