BACK TO WORK

AM Ran with the team again this morning.  The downside of having laurie coach XC this year is that I have to get up @ 5:45 if I am going to run, but the upside is that she wakes me up early enough that I don't have to battle the heat.

Chad, Mark, Matt and I ran the loop together, then we went down the trail toward the DC and then back to the Bloom park.  It was a nice run and the kids are great.  All of the kids on the XC team this year are just real good kids.  It is so different working with the football team than with these kids.  There just seems to be a lot of macho with the football team instead of just being themselves.  I know that is part of the game, but it is much harder to crack the facade and really get to know kids when they are trying to be something they aren't. 

I borrowed a tandem bike from Mike Hall yesterday, since my road bike is getting fixed.  I put Lex on the back and we wnet 10 miles.  It was really fun once I got the hang of the steering.  I think I will take laurie on a little ride tonight.   

AM five miles.  I got up @ 5 and rode out to santa clara with mike.  He went up through SC, but since I am going to do the half, I decided to keep the legs fresh.  I decided to turn out and go around the black hill to bloom park and meet the xc team.  I ran with logan and the boys when I got there.  We only had a few show up, but it was still a nice run from bloom park to sismisters ortho and back. We just chatted and had a good time. 

PMI opened up the weight room for football on monday and today, so I lifted some circuit training and left it at that.

AM Went to the WCR and hit the treadmill today.  I watched the middle of the tour de france while I got in a fairly quick 3.5.  I did a tempo run for 20 minutes and then a cool down. 

8 AM left for the young mens activity today.  We drove to draper and did baptisms, then back to provo. 

PMI had set up a tour of all the BYU football facilities through Coach Tidwell.  The people did a great job and we got to see a ton of good stuff.  I am very impressed with their organization.  I like how they have integrated the church and life teaching into the football program.  Very cool.

 It was 6PM by the time we got down, so I had them drop me off at the Y track to catch the tail end of the track camp.  They were doing the track meet, but I couldn't find Laura D.  I did catch thhe 3000M, but not a lot going on, so I wenet back over to the stadium and had pizza with the YM.  

We stayed up all night at the Quarry to climb and sleep.  The climbing was fun but the rest was none! I got nothing in as far as miles today, because afterward, I just drove home and had a nap.  I got home at 2PM

4PM We are going to head out to Bryce to pick up our packets, and sleep in Hatch tonight.  I am not really ready for a fast half tomorrow, but I am going to go out and enjoy the race.  The summer has been fun and I think besides the big 100 mile ULCER in August, this is my last big HURRAH, so I am going to just enjoy.  Football starts on Monday, and then I am in the classroom on Aug. 10th. (Yuck!)

It was cold and I was tired, so the first two miles counted as my warm up time.  I felt really bad the first two miles.  My right calf was tight and the fire that was in the area raised a little havoc on my breathing.  Interesting enough I hit my splits pretty close on both miles. 

The next two miles I started to settle into the race a little and by mile six I was feeling good enough that I ran a little faster split than I wanted.  Mile eight trimmed my wings a little bit though and I got back to the 7 minute split average.  I really started to feel better on mile 10, 11, and 12.  I didn't train the way I wanted leading up to the race, because of all the activities the last month, but it was fun to run and I could see how it would be very fast if I focused on running through the summer. 

1-7.16  2-missed  3-6.56  4-7.01 5-7.03  6-6.32 7-7.06 8-7.28  9-missed  10-6.57 

11-7.03 12-7.05 Finish 1:32.12