Long May You Run

6 miles on the track.  Very warm windy day.  the track is good on a windy day, only half as much wind.  Rick Majerus died yesterday, very sad day around here, we are all U of U grads and loved Coach Majerus.

4.65 miles 36:42  7:54 ave pace.  had to work late, no extra miles.  I love running downtown this time of year, lots to Christmas lights, downtown is buzzing with activity and I run through in my shorts.  This has to be the latest in the year that I've still been able to run in shorts.

5.15 am miles  44:29  8:38 ave pace

10.1 pm miles 1:31:57  9:06 ave pace  B St route, cemetery. 

4.65 am miles 43:03  9:15

10.65 pm miles 1:39:16  9:19 pace.  Regular route home with 6 miles on the track.  Slow pace tells me I'm tired, which I am.  Good slog workout.

12.05 mile   1:42:50  8:32 ave mile, Murray area

10 miles out and back from home.  No more shorts.  1:27:51  8:47 ave.  Not liking my 3 day lay off but I had little choice.  Got to ramp my miles, will look to do longer runs this week if things go well.

10 miles out and back from home.  1:20:40  8:04 ave pace.  Tailwind out, headwind back.

10 miles 1:29:18  8:56 ave.  Jumped out of bed and ran.  No breakfast, no coffee, no nothing.  I liked this.  I'm planing on doing this tomorrow.  I don't think I could go much longer than 10 on an empty stomach, but 10 seemed just about right.

10 miles  1:34:24  9:26 pace.  Very tired, glad to get through this run.  I think I didn't have much strength because I ate very little yesterday.

10 miles out and back from home in light snow.  Love winter running.  Feeling sluggish and tired, I call this training.  Pounding away on tired legs when you got nothing.  1:33:31  9:21 pace.  wow, that's slow.  I really can't go any faster.

10 miles out and back from home 1:27:32  8:45 ave pace.  Faster than yesterday, I must have been very tired.  felt a little stronger today, didn't really try to alter my pace, same effort as yesterday and pretty much always but about 35-40 seconds faster per mile.

10 miles out and back from home.  1:26:56  8:42 ave pace.  the day off yesterday was nice, felt refreshed today.  Could have run much faster but held back, looking to go long tomorrow.

16 miles out and back from home.  2:20:21  8:46 ave pace.

6 miles on a belly full of pizza.  I discovered Little Caesars five dollar pizza.  Could not control myself.  I had 6 pieces at 280 calories per.  That's 1680 calories.  And to think I only burned off 600 of those.  This run was horrible, I hate running on a full stomach but I would have felt worse than I do now.  So for dinner I Had 5 tacos, a couple of cookies and a small bowl of ice cream.  I hate days like these.

My uncomfortably full stomach run was 56:42.  That's a blazing 9:27 pace.  Any faster and I would have barfed.  I retrospect, I kind of wished I would have. 

20 miles out and back from home.  Windy on the way back  2:55:07  8:45 ave.  first 20 miler of the season, feel pretty good.

6 miles behind the Capitol.  51:38  8:36 ave.  Ran in shorts today, yipee!!!

6 miles on the track.  Snow on the track plus is was snowing.  It was night so the lights were pretty.  49:51  8:19  ave pace.  wound up running a progression starting at 8:50 and ending at 7:31.

5 miles 

10 miles out and back from home, falling snow, nice run.  1:22:33 8:15 ave.

10.15 miles 1:30:56   8:57 ave.  Behind the Capitol, along 11th ave up the the gate behind Shriners Hospital.  Feel beat up.

10 miles 1:30:50  9:05 ave.  First 4 miles 9:34 to 9:14 then I dropped to sub nine the rest of the way.  I started feeling good at about mile 5.  First few miles were rough.

did not feel like running at all, but I had to.  Mailed in 6 slow miles.  55:53 ave pace 9:19.  over and done, time to get back in front of the TV.  That's been my day since 5:00 am with the exception of a 35 minute errand I did at about 10am.

6 miles 53:37  8:56 ave