Dee's running blog

four and a half easy miles on the treadmill.

Ran the Striders half.  It was as I feared with my overall conditioning.  I was some six minutes plus slower than last year.  The extra ten pounds I'm carrying probably doesn't help. Here's my mile breakdown

1.  7:21

2.  7:08

3.  7:13--towards the end of this mile I knew I was going to be able to hold this pace for long.

4.  7:42

5.  7:30

6.  8:03

7.  7:43

8.  7:50

9.  9:10--I way overdressed and was extremely hot.  I pulled over at the aid station and shed two layers.  Big mistake as the wind picked up right after and my wet long sleeve got extremely cold.

10.  8:20--Very winds, already just holding on.

11.  8:39

12.  8:43

13.  8:18

.1  :50

This was the first time I've raced since the fall and have been fighting a couple of nagging injuries which have made any type of speed workouts next impossible.  Both my knee and quad were sore throughout but I didn't feel they slowed me down too much. 

I ran an easy 5.25 while my son was at baseball practice.  Had an 8:47 pace for the run through the Uintah area.

I ran on the Ogden River trail from Peak Performance up to Rainbow Gardens and back.  Legs sore, not sure why.

Ran on the Yale Kilgore Road in Island Park.  Legs really sore today, quad and knee both hurting.  Took it pretty easy.  Lousy run, beautiful scenery.

Biked 35 miles in Yellowstone National Park.  Incredible experience.  Had a couple of close calls with some buffalo who didn't want to yield for bikes.   First time on a bike this year. 

This started out as a ten miler on the Yale Kilgore Road in Island Park.  Pain in both my left knee and right quad forced me to cut it short.  Had close to a ten mile pace.  Not sure what's going on.  If this doesn't change in a hurry I'm going to have to pull out of Ogden.  I definitely miss just being able to run. 

Ran with Ben from his house.  Did an out and back along Jackson.  Legs still sore but nowhere near as bad as Saturday.  Nice easy pace the first four miles, dropped down to an 8:20 the last mile, felt alright. 

Todd and I left my house and went up Jefferson to Burch Creek to Chambers, crossed Washington at St. Joes and then down through S. Ogden and Washington Terrace and back across Washington at Hilltop and back to my house.  Legs felt much better tonight.  Knee pain almost gone.  Quad still sore, but manageable.  First two miles were uphill and fairly slow, around 9 min pace, got down around 8 min pace for the rest of the run.

Ran with Shane, Todd and Ben.  We left Albertsons went down Eastwood to Combe and then started climbing.  Didn't stop for a couple of miles.  Made up to the top stree in Uintah and then crossed over into Shadow Valley.  Worked our way down to Skyline, turned South and went to Shadow Valley Dr. down to Old Post and back to where we started.  After we got the hills out of the way we pushed the pace a little.  Todd and Shane left me in their dust.  I stayed in the 7:45 to 8:00 minute range most of the last four miles. Felt pretty good overall.  The legs are still sore but doing better.

Ran through the streets of Brigham City while my son warmed up for his double header today.  Had some pretty significant left calf pain after mile three and ended up cutting the run short.  Not sure what's going on again.

Ran Monte with Ben, Melinda and Todd.  We started at the snowmobile parking lot and ran down to the Chevron in Huntsville.  Had an 8:40 average for the run.  Felt pretty good until the last two miles when the legs got tired. 

Ran with Ben up the Ogden River Parkway.  Went real slow the first three miles.  Kicked it up a little the last mile.  My legs were very sore the first couple of miles after yesterday's 18 miler. They loosened up and felt okay by the end.

Ran three miles from Gold's Gym up to the the river trail for another mile and then back.  Here we go again.  Intense knee and quad pain.  Could barely run.  Averaged just over a ten minute per mile pace.  This is getting frustrating. 

Ran from Todd's house.  Went down through S. Ogden and the Terrace, past Bonneville and crossed at Hilltop.  Over to Monroe and back to Todds via Glasmann.  downhill the first three and uphill the last three.  Legs felt better today but not great.

Ran with Todd, Ben and Shane. We left Albertson's in S. Ogden and took Combe all the way down to lower Uinah. We then ran through lower Uintah to S. Weber Drive. Took that to Riverdale and then River View Drive toRiverdale Road. Crossed and took the back streets to 31st. From there went to Grant and then North to the Ogden River trail. Finished with the last 3.5 miles of the Ogden Marathon backwards. I like that stretch a lot better going the other way. Anyway, had a good run until the last two miles where I started to break and slow down. Most miles were in the 8:30 range.

Met up with Todd up at Weber's track. We did a half mile warm up. we both decided that our legs weren't up to track work. We left the track and ran down to Ogden High via Mount Ogden Park and then back to Weber State with another half mile around the track.

Ran four miles out in West Haven while my son warmed up for his baseball game.