Dee's running blog

I ran tonight with Cherrie.  She's preparing to run the five miler in Moab next month and needs to get more miles in.  We went at a pretty slow pace, but it just felt good to get the blood flowing after yesterday's run.

I ran with Todd, Mike D. and Shawn.  We did the loop from Peak Performance down to Hilltop and back up Burch Creek.  We went a little slower tonight than we've gone in the past.  We ran 8:30s down and 9:10s back.  My legs felt good tonight.  I think Sundays slow run helped out a lot.  The last mile we sped it up and ran a 7:30 pace, the last couple hundred yards my Garmin dropped below a 6:30 pace and started ringing for me to slow down.  It felt good to have that kind of kick at the end.  It's been a while since I've felt that strong at the end of a run. 

I ran with Mike D., Todd, Kacie and Shawn.  We left Peak Performance and ran to WSUs football stadium.  We then went up through Shadow Valley and back to Peak Performance.  We ran a lot of fairly steep hills through Shadow Valley.  On the way out we maintained a pace in the 8:10 to 8:20 race.  Coming back we did a lot of hill work and I slowed down to the 9:00 to 9:20 range.  My legs are starting to feel a lot stronger on the hills. Once we got down to level ground I was able to push a 7:15 the last 3/4 mile. 

I ran with Todd, Anthony, Shawn, Ben, Quinton, Mike D. and Mike G. We started at Peak Performance and did what has become our regular Saturday run for the last month.  We added a little mileage by running around Beus's Pond.  The trails were hard and frozen which was good and bad.  There were places were bikes had gone through mud and then it froze so those parts were hard on the feet.  Other than that, it was a good run.  We didn't push the pace very hard until the end when I dropped to under an 8 minute pace the last couple of miles.  My legs felt tired.  I think they were hung over from Thursday's run where he ran a lot of hills. I've been having problems finding the right shoe.  I love the Nimbus but I've only been getting 200 to 250 miles out each pair.  I've been trying different shoes most recently the Nike Pegasus.  I've been having heel problems ever since I switched to the Pegasus.  I got a new pair of Nimbus and this was my first run in the new pair.  I'm going to track them and see exactly how many miles I get out of them before they break down.