Dee's running blog

Today was an interesting run.  I met up with Todd, Anthony and Mike G.  We drove up to Morgan To Kacie's house.  From there Kacie and Billy joined us and Kacies husband drove us up above East Canyon and we ran back to Kacies.  The wind was howling the first five miles. It was very difficult to run into it.  Once we got past the dam and started into the canyon we were sheltered from the wind.  We saw lots of deer.  The number was in the hundreds.  One jumped up onto the road about fifteen feet in front of Todd, Billy and I. It about gave me a heart attack.. We also saw Moose, an eagle and wild turkeys.  Unfortunately there was a lot of road kill on the side of the road, including two porcupines and a deer that had been hit not long before we got to her because she was still squirming around. Unfortunately we didn't see the wild llama that roams these parts. Two weeks ago it made an appearance and went after Anthony.  See here for proof. http://www.kammeyeronline.com/photos/run/Winter%202008%20Running/slides/Morgan%20Running-003.html I went skiing that day so I missed it.  If it wasn't for the pictures I wouldn't have believed it myself.

The last three miles it started to rain really hard.  By the time we got back to Kacies I was drenched.  We kept up a pretty good pace all things considered.  Had an 8:38 pace for the run.  The run had a lot of rolling hills including two pretty steep uphill portions up above East Canyon.   

I ran on the treadmill and watched the Jazz get whooped again.

Todd and I ran the Combe loop to Wasatch, crossed Harrison at Starbucks and then went down to Article Circle and back to Peak Performance. My right calf was sore. Ran the first 4 around 7:50, slowed down for the last 2. Had a 8:10 pace for the run.

I got the bike out for the first time this year and went for a short ride.  Went 9 miles.

I ran the Striders 10k today.  Met up with Mike D., Ben, Todd and Sean at Peak Performance.  We ran from there to the Dee Events Center and then ran the 10k.  Ran back to the store after the race.  Total mileage for the day was 10.5.  I really wasn't looking forward to the last mile and a half of the race as I'm very familiar with this road having run it numerous times.  I decided to push the pace a little the first half and hope I had some time built up for the end.  I was at 21 minutes exactly at the 3 mile mark.  I was hopeful at that point that I could break 45.  It wasn't even close.  My miles were as follows:

1. 7:11

2. 6:36

3. 7:12

4. 7:51

5. 8:45

6. 8:43

.2- 1:23

I saw several fastrunningblog shirts and met a couple of fellow bloggers.  This was a good race that emphasized to me that I need to get stronger on the hills.  I hear the 10 miler in two weeks is basically the same route with some additonal hills thrown in.