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Did the treadmill. Decided to see what I could do and opened it up. I ran 2 8 min miles and had to back it off for the rest of the run. I am getting stronger. :)

Went for a run this morning. I was not expecting it to be as dark as it was. I don't think the sun started coming out until closer to 6. The temperature felt really good. I made pretty good time. I guess I will be getting up early to run in the future the temperature was so much better.

Got out and did some miles. It is about time I did that again. I felt really strong and was even able to power through some hills that usually make me walk. I imagine most of it had to do with the significantly lower temps.

Short run tonight. I am planning on a long run this weekend so I am just trying to stay loose. I will be going out again tomorrow for a slightly longer run. This weekend, I will be running the pipeline in the morning.

So I finally tried out the Garmin Forerunner 305. Pretty schweet. 

I went for a run in the rain we had this evening. It was awesome. I came home soaked! So good!! The garmin toy is awesome. I took it super easy and just let the running happen. Now I have spent an hour trying to get the software to tell me everything I want to see. HA HA

I will be running the pipeline tomorrow morning, it should be awesome!!!!

Average Pace: 9:56 min/mile

A  nice easy run on the pipeline trail up Millcreek Canyon. My pace was super slow, what do you do.

Average Pace: 11:00 Min/Mile

Tonight was the dogs turn to go along. We went slow, he peed on everything, and the dog most definitely had to play in the stream. 

It was strange, at the beginning of the run my lungs felt like I was running in freezing weather. It went away about a mile in but I don't know why that would have happened. I have felt a little cough ever since as well. 

A short easy run before the race on Saturday. Everything felt really good. I am as ready as I am going to be.

So today was my first half marathon. I was surprised at how late it started. The race was supposed to start at 7:15 am. It finally started after 7:45 am. I made a couple of newbie errors, first I started my watch with the gun instead of when I actually crossed the starting line, probably a couple of minutes difference. Second, I forgot to stop my time at the end of the race for a couple of minutes. Hopefully my official race time ends up being a few minutes shorter than what I measured. HA HA

Mile 1: I started the race with the 8 min/mil group but ended up having to pass tons of people in the first mile. I think it hurt my time a little. With the start error my first mile was at 9:11 min/mile

Mile 2: Good pace felt really strong. 8:13 min/mile

Mile 3: 8:30 min/mile, This would have been a new PR for my 5k.

Mile 4: 8:46 min/mile

Mile 5: 8:46 min/mile

Mile 6: 8:50 min/mile By the way this is the first time I have ever run a race that had the distance of a 10k in it.

Mile 7: 9:49 min/mile You can see that I have not gone over six miles very often I hit my first so called wall right here. I recovered but never back to the 8 min/mile pace.

Mile 8: 10 min/mile

Mile 9: 10:09 min/mile

Mile 10: 11:57 min/mile My race was pitiful after mile 10.

Mile 11: 11:27 min/mile

Mile 12: 11:32 min/mile

Mile 13: 13:04 min/mile As you can see from this last mile I was in pain running was sporatic at best. I guess I should have pushed to this distance sooner. It was strange being in such a long race having skipped 10k's alltogether.

That was the race. The watermelon and grapes afterward were  most appreciated. I may do it again someday, probably with more distance under my belt. I felt like my distance just jumped too much for this race to be finished in good style.

Official time 2:09:15.2 Average pace 9:45 min/mile

Recovery run, the dog went with me so the run was nice and easy with a lot of potty stops. We gots to mark da territory. 

I have noticed something in the short time I have been running, I may be strange or abnormal. When I go for a short run and get my muscles warm then stretch, whatever soreness I may have had before the run seems to either go away completely or become greatly reduced. Maybe that is the whole point of a recovery run.

Mountain bike night, no running miles. We did Trail 152 up American Fork Canyon and ended at Tibble fork reservoir. About 7 miles of riding, awesome downhill, great upper body workout.

In Lawrence Kansas for the weekend. Did a great little run out to a place called Clinton Lake. Kansas is some flat running, I felt really fast. It was a good run but I didn't push it too much. Still trying to recover completely from that Half.