Rich's Running Blog

Today my wife asked me to take her and a friend to the top of hobble creek to run down.  Pretty much the Hobble Creek half marathon course.  I dropped her off then went to the golf course and ran up.  I am still recouping from the Deseret news so I have been going pretty easy.  I felt pretty good and I ran up and I was running about 7:15 pace going up the canyon then I felt pretty good I was doing about 6:10 to 6:15 pace coming down.  I am feeling pretty good that I am feeling this good only about a week removed from the Marathon.

I felt so slow today, I just didn't have any speed in me.  At one point I thought I did a fast mile and looked down and I did a 7:50 mile.  I think I was just drained from a busy Sunday.

A little better run, sure was warm today

This was a really slow day.  Then I had to cut my run short to go to the bathroom. 

Didn't feel great. 

Pretty easy 5 mile run, I was up till 1:00 am the night before and I had to get to work early so I didn't have much time or energy to run.  I am really worried that I am not getting the miles I need for marathon preparation.

Nice easy 6 miles in preparation for the 1/2 marathon tomorrow.  I really wanted to run farther but I knew I shouldn't.  Part of my struggle is my weight has been up a few pounds this week and thats frustrating.

I am so excited, my goal today was to run a 1:22 and I thought I did it.  The clock showed 1:22:38 when I crossed the line but my watch showed 1:23 so I didn't know if it was a reality.  Unfortunately it wasn't real, oh well next time.  I just plugged along and put a bunch of 6 minute miles together and I felt great all the way in.  I struggled a little with the hill in the canyon but I kept my pace up.  I was frustrated and wasted probably 15-20 seconds on a turn around that wasn't manned by race officials.  I was also frustrated with the start there was no warning and no chip timing.  I will say this is probably the least organized I have seen a race.  I am thrilled with my time and I felt great during the race and after.  It's always fun to PR and it was by 3 to 4 minutes I will have to look it up, I can't remember. 

I had no intention of trying to push it today, but I wanted a long run.  I am going to try and do a big week as next week I will be out of town and I will be limited on how much I can run.

Nice Easy 12 miles, I felt pretty good.

I was just looking for a long confidence run in my marathon training.

Tried to pick up pace a little at the end and working toward breaking 100 mile week again.  

17 easy slow miles in the morning then at night a 13.1 fun race some friends came up with and I was thrilled to do a 1:22 half time.  Plus I reached my 100 mile mark on friday, great week and I feel good.

Just a nice easy 10 miles to reach my highest mile week.  I am thrilled and I will be lucky to hit 50 next week with a vacation out of town.

Easy 13 mile run before my vacation for a week.

Nice easy run in beautiful Steckborn Switzerland, wow it was beautiful.

Really slow 10 miles, I am really suffering from jet lag and from not running for a week.

Still really slow and sore from over 13 hours crammed in an airplane

A little better and faster today but still slow

I decided to go slow and short today and go for a long one on Saturday.  

I can't say the last 2 miles were really fast but much faster than the rest of my week.  I felt good about the end of my week.