Run Till You Drop!!

Ran 6 miles on the path by my house. Felt good for the first few miles then my left quad became tight and sore again. It is only a matter of time before I am good to go again. Fully recovered that is.

Easy 4 miler on the Path by my house. Today was the first run since the Boston Marathon that I did not feel any pain, tightness, soreness. I feel that I am almost completely recovered .

It was nice to run into Robbie while running today. I did a few pick ups felt good no issues. Feeling ready and excited to race this weekend.

I ran from Gordon Street in Layton to my wife's house in Kaysville, felt great first half then I had to go the bathroom so it made the run horrible, I had to stop multiple times so I did not go the bathroom in my shorts.

Today I knew I had to do some speed work before the Provo City Half on Saturday. I decided to warm up for about a mile and half and then get the party started.

My goal was to do 4 3 min pushes as solid as I could. In between each push I would rest for 3 min, so it was a 3 on 3 off for the entire session.

Felt great I averaged between 5 and 5:07 pace per push. I know that I still have a little speed and I did not lose all of my fitness after Boston. I got my heart rate up to 168 after each push, Pretty good so I know that I can bounce back as long as I do speed work consistently.

Bring on Provo City Half!! I need to practice this course as it is the same course as the Utah Valley Marathon except it is only the second half of the course. Whether I run fast or slow does not matter as long as I run solid and hopefully place.

Easy 4 miles on path by my house. Felt good, hopefully I am ready to roll tomorrow. I just want to make some money so I do not care if I run slow and I dont know how much my body can take as I just ran the Boston Marathon about a week and half ago.

Cereal racer for money here we come.

Today was the Provo City Half Marathon. I just decided to run this race this past monday. I saw the results this past year and so I was hoping I could run a 1:10 and still make some money.

As I got to the start of the race I met up with Mike and Matt Poulsen and we went on a 2 mile warm-up. As I was talking with them they mentioned to me that they showed up and they thought they could run easy and win money as well. It now seems that if there was a race the previous year that was slow, this year will be the opposite. Every race this year will be fast, everyone in Utah is getting faster there is not such thing as chilling in a race to make money anymore.

At the start I saw about 5 or 6 guys that could win the race, that made me nervous and I knew at that moment I was going to have to run a really solid race to place in the top 3. The reason this made my so nervous was because I just ran the Boston Marathon less than 2 weeks ago and I did not know how well my legs would hold up.

When the race started it was straight downhill  pretty steep. I felt really good for the first 5 or 6 miles and then it got much harder. It was downhill and flat up until about 7 and then it became flat for the next 3 miles. Mile 10 had a slight uphill and then it was flat for a mile and half, then a slight downhill for the last little bit. I was in third up until about mile 7 when fritz came up. He passed me and I knew I had to hold on and not give up. I was fading but when I saw my wife about mile 9 I took my gel and felt way better and got a second wind. I caught up to Fritz and then we pretty much were side by side until mile 12 then I slowly started to pick it up and ended up running a 1:07:24. My second fastest Half of my life and that was only off one speed workout since the Boston Marathon 12 days ago. Bret Hales won with a 1:05:30 and Nate who trains with Fritz and Jake  took second with a 1:07:03. 1 mile cool down with Bret Hales.

This race gave me confidence that by the end of this year I should be breaking 1:06 or getting close.

My splits were 5:07, 4:55, 5:04, 5:04, 5:02, 5:06, 5:15, 5:12, 5:12, 5:17, 5:19, 5:13, 5:05 and 4:37 last little bit.