El Burro Blanco

Ran my DC/Bloomington Loop this afternoon. I extended it on to the actual loop and then enjoyed my nice little climb back to the high school. Just caught the 7:00 min. guy at the end.

Ran my Bloomington/DC trail loop reverse today but did not extend on the actual loop. A little cooler this afternoon. I decided to do some up tempo stuff once or twice a week. I started out a little slower but then got the legs moving and hit a couple sub 6:00/miles. I averaged 6:25/mile. Happy with the effort due to the last 3 miles being slightly uphill.

Today is my 6 year anniversary. I am lucky I found Katey and she is willing to let me run like I do. Best 6 years of my life!

10.20 mile run with Dave and Clyde this morning. We were running all over the road this morning. We seemed to be a little tired. Clyde had a new loop for us to try so it was different than the usual. Clyde said I pushed the pace but it was him while we finished the run pretty hard. Decent effort for this morning. 

13.40 mile run this afternoon. I did my Bloomington/DC loop in reverse like yesterday but I extended it on to the actual loop. I just relaxed and enjoyed the run and didn't worry about anything except just running. I am going to try and get some miles on the legs to have them practice running tired. I will see how tomorrow morning's run goes.

Good news of the day is that we found out we are going to have a boy! If anyone is reading this, I would like to take a vote for names. Here are the choices:

1- Donovan

2- Taine - (short for Prefontaine)

3- ESPN

4- Leroy

5- Samuel

Please cast your vote by Sunday, December 25th and then that will be the name of the child. Thank you for your time.

I wanted to go a little longer this morning before we head up north but it didn't happen. I started at my house and then hit the Barrel Roll Trail. It has been way to long since I ran this. I had to deal with my favorite element on the run (wind). Nice little headwind for most of the run. Beautiful day for a run though. Now I get to run up in the frozen tundra for the next week and a half (Heber and Logan). Yeah!!

We are up in the mountains in beautiful Heber City for the next two days. We pulled in last night and the gate at the bottom of the mountain said that their have been quite a few cougar and bear sightings. I guess that is perfect stuff to run in! I ran down the mountain into Heber and then came back up to the cabin. The last 3.5 miles were over 1500 feet of climbing. Over a mile of that was in snow. I felt like Rocky minus the snow boots. Low elevation was 5600 feet and high elevation was 7850 feet. It was a balmy 10 degrees while I ran. Got to love this weather. It was very pretty.

I talked to the lady at the gate after my run yesterday and she said that saw two cougars just two days ago. I was not going to take my chances. I had my Dad drive me off the mountain so I would not be fresh meat. It was much warmer today. I was 30 degrees on the run. It was quite enjoyable. I ran down more in the valley but ended up climbing back up for close to 7 miles.

Happy to finish off the week with some solid runs at higher elevation. Lots of climbing over the last two days. My legs are a little sore but they need it. Now I go up to Logan to spend more time with Katey's family. It should be fun.