El Burro Blanco

8 miles this morning around Bloomington. 42 degrees made for a perfect morning. No watch. Good start to the week.

6 miles this afternoon helping the girls with the workout. 12x400m with 90 second recovery. Little toasty made the workout slightly more difficult than it needed to be.

5 miles this morning along with weights. Slightly cooler temps again.

Did a mile running around at the track meet in the freaking cold weather in Cedar.

6 miles total this afternoon doing the workout. 6x800m with the girls with 3 minute recovery in between. Solid stuff from the girls once again.

4 miles this morning and then spent the rest of the day spearheading our big Day of Thunder at the high school. Lots of fun but it was a lot of work. 

10 total miles this afternoon. Ran 5 with the boys along River Road and then ran with Spencer because he had a lunch date so he was a few minutes late. Did another 5 over to Little Valley and back.

7 miles total this morning at Dixie High School with the TEAM for practice. Had to go over here to do the workout since our track is getting fixed. 20 minute progression run with the girls and then 3x150m finishes. Solid stuff. Boys ran well today as well. Love being around this group.

9.10 miles later this afternoon after putting in sod to fix my grass. Ran from the house over to my parent's house. Just relaxed and ended up running 7:09/mile. Didn't feel that bad except for the heat. I had to soak the hat and shirt because it was so warm. I had a nice white, salty mustache on my shirt when I finished. Sat in the pool afterward. Loved this a lot.

Met up with one of my former XC and Track runners, Ben Powell, to run some of the marathon course. I have this crazy idea to try and break 2:30 again. Ben ran 2:38 last year for his first marathon and he has the same goal. Should be interesting. 

We started at the top of Veyo Hill. The plan was to do a progression run. I really wanted to focus on the latter part of the run with at least 6 miles of solid progression. The temps were absolutely perfect. We started and just were enjoying a good conversation and talking about fun stuff. We were working on sub 6:30 miles for a while and it felt surprisingly comfortable. Got to the top of Winchester and started moving. I ended up doing 7 miles of solid progression. 6:30, 6:24, 6:04, 5:55, 5:46, 5:32, and 5:25. Cooled a little to the finish line. Ended up with a 6:35/mile overall. Probably one of my best runs in a long time. Very happy considering that it was a busy and long week. Happy to end the week with this. Huge confidence boost. 

On a side note, we had 8 roadkills. Now time for staying awake during Conference.