El Burro Blanco

Solid 10.5 miles with the boys this morning. I ended up going a little longer due to picking up one or two who were a little behind. Solid run for a Monday. Boys are looking strong right now.

6 more easy miles this afternoon over to Santa Clara and back. Ran by the old house which was kind of weird. No watch.

 7 miles with the team this morning. We did our warm up and cool down on the trails and ended up playing on Webb Hill today doing some hill repeats. Great stuff from the team.

7.25 miles early evening. Went to the track on a cold day (93 degrees) and did a 1.25 mile warm up with some strides and agility drills and then did 5x1600m. Hit 5:19, 5:15, 5:06, 5:11, 5:13. Felt pretty good and ended up not chucking tonight so that was encouraging. Did a barefoot cool down on the turf. Another solid workout in the books.

Fun run with the lads this morning + Tyson. Great kid! Felt a little tired this morning but it was an overall pretty decent run. Good to get some decent mileage in.

7 more miles at practice today on the trails. Lots of easy mileage today. Yeah. Good first couple days of the week.

Only did 2 miles on the team's warm up because we had our Vo2 max test today. 

Met up with Steve at his house around 7pm. I knew the weather was going to be hot. It ended up being 110! We did a little warm up and then attempted some tempo miles. I did the first two okay and then started dry heaving on the third mile. Ended up throwing up again this week. Three weeks in a row. Stopped at all the water spots. New rule. No tempo if the temperature is over 110 degrees. 10.25 miles total. Live and learn. 

Had practice at Bloomington Hills North Park. We ran the region course and then did some barefoot miles. My legs needed it today. Nice and soggy grass plus how humid it was made me sweat quite a bunch. 

Now I get to travel up to Provo today for Katey's 8k trail race tomorrow. Love riding in the car! 

Stayed up way too late last night talking with my brother-in-law and sister-in-law in Provo. We are up here because Katey did an 8k trail race. She rocked it out and did awesome. It started and finished at Big Springs Park up Provo Canyon so it was fun getting up to some beautiful country. The kids and I watched Katey come in and then I ran back to their house (it is near Rock Canyon). 

It was pretty dang hot once I started running around 10:00am. I warmed up to Vivian Park and stopped for a potty break. I decided to hit a 3 mile tempo along the trail and see how it would feel. I hit 5:28, 5:18, and 5:26. Not bad considering the temps were really hot. As I was running on the trail, I had a guy on a bike yell at me, "Stay in the runner's lane buddy!" I went around some people and apparently went in the bike lane. I was fired up and was really glad he was going in the opposite direction. Bikers drive me crazy!

I stopped to get some water at Nuuns Park and then kept going. I felt like I needed to hammer one more mile so I hopped back on the trail and hit a 5:01 mile. It has been a while since the legs have gone that fast. It actually felt pretty good. 

I kept it on cruise control back to the house and ended up averaging 6:40/mile for the 15 miles. Not a bad way to end the week. Now we travel farther up north to Logan for a few days and then to Huntsville. Should be a fun week with family!