And So it Ends

One Thousand Miles in 2010.

Hip hip hooray.

4.1 miles on the 35 treadmill in 30:05 sealed the deal.

And the natural question arises: Now what?

Treading steadily closer

7.2 on the mill. One hour. Lots of Sweat. Almost there.

LEGS

after a couple magical days off of running, we did 100 man makers yesterday. Then today a psychotic card workout with double squats, quadruple weighted walking lunges, knees to elbows, and planks. Dumdumdum.

Then Sean and I trotted out a 27 minute three miler in the freezing air. It was nice. But I think my legs might hurt even more tomorrow.

Santa Run

I asked the Frog Man if he wanted to run on the 24th and he told me about a group run in the next town. So we showed up at 7 am with our santa hats. It was cold, but nice. Right at freezing. 14 idiots went trotting for a bit. 5.2 miles actually. Then we stood around talking and Frogger and I continued for another 3 miles. One hour 12 min including some of the stop and chats as well as giving an Asian woman directions. 8.2 felt great for a nice Christmas Eve morning.

Different Treadmill, no mirror

Good Morning Viet Nam - or part of it anyway.

24 minutes of it, really.

3.2 miles.

Less than a Marathon to go...

Another hour staring at myself in the mirror.

7.2 miles.

Nice.

More Treadmill

One hour.

7.1 miles

Really, that huge mirror in front of it is the best!

20 laps

Fifth mile blues.

I shoulda gone outside with my friend Steve.

He did 4 miles too. But I got'er done in 29 minutes, so I am happy about that.

dreadmill

Ug. Running around and around is much better than stomping on the tready!

At least I get to stare at myself in the full mirror the whole time.

3.4 in 28

pager

run around and around. whats the point really? Oh yeah, 1000 miles! Thats the point.

Chalk up 3.2 in 24.5 minutes. Woot woot

getting closer

Solo. Round the block and outnback twice.

5.3 miles.

40:30.

Hip Hip Hooray

four

Just four miles with Sean.

Around the ole block.

34:45

Slow and low.

Painful right arch.

Sore legs from being fast yesterday.

Wah

3 X 5k = 15k

Well there you have it. Simple algebra.

I ran 9.3 miles:

Here's more math:

22:46 5k

23:58 5k

22:31 5k

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1:09:15

Felt fast and smooth. Not bad after being up at night for 3 hours.

more laps

Sean and I headed out in the wet high thirties for 6.5 miles of fun laps. 57 min.

What, we weren't in a hurry.

Loud Punk Rock, seasonals, student, and a chief. We had to get out of there!

Nice

ocho cinco

Cold but nice! Went for an hour and three minutes 38 seconds. I was close to nailin down an 8 mile hour so I went for it. I got 8.1 miles in the first hour. Then I finished up the loop home for 8.5 total at a 7:29 pace. Nice.

Don't Tread

32 minutes and 4 miles on the spinning boredom. I'll get those thousand miles.

Station 31 Half Marathon

Sean, Pete and I got out in the cold air and breeze and ran us a half marathon.

One hour 57 minutes. I think it was 20 laps around the block. I loved it. We BS'ed like we always do, but we were doing a half.

We got strange looks. Only one van of girls giving us cat calls (shoulda been more).

We put a table on the corner with a bunch of water. Stopped for h2o as needed.

Oh, Moses started with us but he got a transport half a mile in. Too bad (lucky him).

Jefe just didn't do it.

Tradition? Perhaps.

88.7 miles to go!

Fran

2 miles true barefoot on treadmill. Hotspots forming and irritating. Threw on the 5fingers and went two more. 15:45 and 13:45. I believe that equals around 29:30.

Then I did a fran. Its been years. I wanted to die for a second. 5:20 isn't a great time, but it will have to do.

Turkey Trot

12 below zero.

Full turnouts.

Charles, Christie, Camille, Frog Man, Chris and Amy.

Fun. 3 miles in about 25 minutes.

Hot body cold lungs and face.

Frio

In-laws took me to lunch for celebration. Thanks!!

Went for a cold cruiser. Pete called midway so I walked for 10 min while I talked to him.

35 minutes got me 3.7 miles. Sweet.

Interviews - Done

So I headed up the Bonneville Shoreline trail behind Re Butte. HOWLING winds. Crazy. 5finger, rocky, ouch. 46:30. 4.3 miles. Nice. Here comes the snow.

So glad do be done. It's out of my hands.

This is the Place

Stressful Interview Process. Headed up Emigration during a break.

5.4 miles

41 min

Jogger Dad

One asleep. One in the stroller.

Got in another quick one. 4.3 miles in 34:30. 5fingers. Kept it close to home.

The stroller pulls to the left.

Running with the deer.

No bull. There I was on the canal dirt road when I realized I was running next to a doe and her fawn. Pretty coolio. 4.25 miles in 34 minutes. 5fingers. Cold but nice to get out.

Thanks Christie

Frogley!

Baa baa black sheep.

Ran into the man at the ski sale and ended up inviting myself on his afternoon run. We went 4.35 miles in the 35 degree weather in 33:25. That was quicker than either one of us might have done solo. It was nice to hang out with him.

When I got home, my fam was asleep. So I stretched a bit and headed back out with a super tight right calf (why?) to do the same run backwards.

It took me 100 seconds longer than our first run. It was still cold. 35:05.

Thaats an 8.7 mile day. Good times.

Ugh - Treadmill

Crappy weather. Treadmill to the rescue! 5fingers warmed up a bit.

3 x 20 minute runs. Why? I dunno. We had water rationing going on I suppose.

2.25 miles

20 pull up set

2.4 miles

2.55 miles - right calf super tight right off the bat. Ran through anyway.

some situps - not enough of em though.

I guess thats 7.2 while going nowhere, right?

Right arch still achy.

Curtain Call

Went out for a nice 5finger hour. Probably the last of these beautiful spring-like November days.

Felt so good. Got 7.6 miles done. I was happy about dropping the pace in the 2nd half. Thats nice.

Tiny little blisters on my 2nd toes. From what?

Then a cool little hike with my amazing family. It was my boy's 2nd birthday!

And finally, the finale. Closing night. Sold out crowd with a waiting list. Good show. I still think last night was the best, but tonight was really good! I already miss it. What a fun thing to do and a fun group of people! Thank you Carolyn for roping me in!

Old stompin ground

Ricks Muffler was fixing my, well, muffler, so I went for a 32 minute 5fingers stroll through the old hood. 4.35 miles. Felt great. This November weather is AMAZING!

Speaking of amazing, 5th of 7 shows tonight. Jefe and Hintze were there. Good times.

2 runs

One on the trails - 2.14 miles in 23:48 - hilly!

On around the pavement twice - 2.17 miles in 19:20

Just putin' time in with Sean.

Pro Trail Runner

Love getting paid to run trails with Sean.

2.9 miles in 33 minutes.

Rocky for 5fingers.

Hills and mud, too.

Very nice!

Oh, and 100 manmakers earlier. (66 + 34)

Halloween Half

My Bros in Law, Federico and Klorissa and I ran the 13.1 together. Well kinda.

I started cruisin on the big steeps after Sundance and thought I had enough of a lead that I could remove my tights and still run the last 7 miles with them. Somehow I missed them and I thought they were way behind. So I ran upstream and wasted a good 5 minutes looking for them. Then the Jeffs and Simpson dudes from V2 ward were handing out H20 at vivian. I asked if Dwight had passed and they said "yeah like 5 minutes ago." So I had hosed myself. I was now behind the 2:10 pacers with 7 to go. I knew the cut jeans would chafe but it was worth it. I had to be doing 7s or better. I finally caught Dwight with 3 to go. We brought it in together for a 1:49. Poor Korey was chasing a ghost. He poulled off a 1:42. Thats quick! Better than my pr. It was fun though. Those who have seen Antoinne Dodson appreciated my costume. Those that hadn't probably just thought I was racist or something. I'm going to call it 14 miles because of my back tracking and messing around like a dum dum.

Training?

Figured I should run a bit before the half this Sat, so I hit the weather window perfectly and put on the injinjis and 5fingers. I ran 5.75 and felt real good. Except for my right arch. Feels like a joint is outa whack. I'll go see Frogley. He'll help me out.

That was around 42 minutes. I felt fast*ish.

Mtn Bike with the Wife again.

Such a nice fall day. Thanks Christy!

We rode for like 2 hours. I don't know how far, but I got in two barrel runs - sweet.

Way cool to hang out with the little lady.

DV Trot

Thought it would be a good idea to go for a jog at work. Practice loops and a couple Sterling Drives. Beautiful fall weather. Very very nice. Leafy trails. Peaceful.

3.85 miles in 36 min. Not fast. Lotta hills. Felt nice.

5 fingers

Bike Ride

What a day. I got in some 52 minutes. Didn't get all too far. I think it was 16.34 miles give or take a tenth.

Felt great though. Just slower every day.

2 ten kays and a shower home

Dirty Dash times two.

One as Disco Stu with I,III,VII, and VIII

About 1:20

One as a dirty nurse with Pete, B. Moore, T. Fab, and Kramer

About 1:07 - 2nd place team.

Good Dirty fun

3800 feet each

It is finished

Thursday - Pre race meeting in SLC. I weighed 198.

Then a slumber party with Jefe. Potatoes and tomatoes from my earth. Chicken. Brownies. In bed by 8. Not asleep til at least 10. Benedryl - not so worky for me.

Up at 3 am Friday. Hot shower to relax. Eggaritos x 2. Banana. Bread. On the bus by 4. At the park with enough time to tie shoes, pee, say hi to Dad for a couple minutes and ready set go at 5 am.

I didn't care about starting with the front of the crowd. I didn't have a light, so I needed to be with people that did for the first hour and a half. After maybe 2 miles, I said some dumb joke to Jefe and there was no reply. I wouldn't see him again until the next day at about 6pm. I realized before the big big climb that I was with super old dudes. they were happy and chatty (which I like) but I couldn't stay there all comfortable like. Not if I wanted that sub 30 time - which I did. So I moved through the darkness until I found the back of a large group right at the base of the first big ascent. It was a good pace. Not too fast, maybe a bit too slow, but good enough. When it leveled out, I had to move past some people and try to make up a bit of ground. I enjoyed some witty conversations, but as soon as we hit mile 13 or so, it was wide and flat to downhillish, so I put on the ipod and picked up the pace a tad. Huge runners high as I descended into Francis Peak aid Station. Wardrobe change. Just in time, I got out of my long polypro and into shorts, shirt, sunglasses, big gay hat, sunscreen, and I kept my bright yellow vest - lost the sleeves. Kept the shoes and socks. This was just right. Another fit or two of choking back emotions as I made it to Bountiful B okay and onto sessions. From there - I moved slowly. Slick mud and steep ascent slowed me down a lot. This was the first time I started feeling a bit down. But I pulled through it well and picked it up to swallow rocks. Got some salt in me and knew that there was less than one hour until I would see my wife and homies. Caught back up to a big group as we came to the final descent into big mountain. The cheers and cowbells were overwhelming.

I could hear my honey's scream amidst the others and it made me really happy. I brought up the rear, because passing would have been silly there. I was greeted by Wife, Tom, Tor, and Padre. They took great care of me. Took my "shake weights" and vest, re-applied sunscreen and threw food at me. Weighed in at 208! Then Tom and I headed off on our adventure.

I was feeling really good. He wanted to pass 20 people and he pushed me. I allowed it because I knew I could handle it. We ran well. I probably spent too much time at Lambs. Weighed 206 here. As I sat, Tor and Tyler pulled off my shoes and socks and began washing my feet. Wow. I could feel the love. Isaac and Tom and Wife were getting me broth and food and things that I would need - for example a long sleeve polypro that would remain til the morning. New socks, same shoes, 20 minutes and Isaac and I were off for our hike. I speed-walked that road, but as soon as we hit the trail, the pushing from before caught me. I was hurtin for certain. It wasn't pretty, but I slowly made my way up and over the hill. We summited to an amazing sunset. Sliver moon, red sky, star or planet, too. It was gorgeous. Then the headlamps went on for the descent which went rather well. By the time we hit the milcreek road, I was speed walkin again. We moved past a handfull coming up that road. Then the tights went on. Red jacket, gloves, beanie. Kept shoes and socks (and gaiters). Mc Donalds Cheese burger. More broth. Refills of EFS. And the night of Tor began. Up we went - not too slowly. I still hadn't gone #2 in over 24 hours. Through Desolation and Scotts, he kept me moving, on pace, and by the time we came down puke hill, I was ready to sit and let it go. That was nice. But his poor knees were killing, so I jogged the downhill pavement alone (which was great) and Pet came up to meet me. We rolled into Brighton lodge, happy to see the wifey again, at about 1:30 and I weighed 210. Another sock change and blister dress, brushed my teeth after trying to eat some things. Got out of there just before 2:00.

And then hell showed up. Cold, dizzy, nauseated, light headed, I plodded up the steep Point Supreme ascent. Pete had to keep me from falling over and helped me find the apparently obvious trail. The steep descent down the back side was walked. I had no balance, couldn't see well, and didn't want to risk injury. It took me over 2 hours to ant knolls. But I started feeling better there. I think I climbed ok from there. I had to stop a couple more times and do some business. Favorite conversation: me, joking: "does this look like a toilet to you?" other guy: "[pause, grunt] ... it does now!" Funny. Pole line pass was cool. Pancakes, why not. TUMS! Bonfire. I was aware of the impending climb, but I knew it was the last significant one of its kind. So off we went. This was possibly the worst hour of my life! Fatigue finally caught me. I had been up for 26 hours straight and not just sitting around. I am positive that I fell asleep more than once as I hiked the traversing climb. At one point, Pete turned around and asked me what I was doing. I was leaning on a tree and I replied: "sleeping!" A bit later I stopped to pee off the side of the trail and awoke to Pete: " you done?" Bless his soul, he kept me moving slowly but steadily toward the sun. We had heard that the sun would bring a second wind. I believed it, but soon I lived it. Even though the sky was light and I didn't need my headlamp (it had died anyway), I was still sleeping, sleep walking. The times didn't make sense in my head and I was pretty sure we were not going to make the 30 hour mark. With this realization I begged Pete to just stop and sleep a bit. There were a couple guys at rock springs who had dome just that. but he wouldn't let me. He assured me we still had a shot. As we rounded the point of contention, heading northward beck toward home, the sun was about 30 minutes into its own daily ascent. Sure as we had been told - something switched inside of me. We were at the top of the two descents they say you need to save your quads for. I had legs left, so I was determined to use them. In my mind, I had time to make up and I bombed those descents. 200+ pounds barreled down the cool dusty trails, people jumped out of the way at the nearing thunder. I felt great. I thought for sure my blisters were bleeding, but my joints and leg muscles felt good, so I went for it. I had less that ten miles left and I wanted to be done. There was one spot on the motorcycle trail that messed with my right ankle. I had already rolled 3 ankles with no lasting effects, but this left my right ankle aching. We hit Pot Bottom at 8:30, leaving me 2 and a half hours to get to the Homestead. Plenty of time! Dropped the jackets, shorts, gloves, headlamps, and hats. Got some antacid, Banana, fluids, and off we went. We walked to climb out of there and felt just fine. Then, the final descent arrived. Poor Pete was hurtin. He had biked Leadville, and Point to Point and no running. Then he did an all night marathon in the freezing mountains. With 3 miles to go, he made sure I was ok and told me to go. So I did. I finished well, feeling pretty good. As I trotted onto the grass, I saw my dear wife, my parents, and our friends the Turners (surprise). I didn't stop for anything. I just wanted to cross that line and get my shoes off. G-wood showed up just after I sat down. He just missed me. But what a sweetheart to come and see. It was the least hoopla I had ever seen at any finish line. Weird. Everyone wanted me to eat, but I couldn't. I wouldn't. We got me home and into a cold tub. Sarah plugged in a liter of LR and I lay in bed with sweats on, under the covers shivering for an hour as the heater blew to 80 degrees. I finally slept from about noon to 5. I was hungry and wanted to go to the awards ceremony. I limped across the parking lot just as they read my name and time. I collected my cool plaque and cooler belt buckle and there was Jefe. Sarah had gone over to watch him come in earlier and he had fallen asleep there in the park. We chatted, I ate a sandwich. Belinda was there. Good times.

I slept the most solid, sound nine hours in a long time that night.

now what?...

The next generation of Tridorks is rising

So, my eldest child jumped in the deep end of a pool, swam 75 yards, biked 2.3 miles and ran 0.6 miles.

It was like an iron man for her. She did so great and loved it. Her support crew was amazing. Got up early and cheered her on.

I told her she could pull herself along the lane lines if she got to tired. then she should continue swimming. Well, she headed straight for it and used it the whole time. Sweet. She biked extremely well on her huffy. I met her part way through and ran a few minutes with her. Her head was hurting and she was not happy. She overcame it though. Then in t2, I handed her a capri sun and half a banana. She took them to go. I had to take the drink back from her at the aid station and she started jogging again. Mama brought her in to a roaring crowd for a strong finish. It was really well organized and laid out nicely. We'll probably be there next labor day with company for the kid.

I felt overwhelmed with pride and excitement for my sweet little thing.

Then we hit the Funky Miners Day Parade, went home for some r and r (one of those r's stands for robin hood.) Then it was off to Grandma's. What a full fun day. (poor spouse had to work from 11-11)

Night Rider

Or runner.

Isaac and I went out there at 10:00 pm. Headlamps. Long sleeve shirts(unnecessary).

Getting ready for the real thing which is ever-so quickly approaching.

3.5 miles 35 minutes 800 ft

Jefe Revisited

We went to Big mountain and backtracked about 4.4 miles to swallow rocks and then returned. (8.8 total) It took an hour 48. 2100 feet. Felt good. Perfect weather.

Fall is in the air.

Evening Run with Isaac

We headed out for a cruiser at 7:30. Just went 4.1 miles in 44 minutes. lots of hills and trails. Perfect weather, scenery, clean air, awesome.

Share me another Smile

I really like this race. Its fun. Lots of people I like do it. Specifically this year, some of my very favorite people:

Matt, Nicky, Matti, Nick, Brian, Brandon, Danny, Staci, Cuz Lauren, even cuz Terry. Most importantly - Child and Spouse. Mom and Dad, thanks for watching the masses of chilluns while we all went out and conquered.

I probably should have won this, but I didn't. I got third. First in the 30-year-olds, though. Whoopy!

I feel totally rotten about missing the kids swim start. Not cool. Sorry E! She only biked and ran.

My velcro came unlaced and I pedalled the whole thing without doing my main strap. I also had a flat within an hour of finishing, sso who knows what my pressure was during the ride. I ran crappy for over a mile, then pretty swift, increasing the pace until the end. I think I ran about a 21+ min 5k. Biked just over 30 min (11 mi) and swam just under 7 (400) - thats so slow for me! 59:17 So transitions were somewhere mixed in there. Always fun. Next year I really will be more on it with my kiddo and help her have a great race. Then I'll do mine in a costume and just enjoy it. It was cool to be in T2 while Wife was in T1. Staggered start; she started at least 20+ minutes after me.

Love the fam.

Slow Ride, Take it Easy

Sorry, Wife. You're not slow. I just mean that I rode slower than usual. We did the two lap, 11 mile smile course, then ran for a few minutes. Looking forward to sharing my smile. About 50 minutes. Legs are feeling pretty good.

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Thomas

Thanks for runnin with me Thomas! Later start than I thought left me in a long sleeve polypro top. At least I took off the tights. 9 miles on a cool trail that Chris maintains.

Then we ran into him and Amy. Hi guys!

One hour 34 minutes. Good run. I liked it a lot.

HR in the 160s and 170s for a most of it. I got used to it.

Then Wife wanted to time the swim for this Saturday (and so did I).

So we took the kids for an our and took turns on the 400. I got 5:47, but I can't be sure that it wasn't only 350. I'm going to pretend I am sure I did all 400.

We'll see how that changes on Saturday.

Then I walked over a mile home from the Chiropracter. Thanks Frog Man. I'm totally counting the mile! Ok, maybe I won't.

Taper?

Well, this "training season" has been pretty rough. I thought that since I had the base of two ironmans in 6 months, I could easily build on it and get it done. Physically it made sense. But with career goals and school and wife's rebirth of running, it was not a good idea. I hope the damage is reversible and I can't wait until this beast is OVER.

Sorry Wife. Sorry Kids.

Today I got out on duty and put in an hour and a half on the trails.

8.75 miles. 2800 up and down. Beautiful.

That will have to do I guess.

Thank you Buck!

So, after a great day a Lagoon, I returned to Farmington planning to run 40 mi. I stashed a cooler at big mountain and drove forever to my start. The weather was great! I wandered a little looking for the trail. Thank goodness for my GPS watch. Then after about 10.5 miles, I was on an exposed ridge above Bountiful. The clouds got thicker. The lightning got closer. The rain came down hard. Then the hail came down. I, in my sweet little thin vest, started shivering after hunkering down under some pines for a half hour. I ate all my food and drank a bunch of EFS and got up the cajones to head back toward Bountiful and hope for a hitch hike. I made it 5 feet and it came down harder! So I stopped under the next pine stand and called the wife.

"help" I cried like a big baby. "I'm cold." (3700 up, 3000 down)

So she headed toward Bountiful and I started down the remote dirt road. Just then I heard the rumbling of a truck behind me. I stuck out my thumb and gave the most pathetic look I could. Inside the truck were three gruff pipeline workers, returning to Bountiful from their work site. Keep in mind, I was dressed like this:

So they were very nice and tolerant of me. I may have even got a side job out of it!

I met up with Sarah and the kids and we went to lunch.

I didn't want her driving the scary wet dirt road back to my car and I wanted a bit more of a workout, so I ran the last 7.2 miles back up to my car. (2600 up) By then, the weather was beautiful. 4 hours 40 minutes running all together.

All in all I felt good, but I was bummed to have to bail on my last chance at a big run. Plus I will never hear the end of it.

I guess I have what I have and from now on it'll be slightly shorter higher intensity stuff. Good times.

Thank you, Wife. I know you care.

Good Evening

Got the boys to go out with me at about 7:30 pm. It was so nice. Practice loops and good hills. 3.5 miles. 34 minutes. I should have kept going, but I think I might have become a social runner somewhere.

Wuss

So, i pack up camp as quick as I can. (me vs 3)

And half way to my ma's I get a call.

"We're not doing Timp"

What? OK well, we met at my ma's and then went up the Y trail and on to Provo Peak, except we never made Provo Peak. Or even the base of it. Oh well. My bro.s are fun to hang out with. So we'll count it as an ABO outing.

Probably seven miles total with Alex, David and my side trip.

about 3 and a half hours.

Trail Work

Spent a beautiful day with the Cottonwood Canyons Foundation in Mineral Basin.

Its part of the entry fee to do 8 hours of trail work. So I swung a pulaski. Broke a McLeod handle, rolled some rocks, rolled my backpack. Had to listen to Aristotle. It was good. It even included about a 3/4 mile hike there and the same back with a ride on the Tram. nice.

Then on the way home I hit the Jordanelle perimeter. Just a 6 miler in an hour. I wish my bowels would NOT decide they need to empty a half hour into every damburn run.

Gross, huh?

Recharge

After a long drive and long day of Peruanos, I stopped off for an hour trail run in the 5fingers. Not too rocky, several stream crossings and perfect evening weather made it refreshing and makes me like trail running again. 6.25 miles.

biking with my babe

That title is SO cheesy, its sickening. But it was fun. We hit the trails for about an hour, maybe a bit more. She did great. No crashes. It was a beautiful time of evening and the weather was perfect. A downhilling monkey scared her good, so that was funny.

one

I put on the 5fingers and set out to jog for a while. I did one mile and had to visit the little boys room. I never went back out. Overtrained? Burned out? You tell me.

Hopefully I'll do some shorter stuff this week. One more long one the next week and then a bunch of short stuff. The clock is ticking. I want to be done!

Yoga Again

60 minutes of Yoga on the edge - sunrise, with Sarah Ivanhoe.

Comcast On demand.

Hey. It was something.

Compression socks, EFS, shake weights and mandates

38 miles

Ten hours twenty four minutes

13,500 feet up and down

Wrong way around Catherine and Ant Knolls

Tried the EFS and liked it. But it made it so I felt like I didn't need to eat. I still tried to eat, but I only ate 1 sandwich, 2 bananas, 4 bags of chomps, 2 snickers.

I tried eating another sandy, but couldn't. Carried 3 sandies home and a bag of chips.

Handheld bottles, not my fave, but functional. I think full strength EFS in the belt and water in the shake weights (or vice versa) might be the key.

Also eating meals.

Met Aaron at Brighton. Good man. 4 x CABG in 12/08

Mandate with Dan, good guy, great pacer. H2o refill and coke.

It got SO hot.

Way too soon after the last weeks's big run. Looks like small ones for a couple weeks, then a biggie, then the taper down.

Yoga

60 minutes of Yoga on the edge - sunrise, with Sarah Ivanhoe.

Comcast On demand.

Hey. It was something.

Another Group!

Jefe and I got on the trail at 6:30 and started our expotion.

Tor met us at Big Water (perfect timing - 21 miles and just over 3 hours) with a Camelback refills and some fresh attitude/fresh legs.

All in all, we traveled 35.61 miles in 9 hours flat. 14,000 up, 12,600 down.

I squished a mouse (didn't see it, Jefe told me, I thought it was poop)

2 bananas, 2 snickers, 2 pb&h, Salty chips, 2 pkgs of shot blox, about 200 ml of gatorade/water. 4 sport legs.

Saw a fox about 20 ft in front of me on the trail.

oops - I forgot to run.

Or maybe I just didn't feel like it, ok?

But tioday I finally went out and trotted up the TL. put in 8.8 in the 5fingers. My little feet hurt. What a baby. I think it was 1:49 or something like that on the time. Hot.

More mosquitoes

We got a baby sitter. And what did we do with our free time together? We went hiking at Brighton. Poor wifey has a stuffy nose (allergies) but she went anyway, swatting mosquitoes along the way. We went up about two miles as the sun descended into the valley. Then we came back down. Yes, I am counting it as 4 miles of training for the 100 - hey, its on the course!

It was nice to be with my love.

Bear Lake Circumvention

2:27. 51 miles. It felt really good to spin the legs and cruise. 20.8 mph average. Nice weather. Pretty day.

Group Run again

I really like running with other people. Fred, Korey and I headed out with Sarah and Emily. We did 7.15 miles in just barely over an hour. It felt great! Kept my heart rate way low and relaxed. Five fingers on pavement felt great.

Uintas

Boy Scouts.

Wed - 6+ miles into Jordan Lake + Day Hike up about 2 miles (7 hours) All 5 fingers

Thur - 4+ miles to Four Lakes Basin + 3 mile hike to the ridge (7 hours) 5 fingers side trip

Fri - 11 miles with the pack (no water melon this time) 5 miles without a pack (8 hours)

Sat - 3 without pack, 6 with a pack (3 hours) Staff retrieved

Totals ~ 25 hours, 40 miles

Thats my story and I'm stickin to it.

Tom was given all sorts of "crap"

I like fishing

Mosquitoes!!!!

Group Run

Finally got to run with other humans! Sean, Scott, and I were on foot and Tyler was on his bicycle. We covered 18.75 miles and 5000 ft up & down in 4 hours.

We hit the pavement and just walked it in. It was the longest those nut jobs have run. They killed me on the ups, like I thought they would. I went a little faster on the downs and gave them a nice show as I gave mother Earth some lovin'. I tumbled and I think I did something to my right hip/SI, but I'm hoping that I didn't.

40 oz of water gone at the top. 1 snicks and 6 cliff blox. Felt good - except for the stupid fall.

Thank you wife! You are the best.

It Pete's Birthday!

Had a plan to go Huge with the Jefe. But after 48 hours of huffing paint fumes, I bailed.

In fact, I wonder about bailing all together? Have I come too far already? Probably. Just finish the training and get it done? Come on, talk me into it. Or out. I think I'll do it. But I should NOT have skipped today.

I have a headache.

It's Peter's Birthday

And I celebrated by running up to Cascade Springs and back. It was warm and beautiful. Sweaty, shirtless, zone 4-5. Felt really good!

Dipped my head in the stream.

Found a tick in my hair on the way down.

10.3 miles.

2000 ft el.

1:36:29

Hit a 4:22 for a second on the paved spring side descent.

DV Loopers

Trotted about again. 1:16:52. Five fingers. Bruised heel and ball on right foot. Too rocky. 7 miles.

Pretty

2400 ft ups & downs

DV Loops

1 Hour 45 trotting around. Talked to Sue and Chris. Enjoyed the sights and smells of the beautiful mountains. 9.8 miles.

(More like 2 - 52.5 minute trots: one with Captain Isaac, one without)

2800 ft ups & downs

I wear my glasses at night

Tried out the night running just there. Started at 9:45. After about two miles up the road, I decided it was not a great idea to be there alone. Big Baby. Something told me I should turn around. I think its a good Idea to listen to "something" when it tells you stuff like that. So I did. But then I went back up and then down. Had to get my hour!

I watched fireworks for 5 minutes, so I had to make up that time. 6.18 miles 1 hour (not including the firework break). 1120 el.

It was beautiful. I feel so good and do so well at night. Why? Cooler temps? Can't see how steep it is? Pretty sky? Not sure. But next time, I'm getting a partner.

Stupid audio codecs

Darryl!

A Meadow!!!

Dog Lake

Solitude

Brighton

Jupiter

Desolation Lake

Lambs to 31

25.6 miles - 11,388 up, 10,799 down

Great weather, though.

6 hours

3 PB&H (brought 4) 10 Gu Chomps. 1 Banana. 2 Fruition Bars.

200 oz Water & weak Gatorade (about 20+ oz left)

Didn't eat my chips.

Felt good, but those steeps had me walking and that pack was heavy!! (Wah)

12.5 lbs just in liquid.

Zion Man

The first and only annual Zion Man Triathlon took place today and was a big hit. We had about 20 adults and 10 kids participate including teams.

The event was thus:

rope swing start into the pond, 100+yd swim.

eat a ho-ho

Mountain bike around the pond (0.4 mi.)

eat a twinkie

run 0.25 miles up the hill to the playground

Go down the yellow slide

0.1 mi. to finish.

It was a blast to design and I had a ton of help from pops and cousins and whatnot.

It was way cool to have so many be willing to "tri" it out. Dork.

Plus I got to do it. Fun

I woke up with intentions to run, but I felt like I had been run over by a train.

(up til 1 playing games after yesterdays activities)

Tryin' in Zion

Got up early, but not early enough. 305 was dead. Only had time for a 45 minute jog. I'm guessing I put in 5 miles. Yeah, lets go with that!

Then we went on a really cool small hike. It was about 3 miles total with the little ones plus some additional adventures without the kiddos. Thanks wife! I'm going to count this as one hour because there was some stemming and climbing and side trips and it was neat. Plus I was with my bros and thats nice.

Then a good ole game of frizzle fry. Remember ultimate frisbee? Well we played for over an hour and I'm going to count it, but not mileage. I ran the entire time and there was a lot of sprinting and it was hot, but I had a blast. Call it speed work.

H 2 Oh My!

Rock Springs. If there's a pipe, its safe, right? Right?

Slight miscalculations again.

5 1/2 hrs came just after my water ran out, not at the end like I'd hoped. 7 hours was the end. 27.34 hot, steep, dry miles. 9900 ft. el. ups & downs!!

100 oz of water, 30 oz of gatorade. (why not 100 of gatorade? Cause I ain't smart)

3 pb&h's (more h next time!) Gu chomps, 2 fruit bars, and chips.

Of course I couldn't eat much of anything after about 5 hours. Did I mention the heat?

DV Practice loops

Its finally SO nice up here. I spent 90 minutes cruising on the trails, taking it easy still. My feet got beat up, though. I don't know about the vibrams! Ouch. 7.6 miles. Finished right when my sexy wife got here. 3000 ft el.

OFC

Swim to clear the noggin. I spent an hour in 50 m pool. Crawl, backstroke, breast stroke, took it easy. Made it 2600 m.

Canyon Spin

28.5 miles in 80 minutes.

Kept it light. Flush the lactic acid.

Had to review for the final. (B+)

Ragnar

I successfully did no running or anything of the sort for a full week. So when I started my first leg of the ultra ragnar, I was feeling great.

7.4 miles in vibrams and a nurse dress. 55 min.

Then I couldn't find my 305, but I did

10.8 miles in 83 minutes at 1 am. In the same dress.

Then my last one I broke down. 10.3 miles in a little under 90 minutes with plenty of sexual harassment to keep me going strong in my dress.

Good times, though. Should I not have enjoyed running in the dress?

June? Really?

What a turn in the weather. 40's and foggy, rainy, even snowed last night! No motivation whatsoever to go out and trot for an hour in that! So Rest week started early. Good. I need it.

Expotition.

25 miles. 5 hours 52 minutes. 7000 ft of elevation.

A hail/lightning storm. 3 PB&H, 1 Snix, 8 Gu Chews. 100 oz H20, 80 oz Gatorade (only drank 40.) Heavy pack! Chips before. Choco milk After.

I know I went 25 miles in 30 minutes less last time. But I had to wait out the storm and drop 2 dukes.

Sound didn't work, bummer.

Trails?

They both started out really nice, but ended up disappearing in the dead-fall and whatnot. I got back in the 5fingers, but my baby toe still hurts a bit. Forgot my garmin. How could I? I was out about and hour and the Google Earths looked like it was about 3.5 miles. STEEP!!

Pence Point

Headed out with the Jefe for a section of "the trail". East Canyon to Lamb's. Started out slow and lovely. Stops for various things. Looked for the spring for a while. Found it further up the trail. Then ended up running the wrong down-canyon and came out on Mtn. Dell, dodging golf balls on the fairway. Then we bush whacked our way up the water shed rive back to Lambs. Late start, went long, unhappy wife. Family pictures cheered her right up though.

12.75 miles. 2 hours 53 minutes.

2800 up, 4150 down

The snow is melting!

Spent two hours trotting around the dv hills again. Beautiful day. Little bit of mud, but the snow is receding rapidly, hooray!

Got in 11.6 miles with a whole bunch of elevation change. Hit a 5:14 mile coming down Homestake. Yikes. Kept the average HR at 149. Long and slow baby.

Oh and the plantar fascia is feeling ok. Just keep stretching and yoga-ing.

Pinky toe is feeling a bit better too. Anxious to get back out in my 5 fingers.

3000 ft el.

Long and Lonely Road

I love the Timpanogos

5 hours 16 min 25 miles

5620 up, 5300 down

Did the last 7 of "The Trail", then suffered through town on pavement.

2 PB and H's, 4 granola bars, 2 nectarines, a GU that my body rejected.

Ran out of water at about 4 hours. Bought a gatorade at the gas station. Bad eating. Got behind and felt too crappy to catch up. Lots of hiking.

Need to stick with White Bread (Granny Sic.) and smooth PB and More Honey on the expotitions.

Its going to be a long summer indeed.

Timp

I love this mountain.

Had to clear my head of microbiological worries and lack.

That doesn't even make sense. Oh well.

Spent an hour up there. 1700 el.

5.7 mi.

Haven;t been wearing my 5 fingers because of my baby toe. Frustrating.

I tried today, but it hurts a bit.

Remember?

Memorial day. Soggy DV trails.

A little mid mountain.

A little sunrise.

A little homestake. Good times indeed.

5.4 mi. In one hour. 1500 el. (mas o menos).

Had to keep "checking in"

Do I really need my Pinky toe?

Cause I might have busted it. About half a mile into the trail, I caught the outside of my 5 finger on a root and it hurt ever so badly. Of course, like an idiot, I continued. Super rocky trail made the pain even worse. What a baby, huh?

Plantar fasciitis? Hope not.

Can you guess what I put under that rock?

1 hour 50 minutes. 7.8 miles. Over 2700 ft el. gain/loss.

This is the end of the event trail. THE trail.

Brighton and CPR

Started at 5800 feet and power hiked (with very little running) all the way to 9700 feet. 8.75 miles.

Then it was Snow joggin for a couple of miles and trotting down down down. I still needed an hour, so I took a side road (7200 feet or so) and went up to 8200, scaring a herd of does along the way. Then down to my car for a 21.4 mile adventure in 4 hours 50 minutes. (6000 ft el. gain/loss) I have to call it adventure, not a run because I do not run up steep hills or any snowy hills. Big wuss, huh?

3 PB and H's, 4 GU blocks, a lot of potato chips, a granola bar, 100 ml of water, 10 oz Gatorade.

Then some pork Tostadas at the Tarahumara, a mexicoke, a choco milk, and a donut.

And for recovery, taught 5 hours of CPR.Hooray adventure.

Swimmer

A nice change. I got in the OFC 50 meter pool and went long and slow. I spent a good hour and I believe I swam 2800. Just took 'er easy.

DV loops.

Once again, a perfectly timed break in the weather allowed me to get an hour in my 5 fingers. Too much pavement, though. And I had to still wear tights and a long sleeve. It's the end of May! There were hills and I did some long loops which helped break it up. 6.78 miles in an hour. I like slow!

Timberlakes

Losing it! Too much going on, supports weakening. What do I do? I throw cheese. Dork.

Thanks, Sharleen for taking the gremlins. Got in an hour in the 5fingers at TL. 6.28 miles. Passed our lot and hit the "summit" on the paved road. (~7800 ft sobre el nivel del mar)

Adventure

Jefe and his bitch accompanied me on an ambitious "trail" "run".

There was lots of snow. Lots of hiking. Lots of asphault. A little skiing. Good good times.

4:20 brought us 17.5 miles. Elevation gain/loss about 5700.

2 PB&H, trailmix, 100 oz H2O. Need more salt next time.

Strained Right Achilles and uber-tired.