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.