Training in Montana

Got out the door late so cut my 6 miler to 4. Decent run, nice temps.

Could NOT wake up this morning, so I was able to take an early lunch and run outside in beautiful weather. I might even make the news, as today is the first day in the 70s in 7 months and I was outside wearing shorts and a St. George Running Center singlet. I see some guy kneeling down on the sidewalk ahead of me looking into some gadget and wonder "what the...?" By the time I realized it was a local news crew I just kept on looking like a dork and running. I hope they caught me doing a farmer blow.
It was a solid run. Warmed up a bit first mile and towards the end of that mile I picked up the paces (cameraman was during this stretch) and kept it up. New watch only shows the pace of that current mile so I'm not sure where I was but I think 7:15 range. Kept that up for a bit then slowed down. On the turnaround I picked the pace back and up and kept it fairly strong. Last mile was 7:00 flat.

I love allie's approach of a 5K warmup to the marathon but we have few 5Ks in my city so I've been planning the past few days to do a time trial at the high school track. A couple hours ago I saw a flyer for a 3.75 mile race this Saturday morning, $25 entry fee. Sawheet! Signed up and I'm ready to roll. I sure wish it was a certified 5K but beggars can't be choosers. Well, they can be, but it just isn't right. Also don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

AP: 7:36

30 tempo minutes early on the home TM as I had an early work meeting. Started at 6 mph, gradually moved up and at 12 minutes I did 5 minutes at 9.5 mph. That was pretty awesome as I didn't know if I could maintain that pace. After 5 mins I bumped down to 8, then quickly lower until I ended at 6 mph the last 2 1/2 mins. Good workout.

Excited for Kam to join me and pace me at the SLC Marathon. Bring it on!

4 miles this morning from home. Beautiful out. 38 degrees with wispy clouds. Shorts, long sleeve tech shirt and thin cotton gloves. Felt really good. I kept it nice and slow the first 2 up miles, then a steady pace on the return. Looking forward to tomorrow's 3.75 mile race. Should be a great "tune up" as the great allie likes to say. Left hip is slightly bothering me but I'll roll it out and ignore this taper niggle as it's a new in the last couple weeks.

Warmed up with 3 laps around the 1.25 mile course then got ready. Started out behind one guy and a kid but was trying to run 6:15 pace so passed them.  Another guy popped up at .25 miles and he floated along. I stuck on his tail until about .75 then let him go. I was not in 6:15 shape today. Not sure if it was the undulating course or what but not my day. Thankfully nobody fast ran this so I easily held 2nd the entire race. I only saw 3rd place once and I upped my pace a bit.

Won a $30 gift card for a dozen cupcakes at the downtown cupcake shop. I'll save it until after the marathon....