Running For Trevor

5 miles jogging around Seattle and sight seeing.  Ran to the space needle, olympic park, and Pike's Market place.  Perfect recovery run. 9:05 pace.

8.4 miles in Seattle.  I discovered a nice path along the water and ran 4 miles out and back.  It was very pleasant to not have to deal with stopping at every corner.  8:13 pace. 

10 miles back in Utah.  Ran from my parents house around the Lake, down to the pool & park and then back to there house.  Really tired this morning from all of the travel but still felt pretty decent overall.  7:59 pace.

9.8 miles around Santaquin Orchard loop.  Nice to be back on my same old stomping grounds.  7:50 pace this morning. 

PM:  3 miles.  1st mile with Izzy but it was WAY too hot for her so I dropped her off and finished alone.  Apparently I was in Seattle long enough to forget what heat feels like.  It is not even that hot out there and I thought I was going to die!  Sheesh!  8:15 pace and it felt hard.

3 mile warmup.  I was feeling good so I decided why not try and run fast for a couple of miles just to see where my legs are at....6:56, 6:40, 6:30.  It felt really good to just throw this workout in on the fly and feel good doing it.  I think Sea Level in Seattle was really good to me because my breathing felt a little off but my legs felt strong.  Jogged back to my house 2.3 miles.

Awesome article about the benefits of running for stress and anxiety relief.  I could not agree more.  http://camilleherron.com/2012/07/21/5-benefits-of-running-on-stress-and-anxiety/  It is so incredibly interesting to me how stressed I was all the time before I started running.

PM:  2.5 miles easy on the treadmill...whoa that was weird!  25 minutes weights at the gym.

9 miles downtown Payson loop. 7:53 pace.  I am pacing 1:40 tomorrow at the Timpanogos Half Marathon.  I am so incredibly happy to be pacing these canyon races this year instead of racing them.  They are way tough on my body and the 7:38 pace should be a great LR that requires no recovery time. :)  I think I will try to add a 2-3 mile marathon paced tempo after the half tomorrow if I am feeling up to it. 

Paced the 1:40 group at Timp half yesterday.  It was a fun race and there was one lady that stayed with me the entire race.  She finished just 10 seconds in front of me.  I loved it!  Several others hung very close and thanked me afterwards.  I finished in 1:39:43 so 17 seconds early but I will take it.  I will post projected splits and actual splits later when I pull out my garmin but I was pretty dang right on the money which makes me happy.  :)

The race finished about 50 yards from American Fork High School track so I headed straight to the track to finish my workout.  2 tempo miles in 6:39, 6:27.  I was just planning on marathon pace but these paces felt very "comfortably hard" almost too comfortable.  I thought about doing one more mile but wanted to play it safe.  Jogged a half mile and called it a day. 

Lots of fast running yesterday at Timp.  Major congrats to Scott who knocked 4 minutes off of his time from last year!  Such an amazing example that hard training definitely pays off.  Also a huge shout out to Kelli who killed it in 1:23!  Lets just say I was glad to be holding a stick and just pacing instead of racing yesterday. :)