Hangin' Loose

Rested today.  Had my girls all day.  So stayed home and made breakfast with them.  Just had a great time with the kids.  Feeling good though at the end of the day.  And feel well rested.  Hoping for this week to do a good taper for PCM. 

Felt really good today.  Went out and did a tempo run.  Feeling good coming into this taper for PC and hope to keep do well at it.  Just 2 loops around the block.  The garmin kind of lost the signal around mile 2.  But overall time was 48:46.  So I am sure it was around 8 min miles so I was happy with it overall.

Decided to change it up and go down to the park and run.  Ran around Liberty park on the outer loop.  I think it is around 1.5 miles per lap.  It is nice and flat.  Temp wasnt to bad either.  Was a good recovery run.  Total time 50:00 at a 8:20 pace.

Tried something different today.  Ran down to Liberty Park.  Which is a steep downhill at parts.  And then 4 laps around the park and back up the hills.  Was pretty good for the most part.  Except at 9th and 9th didnt turn my watch back on and missed like half a mile and the hill climb up.  So not sure on total time or pace.  But figure maybe 1:16 total time and around 8:30-40 pace for the run.

Went to bed last night early to get up and run after my 9 miler.  Was very nice and cool this morning for this recovery run.  Temp was in the 60s.  Was hitting right around 9 min splits for every mile which was just about right.  Only saw like 3 people out and about.  And the paper boy delivering the news.  I really didnt have to much trouble calling it a night early since no running events as of yet are being played at the Olympics.  You can only watch so much swimming.  But I have decided I will try to run most of my runs either in the early morning hrs or down in the park.  The temp was still in the 90s when I finished my run last night and it didnt feel as bad.  Total time 54:15

Rest day. Tapering for next weekends race.

Had a good run today with a few friends Slick and John by Slicks house in Sandy.  We were going to go up and run in PC the first 5 miles of the course but with closures going on opted to stay in the valley.  Was a bit chilly but a good run.  A few good hills and some good downhillls to practice on.  John has really come along and picked up the pace and we avg 9:15 for the run.  Which is great for him.  And I guess I was pushing the  pace a bit more this time.