Don't wanna be FAT!

Today was Penny's first run with me. She seemed to quite enjoy the run and didn't whine at all the whole run. She fell asleep and stayed asleep for the last 6 miles.  

I forget how much more difficult stroller miles are than normal miles.  I only averaged 7:38 pace, but I think it was at least a 7:00 pace effort.    

2.25 m. up w/ strides, 8 m. tempo on Clinton 4 m. loop, 2.25 m. down.   I wanted the second 4 m. loop to be faster than the first. I met that goal, but I wanted to average about 5:30 on the first 4 and then around 5:25 on the second 4.  I wasn't able to run that fast.  I guess I'm still working on getting back after the marathon.  Splits were:  5:34, 5:42, 5:35, 5:28, 5:31, 5:39, 5:31, 5:20.

I'm mostly glad that I still feel motivated to run hard workouts.  Usually after a big race like the Ogden Marathon was for me I end up going into a slump.   

2.5 m. up w/ strides, 10x1,000 meters w/ 300 meter jogging recovery (averaged about 1:35 for the recovery), 1.75 m. down.  1,000 meter splits were:  3:08.5, 3:08.5, 3:07.5, 3:08, 3:07.5, 3:10.5, 3:08, 3:07.5, 3:06.5, 3:07.5.  Rounded to the nearest 1/2 second.  

I ran this workout barefoot on the wet and soggy grass at Emma Russell Park.  Target was to run them at 3:07.5 (5:00 minute mile pace) .  I averaged a bit slower than that, but I was close enough to be satisfied with the workout.  

The weather was perfect this morning.  

I was really tight at the beginning of this run but felt better as I went.  Very nice temperatures out this morning.  AP: 7:05.  

Met up with Bret F. and ran from the wind surfer beach parking lot by Pineview Resevoir up to Lewis Peak on the Skyline Trail.  It was just over 9 miles each way with about 3,000ft elevation gain.  We averaged about 10 minute mile pace going up and then about 6 minute mile pace coming down.  It was a really good workout and it was good to have some company.