Don't wanna be FAT!

I was feeling a bit slow this morning especially at the beginning of the run.  Started feeling a bit more up to speed toward the end of the run.  AP:  7:00

2 mile warm-up w/ strides, 8 mile tempo (same course as last week), 2.06 mile cool-down. I didn't feel quite as strong as last week and my splits were all over the place, but I still managed to average 5:22 pace.  Splits were: 5:33, 5:20, 5:21, 5:24, 5:15, 5:12, 5:28, and 5:19.  It was a good workout.

On the warm-up I ran past a house where a lady was out in front with her 3 little ankle biter dogs.  As I ran by they came after me so I made the quick decision of rather than stopping and yelling and/or kicking the dogs in the head to just outrun them since I knew I could and I was ready to start my strides anyway.  Well the lady yelled at me saying, "You don't run away from dogs, you idiot!"  I was furious, her stupid dogs come running after me and rather than kicking the stupid things in the head I decide to outrun them and she calls me an idiot.  I started to yell at her and then my better judgment took over and I decided to just turn around and keep running.  The nerve of some people!

Last night I laid sod for about an hour in the 95 degree heat. I was feeling the affects of that a little bit this morning. The first 3 miles of this run were super slow and a little painful. After that I was fine. AP: 6:59.

Decided to do my long run today instead of on Saturday because I will be running a small 5k in Nephi on Saturday morning. This was another run where the farther I went the better I felt. The second half of this run was much faster than the first. Even though I got out early this morning it was still quite warm.  At the beginning of the run it was drizzling ran for a little bit.  I wish it would have continued to rain.  AP:  6:39.  

Morgan Valley Marathon finally responded to my request for a free entry today saying they don't give free entries, so I think I'm going to run the Des News 1/2 marathon that weekend instead.  I think a 1/2 marathon at that point will be better for my training anyway as my two focuses right now are the Skyline Trail Marathon and St. George Marathon.  

Went fishing with my grandpa early in the morning so I didn't get out until it was real hot outside. I didn't want to overdo anything so I just ran a little over 6 with the anticipation of running a lot of miles the next day. AP: 7:45 (There were some steep trail miles in there that brought down the average, on the flats I was below 7:00)

Ran from Levan into Nephi before the race which was 11.63 miles at an average pace of 6:50.  Then ran the ute stamped fun run 5k which actually ended up being 3.25 miles.  Then cooled down 1.27 miles.  I didn't expect any competition in this race, I just thought it would be a good one to run because we wanted to spend some time with my grandparents and we like going to the ute stampede rodeo and I knew they gave the winner free tickets to the rodeo.  I tried to give it my best effort and make a good workout of it.  Mile splits were: 5:04, 4:54, 4:54, and 1:12 for the last .25 for a final time of 16:02.  I ran the whole thing by myself and won by over 2 minutes.  I got $50.00, a $25 gas card, and 2 tickets to the rodeo so it was well worth it and a great way to get a good workout in after running almost 12 miles already before the race.  As a side note, the rodeo was awesome that night!