The Life Of Riley

Nice & slow today.  Just wanted to loosen up the muscles from yesterday's race.  Was only going to go 7 or 8 but I felt good and was enjoying the day so I zig-zagged the blocks coming back through the fields to my house and added a few extra miles. 

Tried a little speed work tonight.  This is new to me.  I have not done much sprinting since high school track.  I did a few 400m sprints and dropped back to 200m sprints with a slow jog in between to catch my breath.  I'm not quite sure if this is the correct way to do speed work but I definately got a different kind of work out then my normal running regimend.  When I got home I thought I was going to ralph.  I am interested to see how I feel tomorrow.  I'm not sure if this was a good or bad thing.

Feelin' good tonight.  Took Tuesday off to let my body rest and last night I drove a friend to Mt. Pleasant so I did not have any time to run after I got home, but tonight I feel great and started out strong.  I got a new best pace for 5 miles (7:13's) I had never ran 5 solid miles under 7:23's before so I'm happy with that, I then slowed my pace down to 8:30's and ran 7 more miles to get to 12.  I feel good and my pace is improving a great deal every week.  I am half way through training for my first full and I have increased my 10-12 mile pace from 10:00 to sub 8:00's.  I am excited to see how much more I can improve in the next 10 weeks before Utah Valley Marathon.

New personal best for distance.  I ran 8:40's which when I started training was the pace I wanted for my first marathon.  I know now that I will be able to improve on that.  Now I'm shooting for 8:00's or maybe even better, we'll see.