Matt's training

6.1 miles in the dark ran the frontage road in about 51:30 a 8:31 average.  It was interesting running on a dirt road in the dark.  The miles on the dirt were 9:30 miles the last two miles were 8:16 and 7:16 miles.   Felt good to run again last week hunting hiked all over the mountain didn't see anything I could shot at.  When I went hunting I was thinking layoffs would be on the 5th of October.  On thursday, September 30, I get a call from my wife saying she has had people asking if I made it through the layoff.  So I call my manager to find out what was going on.  The company I work for had the layoff on Thursday.  I made it through another layoff.  I feel like I am walking through a mine field I don't know how far I can walk without stepping on a mine.  I have made it through 5 layoffs in the last year and a half.

Ran two laps around the snow man shuffle course.  Averaged about a 8:38 mile I was struggling at the end.  My conditioning has taken a hit.

Bappy Birthday to me.

7.25 miles in 59:57 a 8:16 average.  Ran the Peachdays route starting at my house.  My legs are tired from Tuesdays run. 

6 miles in 54 minutes a 9 minute average.   Didn't want to run very hard today, but my legs were so tired.  Something I am worried about is when and during and after the run my calf is sore and tight.  I was debating on running a 5K on Saturday but I don't think that would be a good idea right now.  It's a little frustrating that I have not been about to really run hard since the first of May.

I got up early in the morning not planning on running the race but wanting to get a run in.  I started running and got to wear my normal Stretching place.  My calf was feeling really good.  So decided to jump in the 5K.   

The 1.5 mile calf check was in 12:48 a 8:23 average.

I got home and eat some toast and drank some sports drink then went and signed up.  They started the race pretty much on time.  I started in third or forth place.  I stayed about 30 yards behind the leaders until about 1 mile into the race.  At about the mile marker move up to the shoulder of the first place runner.  I run with him for about 3/4s of a mile then I fall back and two people pass me.  One of the two runner catches the guy in first and run shoulder to shoulder for the rest of the race.  I have one other runner pass me in the last half mile.  The first place runner finished about 50 yards in front of me.  My legs didn't have much pop in them I need to finish races better.  The race went pretty good considering my training and best of all my calf didn't act up during the race so that is good.  My time was about 1:25 slower then last year.

Splits

6:30, 7:08, 6:55, 0:43 for the last 0.1 miles

these 4 miles are interesting miles.  Monday morning I went to start my truck to drive to catch the van pool.  My truck doesn't start.   So get in the car hoping that I don't get left by the van.  I get to the parking lot to see the van pull away.  If I would of been in my truck they would of stopped, but they weren't looking for my car.  So I drive to work leaving my wife without a car, sorry.  I get home from work and start working on the truck.  I discover I have a plugged fuel filter.  By the time I get the new fuel filter my wife need to go to a class so she takes the car.  I would of dropped her off, but I thought I found the problem so I would have the truck going in a few minutes.  Long sorry short the truck still doesn't work.  I think the fuel pump is burned out also.   Any way I need to take Jordan up to shopKo to get his glasses fixed.  ShopKo is about a mile from my house so I have Jordan ride his bike and I push the running stroller with my youngest in.  We get about 100 yards from shopKo and realized we left the Broken glasses at the house so we turned around and went and got the glasses and came back.  At least ShopKo could fix the glasses.  I run home. 

On the way back the first time I raced Jordan home.  It was close the first time.  On the second time back home Jordan made sure it wasn't even close.  My legs are tired from pushing the 40 pound kid in the stroller, plus the 2 block sprint at the end.

8.3 mile loop around brigham City in 1:06:44 a 8:00 average.  At the first pace felt easy but by the end I was struggling.

7.25 mile loop around brigham city in 1:03:04 a 8:41 average.  My legs felt heavy and tired today.

5.2 miles around Brigham City in 43:49 a 8:24 average.  Ran in new shoes.

11 mile loop around Brigham City in 1:29:46 a 8:08 average.   Run went pretty good I even got a marathon pace mile in it.

Mile splits

7:51, 7:40, 8:03, 8:10, 8:34, 8:33, 8:58, 8:35, 8:30, 7:51, 6:49

10.05 miles in 1:21:58 a 8:08 average.  Ran the river course.  The run went pretty good nothing of note other then still just trying to build a base.

8.5 miles in about 1:09:?? a 8:10 average.  Ran to the Turkey trott course the ran the course and ran back.  I started the run at about 8 oclock PM so I was dark.  I was running on the sidewalk about a mile to go when I found the uneven spot in the side walk and took a nose dive.  Not much happened except skinning my knee.  Teach me to run on the side walk.

6 miles on the frontage road I didn't time this run.  My legs are tired.  I am pushing my fitness right now.

Ran the Mantua Spooktacular in 21:35.  When I signed up for the run I was thinking it would be my first race after the injury.  I ended up running a race 2 weeks ago that I jumped into so it was my second race.   I had hoped that I would be able to win the race because I thought it would be a small race and 3 days after state so no Highschool runners.  It would take a lot to win this race because of my lack of conditioning and not tappering for the race.  I picked up the shirt and started to warm up.  Then I see one runner I have no chance of beating.  Mitch Zundal is in the race.  Mitch wins the race by a long way.  I was about 50 to 100 yards behind 3rd place the whole race.  My legs were feeling pretty tired the hollow race and there was some pretty good hills coming out of the camp ground.  I just don't have any speed in my legs right now.  So this race was a good speed workout and I will take that.

This is the first time I went running this week.  This week was a night mare.  I worked 48 hours Monday-Thursday and then 6 more your by noon on Friday.  I had some software project that was do my the end of the week and to say I was cutting it close is an understatement.  I finished creating the CD that we can deliver to the client on Friday and went home.  I got ready for a run and put the garmin on.  Having data for my runnies is a good thing; however, things didn't work out so well.  The Garmin kept losing signal and going nuts.  I ended up turning off the Garmin mid run because it was beeping at me all the time and said I ran 165 miles.  No Idea how long it took to run the 8 miles.  I ran the frontage road.  Its a course I run all the time.

ran 12 miles in 145:58 a 8:49 average.  Legs were tired.  I ran friday after work then ran the 12 in the morning.  So not much time between runs.  Its been a long week.  I am glad it's over.