dedication, perseverance, self-discipline

I ran with Sasha, Adam and another guy this morning (his name escapes me at the moment).  We took it pretty easy for the most part and only sped up slightly after a quick vpb in order to catch up.  Mystery guy turned around at about 3 miles out from my house and Adam turned around a little before 5 miles out.  Sasha and I then finished 10.6 from my house after which I ran home for a total time of 1:35:15.

I ran with Sasha and Josse this morning and we took it easy.  I slept plenty last night so I was not tired at all and I felt good.  We did our normal out and back for 10.1 after which I asked if the others wanted to do any more.  They both did, so we added an extra 2 miles after we finished the initial run.  Total time 1:36:41.  Just seven seconds under 8:00 pace.

I didn't get a lot of sleep last night because I was finishing up my finals for the semester and it was Kimia and my 2 month anniversary so we decided to spend a little extra time together after I finished my finals.  So, because of this I didn't run with Sasha this morning, however I was able to get out this afternoon and I had a good run.  I was planning on running about 7:30 pace throughout and I started off just cruising without making any attempt to run quickly.  However, I made it through the first mile in 6:55.  This was somewhat surprising and I think it has something to do with the fact that we hovered around 8:00 pace the past 2 days so my legs were fresher than normal and the fact that I had a bit of wind at my back.  Anyhow, since I wasn't pushing it at all I decided to just keep cruising and I was averaging 6:53 through 6 miles with varying amounts of wind either slowing me down or speeding me up (During miles 3-6 the wind probably hurt me more than it helped).  During mile 7 a strong wind hit me from behind and pretty much carried me through the entire mile so that mile was a bit faster (6:33) after which the wind stayed more normal and my pace dropped down.  I ran the last mile in 6:38 because I felt like speeding up a bit and I finished in 1:08:09 for an average pace of about 6:49.

I ran with Sasha, Hyrum, and Daniel this morning.  We ran from my house back to Sasha's house first where we dropped off Hyrum after which we ran to BYU because Sasha wanted to do a strength test performing a one rep max in the leg extension.  Sasha went first and did 180 with his right leg while slowly increasing the weight and then 200 with his left leg minus the incremental changes.  After that I was able to do 160 with my right leg and then 180 with my left leg doing the same thing that Sasha did.  After this we ran back out to the Provo river trail where we did 4x100.  I did my first 2 in the high 14 to low 15 second range.  I ran my third 100 in the low to mid 14 second range and I ran the 4th in the mid 13 second range.  We ran back to Sasha's house where after which I ran back to my house.  Now is where things get confusing.  There was so much stopping and starting and running in strange new places that we are not quite sure how far this all is.  Sasha thinks that it might be 10.75, however I am sure that it was a little farther than that.  I finished in 1:31:59 which would be an 8:33 average however I am sure that we were going a little faster than that.  On the other hand I don't want to add more than I actually ran, so I think that 10.8 will suffice mainly because it brings me up to an even 45 miles for the week up to this point.

Ran with Sasha and Hyrum this morning.  First we ran back to Sasha's house to drop off Hyrum, after which we ran out 4 miles.  On the way back, Sasha and I parted about a mile from my house and because I didn't go back with him to his house I realized I was going to be a little short, so I added just a little extra to get my total to 10 for the day.  No watch so I don't know how long I was out for but we were averaging about 7:00 pace for a little while

Good run today.  It would have been longer but there was an emergency at work and I got called in so I had to cut my run a little short later on.  I started out with a 7:25 first mile and then I slowly started speeding up in part because I was thinking about work and being ticked off I didn't notice.  I noticed after a while but I just let it happen.  I finally slowed down after I hit a 6:10 from mile 7.1-8.1.  I then slowed down to about 6:30 pace but I slowly sped back up again until I hit the last mile in 6:13.  Total time 1:39:00