my makeup may be flaking

My blog has been kind of bleak recently as I've been struggling with allergies and illness.  I finally got prescribed some antibiotics and corticosteriods this week, but running has been pretty tough.

I decided that I would do the race today, but treat it as a workout. I hoped that I would win anyway, but like every week one really fast person showed up (Steve Shepherd).

I let him go right from the start.

Eh, I'll finish this later.

Did the run in 1:26:13. 58:43 through 10 miles. Couldn't believe I ran this faast considering everything.

Well, ok then that was a lot of miles. I'm now very tired. Now back to regularly scheduled half marathon training.

Three loops of Sugarhouse. 5mins rest in between.

10:28,10:38,10:24

I let down a little in the middle of the second one which was annoying. I did this in flat which would explain why this is so much faster than normal. I'm just glad that my allergies seem to be better.

Have to add about 10 seconds to get an actual 2-mile time. Still, is pretty good.

11.5 in the morning and 5 in the evening.

Did my math 10-miler with poor unsuspecting Kevin Smith. This is why, I run alone I guess. I advertised it as 5:50 pace. We hit 3 miles in 16:20 and Kevin says that's a litte fast right? I respond that the course is about to get much harder. He told me later that he started to despair a bit at that point. Apparently my workouts are really hard core, who knew?

Anyway, I felt great the whole way and he managed to stay with me without much trouble.

Section the 1st. 16:20 for 3 miles. Course tool adjusted pace was 5:38. Not bad.

Section the 2nd was 10:36. Adjusted pace was 5:21, rolling!

Death segment was 17:00 (very fast!). Adjusted pace was 5:22. I felt like I could go faster but Kevin was dropping back so I kept the effort even.

Final segment was 10:29. Not so sure about this segment because of construction, but adjusted pace still seems to be in the 5:20s.

Adjusted pace for the whole run was 5:27! Not tired at all! Those hard track sessions during 90-100 mile weeks have worked. Total crushage of the workout PR. I was THIS CLOSE to writing off the whole season as a lost cause, but that's three workouts in a row that I've totally crushed.

Not a very competitive race and I won by a lot. Race was on the road at Sugarhouse park, but it was still long despite the presence of a certified course. There were some high schoolers who thought they were going to take it easily and sprinted out at the beginning but I caught and passed them on the first hill and then increased my lead exponentially from that point on. I ended up winning by two minutes pretty easily.

Hmm, probably confused people who saw me running shirtless with gloves on. This is just how I roll.

2*(3 loops of Liberty Park on woodchips). The first one was pretty good (8:25,8:43,8:49) but the second was terrible. (8:36,9:06,9:10) I felt like I was moving pretty fast but it was quite cold which might have hurt me a little. I just couldn't get it going. Chalk it up to not enough rest.

I don't know where I get the idea that this will be fun. I decided to do 100 laps of the field house. I only took a split every other lap so that my watch wouldn't run out of memory.

Here is the gory detail.

Distance	Split	Pace	Cum	Avg Pace
	1:33.08		1:33.08
	1:29.89		3:02.97
	1:29.27		4:32.24
	2:14.92		6:47.16
	45.84		7:33.00
	1:30.82		9:03.82
	1:32.54		10:36.36
	1:31.05		12:07.41
	1:29.74		13:37.15
	1:29.67		15:06.82
	1:27.58		16:34.40
	1:28.98		18:03.38
	1:29.56		19:32.94
	1:31.04		21:03.98
	1:31.09		22:35.07
	1:30.15		24:05.22
	1:29.45		25:34.67
	1:29.70		27:04.37
	1:29.98		28:34.35
	1:30.66		30:05.01
	1:30.73		31:35.74
	1:30.70		33:06.44
	1:30.11		34:36.55
	1:29.40		36:05.95
	1:31.92		37:37.87
	1:31.74		39:09.61
	1:32.87		40:42.48
	1:32.58		42:15.06
	1:31.59		43:46.65
	1:32.50		45:20.15
	1:31.83		46:50.98
	1:29.92		48:20.90
	1:31.85		49:52.75
	1:31.55		51:24.30
	1:33.06		52:57.36
	1:33.14		54:30.50
	1:32.54		56:03.04
	1:33.86
	1:33.27		59:10.17
	1:31.12		1:00:41.29
	1:32.45		1:02:13.74
	1:33.30		1:03:47
	1:34.12		1:05:21
	1:34.10		1:06:55.26
	1:32.91		1:08:28.17
	1:34.47		1:10:02.64
	6:07.36		1:16:10.00