Wage War On Slow Running

This morning Tyler and I woke up at 5 AM to go to the Freedom 10K in Provo for the Fourth. Longest official race I've ever run and it was a success! During about the third mile or so Asa caught up to me and I was able to stay with him for the rest of the race. They played some great tunes that motivated me, including The Final Countdown and Can't Stop The Feeling. At the end of the race Asa and I tried to out kick each other but the 5K "runners" wouldn't get out of our way and we had to weave in and out of some old ladies. His chip time was 37:28.4 and mine was 37:28.5 so props to him for getting the win. It was great to get to talk to so many other runners and enjoy the race adrenaline in the middle of summer.

Practice wasn't good today. Had a late night and my alarm didn't go off so I showed up to practice a half hour late. The speed workout was 6 1000's with a 600 slow lap in between each one. The full workout with warm up and cool down was 7.4 but since I came late I only got 6 miles. I was still sore and pretty tired but tomorrow I'll be ready to go.

I physically could not get out of bed today. Finally did and made it to practice on time but legs were so tired and sore so could barely move them. We decided to run Molly's and ran up the reaper but then the rest of my team decided to run dry canyon instead. I went to Molly's anyway, and I went slow. Not sure the pace because watch is out of memory and won't sync with my computer so I need to get a new watch. Anyway, it was about 6 miles plus strides so like 6.5.

Practice was great today, even though I had another late night. It's "moratorium" week, so we're not supposed to run at the high school so we did our buddy 400's at Anderson Park. Varsity boys did 16, and I'm still without a functioning watch. Afterwards we cooled down and stretched, and the dirty dawg brought his dog Oakley along. Fun times were had by all. With warm up and cool down we hit 7 miles.

PM- I finally got a new running watch! I got a Garmin Forerunner 230 from Runner's Corner because I'd heard good things about it and the price was in the right range. I did a four mile recovery run in the evening to try it out and so far I like it.

I had another tough practice but it's my own fault because I go to sleep too late. We did Molly's and I went slow again. I'm going to start going to bed earlier so I can have better runs. Distance was 6.08.

MEGA UPDATE. I haven't updated my blog in forever so I'm going to be adding a lot to it this evening. On Saturday I went boating with my ward so Tyler and I met at the high school at 6:30 and did our capillary run. We went 9.09 miles at 6:44 and we went just over an hour, my time was 61:10. It was nice to run together and push each other. Tyler has improved as a runner a lot this summer.