Single: Got up at 4am to drive down to Provo. Kind of a race
trial run. I had agreed to meet Michelle and whoever after Des and I’m glad I
made the trip down. There was a good group, Michelle, Josse, Matt K, James B,
Marri, and Tammy. The start was a good group and then after a water stop at
about mile 6 we started to break up. The start was warm and it actually cooled
off during the run which was nice. There was still some of the trail closed
because of the fire, that we could see, but the smoke was not bothersome. We were
able to go around the barricades on the way up but had to run on the street on
the way down, which was not nice. The way up was mostly uphill to just before
the dam. Then when we turned around Michelle and I were going to do some tempo
work. We got a descent amount in but not as much as Michelle would have liked.
Either way it was a good run. It was nice to finally meet Josse and Matt, catch
back up with James a little, and get to know Michelle better. I didn’t get to
talk with Marri and Tammy much until the end but it sounded like they had good
runs. Back when I started training for marathons and was following Hal Higdon
he suggested doing your 20-milers at the time you want to run your full
marathon. So as far as that goes today was a near perfect workout, total 2:30.52. To finish it off we all jumped into the river and chilled for 15 minutes. Mi 20-T3 Avg. 7:31 total 2:30.52
Asics DS-Trainer #2: 368 / / Asics DS-Trainer #3: 28 / /
Saucony Rides #1: 434 / / Saucony Rides #2: 426 // Saucony Rides #3: 9 //
Adidas Adistar (flats): 189
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