Helen

Ran the Lost Prospector Loop w/ my running partner, Alison. It's a nice, hilly trail run from my place in Park City and makes for a good run before work. The last 1.5 miles on the Rail Trail is the worst part as it is deceivingly uphill.

Road run up by Park City Mountain Resort.  The 1/4 mile is mostly uphill through Old Town, but after that, it gets flatter. 

Ran at a nice, easy pace with my good friend Heather at Bear Lake.  She just had a baby, Jack, and is trying to build up her running.  Yes, Heather, Chad's wife.  This is all very incestuous.

Lost Prospector Loop w/ Alison 

Road run up by Park City Mountain Resort w/ Alison 

Taking a few days off from running after Saturday's race

Ok, so my couple of days off after the race tunred into close to 10.  I tend to burn out a bit after a race.  I need to work on that.  Although I did do plenty of yoga, biking, and lifting, so it wasn't a total loss.

Ran a loop up to Deer Valley.  It was a great run until I had to hit a port-o-potty at mile 3.  It's times like those that I'm thankful there's a lot of construction in Park City.

I attempted to do a 35 minute tempo run at 8:06 minute miles on a treadmill because I have a hard time doing speedwork outside.  That lasted for a solid ten minutes.  I spent the other 1.75 miles reading Us Weekly at 10 minute miles trying to catch my breath...so much for a tempo run, but I tried.  Maybe I'll do better next week.

Lost Prospector loop w/ Alison.  I took a spill, but rolled out of the fall like a stuntwoman and kept running.  It's such a great run, but I still hate the last 1.5 mile along the rail trail.  It's deceivingly uphill...

Ran along the beach and PCH from Leucadia to Carlsbad.  It was nice to run on the beach and at sea level for a change, but it was really humid out.  8.9 minute miles average.

Ran 1 x 1600 at 7:19 minutes

Ran 1 x 800 at 7:13 minutes

Ran 1 x 400 at 7:!9 minutes

The balance was at a VERY slow pace.