Fuel SMART,Train HARD, Run FAST.

With the air-quality so poor, it's forced me to do my workout inside.

5:30 AM-TM at Golds. 2.25 wu.

10x400,equal dis.@7:53

90,90,90,90,87,87,87,87,84,81

 8mi@6:59 ap. (.5% for 3mi)

The last two nights have been hard to get sleep. I keep waking up at 4:00 and then can't go back to sleep. Each night I've had running related nightmares. Two nights ago, I was chasing Christi W, and Amber G for third place in the Utah Valley marathon, but we had to swim through rivers and run through an obstacle course. The director was very insistent that we made calls along the way for support of some sort. The more calls we made, the more time we could deduct off our overall time. I made no calls. Psh.

Then last night I dreamt  about pacing the last 30 miles at Buffalo with Scott. This came out of a real fear, since he asked me to pace it.  Just before going to bed, I read his race report from last year, then replayed it all night long in my head.  Tired. I've got to stop thinking about running!

5:30AM- Met Craig L and Scott W at the Capital to run the Twins. At the trail head we met up with another guy named Toly. 10+miles total,  with 5miles of 2000 ft vertical climb. Icy run but the spikes worked great.  I am usually very winded for the first 1.5 on the trail until I warm up. I was again on the peaks. I need to do hills more often. It was nice to get above the inversion. Tired legs, but felt overall good. 

I'm going to add some Hiit training into my workouts. I guess I was doing this with Firehouse, but didn't really know it at the time. Scott really likes it, and I know Josse does a lot. I've never really thought about it, but might be fun to throw in for some different cross training.

Ahhh, good sleep last night.

9:00AM- Easy XT day, 90 mins

2 mi elliptical

8 mi spin

2X12 clock situps

burpies

Woke up again in the 0400 hour. My boy has been on a kick of peeing the bed for the past few nights in a row, after almost a year of no accidents. The laundry has been really fun lately, but even more fun, is the blood curling screams that come from his room when he wakes up wet. Scares us all.

6AM-Davis with Andy. I had Steve drop me off on his way to work so I could get some extra mileage on the way home. I thought today would be very icy, but it was only moderate. More traffic than usual. This run has felt easier today than in days past, even at an easy pace. We seem to always push the effort a little in the last mile. 8 miles (7:58). I need a few more miles, so ran home and ran 3 more miles around the neighborhood for 11 total, 7:51ap.