Long run today since I'm going up to father and sons (priesthood commemoration...oops!) with the boys. Not a really long run and not a very good run either. Legs felt okay, but my breathing and heart rate seemed a bit fast for the pace we were going. Had to stop and take a sit for a minute around mile nine just to chill. The final 4 miles after that stop were pretty dang slow. Not sure exactly what the problem was other than I'm eating less and still very out of shape and it could also be the pollen in the air, buy my allergies aren't bad. Just one of those things I guess. Only about 4 minutes faster than the Hurricane half last Saturday on a hilly and windy course.
Going to try to run up at camp tomorrow morning but I always say that and it usually never happens so not holding my breath....although it would be good to get a run in at 8000 feet. I just never sleep well and always wake up feeling like crap. Not a big fan of sleeping in a different bed.
Just thought about one other factor that may have played into my problems today. I was watching some video's on good running form and learned about using a metronome to train yourself to have 180 foot falls per minute. While I didn't carry my ipod with the metronome app I did focus on my cadence a lot today and tried to increase the turn over from my usuall ploding. It did take a little more effort to focus on my turnover so that may have contributed. | 