AEROBIC BUILDER & 5X45 SECOND PICKUPS
I met Bryant and Jason at Kneaders. We warmed up almost to six miles, Jason turned back from there while Bryant and I started our builder. We ran 8 miles at 5:19/mile avg. Then we took six minutes rest to get to a non-slick road to do the 5x45 second pickups. For these I was a 4:08/mile avg with the last one at 3:55/mile, feels good to have the wheels back.
Countdown to 2017: Best Moment of 2016 - Ogden Marathon
I mentioned yesterday that it was a tough decision between choosing winning Ogden as my favorite moment or St George. Both races mean a lot to me and they are the two main races I felt I really wanted to win someday in the state. But the tiebreaker was the emotions I felt crossing both finish lines. When I crossed Ogden it was sheer joy. I had struggled so much on that course previously. I felt I had to overcome a lot to finally win that race, including the most ridiculous racing weather I've ever heard of! It felt like so many obstacles to overcome and I finally did it. With St. George, crossing the line was more of an emotion of relief. I was happy, but I was more just relieved. Relieved that it was over. Relieved that I had won and the training had paid off. I felt a lot of pressure for some reason at St George, pressure I didn't feel at Ogden.
Ogden is my hometown course and I trained on parts of the course throughout the entire buildup. It was new training for me in the sense that we'd upped the ante to longer intervals and longer tempos than ever before. It was awesome to wake up at 4:00 am and meet Ben and Ken to do some monstrous workout while the world slept. At the end of several of those workouts we finised on the race course at the finish line and every time I visioned the end of the marathon and the strenght I would have to close well. It all came true and it was awesome.
2016 is over and I ran a huge marathon PR, ran over 4,000 miles for the first time, and had a lot of fun watching my friends run well. 2017 is going to be even better!
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