2-4-14 Running in the Drifting Snow

Right now I am successfully avoiding my homework as I write this post. I missed two of my runs last week and really wish I didn't. I also ate really poorly yesterday which bogged me down in my running today. So here I am after my run, worn out more than I should be because of my diet. I drank two Pepsi Max yesterday, and a Mountain Dew Kickstart Lime, that alone shows how bad my diet was. So that leads to my slower than average times (compared to my last runs).

Today I had two funny stories as I ran. The first is when I got to the SLC Running Company, I stepped out of the car and my feet about froze. I was wearing socks that were for the summer. They were so thin that I could feel all the cold on them. So I picked up a pair of wool running socks (and am still wearing them). Ok that wasn't that funny, but this next one will be. I was running down 600 East, and I was in mile three, and was experiencing pain in my right knee. I had run by one of those speed signs that lets you know how much you are going over the speed limit by flashing at you. The first time I passed one nothing happened, and I thought it would be cool if I could run fast enough to trigger it. So here I am running, and see one flashing at me. I thought it was most likely the a car behind. I know I didn't hit the 27 mph. But I looked and there was nothing going behind me. I laughed thinking back to what I was thinking earlier, I triggered the sign (which was probably gliching), but it was great. I kept on trucking from there.

My runs for this week are fairly simple, Thursday I will be doing 4-5 miles and at mile 2 I will change from my cruising pace to 8x1x1. That will be 8 sets of 1 minute sprint 1 minute running sub cruising pace. Then on Saturday I will be doing 8 miles and need to make sure my first mile is in the 13 minute range. I keep going too hard on my first mile and have been trending slower after it because of that.

I think I have been loosing weight, my arms are looking thinner as well as my my shirts fitting a lot better. I keep forgetting to weigh myself when I go to the gym.

I need to get back to working on my homework. So this is me signing off.

Thanks for reading,
Riley

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