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Another Liberty Park out and back but using different roads. Nice quicker run but sure hard to be fast this cold. I put on my HR gear but forgot the watch so no HR.  1:13:13 and 400 miles of climbing.

57:30 with 650+ ft of climb and 141HR. 10 degrees and snowy. I ran a snowy path through Matheson and that was a big mistake because the Altras take in snow and leave them between a net and a lining to sit on top of your toes. Oh well.

Emigration was too iffy so I turned back after .5 miles and went up Wasatch to 17th S. Nice run but hard to go very quickly on my 8x30 scs at 5:30 pace. My left achilles would speak up from time to time while running faster or slowing down.

Going to Houston tomorrow to run in some warm 40 degree weather! Inversions coming back to stay until February I hear :(

In The Woodlands for my own deposition. Ran from hotel around Lake Woodlands. Elevation just over 100 ft and 36 degrees out so a nice change. 1:17:53 with perhaps 400 ft of climb. No HR monitor. I brought it but forgot it.

Treadmill run at work. 3x1 at 5:30 at 1.5 incline. 2 mile warm-up at 1.5, .5 miles of rest between sets and 2 mile cool down flat. 51:18 and 160 HR

I will be running a bunch of races coming up, all of the SLC Track Club and Striders races I can. The idea is to train myself mentally at faster paces. I can run any pace 6:30 or below on cruise control but I have to concentrate to exceed that pace and stay on pace. I haven't trained enough in those paces to properly know what pace I am running at any given time. It is all a game of the mind until your legs give out from under you and my mind is weak. In the last mile of this workout, I was ready to stop early in the third mile but tried to put my mind at ease and coast. It didn't work but I kept with it anyway and that's some improvement. I need to do this workout outside somewhere flat between now and the first race next Saturday to gain race-specific confidence and familiarity with the pace. My heart rate was 175-180 during the intervals and that is maxing out as far as I can tell, so maybe faster than my 5k pace but we shall see.

Run from work down to 23 E and 21 S then up Parley's to Foothill and the trailhead where Foothill ends. Back on Wasatch round the zoo up Arapeen and to work. One flat mile along Wasatch in 6:08 and the rest was on the moderate side of easy. 60 minutes, 147 HR and 650+ ft of climb.

From home up Memory Grove up to BST at City Creek and east from there. Stayed in the lower parts of the trail sometimes coming in to the upper aves. Came down at Sunnyside and did the last 7 miles of the Haunted Half and back home. 142 HR, 2000+ft of climbing and 2:36:55.

Felt great the whole time if not weary from a fast-paced week and a 500 ft climb in mile 4.