Wednesday, January 27, 2010

4 miles and a new trail

There is a trail that runs all along the wasatch front here in Utah. Currently the trail is not all connected. I guess each county is responsible for connecting their part and they slowly buy up land when they can. Recently they have expanded the trail a mile from my home. In order to avoid the temporal rift that caught me off guard last week, I took a left instead of a right. I came upon the new trail (which is paved) and decided to test it out. LOVE IT! It's paved, there are no cars and it's just me and the road.
I got in 4 miles in a much better time (28 minutes) versus my sucktastic 3 miles last time.
This Saturday I start my race season with the Hale Freezes over 10K. With my P90X training, it has been tough to get in the miles, but I am pretty confident I can get 6 in. The P90X training has been incredible. It's definitely a high intensity program. I'm on week 4 which is supposedly the "recovery" week. I'm not sure who decided on that name because in many ways it is harder than the previous 3 weeks. I'm looking forward to next week so I can recover from my "recovery week".

5 comments:

  1. Will this be the first time we've raced together? I'm looking forward to it too--they have some pretty good prizes for the drawing.

    I want to run this new trail you speak of. Let's bring the group out there the first Saturday in Feb.

    Shane

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  2. That will be fun. I'll have to run it the full length to see how far it goes. I think I caught it in the middle. I'm looking forward to the race. Maybe I'll be able to keep up with you.

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  3. holy cow, 4 miles in 28 minutes?! You are twice as fast as I am!! The new trail sounds great!

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  4. I love those paved bike paths. They are usually black-top so they are a little softer on my knees than sidewalks.

    Very strange that they don't connect them all.

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  5. This trail system isn't one big long flat trail. It winds around mountains, lakes, streams over several counties. The mile marker where I started my run was mile 150.

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