Journey from 238.5 lbs to 2:38:30

Did a large loop around Lehi.  Woke up at 4am, which was a whole 15 minutes before I had planned to get up.  I thought celebrating a good race on Saturday deserved a nice 20 mile victory lap, especially since I didn't do to many miles last week to recovery for the race.  And since I only have 8 weeks until my first 50k, I figured I may as well start really training for it. 

It was much colder heading north than the temp indicated, due to the very nice wind.  so I enjoyed the only 3 mile stretch of north run to begin with.  Heading south I couldn't feel any wind at all so actually kind of got warm.  I had sort of measured most of this loop once, but wanted to run it to see how far it really was.  It was a little icy in spots, in particular pioneer crossing concrete road was very slippery, so stayed on the sidewalk for that stretch.  And when I got back to the trail, back to familiar territory, and knew I had 5 miles left, that was a good place to be.  I ate nothing before hand, and had 2 of my freshly made chex/honey/almond/sugar snack cubes during the run, which seemed to be enough for today. I used endomondo on my phone today so my wife could track my run, which is where the map came from.  I made it back to the steps of my house when the battery died.  So between pandora and gps/endomondo, it made it 20 miles, and about 3ish hours out running.  

Ran trail 51, well some of it.  It was pretty snowy. Put the microtracks on partway up 51 after dry canyon.  One I got on top, ran into some deeper snow.  Most of it was crusty so could kind of stay on top of it.  But would occasionally break through up to the knee. One the trail 31, or 37, with 51, that is up on top, 51 looked just brutal with the snow.  So I headed more south on the trails that head towards the gun range.  Trail wasn't too bad, though it is chewed up pretty heavily.

Ran from gun range on bslt to grove creek. Once I got to grove creek I tried to find the trail that the timp marathon uses to go up the front that meets with the grove creek canyon trail.  I partially found it, enough to know that it is one steep, crappy climb that will not be fun during the race.  But it gets over soon enough.  reblistered my blister on the left foot.  Love the double blister.  

Miles through Lindon

Ran from House in Lehi, Up Suncrest and around point of the mountain.  The Up on the south side is much better than the down on the north. Just too steep to be comfortable.  This was my longest training week ever.  First time over 65, I think, maybe it was 63.  But either way, longest week ever, by at least 10 miles.  Writing this on Sunday, and surprisingly not sore at all from this weeks runs, which I was pretty tired and sore yesterday.  Though my left  knee is slightly stiff/sore, which is very uncharacteristic for me.  Hopefully it isn't really anything.  One week closer to my first 50k, not sure how many miles I should put in before hand to be ready for it.