Trying to improve my running

Ran during my night shift I was only able to go for a short distance b/c I got paged in the middle of the run. I ran around the block at the hospital and then up the parking garage ramp to get a little vert.

Ran the same loop as the previous night. It seems like I always get paged at the same spot. I wanted to try and run up another parking garage but had to go back b/c of the page. Oh well it woke me up for the night.

First run:

Ran durign the night shift again. No page this time and I was able to run up the larger garage. The gps doesn't track elevation at all in the garage. So I think I had at least 60 feet of vert in that garage. It was a hot night.

Second run:

I ran after I woke up in the evening. I went to run up Wasson peak. I didn't get all the way to the top because the sunset and I didn't have a headlight. It was a nice run though, it had rained earlier that day and was probably cooler than it was at 2 am this morning. I did only 5 miles 1000 ft of vert.

ran the local loop again. Can't remember much about it nothing too spectacular.

ran up beacon hill. I wasn't able to make it all the way up. I don't know if that is because I am tired from working so much. my training hasn't stopped.

local loop hard time staying motivated to keep running up the hills I think the work hours are getting to me.

ran the local loop. I decided I need to keep doing this until I don't feel like it is kicking my but. plus it is easy to do this and get some offroad vert since I don't have to drive anywhere.

didn't go as far on the local loop as before. so tired of working 12 hour days.

couldn't get up to run this AM. I wanted to run everyday this week though so I went after work it was probably 105 degrees and 20-30% humidity. This added a level of difficulty. I was still able to do the last couple miles (flat) at 8:18, 8:20.

I was pretty happy with my pace today I ran up wade road I felt tired but still was able to go pretty quick. here are my splits: 8:17, 8:30, 7:42, 8:17. AP was 8:11.

wanted to go at faster than 8 min/mile pace for a flat run today. I did 3 miles AP 7:59. splits 7:56, 8:03 and 7:57.

super humid this AM but cool I ran up wasson peak again. I felt like i wasn't able to go very fast and wasn't super happy with how fast I was going most of the time. I also felt pretty winded when i had to go up hills more so than usual. when I got done though I saw that I was on pace with my usual times up the mountain. I did see a rattlesnake coiled on the side of the trail. I will try to post a pic of him later.

Here is the comparison:

Ran again tonight at work. was going to go last night but couldn't get the energy. Tonight felt really good. I did 4 miles and was able to run up 2 parking garages without getting paged. my AP was 8:13/mile splits: 7:58, 8:40, 7:48, 8:25.

ran up the parking garage and around the neighborhood at the hospital while at work.

Only able to getin about 2.4 miles before getting paged last night. did make it up the parking garage 1 time.

nice night run around the neighborhood. up the big parking garage no pages. 

Ran a little different route tonight. it was nice did the parking garage one time. and then around the block. nice night. there was kind of a lot of police in one area not sure what that was about.

Nice run this evening up at snowbird. I found this single track trail and took that for a ways I went up the slope a little bit, but they were having a shooting competition so I wasn't able to go to the top of the mountain. I love runnign in these mountains it was so nice and refreshing. The garmin was a little off at first It thought I started the run at the top of the hill.

I did a nice hike/run this AM with the family (the family started hiking and I made a deposit at the trailhead and then caught up). It was pretty slow but I was able to jog to the top of Sunset peak at 10654 ft. I then agreed to hike all the kids back down to snowbird while the other adults hiked over the top into Brighton.So the hike down was pretty slow.

In the afternoon/evening I decided to take a run to the tram. I left it was nice and cool out. I felt pretty good for the first mile I was able to run the whole thing. I had 650 vert ft over that mile average pace 15 min/mile. The next mile was slower and the garmin freaked out on the elevation so not exactly sure about the elevation I think it send me down and back up 1000 feet in the second mile which didn't happen. I did have to walk some more during the second mile still a 16:50 min/mile. After about another 1/2 mile it started pouring rain. I was drenched in 1 minute.  I decided I would turn around and head back. I was probably about 1 mile from the chair lift and 1.5 from the top. It was a pretty fun run though. On the way down after the downpour stopped I really loved running in the mud and the drizzle.

this was a nice hike I only ran for a small portion of it. the first half was with the kids and was really really slow. the second half though I did with older nephew and neice and sister in law so I did push that part faster put I felt bad just leaving them so it was still just walking. I did run short distances to the summit of Mt Baldy by snowbird. Then again down the other side and back up the other side to hidden peak and the tram. 

This was a super fun run. It was harder than I wanted it to be. I did the run with my brother in law Nate Cook. He hasn't been running but is in better shape than me at baseline. I was able to run the first 2 miles with only 2 times of walking. The last couple of miles was a different story. I was able to run some but it was super steep for a bunch of the distance and I felt pretty impressed that I was even able to walk. Hopefully if we come up to snowbird next year I will be in good enough shape to be able to run all the way to the top. It really helps to have someone else running with me to push me along.

I couldn't pass up a final chance to run up at snowbird even though I am running the 10K tomorrow. I did this awesome single track trail, part of it was the trial for the wasatch speedgoat race. I am really going to miss running in these mountains.

This was a really fun race. Looking back I kind of wish I would have pushed it a little harder, it was my first time racing this distance though so I was happy. I could have gone faster but I was chatting with a fellow racer for a couple of miles and lost track of my pace. I was shooting to be under 8 min/mile it turned out to be 8:09/mile. I want to do another race at this distance and focus on going faster.

Well first day back in Tucson.It is hot (90's at 7-8 am). It apparently hasn't rained quite a bit as well. I was going to run up wasson peak but found that all the roads to get to it are washed out from the monsoons. I decided to just run some of the trails in saguaro park that I haven't tried before. It was a great run until I found a rattle snake on the single track trail and almost stepped on him. When I threw rocks at him to get him off of the trail he didn't even rattle which was a little disturbing. I then got off the trail and a little lost and had to bushwhack back to the trail. I was kind of nervous going off trail since I knew there were rattlers out here. So I went really slow til I got back to the trail. I think I am going to have to lay off the trail runs until the snakes go back into hibernation.