Running with Forrest

We made it! Our final run of the Salt Lake 30K series of the Salt Lake Track Club. It was a 5k, then 10k, then 15k all at the Saltair flats and 2 weeks apart. A GREAT series! Thankfully, today was not as bad as it could have been. Though we did get 10" of snow here on the bench by the Canyons, it only snowed about 2-3 inches there and the roads we clear.

Each run was planned to be a certain pace. Karen wants to run the Salt Lake half-marathon in a time "with a 1:xx in the front. Last year she was 2:00:03 and not happy about the 3 seconds. This year, she has recruited me to pace her to a 1:xx!! So our goal was to run each of the runs at under this pace. 5k- 8:37 pace, 10k-8:41 pace and today 15k-8:57 pace!! Very encouraging, since her prior long run last week was 7 miles at 9:20 pace. She rocked today! Negative Split, 9:02/m first half, then 8:52/m second half!! As long as I can get her thru the half without stopping for the bathroom, it will be easy!! April seems so far away for the run it s hard to believe we have that much more time before having to do the run. must mean spring is close. Although, Alta got 36" of snow last night and today!! Looks like a powder day tomorrow!!