Todd Kelly

ran 10 miles today and feel really good.  Ran around town and the smoke did not bother me too bad.  Held a 7:20 pace during the 10 miles and was not pushing as hard as I think I could have.  

ran a good 12 mile run today through Sunset, Clinton. Clearfield, and Roy it was a great morning.

8 miles today around town feel really tired, need some energy

Ran 12 miles today it was a slower 12 miles, my legs feel like yours Matt. Maybe its because my milage has doubled since my last training for a marathon. Going to take a break day (have to work all night) than sleep and hit a long run early Sunday morning. 60 miles a week is hard I can not see how people run 80 plus. do you think a day before a long run its ok to take a break or jump right into a long run. I think the rest will help me out really.

woke up at 5 am and ran a long run today due to missing yesturday because of the family stuff, but I figured that the day before with a little rest would help.  Ran a huge loop around several cities and I feel like my endurance has gotten a lot better with adding more miles during the week.  I feel like I could have ran alot more and hope for a little faster speed though.  Maybe that is from my legs getting 50 miles in the week and have not done that much before in 5 days.   But my time was 2:30:06 ,so I think that with the down hill in St George I will be where I need to be and that is 3:15:59.  Hey Jon or Matt can you kinda point me in the direction of what I should do for the next 3 weeks like taper stuff.  Thanks guys for the input.  Todd  

ran a easy 5 miles today with the wife.  My legs are tired from long run yesturday.

i am just babying a bruised knee, does not hurt too bad but want to make sure to give it enough time to heal. 

ok knee feels good no problems.  I was able to get 12 miles in and did not have any pain and was able to get it done in 1:17.  I pushed pretty hard and feel good.  Thank god that the knee was not hurt, I was stressed there for a minute.  Update today on Paul Shephard who collapsed at the half TOU.  I Talked with him and he is doing great and is at home.  he has a heart condition and has a shocker in his skin that shocks his heart if it stops.  Doctor said he will be able to still run after he gets over the hump, but it was nice to see that he made it and is doing so well.      

just a short run this afternoon to keep the legs moving.

So my buddy has his last long run this morning at 5 am and he asked me to run with him to help pace him.  Now this is hard because he is slower then I am and I decided that what the heck I will run with him and do like 12 or 14 or so.  Well 22.4 miles later I came in and ran the entire run in front of him and made sure I did not blow away from him.  I really wanted to help him get through his 22 miler, so all in all two long runs in a week for me and my legs feel a little tired.  Not like my buddy who is at mile 83 right now at the Wasatch 100.  I imagine he a little sore.  Wow what about the winner who came in at 11 last night, new record unbelievable.  Great job all you Wasatch runners.  Yahoo to my cousin Clark Hirshi who took 23 rd place.  You rock guys. !!!!!!

starting the taper mode, 7 miles today went really well fast running today.  My legs feel a little tired from last week, but all in all still feel strong. 

well today has been a rough day, woke up with a bad cold and sinus infection and ear infections, Not good so I can not even think about running today. Started some good antibiotics today though and thank god it did not come on two to three weeks from now. Will I be fine skipping some taper runs because it is in my lungs and I do not think it will help to run until i feel a little better. What ya think? Thanks todd

sick day 

sick day

ran a slow 10 miles today trying to feel better still have a cough

nice early run today and it went really well.

ran the loop course today.  feel pretty good

ran five miles today nice morning I feel like a marathon coming up, starting to get nervous dont know why this happens to me but it does.  hope everyone else is ready and feeling good.  

4 miles around the loop

ran early today at 5:00 it fealt  really good weather wise.  did the out and back thing towards Layton and Syracuse 

starting the taper week feel really good.  did a loop course with a little down hill at the end.

Ok today I wanted to speed up and see where I could hold my pace at and still feel good.  In the last 4 years I have never broke 20:00 in a 5k and trust me I have tried many times.  Today I started and ran the first 1.5 miles up a steady climb and my average pace was a 6:20 I feel really good at this point and could not believe it when I looked at my watch at 3.10 miles I had broke the 20:00 minute mark.  My time was 19:14 holy cow I thought that was never going to happen.  So I finish at 5 miles and look at my watch it is 32:19.  That is fast for me and I feel great about the pace.  Average 6:20 and best pace was at 5:36.  Yahooo I like it. 

nice easy 4 mile run in the rain.