To Finish is to win

Nice run with Nalisa

Cold evening run

Good run with Nalisa 35 min

Cold and foggy run, its good I had Nalisa with me to make things a little warmer. 

Another good run with Nalisa

By my self to night tried to pick the pace up a little.  I have a long ways to go.

Good run with Nalisa.  We ran past Terry Beans old house to give us inspiration.

Nice slow run with Nalisa

Easy run today, very dark night no moon 30min

Nalisa ran with out me today.  Good job Nalisa.  My GPS would not turn on for me.  Had it for 8 years or so bummer maybe it just took the day off and will work tomorrow.

It's still dang cold.  I need to put more layers on.

Wow 6 miles with out my IT band flaring up!!!  Stopped at the Runners Corner in Orem and got some good running shoes for Nalisa and the kids.  They had a good time and were so excited about running that they ran with me.  Actually I had four of my kids go 3.5 miles except Ty rode his bike with us as his broken leg is not totally healed up.  Nalisa, Nathan and Emilie went the full six miles they are troopers. 

Emilie and Nathan ran earlier today.  Nalisa had classes late tonight so we did not get out together.  Tried to put a little speed to .25mi laps and found out that I have a long way to go.

Nice night run all by my self to night

I was joined by Nalisa, Emilie and Nathan tonight.  Great run not as cold as earlier this week.  I came close to beating Emilie in a sprint but she nosed me out at the last second.  Way to go Emy.  Nathan got bored and just ran off a head of us all.

Nathan and Emilie went with me tonight, it was snowing hard we were covered with snow when we got home.  Good run 5.4mph

Nalisa and Emilie went tonight  Nalisa is picking up the pace a little we averaged 5mph.  Good job Nalisa

By myself tonight.  5.7 mph

Nalisa went with me today but her hip is bothering her a little.  Not sure what it is.  We did a slow confident builder run today.

Good run with Em

Emilie loves to get off the payvment.  She took over Duncan Hill, through the rocks, snow, and mud, she is just like her Dad my kind of trail running.  Nice run Em

Nalisa, & Nathan went 3.5 miles with us.  Nalisa has a muscle in her hip that hurts once in a while, she know the name but it connects right near the hip socket.  She is trying to find some stretches or exercises that would help.  She has backed off her distance run a little trying to give it a little time to heal and strengthen.

Nalisa went with me nice easy run

I know that that this tracking set up is for a triathlon however as a horse endurance rider trying to run a little more I decided that I could track my horse mileage here also.  Hope nobody minds

Nalisa, & Nathan went with me tonight.  Emilie is tearing it up she went another 2 miles.  Hopefully we can do the 10 K run in Heber next Saturday

Ran up the sheep trail with Maverick, he is a blast to ride.  Ran most of the way home and Nalisa was just putting on her running shoes so I went another 3.5 miles with her.  She is doing really well, she is a good runner.

We went to Heber City Utah and did the Super Dale fund raiser run.  Super Dale had a accident in durring westling last winter that left him parilized.  This was a fund raiser for him.  We (Myself, Nalisa, Emilie, & Nathan did the 10K.  My brother from Midway ran with 3 of his kids, Garrett (who place in the top 5 over all), Brady, and Gage.  That makes 9 Bradley's that finished the 10K run.  Emilie finished at 56min, Nathan was about 1 hour, and Me and Nalisa finished at 1:09.  I was feeling good when we got back to Manti and took Maverick on on a 10.75 mile run.  He is a blast to ride he loves to run and takes really good care of him self, and I ended up running another 4+ miles then.

Its hard to run on a dirt trail after dark.

Me Nalisa & Emilie ran a trail on the east side of Layton along th foot hills.  I felt good the the entire run but felt a little bit of pain in my knee (IT band I think) at about mile 5.  I think I am running to far on the once a week with no stretching or running during the week.  I had better try and run more often and less miles.

Nice run with Nalisa

Sheep trial with Maverick

Sheep trail + 5 mile loop

Went to Mayfield nice run thought I was in shape but this one proved that thinking wrong.  Will keep working my IT band seems to be holding strong for me.  Mavrick is a power house.

Maverick Sheep trail

Maverick Sheep trail

Maverick alone sheep trail to creek

Maverick sheep trail to creek

Nalisa & Nathan came with me on Alaina and Cheyenne, I rode Maverick.  It was a good run this should set us up for the race next week.

Mt Carmal XP ride

Sheep trail good P&R ride

Hells Kitchen

Very tough race running time 5hours 6 minutes.

Nice easy training run

This run did in my New Balance 100 by by really nice shoes.

Went running with Trish and a good visit very nice run.

Nice run with Nalisa

This was a ride & tie with Emilie and Aztec.  Tough run very hot lots of hill work.

This was the first time I have tried to get under 30 min.  My run time was just under 28 min.  I felt good about the run

Nice run with Emilie, good job lue

Jackson Hole Wyoming at 7,000 ft.  Ran with Emilie and Nalisa.  Emilie says this was one of the highlights of the trip for her.

The day was a frustrating one so a hard run was very helpful.  Hit about 3 miles of dirt roads and trails lots of up and downs.

Nice evening run with Nalisa.

Ride with Maverick Pattens trail moderately steep.

Ride with Maverick up the sheep trail and down the lower Patton trail good ride.

Tough run 2500ft of climb and 2500ft of decent from town resivior to the mouth of 12 mile canyon.

Nice run with Nalisa, Maverik and Aztec on Big T's Terrace.

Nice run with Nalisa, Maverik, and Cassidy.

Fast Run

Ran with Maverik to the Creek. Good run.

Amazing Run with Emilie and Nalisa in Layton.

Went from Manti to willow creek to the Bradley family reunion.

Good mountain ride from willow creek to snows lake back to willow creek

From Willow Creek to the cotton woods

From Manti to Burnt Hill

Burnt Hill across bench road down to the cotton woods up pole have to the patton trail and then down the sheep trail.

From Burnt hill up Little Bear out on Cove Mt ridge, down the south side of Cove Mt to Duck Fork, over to Blue Lake up to Snow's Lake down Middle mountain to the main road, lost my saddle blanket so back to Snows lake then back to the burnt hill and down the Patton trail and the old ditch to home.  This was a really long day.

Started at the Patton trail head road to the burnt hill lost Maverik and he ran down the main road to Bub Aurthers then we rode back up to the top of Manti Canyon then down north Fork Six Mile over to the Dan Henery trail to the mouth of Six Mile then home.

This was The Tevis cup run on the Western States Trail.

Nice ride with Maverick to the Creek and back

This is the Moab Canyons Endurance ride.  I really thought we were ready for this ride and all went for the 30 miles or so.  My goal was to run 20% so about 10 miles of this ride and as you can see we did a little bit more than that.  However Maverik came up a little lame on his right hind.  I have to theories as to why.  The first is that his left front check ligaments are giving him problems and he is compensating with his right hind.  The seconed is that I do not have him on the right electolite program either way this is getting to be a cronic problem as we were pulled from the Tevis Cup (Western State Trail) ride for the same reason.

Two runs one with Nalisa and Helaman and the second latter in the day.

It is getting cold

A little warmer tonight.  Could not get anybody to go with me O well maybe tomorrow.

This is the first time I have done this milage with out some kind of a break through out the day.  It was very interesting.  Mile 10 - 13 were a little harder than I though it would be.  All in all it was a good run.  I completed the run 1min/mile faster than my goal so that felt good.  I am not going to brag to much about a 10 min mile but come on I am 44 and have never run this kind of distance before so I felt really good about it.  I can tell that I need a lot more work before I run a marathon but the joy is in the journey.

To Finish Is To Win

Tonight was a new experience!!!  My daughter Trish is getting married in two weeks and we needed to deliver invitations so I got this bright idea that I could run and deliver them faster than a car.  I don't know that I was faster but it sure was a nice feeling to burn fat instead of gasoline.  This really worked well Nalisa and Emilie went with me and we had a great time.

It sure is getting cold.  Nathan went with me though and that was very nice.  He has a really good stride and can cover the ground.

I ran this on an average pace of just under 9min/mile, that is fairly fast for me good run.

Went running with Nalisa 3.5 miles and then with Emilie.  Its good to run with company and especially good looking girls.  Love them both.

Nice easy run with Emilie.  I had a hard time talking her into going with me and finally compromised to run at her pace and where she wanted.  It was a great run.

Nice easy run no GPS no time no pace to keep just me the trail, the night and my thoughts.

This was a nice night to run it was not freezing cold.  My hip has been bothering me for the last week and I have tried to back off the miles and the pace a little bit.  I think it is working at least my aches and pains are not getting worse. My theory is that the 26 and 28 mile weeks were to much to fast I will back it off to 18 this week and see how it goes.  I think Nalisa ran earlier today, she took the new pup Sage with her I think it went good for them.

Ran the last half with Nalisa.  This was a good stress relief before the big wedding tomorrow.

I started my run and ran right into Justin, Courtney and Kaylee.  Justin baught Kaylee a jeep stoller, a blanket heater and a battery pack to keep her warm considering she is only 5 weeks old she was a real trupper and covered about 1 mile.  It was good running with them.

I ran 3.5 miles with Nalisa and Nathan nice easy slow miles and thoughly enjoyed my self.  Then I ran another2.5 miles and tried to get it under 8min/ mile did not quite make it but hey we tried hard.  I do good on the down hill but up hill I am only comfortable at about 9min/mile.

Did 2.5 by myself and the rest with Emilie.  Easy run with a very full Thanksgiving stomach.  It was really good to have all the kids and grand kid with us.

This was a good run with Emilie.  She has a nice pace and pushed me a little bit but I would never let her know.

Running in a nice fresh snow, with snow in you face what a joy.

I talked Nalisa into going with me for the first 3.5 miles and she set a good pace not to fast 12min/miles.  I did the next 7 or so in 11min/mile and the last2 or so at 10min/mile.  This distance seems to bring out the old man in me and I probably need more time to build up some endurance.  However I was not real tired the next day so that is good.

Work takes me out of town today.  Ended up in Tremonton and found a good country road to run on.  This was a nice flat road and I thought I did good with a 9min mile pace.  Missing my family tonight 

Ran to Sterling and back this is has a few more hills but I averaged 9:30min/mile and felt good about that.

I ran the streets of Vernal tonight as I am here on bussiness.  It is interesting to run in a different town as some streets are a little darker than others (gives me motivation to run a little faster).  It was very refreshing to run around the Temple and that part reminds me of home.

1/3 mile warm up 1 mile at 7:43min/mile, 1/5 mile 14min/mile, 1.5 miles 8:23min/mile, 0.4mile at 13:28min/mile

What a great run with Emilie.  She taught me about tempo runs and we had a great time.  Thanks

Em

Nalisa ran with me for 3.5 she has a great slow pace.   I love running with her it was a great time but man is sure is cold.

Nalisa went 4 miles with me and Emilie went 6 or so.  It is always nice to have great company to run with.

This was going to be a good week I could run during the day and the weather is supposed to be very nice.  I talked Nathan in to running with me and Emilie he is very fast so he challenged me to a race.  That was a mistake for me.  He won and I came up lame.  My right calve feels like it has a very bat charlie horse.  I had to walk the last mile home and it kills we will see how this heals this next week.

This was mostly a walk day.  The leg feels a lot better and I thought maybe I would see how it would take a few miles.  The good news is that this work out did not make the calve muscle any worse.