"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves"

3x5 minute temp sessions at sub-6:45. It felt great to be running faster again. The third one was toughest, and I sent some time running a little too slow, but sped up as much as I could. I had a 3 minute break after the first and a 2 minute break after the second.

Played Ultimate Frisbee for Family Home Evening. We had 3 groups come together and had a bunch of people. Lots of sprints and things. I'm going to regret this tomorrow.

Just a nice, easy run this morning. I woke up and didn't want to run, so I went inbetween classes in the glorious Provo weather. My body felt tired and beat up from Ultimate Frisbee and tempoing yesterday, and I figured I would average around 8:30. My legs just went though, and I averaged 7:34 min/mile around campus.

I wanted to do more this morning, but my body refused. I'm still sore from running on Monday. I just need to focus and make myself run daily. If I do so, these hard workouts will get better and better and I will become a better runner. Watch was funky this morning telling me I was going 6:45 up part of Temple Hill when I knew it couldn't be more than 8:00. Elevation was weird too, but it says I averaged probably around 8:00 min/mile.

I had a neurobiology quiz this morning, and kept on imagining how amazing it is our body can correlate the running motion. I wanted to hook myself up to an MRI and see how the primary motor cortex is working relative to not running.  If I don't go to med school, or don't want to build a sub-light space engine, I think I will study running on the brain.

Short run up to Rock Canyon Park. I went with a girl in my ward, so my average pace was 8:56. I woke up feeling great with 8.5 hours of sleep. Much more than I usually get.  I know I'm capable of longer runs, but I need to challenge myself with longer distances.  It's my goal for next week.

Roughly 4 miles in 40 minutes. I went running with one of my friends, Avery, and kept the pace to about 10 min/mile. I accidentally stopped my watch when I thought I was starting it, so I don't know for sure. Just up and back on Canyon road.

Looks like it's going to be 6 days of running this week woot woot. 

Great run this morning. I stayed up until about one last night. My best friend came down to visit from Draper, and he took us over to the mall. Walked around and stopped in at Gamestop for the fun of it. I found a copy of Grand Theft Auto Vice City for 7 bucks and thought it was a great deal, and my roommate and I needed some new fun game to play. Of course, once we got back to the dorm, the game crashes every five minutes. I guess it's for the same reason Taken is always sold out when I go to see it. It's a sign.

 Back to the run this morning. Slept from 1 am until 10 am. I woke up earlier at 7:30 and 8, but I wasn't in any hurry to get out the door. Plus, I wanted to wait for the Sun to warm up the air. Finally went running just after 11. I went up University to 9th East and then over to Timp View Dr. Ran the whole length of that street, turned around and then continued down 9th East until the end of campus and back. Total length was just over 8 miles, and the time was 1:02:29 which averages out to 7:35 min/mile. Great, great pace for that distance. As bad as taking all of those weeks off in December and as slow as I've been getting back to running, my body needed that rest. I've improved my pace and form quite a bit. Soon I will be back into some good speedwork, and then my body will improve much more.