Don't Sacrifice the Gift.

10-Midway wash/Santa Clara river Trail-- Not bad today.  The first few miles my legs felt a little tired but around mile 4-5 they started to feel better and I started to get into a nice groove. Unfortunately the loop was longer than I had planned on running so I stopped before getting back home and walked the rest of the way. It was a nice little cool down. Overall a nice run.

4-Bluff Bridge--Felt pretty tired today.  It was getting fairly hot and my legs weren't feeling great. Specifically my shins.

6-Middleton--Got up early this morning so I could get my run in before Court's graduation. Super excited for her. The run felt pretty good today. My legs a feeling a bit better from the other day. Although still pretty tender.

7-Virgin River Trail-- Added in 2X one mile tempos.  Felt pretty good for the most part today. I decided that I wanted to do a couple of mile tempos. And I am glad that I did. 

5-Vernon Worthen--Ran down to the park today to do some barefoot for a couple of miles.  Felt pretty good! They just added a sidewalk and the grass right next to it so it felt really nice.  The only bad thing was that I stepped on a sprinkler head and bruised the bottom of my foot...

7-Reverse Marathon--Ran up the course until the turn around for 7 miles.  It was pretty hot, I kept asking myself why I decided to wait until mid afternoon in St. George weather to go for a run? Ended up being a pretty good run though!

3-CV-- Nice easy run to let the legs recover a bit.  As I am working up to get more milage throughout the weeks and months, I want to make sure that I don't over do it and hurt myself.  This run was nice for that reason.  Not very long and I took it easy to get the gunk out of my legs. My legs feel less tight and I feel refreshed.

12-Halfway/SC trails-- This morning was awesome. Nice and cool and I felt pretty great.  I took it a little slower but not a ton. It is nice when you get into a grove and you can zone out a bit on the longer runs.  The loop looks like it is actually closer to an 11 mile loop instead of a 12 like I thought, so I had to add on a bit at the end. Nice long run and was able to get some good strentching in afterwards.