Turn your rut into a groove.

am--9 Barrel Roll w/ Sidewinder extension w/ Tom and Andy. Andy and I took the last half mile at a blistering pace. Beautiful day.

am--5 Truncated morning run w/ a growling stomach. 

pm--4 Did the warm and cool w/ the kids and ran all the recovery jogs between timing their repeats. 

pm--6 Moe's w/ Andy. Went up by the water tank instead of Zen. 

am--4.75 A nice loop from Little America in Flagstaff after attempting a run at Buffalo Park--too much residual, stiff snow. Ran along Route 66 and near NAU. I could live somewhere like this. 

am--4.75 Same as yesterday. Fun time in AZ. 

pm--6 Another Thursday w/ Andy in moe's. We stuck to the dirt road today. 

am--5 Moe's w/ Tom. Some sweet dude warned us off the trails due to a hundred-mile bike race. As if bikers weren't already the bane of a runner's existence on the road. Now it's moved to the trails. 

pm--6 Old Swiss Days route via Canyon View. It was nice and ponderous. Running and I have been on the rocks recently, but we decided to give it another go. We talked (flirted?) and even grazed fingertips. There was a spark of the old magic, so I decided to blog again. I was of a mind to just stop blogging in hopes that I would just run and enjoy it, but there's been a change in plans. This will be a good chance for me to start developing some values w/ this running thing.

pm--3 A nice little run at various inclines between 2 and 4%.

pm--6 Barrel Roll backwards w/ Andy. Twas beautiful out. 

am--Run w/ Jesse, he was down from ID, on the Sidewinder trail. On another note, the new trail that connects to Santa Clara Hill is officially marked--Suicidal Tendencies.

am--6 Usual morning run after an unusual break. 

pm--6 A nice bout of slight incline training. Warmed-up and then did 1.5 @ 2%, 3%, and, finally, 4%. Felt good.

am--4 Truncated morning run. Down to Dixie Drive and back courtesy of Country Lanes. Shorts and no beanie this morning. 

pm--5 Got out w/ the girls, plus Frida's back for a little vacation, on the Sandberg's loop. Followed that w/ 4 x 200 @ :37-38. Those were harder than I remember. Either that or all of the girls are getting faster. 

pm--7 Hit the lower Zen and some trails near the top of the loop w/ Andy. It was warm but pleasant out. Bikers were out in numbers. 

pm--4 Ran from my parents' to home after some good ol' fashioned Easter eggin'. Felt pretty good other than the gut bomb from green chile mayo. Did some gawking near the high school, looking at the stars and the silhouetted landscape about. It's like Bill Walton says, Utah is a beautiful place. 

am--7 Tom and I hit the Moe's loop w/ slight variation on the way back. It was a beautiful morning. Tom's already seen a few snakes this year out on the trails, so he was a bit less inclined to exploring tight trails.