Fox River Trail

8 Miles 52:11 6:31 average per mile
5:30 pm) upper 60's partly sunny
156 average HR
Did not plan on running this fast. I felt tired and sore before
the run. After one mile I was feeling great so I decided to
make this a tempo run. This is the best I have run since May.
Mile/Pace/HR
1/7:07/136
2/6:41/152
3/6:32/156
4/6:27/158
5/6:25/161
6/6:21/162
7/6:23/164
8/6:13/166

Wednesday 10 Miles UWGB Trail
Not a great run felt tired and sore.

UWGB Trail

10 Miles 1:16:53 7:41 average per mile
5:30 pm) 70's cloudy
Okay run still sore. Feeling pretty good considering.

Fox River Trail

6 Miles 45:32 7:35 average per mile
1:00 pm) 70's Cloudy

Felt pretty good. Not real sore from the marathon.
I feel a bit more sore tonight than earlier today.
Overall I feel much better than my last marathon.

No real plans for a while just want to get back in
shape and build my mileage up. I plan on signing
up for the North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile
run in October. I will need some serious training
for that. I have not gone more than 31 miles.

Grand Island Trail Marathon, Munising, MI

26.2 Miles 3:24:21 15th Overall 2nd in age group

7:00 am) upper 50's Cloudy became Sunny.

Had a great visit to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

This was a fun marathon. You take the ferry out to the

Island and run the perimeter of the Island. The trail

was not terrible hard or technical but was challenging.

I felt good today I did not push it real hard just kind of

got into a grove and held it. This made it enjoyable

I felt great during the run and after. I was at mile 19

and I'm usually hurting at this point but today felt

as good as I did the whole day. I think I actually

ran faster the last 10k than most of earlier miles.

The trail was muddy in sections due to the rain we

got the day before. I was able to dodge all of the

puddles and my shoes remained dry. The day before

Mike and I did some sight seeing. Couple of pictures

above from that. The one is Miners Castle and the other

is Miners Falls these are located in Pictured Rocks National

Lake Shore.

UWGB Trail

10 Miles
6:15 pm) 70's sunny
2 Loops. Second loop 32:15.
No Garmin tonight. I went to put it on and it was dead.
So I just used my Timex watch. I felt really good on
the second loop and thought my time would have been
better than last week but ended up a bit slower.
I'm probably going to take the next two days off from
running and save my energy for the marathon.
I feel as ready as I can be with the limited time I had
to really train for this one. I'm not expecting to run
a fast time. I'm just glad to be running again. It didn't
look like I would be doing this marathon a few weeks
ago. I just hope to finish and not be injured. That's
my goal.

Fox River Trail

7 Miles 50:50 7:15 average per mile
5:30 pm) 70's cloudy
154 HR average
Weather looks like it will be cool for my marathon on Saturday.
Only 67 degrees for the high with chance of showers. This is
good since I have not really had any real warm temps to train
in.

Parents Property

4 Miles 32:40 8:10 per mile average
1:00 pm) 70's Sunny
Drove down to my parents last night. We had a get together
for family and friends. We had a huge bonfire and cooked
dinner over the fire. We shot off fireworks and did some
fishing. Some of the younger people stayed down by the river
and pitched tents. I stayed till about 10:30. I guess the party
went on till after 3:00. I went back to my parents and slept in
my old bedroom. I'm not into staying up so late. I guess I'm
getting old or something.
Got out for a run this afternoon. I just did a easy 4 miles.
It was all run on my parents property. They have over 100
acres.