A little strange, but as a life-long resident of Salt Lake, I have always wanted to try runing from the City to the Great Salt Lake and back. With needing a big mileage day to achieve my weekly minimum and having a running colleague from work that is visiting from Arizona and staying out at the International Center, today presented a great opportunity to make my daydream goal a reality. Consequently, I took the mid-morning Trax to downtown then I commenced my run out to the International Center. Then Julie joined me for the next twenty miles where we ran out to Saltair Beach, dipping our running shoes (I know, total dorkiness) in the Great Salt Lake before heading back. I then tried to push myself as hard as possible on my run back into the City. Overall, it turned out to be 36.3 mile run (PR in distance) at a 9:02 minutes-per-mile pace (total time: 5:28:08). Thanks Julie for the company! It was a beautiful day and it was entertaining to hear about all of your running stories (e.g., growing up along the course of the Comrades Marathon, now this race is on my lengthy Need-To-Run List) and I hope to be in comparable shape twenty years from now (i.e., Julie really pushed me through the long parts of this run).
Finally, for my non-running workout, I completed 300 sit-ups, 30 push-ups, and a 100-second wall-sit.
5-minute Plank Challenge: 2 x 1:00 (too tired to even try a two-minute one)
Trying-To-Go-Out-Of-My-Way-To-Eat-Healthy Daily Challenge: 32oz of Naked fruit juice and a salad
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