21 miles this morning in City Creek Canyon - 5 miles uphill, 5 miles downhill, 5 miles uphill, 5 miles downhill, 1 mile flat. Time was 2:35:07 (7:23 pace). Feel good now, not beat up or sore. Went down to Draper after my run to watch my former runner Garrett Jones do his mission farewell thing. He's off to Denmark/Iceland/Greenland.I go to LDS Church at least once a year when my boys invite me when they talk in church prior to leaving on their mission. I had this observation that us non-Mormons are probably more impressed with the whole two year mission thing at age 19 than Mormons are. I try to imagine me doing something like that when I was 19 and I laugh. But today I heard a bunch of very small boys singing songs about going on a mission for their church someday and it occured to me that the LDS Church starts getting these guys mentally ready for this at a very young age. Really appreciated the food after at Garrett's house as I was pretty famished after the run this morning. |