Christina's Running Blog

I woke up to a foot of snow!  I was pressed for time, so I did a pilates workout in my livingroom.  My abs will be hurting tomorrow!!!

I did some upper body work at the gym and then worked out on the elliptical trainer for 20 minutes.  I like to get some crosstraining in during the winter time.

Marie, Renae and I did 6 x 200m repeats at the Olympic Oval in Kearns.

1- 43 sec

2- 42 sec

3- 41 sec

4- 43 sec

5- 42 sec

6- 41 sec

This facility is mostly used by the speed skaters.  They show up around 8:00 in the morning to begin their training.  However, we notice that many of them congregate to the inside lane of the track to stretch, visit, read the newspaper, etc. They stand approx 15 feet away from the finish line.  We are constantly dodging them and running around them as we near the end of each repeat.  It is a little frustrating, since we are doing these for time, and I am so out of breath that I can't even yell "in-coming!".  I've come close to a collision a few times.

I woke up late, so I didn't get a chance to run. 

I went to the theater to watch "The Spirit of the Marathon."  It's a documentary about five different people training for the 2005 Chicago Marathon.  Very inspiring!

This morning, I did an upper body workout at the gym, then used the elliptical machine for 20 minutes.

Then I went to bed!  Graveyard shift is a challenge sometimes.

We met up at Ruth's Diner to run up Emigration Canyon.  I ran to the intersection at the bottom of Little Mountain.  Then I turned around and headed back to Ruth's Diner.  It has been awhile since I've run this many miles.  I stretched my legs afterwards.  They are still a little tender.

We talked about our upcoming race schedules, and training for the Wasatch Back Relay.  Our next race will be the Leprachaun Lope 5K in March.  That is always a fun one.  There is usually a speedwalker who enters, and he wears all green.  He walks at about a 9 1/2 min/mile pace!  He beats a lot of the runners who enter.

Afterwards, I went shopping at Kohl's since they had 80% sales on their clothing.  I was pretty tired from being up all night, but you can't beat such great deals!