I can do it!

I decided to run a 5K this morning as a recovery run.  Elijah joined me for a little while, but I got ahead of him after the first half mile, and didn't see him again until we arrived home (since he only ran 2 miles).  I have a teensy bit of stiffness from the race, but really not bad...it didn't affect my run very much, although I started out slower than usual.  I finished in 27:49.

After the run I went to bootcamp and participated in a weight/interval day with some ab work.  I thought I'd take it easy, but I felt better than I had anticipated, so I went all out.  :D

This evening I went to the pool and swam 80 lengths.  It took me 42 minutes.  I felt really good.  :)

I decided to try a HIIT on the treadmill this morning before bootcamp, but my legs decided otherwise.  So instead, I did a warm-up for 10 minutes, gradually increasing speed, just so that my shins would cooperate, and then I ran another mile, increasing at intervals from 6.5 MPH to 9.5 MPH and back down.  I finished the 2 mile run in 17:16, then I "ran" out of time - LOL!

After bootcamp, I did a 20.7 mile bike ride with my friend Katie.  I had a hard time getting in the groove, so we stayed pretty slow for the whole ride.  It is just so blazing HOT!!!  We finished the ride in 1:20:36.  I'll probably spend the rest of the day recovering from the heat.  But if not, I'll hit the gym for Zumba and Yoga this afternoon.  :D

I was WIPED OUT today!  I had to teach plyometrics at bootcamp, but I felt like I hardly had the energy to move, let alone jump around.  So it was a pretty bad morning, and I skipped my run.  I thought I might try to get a short one in on the treadmill this evening, but I didn't get the job done.

I did make it out to the lake, however...Ben and Craig wanted to swim the dike and back, which is 2.2 miles, but I was pressed for time with a Tuacahn performance afterwards, so I only swam about 3/4 of the way and back.  I figure it was around 1.5 miles total.  The wind was crazy, so I had to fight the current and the whitecaps going out, but coming back was a BREEZE, so it was totally worth it.  :D

It was another really low energy day today. I thought about doing a HIIT on the treadmill, but I couldn"t make myself get up after my 1:00 AM bedtime last night.  So I just got up at 5:55 AM for bottcamp, and I taught a very relaxing yoga class.  Then I went back to bed until almost 11:00!  I thought about taking the day off, but then I started thinking about when I could get a long run in this weekend, and I realized that even if I get up at 3:00 AM, I would have to run in the AWFUL Saint George heat...so I decided that I needed to go someplace else to run.  And since Friday morning is out because of bootcamp, and Saturday we have a bike ride planned, tonight was the only night available!

So the bottom line is...I talked Ben and Joshua into joining me for a trip up to Pine Valley, where we started at the reservoir at 8:00 PM in the nice, cool, 80 degree weather, and ran down to Veyo - 16.5 miles - getting in some good downhill training for the Saint George Marathon, and finishing fast and strong!  I surprisingly completed my run in 2:29:50, far better than I had anticipated considering my total lack of energy this week.  I had almost talked myself out of going in favor of an early bedtime, but I'm really glad I did it now.  It was one of those runs where everything just feels right - not without the typical aches and pains of running, but where everything INSIDE just feels right, and my gratitude for a healthy, strong body is in abundance.  It was a very good run.  :D

after the ride last night, all I got in was an hour of Zumba...and that was enough.  :D

I was going to do a ride with the tri-club this morning, but when the alarm went off at 5:00 AM, and Ben didn't get up, I decided to sleep in. YAY!!! But when we got up, Ben and I decided to go ahead and do a bike ride anyway...so we drove up to Central around 11:00 AM, rode up to Pine Valley, then turned around and rode back to Saint George. We ended up with 53 miles in 2:56:00...or something like that. My garmin died around mile 48, so I had to use Ben's numbers. It was blazing HOT when we finished, but I felt pretty good about doing a long ride anyway. I CAN DO HARD THINGS!!!