Emily's training blog

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Location:

Taylorsville,UT,

Member Since:

Sep 17, 2007

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Olympic Trials Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

2 x Deseret News 10k winner

3 x All-American at BYU (back in the day)

10 x state champion in high school (way back in the day!)

3 x USA team member

Short-Term Running Goals:

I would like to run an Olympic Trials Qualifier in the marathon.

I would also like to run on one more international team before I pack it in!

Stay healthy! (My biggest challenge!)

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run my whole life, and then live vicariously through my children. (just kidding) , but I do want to pass on a healthy lifestyle to them.

Help coach East High to a state championship. (hope it doesn't take a lifetime!)

Personal:

I've been running since I was nine. I'm married to a fellow runner who inspires and supports me. We have two children: Cole (4) and Lily (18 mos.) I help Bill Cobler coach cross country at East High School.

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Miles:	This week:	21.00	Month:	88.80	Year:	1086.00
NB 580 Lifetime Miles:						49.79

Tue, Sep 24, 2013

Easy Miles	Threshold Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Track speed mileage	Hill mileage	Total
10.75	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	10.75

Hmmm. That was not an encouraging workout.

As I was walking out the door, I noticed it was VERY windy this morning. Teren was so encouraging. "It's not that bad." he told me. So, off to the track I went. I warmed up 2.5 miles, with 4 x 200. My workout was 6 x 1000. I thought I could keep around 3:30. Nope.

3:27 (Good, but huge effort.) 3:37 (Uh, oh.) About here I thought about turning it into a fartlek workout instead, but decided to persevere. 3:38.3, 3:37.9, 3:38.6, (thought about calling it good at 5. Decided to persevere.) 3:38.11. I'm glad they were all under 3:40 at least. I felt like I was running into a wall on the home stretch. My splits were all over the place, but the overall times were very consistent. I had envisioned a taper-tastic workout, where I felt amazing and ran super fast. Nope. Teren, it WAS that bad. Blame it on the wind, right? The pluses, I kept at it and finished the workout I set out to do. I was extremely consistent after the first sprint-fest. Finally, I think I could have run more of them if I absolutely had to.

Cooled down 2.5 miles home.

Comments

From Jenruns on Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 09:15:16 from 98.202.196.31

It wasn't windy at all here...you should have come to Cottonwood! :) Don't get discouraged...my workout yesterday was really hard for me too! I think we have to realize that we've put in some really hard training over the past 4 months and we are bound to be tired at times. Yes, we are tapering but not "completely" at this point. There is still a week and a half so we aren't 100% right now (and we shouldn't be! That should come on October 5th). Overall, I think you had a great workout!

From Jake K on Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 09:15:27 from 67.177.11.154

I had a day like this last Tuesday... the wind was awful. Running a 4:45 1600 that day felt like 4:30 effort.

Don't start second guessing ANYTHING now!!! :-)

From RileyCook on Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:58:38 from 132.3.57.82

On windy days you just have to go off of effort and not worry about the clock. It was pretty windy up here this morning too and my last two miles into the wind were much slower than usual. But the effort felt right and that's what matters.

Also, it's very typical to feel "off" during a taper. I actually always feel worse in a workout when I scale it back a tad from the norm (taper or not). I think we often think workouts during a taper should feel fresh and easy and in reality they don't feel any easier, and if we go in thinking they should be easy we are in for an awakening. At least that's my experience.

I wouldn't worry a bit about this workout. You're fine. And this was plenty fast to maintain your fitness for next weekend.

From AngieB on Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 16:19:15 from 174.239.66.1

Great workout Em! The one thing I hate running in is wind. I like Riley's advice on the taper. I have noticed that I feel alittle off during this taper. Good to know others feel it too:)

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