j-lyn's corner

Went for a recovery run, ended up going faster than expected. I worked to keep my HR under 150, it went over a couple of time. Ran on a paved trail, about half was 2-4inches deep snow, the rest was dry.

I find it intriguing that when I am angry I run faster with less effort. Today, just thinking about an old friend who is now longer a friend because his wife is a b**** and hates me, made me get a little upset, and coincedentally whenever I was thinking about this I'd drop my pace to sub 8, then I'd notice after a while, slow myself down, only to get irritated about something else and speed up again.

This could be useful to monitor for race day. 

Went out for 10 miles at Liberty Park in the dark. The goal was to work on control my emotions and speed, and do a hard mile then a recovery mile (some may call this speed work, but that makes me gag). But, alas, there was terrible weather tragedy- 18 degrees and raining. Really. That's ALMOST as bad as -20F and 25mph wind. How can it be that cold and raining, not snowing? It was terrible. I was a human popsicle by mile 4, and decided that I would discontinue the speed efforts and instead just force my popsicle body to finish the run. I did.

 So, New Years. It was a good day. Took the boys (+1 nephew) to the Ogden hot springs and soaked for a couple of hours. Loaded my ipod with new music with my husband in the morning, and ate a yummy dinner at my sister "Pretty Kimmy's" house. Oh, and I also got to raid her D.I. pile, which has now replenished my wardrobe. Although I need to sew some of the clothes to fit a bit smaller. 

For New Years Eve we went to the Hogle Zoo lights & party (which had a 9pm countdown for the kids). Then we put the boys to bed, snuggled and watched TV. We're new kids in town, and we're really popular, if you didn't notice.

As for goals? 2012 My goal was to be the year of no excuses. That went pretty well.

2013... So many options. There's all the obvious ones, don't injure myself, continue to raise my beautiful and well-behaved children (who are miraculously doing so well), nurture my marriage, excel at my job, train harder.... blah, blah, blah (good things.)

 A friend posted on facebook the question asking why we run- health reasons, social reasons, or for the love of the sport. I joked asking where the "self-abuse" option was. He was probing to see if the group would still run without a fitness benefit. I began to probe myself more. If I had nothing to prove, if I was satisfied with myself, if I had no emotions and craziness to purge, if I really loved my life and myself, would I still run?

2013. Goals are still simple. It will be the year of discovery. I've been a religion fence-sitter for long enough. I've been unsure on how hard I can push myself near my injury line. Add in there the buying of a house in a few weeks, running my first 100, and my pathetic attempts to be less awkward in social situations and we can call this my resolutions.

Ran with the SLC track club. We did a 5 mile loop. I tried to get the road runners to run a few more with me, but no success. So I sat around and waited for the trail runners to finish the loop... and what a surprise, I was able to convince one of them to keep running. :) Company is nice.

I think today counts as fast miles, even though it wasn't necessarily so. It just FELT fast since I was focusing 90% of my efforts on not vomiting.

After being up with the flu last night (flu+insomnia=no sleep) I did the smart thing when my 4am alarm went off. I took some pepto bismo, forced down some ginger cookies, and went for a run.

I took more pepto every 30 min, totalling about 5 tabs. I think they formed a rock which has yet to dissolve in my stomach.

On the upside, I got to meet new people. It was fun to run with people faster than me. I felt bad for being slow and quiet, but at least I didn't throw up!

Nice morning. Now, as soon as stomach settles again, I will make the drive to Logan... 

Went out with the crew at 5am at the equestrian center in Draper. Went up corner canyon and did the "long loop" (whatever that means.)

JK was whining about coming, but ended up showing up. N came too, and so did JM. JM and I had a harder day, something about recovering from being sick slows you down I guess.

Wish I would've taken a picture of N's impressive ice beard. It even had snot icicles hanging from it. The view of Lone Peak and the valley was nice too, but my hands were too cold to think about doing anything extra. The handwarmers were amazing though, first time I've retained dexterity in my fingers on a run in a while. 

I had to be showered, clean, and dressed and at a hotel for a conference at 9:20am. I was hoping to get there by 9am to have time to shower.

About 5 miles in to the run, and we're moving slower than usual... I ask, hey, how long is this loop anyways? 13 miles was the answer. Oh, crap. Can we pick up the pace? Sure, apparently all you have to do is ask JK personal questions and he starts doing mile repeats. lol. Ended up being 14 miles, and I got to the hotel at 9:10 and snuck in a shower and was only a couple of minutes late.

Fun run with great company. We all aired a little dirty laundry. (Ok, N didn't. Somehow he got out of it...) As they say, there's no secrets on the trail. Oh, and what's said on the trail, stays there. Whew.

 Next week: I fly to Vegas early Friday morning. So I want to get 40 miles in before then. 10 a day?