j-lyn's corner

took my lovely children to dimple dell. I was hoping for an evening run of 8 miles. My kids stood outside BEGGING, "please Mommy pleast take us mountain biking...."

It was a "thrilling" interval workout of out standing around doing nothing, sprinting, and liesurely hiking. Fish did a solid endo onto a curb. He also managed to bike down the big steep hill for the first time without crashing.... so he had to repeat it 5 more times.

I am apparently raising downhill junkies. Wherever do they get that from? 

I felt like I was pushing hard but no matter what surface I'm on I have a hard time logging 9 min miles as "fast." 

Woke up a few minutes to 7am, grabbed my vest (no time to get a drink) and got out the door by 7am. I had exactly 90mins to get a run in, without breakfast, fuel, or really waking up.

I've been a bit sick/congested and all sorts of exhausted.... excessively sleeping. Extra sleep isn't uncommon in my cycles of insomnia, I'll go period of time (days/weeks/months) where I don't sleep more than 4-5 hours a night, then I'll hit a patch of days/weeks where I want 10+ hours. But this exhaustion made me not want to run.... so it was different.

Determined to shake the funk I went to dimple dell (all I had time for). Not sure the funk has shaken but I was glad to get out again and actually have started to plan runs this week that I'm looking forward to.

Oh, and I ran by an overweight jogger who was running in jegging capris and eye of the tiger had just come on my phone (that I was rudely playing on the speakers). She was a super star. 

Somehow I convinced my friend MK that running repeats at lower bell res would be a good idea. Until this point I hadn't been able to con persuade anyone to join me. She knew her hubby with his residency work schedule (80+ hours a week) would also want to squeeze a run in, so they ended up bringing their kids to the TH and took turns running repeats with me. 

KK did two repeats with me. Although they claim he's out of shape, he's a mountaineer, which showed on his ascending abilities. I couldn't keep up with him... just like my husband, doesn't matter how long it's been since he's run, something about mountaineering sticks to him and he can climb fast. I had fun taking off on the downs to see if he'd follow. When it was MK's turn, I pushed her on the downs, trying to see how fast I could get her to go. She ended up only about 10sec slower than my full-blown pace! Awesome! She's excited to see how much she can shave off that in the future... Ah, fun.

I stupidly ate a kale/flax/almond smoothie on the drive to the TH. Spent the whole time wanting to barf. Kale and flax are NO GOOD as pre-run food, especially when pushing on repeats.

Ended up going to the lake 7 times. 

Ran lake mtn with Neasts. Nice and slow, which is good- I needed a recovery run! I spent the first half the run troubled over the dark clouds on lone peak. I knew that even if there was rain/thunderstorms my husband (who was up there) would risk it and climb anyways, especially with the breaks in the clouds closer to AF and the west desert. He ended up making the right call, looks like they probably got rain but the lightning held off.

Tried to push Neasts on the way down.... but she did a high vert week. I know how those initial high vert weeks feel... Ugh, not looking forward to feeling that at the end of next week's craziness!

Funny that my legs felt so tired on a week with so few miles. I think this is the least I've run in a week (excluding injured or pneumonia weeks) since last fall.