Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured

Ran on the treadmill in Alaska.  Most of you know how I feel about the treadmill and the start of today's run was more of the same.  The first treadmill I was on did not show the distance, just calories and time and after 5 min of trying to run and fiddle with it, I gave up and moved to the other.  This one showed the distance but my ipod dropped and needed to be reset, so a few more minutes of running and trying to fix things.  I finally got going and did some hill repeats with equal recovery but picked up the pace in between sets.  It ended up being a really good run, especially since the alternative was running when it is -30.

Ave Pace 8:40

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Paula and I ran together today.  We had a great relaxing run and enjoyed catching up with each other.  Nice to be back outside, but I have come to realize that I have no concept of pace.  My garmin was dead and I thought we were going so much faster than we were, but what's done is done.

Ave Pae 9:41

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BBK Run.  We had a really big group and a great run.

I had a really rough day Thursday and was completely exhausted by the time we got to SG.  I  went to bed early and told myself to sleep as long as I could and then run.  I enjoyed the sleeping in but by the time I got up it was late so I spent the day hiking with my family.  We had a great time in Snow Canyon and my kids must be pretty deprived because they love hiking.

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I had been dreading today for weeks.  I just have not been feeling the need to race, but needed to get this out of the way for the Runner's Series.   I drove over with Marcie and then met up with Cheris, Michelle M, Dean and Kris. We had planned to start slow and do a progressive run.  We ended up starting a little faster than we had planned but it was a good run.  I felt really good until the last two miles and was really worried about keeping up with Michelle and Cheris as they dropped down to MP for 2009.   It was more mental than physical but I was happy to run with Julie for a few minutes.  I ended up right in goal and PR'd for a non-aided course.  I actually really liked the course and would like to run it again.  They had changed the course and it ended up measuring long for everyone - I measured 13:18 but I forgot to start my watch as well.

It was great to see everyone afterwards and catch up with Christi and some friends of ours that we haven't seen in years.   This was a good way to start 2009 and to stick with my goal of enjoying running.

Ave Pace 8:13

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