Catch me if you can

I'm really enjoying my slow paced Sunday morning runs. It was another beautiful morning. Average pace 9:05.

I was up most of the night with a sinus cold. Yuck!!  I finally took a Mucinex D at 3:30 am and was able to get a little bit of sleep.  I got up at 6:30 to make sure Austin was up for his first day at cross country.  I dropped him off at the school and came home and started my run.  My body felt fine, but my head felt pretty crummy.  I'm glad I have the day off work.  I had thought about doing speed work today since my class has a PT tomorrow and graduation on Thursday.  It didn't happen.  Maybe tomorrow I can try to some mile repeats if I feel better.  Average pace 9:00. 

I have a bad cold and I don't like it.  I took Musinex D before I went to bed and it kept me up all night long.  I got up at 5:30 and ran on the treadmill for about 20 minutes before my class had their PT test.  Then I ran another 25 minutes after.  I had no energy.  I felt crummy all day.  

Last week I entered a contest on Facebook for a free entry to Utah Valley 1/2 marathon.  McNeil Printing in Orem was putting on the contest.  I found out last night I won.  I'm way excited.  It's this weekend so I hope I'm all better by then.  

I went to work just long enough to make sure everything was ready for graduation.  I went home slept most of the day.  Sick. :(

Everything I've read says it ok to run as long as the cold is above the neck.  I'm a bit nervous that I feel some congestion in my chest.  I ran at home before work.  I felt ok but my joints did feel a little achy.  I will run the 1/2 on Saturday, but I won't put any pressure on myself for a decent time.  Average pace 8:30

3 easy miles on the treadmill at work.  No sleep again.  Still have a cold.

I found out Monday that I had won a free entry into the Utah Valley Half Marathon.  I was pretty excited.  I told my sister and she ended up signing up too.  That same day I starting getting sick.  I've been sick with a head cold all week.  Angela and I decided to stay in Provo Friday night.  I worked a 10 hour shift Friday and went straight to Angela's house and then she drove us Provo.

We went to the expo to pick up our packets.  We were able to listen to Sasha speak.  He gave us some great tips.  It was nice to meet him and his cute wife. We finally got checked in and settled in our hotel room at about 9:00.  It was at this time that I realized I'd left my running shoes in the trunk of my car at Angela's house.  I was more than a little stressed out.  I called my awesome friend Cheris, and she went to my house and picked up some shoes for me.  Luckily we managed to find each other before the race started.  Onto the race.....

I didn't really know what time to shoot for.  I still didn't feel that great and the lack of sleep the past week make it tough.  I decided to start out slow and just run by feel.  That worked and I ended up running much better than I had thought I would.  We had a head wind for most of the race.  I stopped at the aid station at mile 6 to have a Roctane GU and I took some Ibuprofen.   I had forgot to take my Garmin off auto pause, so my time ended up being off by about 30 seconds because of this stop.  I'm happy with how I did.  I think this is a good starting point for my training for St. George.  

My splits were: 8:12, 7:47, 7:58, 7:43, 7:26, 7:45, 7:23, 7:44, 7:31, 7:39, 7:47, 7:34, 7:34 and 7:00 pace for .18.