Catch me if you can

I ran 4.5 miles on the treadmill at home.  I was the early shift at work.  Then at work I did the bike for 20 minutes and 1 more mile on the treadmill.

I'm not happy at all with how I ran today.  For some reason I just think I should be able to run faster than I really can.  I warmed up for about a mile before the race with Taylor.  She was running the 5k.  Michelle C. came and ran the race with me.  The pace was really easy for her and so I tried to let her do all the talking.  

The first two miles I went out too fast.  Shortly after that I was ready to be done.  Just after mile 3 one of my friends yelled that I was the 5th girl.  Then I started taking lots of walk breaks and kept getting passed.  I didn't stop at the 5 mile water stop.  I decided to just suck it up and get this thing over with.  I felt like at least I finished strong.  I am running the South Jordan 1/2 marathon in 3 days.  I think knowing that was coming up I gave myself an excuse to not push as much as I should have.  I did have stomach issues as well.  It was fun getting to hang out with everyone from the running group. My splits were 7:31, 7:15, 8:04, 8:49, 8:14, 7:28 and 6:48 pace for the .2.  Average 7:50.

Taylor did great and took 2nd place with a time of 21:05.  

I met Lisa at the school.  My legs were tired and my stomach was upset so I cut the run short.

Another disappointing race for me.  I think I'm a little burnt out and need more sleep.  This course has a lot of uphill.  Lisa ran with me for the first 8 or 9 miles then I told her to leave me.  I followed a guy in bright orange shoes on a wrong turn.  I didn't think he was going the right way, but I followed him anyway.  That cost us at least a minute.  My splits from my Garmin were 8:32, 8:24, 8:01, 8:17, 9:02, 8:07, 8:22, 8:11, 8:05, 8:46, 7:56, 8:22, 7:48, and 7:42 pace for the last .33 (I'm guessing the extra .23 was from the wrong turn).  Average pace 8:18

The funniest part of this race was during the awards.  My friend Michelle Campbell did awesome.  She was the overall female winner with a time of 1:32.  Anyway, she is also in my age group.  They tried to give her the medal for being 1st in our age group.  She told them no they needed to take her out and give it to the next person which was me.  They came up to her after and told her there were only 3 ladies in our age group and so there wasn't anyone to give the 3rd place medal to.  I just thought that was so funny.