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Worked all day 

Worked all day. 

2 easy.  With some incline added second (3%) mile.   Then rest. Water. Bathroom.  Then 1.08 miles hill pick ups to 7:47-7:41 pace. 5 x 30 -35 seconds.  Then last mile on fav tm. Started at 8 pace.  Then to 7:47 before two picks up at 713 pace for 0.15 miles. Then 703 for 0.15 miles. 756 for mile as this tm takes a bit to get to a pace. 

Drive down was fun with Brooke and David singing halloween songs. Courtney beside me reading.  Got there just after 2pm. Expo at 430 pm.   So lucky to have David's family host us in their lovely home. VERY LOVELY! best views of saint george ever. WOW> JUST WOW!

Dinner at Georges for Brookes Birthday.  

taco salad, black beans chicken cheese, taco shell.  pb on bread later that night.  

very very hot outside.  99 degrees.  wow.  just wow.  

cooler at night.  am able to wear sweats at top.  

warm spots in first 7 miles.  felt controlled on pace.  saw veyo and was like shoot.  

did that hill in 8:49.    then recovered well and ended at half at 1:45:52.  not pushing it at all.  

then mile 13 fine was excited to get to mile 15 finally and then idk what hit me. 

i had eaten a built bar at 5 am.  banana at 6 am.  had four gus in my pocket.  got water at first few stations and gatorade once.  drank maybe an ounce or two at each.

i decided while running to take my gu every 5 miles.  so mile 5.  then 10 then 15/16 almost forgot.  didn't even think about taking my forth gu???? ooops  maybe that was the problem???????   totally forgot in my stupor. 

i took two ibuprofen  before bed (achy all day and a head ache so took two while driving as well). Took two more at mile 10.  Then two more at mile 16 when I just was achy in lots of joints.

so toward mile 17 i walked the first time.  wow. what is happening.  losing site of my goal.  more panic and lots more heat.

mile 18 walked a lot more. 11 min mile. what the heck?? met sue ann who was also struggling. met her first time here at mile 18-19.  i tried to motivate her to start jogging again not care about pace. she stayed with me 1/2 mile or so until next aid station and i just kept moving and she didn't.   honestly after that negativity was my friend and i couldn't turn it around,   totally forgot to take a gu at mile 20.  that probs would have helped.  heart rate was 190 a lot so continued to stop and walk.  last part of my walk was last mile before the right hand turn.  just what on earth is going on with me????  

i started pouring water over my head from third station on and by end I was dumping two to three cups over me and going through every mister and grabbing ice bags two times and placing some in my shirt.  one at mile 24, next mile 25.  just felt good to hold the ice in my hand in the plastic bag and put one or two pieces in my mouth.

i had no idea 2nd and third place in my age were passing me.  I for sure thought i was like 100th.  first came in at 3:41.  second and third two seconds from each other 3:43:47and 49.  me 3:45:20.fifth at 3:46:40.  they give plaques five deep.  used to be 8 deep until they added the half two years ago so now they go three deep in half, five in full.  I was happy and lucky to get one. i have 8 total from running sg 16 times.

anyway really rough go for me.  heart rate was main issue.  needed to really take in the fluids then just an ounce.  when i got to last five stations i gulped tripple the amount.  too little too late.  

hamstring pulled at mile 15 and really scared me.  picking up pace was painful.  maybe it saved me as well because heart rate was way too high i may have collasped.  hamstring was reaason i first slowed even more.  before that point i was just achy in joints.  breathing good.  i was lonely however and a lot of  demons exist on that course for me and so if you add in massive heat wave you got recipe for a bonk for this old brod.  

I WAS trained for a 3:20 so this feels like an epoch fail.  but I told myself when it was happening that i can't beat myself up because i could not do any different than what i was doing right then, that's how bad i felt.  so bad i had to mske sure i took a mental note of helping myself realize i could not have done better with how i showed up for that exaxt moment in time. BUT i can improve my reaction and attitude and not give up on my goals.  

so next up so winter pace gigs and maybe race or two after 10 days off of running. then boston 2025 and guess what?? UTAH VALLEY MARATHON 6.5 weeks later.  Boston i plan to take easy.  UV try for 3:30.  thats all nothing too push.  then back to sg for half?? or can i really repeat the marathon and get that negative split that was doomed this past saturday.  First half 1:45:52.  Second half 1:59:28.  Wow just wow. so unbelievably slow for me on a down hill course.  but walking 13 times in 9 miles i guess that's not bad.  here are the  gruesome splits from my coros watch=

747, 759. 737. 741. 743. 735, 729, 849, 814, 809, 829,823, 745

759, 7:48, 747, *900, 902,1012,949, 857, 1025, 914, 854, 936, 949, AND 925 LAST 0.2 (26.33 MY WATCH)

I NEVER WANT TO BONK AGAIN EVER

5 very easy.  137 avg heart rate.   10:03 avg.  hamstring nearly all better.  just no pushing pace or heart rate.

out and back on trail from 1100 north parking lot to past lindon temple to marker 3 and back.  just kept picking up the pace.  918/835/822/827/819/808/818/817 :D

timp parking lot sign (timponoeke) to saddle and back.  walked easy entire way.  sat at top for 20 min.  left my nice running pants up there :(  sadly.  i used them to sit on.  warm day. shorts and light long sleeve and a tank under.  no need for jacket.  used gloves first mile.  no wind up top.  went with melanie.  we left at 730 am.  Took 6 hours 48 min.  no pushing it at all just a nice walk.  no snow on trail at all.  perfect day.  not even too hot.  

run and walked 90 seconds x 7 some soreness from timp minimal really.  worked yesterday. 10:07 avg

easy jog around my neighbor hood.  916 avg

7 (6 with amber on provo trail).  out and back to the right then a loop around cotton wood family practice buildings.  avg pace 8:56.

not sure why the energy here so just went with it.  850/8/05/743/738/721.   avg 756 pace.  crazy.  think i was over tired for sgm.  now feeling more energy.  maybe it was the speedy half the week before sg marathon on flat trail 1:38!  ha ha.   i keep forgetting i am 55.  

843 avg around discovery park and back x 2.  chillaxin.  spoke with brooke christensen for 30 min at 0.59 miles.  

ran haunted half. started at top of south fork.  met up with pacers.  asked to change to 1:50 from 1:55 which I was glad about.  Kept 8 even pace until mile 6.  Last 7 miles 8:24 avg.   came in a little early tried to slow down wan :D.  he was soooo cold I think he needed to warm :D up.  also no uphill mile changed the pace band.  one more down mile in place of an up would have helped a lot.  especially in to the wind uphill.  anyway room to improve.  met some fun runners, a guy running his first half in his early 20s calling his gf a half mile back hoping she'd catch us : "i am with the 1:50 pacer, thing 2".   then at water when I walked through station  he went ahead.  we ran togetther for 3 miles.  8-11.  then i helped another girl who finished ahead of me when i told her to pick it up as we were near the end and she wanted her goal  of 1:48 and she got under :D.  great morning then headed to lagoon with brooke and david and amber and kyle and courtney.  great day there too. way tooo short and went by too fast.  got soaked on rattlesnake.  ate half a sub with brookie.  a pretzel later with troy and wendys after getting gas at 1130 pm.  byu won 38/24.   

pace was very easy.  

first woman in my age.  second was right under 1:50.  but no awards for pacers. thats ok I just like to be out there but also am trying to reach some goals for next year still planning some prs at 55 :D.

10.27 miles ran until 3.3 and amber needed to walk so i helped her anxiety by the run/walk plan.  3/3/ then 4/2 then 5/1.  but then i went into a private neighborhood adding on and that stressed her though it was very beautiful back there, elegant.  vintage drive provo.  i then had to run fast home to get car and come back to get amber.  we walked several times before my 2.42 mile gig to her apartment at 7:25 avg.  easy for the first part of course.

oddly 10:32 avg with the lots of walking.    had 14 min of stoppage time talking through her anxiety/ocd.

went to gardner village latter that afternoon 4-615pm.  

5 easy home tm.  8:14 avg.   started 8:34 x 1, 8:27 x 1, 8:20 x 1, 8:13 x 1.  8:06 alternated with 30 seconds x 5 at 6:49 pace 30 seconds at 8:06. then 8:06 and at times slower cooldown to 5 miles. 41:09.

5 min walk, 5 incline 3.5 to 4 mph. 

some upper arm weights.  lots of apple peeling/drying happening here.

halloween run.  met 520 am.  started about 537 am.  af cemetery through it then down on main af and down spooky road to 200 nort af to pg 600 west over on 1300 west and over to pg cemetery.  west back to af cemetery via evergreen park and up same spooky road.  8:13 avg.  first cold day of the season. wore shorts.  felt good.  

wore thing 1 costume all day at work.  came home had like two dozen more total people trick or treat.  last were two older boys over 17 probably with lots of candy in their king size pillow cases.  i gave them a claw full.  so much left over.  charlie grandpas dog died last week :(