Believe to Achieve

ran three miles in just under 8 pace.  then did some core. then ran another three miles (and 0.1) in 7:37 Ap.  feeling almost normal again after a whole year and a half of a major depression.  but i am not counting my eggs yet.  this is a battle to be won daily and cleverly.  did some upper body with mel, kim, jane, angie and jen. 

slept in til 9 and the day got away from me.  i wanted to go but amber had a game at 1040am (her against boys and a team of all boys and she scored the first goal and three more and three assists even though she sat out for half the game--five subs is too many).  Score 13-2.   Amber is a great soccer player!!  Then I took my girls ice skating at Peaks.  And since I could go now to work out I am calling it cause I am meeting Mel and Jane at 530am.  That is one workout I don't want to come burnt out to.  We are running outside and rarely does mel run slow.  So I GOT TO BE AWAKE.    Excuse me I am kind of grossed out here--I AM GOING TO BE 46 next MONTH.  46????????  30 years ago I was nearly dead.  Wow...

10.25 miles outside at 530 am with Mel and jane.  Well I was behind but would be by them when they would stop thankfully. Ap 7:48.  Then went inside gym and ran three more on tm after changing to shorts. Stomach and thighs bright red.  I never warmed up in lower body on this run outside.  Especially right foot.   But on tm after first 1/2 mile I felt energized. Started at 730 pace then 7:24 second mile then 7:10 last mile. Ap 7:20   Then did core and weights and some pump.  Pretty much a marathon exercise morning. Left gym at 0855.

6 @ 7:48 ap on tm.  Core. 

Work at 6 to 6. No time to run.  Ran at work taking care of patients 

Worked at nicu nice day.  Finally. No running. And because we need the money after Christmas ...I picked up a shift that is offering bonus (time and a half) and 50 dollar gift certificate. So 640 extra  dollars I could not refuse.   Since I was lazy over break and barely worked but hung with my kiddos .   Have car repairs and going to soccer tourney in Vegas next week. 

extra shift.  three in a row.  wow.  I am on a roll.  one day off then  i work again saturday and sunday.  also started whole30 program yesterday. I hope I can do it.  I am almost thru whole2 and on to whole 3 tomorrow.  went shopping for lots of fruits and veggies.  salmon is my main protein along with sliced turkey and grilled chicken and occasional beef.  major detox for me with no dairy, gluten or treats (chocolate).  

impromptu run. haven't run since monday and finally got my weak whole2 day body out there.   1030am.  Vasa gym. Tm at 1percent.  7 mph,7.5mph,8mph , 8.5 mph, 9 mph and 9.5 mph. Each for a mile successively. No stopping.  That is 8:34, 8:00, 7:30, 7:03, 6:39 and 6:18 paces.  i just learned i like coconut milk.  yum. raspberries rock and so do pecans.  double yum.  1/2 mile cool down with one brief jaunt at 10 mph (6:00 pace) for one minute. just to finish off the pattern.  

6 miles, 7:35 x2, 7:30 x 2 and 7:24 x 2.  Finished at 44:58.  7:30 ap.  weights and abs.

hillwork I think

6 this and that on tm

7 easy at lake Las Vegas Hilton resort and spa fitness tournament. Easy pace. 59 min for 7

st George up snow canyon parkway and back on path. 7:49 ap.  Felt awesome! Love hills. Especially up.

3 easy miles at 1percent incline. 7:56 pace. Did this after power pump class. Got back from st George last night at 9 pm. Feeling physically great. 🌈

two mile warmup easy (1%). Incline workout. 7-15 percent.  One minute at each, one minute off, until 13% when I ran 3 x 30 seconds each. Legs dead from class Tuesday.  One mile fast in 6:27.  0 percent incline.  Felt like down hill.  Sweat like no other especially after eating a banana, raspberries, pecans and almonds with coconut sprinkles just moments before this run. Barf o rama. 

oops yesterday's entry was for today.  Worked all day Wednesday.  

8 very easy  started at 8:57 pace x 2 miles then increased pace by 0.1 mph each mile til last mile where I picked it up to a 7:24 ish mile.  AP 8:31.

outside run.  no watch but started my oven clock for 45 minutes and ran my 5.1 mile loop.  Wanted to run without staring at pace and go easy and see what that turned out to be.  8:11 was a surprise.  Felt like 8:40.  My guess. 

six on just under 48 min of I remeber correctly. Losing my mind. Yup.

late afternoon run.  515 pm at Healy and a nice loop while Amber at soccer practice.  So 8:26

Tmr workout written is today's. Nothing on Friday.

body for life workout from the 90s.  So five min warmup then level 6-9 intensity at a minute each repeated 7 times. Ended with two min at a 10 intensity.  Finished with five min cool down.  1 percent incline. Sweaty snd no music.  Weights after.

saratoga springs fleet feet half course while amber took test for advanced placement.  Have not ran there in four years.  Very surprised I was at a 740 mile pace by mile three then more climbing since one and two were up three was flat.  Still at 8 pace. So ap was 7:59.  So pretty out there. This was at 3 pm.  Test over at 440pm.  (fyi I just looked up the first time I ran this course in 2011 (my fast year) and ran 8:13 avg pace!!! Ummmm four years later and I am faster??? without trying or thinking about it.  weird. 

sw on tm with jane a few tms down. 6 x800s no incline. 3.5 mile warmup. 1percent incline. Ap 740.  Sw at 6:15 pace.  One min stand rest one minute jog at 8:48 pace.   Before forth one  three min break.  And and stretching after. Brief time in sauna with Kim right after run. 

right before Amber got home from school. Some brief weights in basement.  fatigue attack hitting.

not cool.  decided to go to a movie with friends. started at 905 pm last night.  Got home at midnight.  Could NOT sleep. Stared at clock every 15 minutes.  no joking.  tried a 1/2 benadryl. did not work either.  went to work.  13 hours. fun day.  amazingly I made it through feeling like I didn't forget anything.  

slept 10 hours last night and felt I could keep sleeping.  no energy at all so no running at all.

just too tired to work out.  serious fatigue attack. no other symptom but major fatigue.  eyelids wanting to close.

had to run since it is my 46th birthday.  10 miles starting at 8:41 pace and ending at 6:40.  progressive.  ap 7:43.  saucony 5s.  waiting for new kinvara's to arrive.  so no outdoor running. Can't in flats.

majorly busy.  no time.  and major fatigue so no energy.   Stayed up last night until 130am studying then taking Neonatal Resuscitation test.  Done every two years. then today 3.5 hour class passing off skills at 9am.  tired.

8 easy starting at 8:57 pace going up 0.2 mph each mile to 8 miles.   1 percent incline.

impromptu speedwork. kim's suggestion.  ladder workout, 400, 600, 800, 1000, 1200.  come back down.  didn't do 800 or 1000 on way back down.   started at 10 mph then 9.8 then 9.6 and 9.4 and 9.2.  sweated enough as it was.  warmed up 3 miles easy at 1 percent. speed at 0 incline.  ran 1/4 mile in between to 1/3 mile at 7 mph.

saucony 5s.  progressive run starting at 6.7mph increasing pace every 0.1 mph to 10 miles.  one percent incline.  This is yesterday. And entry for yesterday is today.

Got called into work on Peds.   Four hours into my shift I began to feel intense nausea.  Eventually sent home with stomach flu.   It was very bad.  Vomiting hit an hour later.  Shaking and chills when I got home.  So glad someone came in for me.  I couldn't make it any longer.  I felt bad to leave my patients high and dry but can't work sick obviously.  This flu lasted all weekend. Worst part was  first 24 hours. Quite queasy rest of time.

soccer tournament.  no running as still queasy. But first game was at 750am in Riverton.  Four games.  Came home at 330pm.  Movie with Amber and Fiona (her soccer teammate).   We saw Annie.  It was entertaining.

saucony fives.  8 easy.  6.9mph first mile increasing by 0.1 mph each mile til done. Last mile picking it up in last few tenths.  1 percent incline.  Taking four days off with flu was a good move as I didn't feel weak at all.  

830 am to 330 pm meeting.  Just didn't feel like getting out to gym after meeting.  

progressive run.  starting at 6.9 mph and increasing pace by 0.2mph every half mile til 7 miles. Acutally when I got to 5.5 miles I increased only by 0.1 mph but last half mile to 7 miles I increased pace by 0.1 mph every 0.05 miles.  Ha ha.  Ended at 9.7 mph. ran earlier than usual as my running friends took me to breakfast at Kneaders.  I now have five new running tops. So even though I won't be PRing in pace I will in my wardrobe.  So thankful for good friends.  AP today 7:36. 

just guessing. Can't remember 8 miles on TM I think

7 tm miles before work at 8am. Saw Mel and Julie e. Think I ran easy. Like 8 ap

a little earlier at gym so got in 8 before work.  Under 8 ap I believe 

5 easy at 7:41 ap 

20 miles down Wallsburg start up Provo canyon.   Freezing. 17 degrees at start.  At mile 5 I was at 7:15 ap behinds the speed demons Melanie jane and Julie esplin.  So cold I never warmed up.  Got to 16 and thought I can't wait here for them to come get me (canyon glen park) I will freeze to death. So  after about 8 minutes I began to run the remainder miles to my car.  Ap to that point 7:3.   Then last four were 8:03 ap.    So total ap 7:38 for 20.  First 20 in five months. Nothing over 13 miles and that was once. 

8 miles. Forget pace. I think 8:13 ap. Easy post 20 miler

easy run the first mile outside then out  of nowhere white out And pelting snow at my face.  Accumulation on my jacket in just a few seconds. ran four miles in craziest weather I have experienced while running. It made me stronger.  Have to be. My mother learned last week she has pancreatic cancer and Tuesday she found out it has spread to abdominal lining. So stage four.  Poor prognosis. Sad tears daily going on here. 

ap 8:07.  Out and back from hotel in ogden. Brr. But sun was out so I warmed up nicely.

2 mile warm up on tm at hotel.  3 mile tempo. 653, 6:53 and 645. Back home. First dentis appt.  so tired now need to sleep for days. 

Five miles easy at gym. My mom is coming out to Utah Sunday.  STAGE FOUR PANCREATIC CANCER.  Wow. This is pretty sucky.  Haven't had to deal first hand with Cancer since my sister in 1998 with nonhodgkins lymphoma.  She is cured. NO cure for pancreatic cancer.  Pretty much devastated. My mother is staying with me and getting palliative treatment at the Huntsman Cancer Institute.  

worked. No run.  Nice 12 hour shift. Love the babies!!  The mom/baby floor is so wonderful!! And our unit is looking bettter and better.  Cute REAL to LIFE photo of babies decorate our walls now. The photography is amazing.  

another 12 hour shift with the babies.  Making my day.  My mom is on her way here. Driving with my stepfather.   So wish she didn't have to fight this fight!! 

8 miles at the gym.  Ran 15 min ons/offs.  Ons from 9.8 -10.2 (3 at each pace)  Offs at 8:34 for 75 seconds.  Trying NOT to think about cancer.  Pretty much quite irritated that I can't solve this problem.  Pancreatic cancer in any stage is uncurable.  

five miles at the gym so I can see my friends. Saw Britney, Kim and Jen.  Appointment at Huntman Cancer Institute today.  WAS THE VERY WORST APPOINTMENT I HAVE EVER BEEN TO. LIKE KICKING SOMEONE WHEN THEY ARE DOWN.  Wow that was just awful.  Dr. asked my mother if she wanted her prognosis or if she heard anything/read anything. We both said two years.  He said NO MUCH SHORTER.  4-5 months median age (half people die) if untreated within 4-5 months.  9-12 months if treated.  I was like hold on there. But then I just broke down and cried and jumped to my mother's side.  It was like learning your family just died in a car accident but only you can brace yourself for it.  As many of you know I lost two members of my family- my dad and older sister who was 14 at the time in a car accident in 1982 and my brother three years later in a car accident 1985.  I think we felt like begging for mercy.  It was unbelievably awful.   Just not right.  But NOW TO BE POSITIVE. She could be that 1% and there could be some clinical trials that will improve outcomes. There are some they just don't have a spot for my mother yet. All filled up.  Waiting to hear if there is one over the week until she starts chemo next Tuesday. Sorry this is not much of a running blog. IT is my life alongside running.  

won't be running. could NOT sleep last night.  How do  I deal with this???  LIVE LIFE to the fullest we can.  Accept what we can't change and move forward with HOPE AND FAITH.  blah.  I mean OKAY I CAN DO THAT.

Ran up in Ogden after driving there for training at 6am and training until 530pm.  Ran at 7pm. Up hill two miles to the east from the hotel, hampton inn and suites downtown. Then took long way back that included running by the Ogden temple. Went out for dinner with Danielle, another nurse training with me. We went to the Blue Lemon.  Fish TACOS yum yum and chocolate cake.  Couldn't sleep this night (Thursday). Always the case adjusting to the end of daylight savings.  

too tired to waken early to run before leaving at 730am for training.  So after training at 5 pm tried to beat traffic (ha ha) thru slc but ended up taking 45 minutes longer to get home than driving up at 620 am Thursday. 

dressed to run but had to take Amber to 6th grade Walk the Red Carpet all dressed up into the Water Gardens Theatre.  I looked like Cyndi Lauper.  Anyway it was fun to see Amber. So CUTE and her hair was crimped and braided nicely. So perfect!!! Anyway got hungry being there for two hours that I went home to eat breakfast first before running then one thing led to another...I didn't get out to run.  Helping my mom and other family and then Amber's soccer game.  

to church with my mom.  Then after church made a veggie tray and went over to my sister's in Orem with my family.  We had bbq chicken. YUM. and coconut rice and garlic zuchhini. My mom got a blessing from Chris and Troy and Greg.  

three mile warmup starting at 8:00 pace for first mile.  7:47 for second then increasing pace every 0.2 miles by 0.1 miles until 3 miles.     60 second water break.  Then right into four mile tempo.  6:53, 6:48, 6:44 and 6:40.    No stops.  Cooldown one mile in 7:46. 

5 easy outside.  nice run.  so warm.  73.   8:15 ap.  My mom has her first chemo treatment that we will instead call her "Royal Treatment"  in order to have a more positive connotation with it.    So Sunday night Amber stepped on a wood chip.  I tried so hard to get it out and NOT have to depend on a Dr. visit/cost.  I got fragment after fragment out that night. she went to bed and wanted to go to school.  I had her soak it after school and used the baking soda method.  LITTLE DID I KNOW IT WAS WAY MORE HUGE besides the tip of a pen a  1/4 below the skin staring out at me!!  The dr even asked if I was sure it was a wood chip?? Really yes it is not a blood speckle that is black wood.  He numbed her foot and couldn't get it out with even super eyes (special up close glasses).   So from the Dr at 1100 we had to wait for her podiatrist appointment at 245pm. Amber has been a trooper. So much pain and tears.  An hour into the visit with Dr. Phillips he yanked that DeVil (amber is calling it that) out.  She said there was so much pain but also so much joy. I had to hold her for all the injections and pus removal.  Yup infected.  Anyway she is on an antibiotic and tip toeing around but such a relief. I posted the pic on facebook. Meanwhile my mom went up as planned to Huntsman Cancer Institute with my sister but not me un fortunately but  I couldnt feel unnecessary guilt. Amber needed this thing out and sending my dear husband would have wound up in surgery as that was the first thing the podiatrist wanted to do!! 10 days off foot with an incision. NOPE.  I said a quick prayer and went for the in office approach.  He was unsure if there were fragments or one long stick. Yup a 1/2 inch stick.  Phew.  After Amber's appointment and texting back and forth to my mother up with her Royal Treatment Amber and I made dinner together for the family and it was all ready for my mom when she got back.  So good to see Amber happy again.  Also my mom did really well.  Felt the same.  No feeling of having had anything. That is a tender mercy for sure!! She is my same old mom!! :D.  She even slept like a log even though they said she would probably be up all night due to the IV steroid given to prevent rejection of the other meds.  

8 miles.  4 increasing to 7:47 pace.  7:47 for three miles. Last mile 7:35. 1 percent incline for the first four. zero the last four. stretch as usual. 

tm at hotel. Easy. 

no watch but ran with fun group.   Jane Angie Jen and Chandi.  Ap about 7:43 alpine 

2 mile warmup.  The. three mile Tempo. Warmup at 7:47 pace.  Tempo miles-6:53 then 648  and last at 635.  1 miles. Cools down at  747 pace

8 easy on tm. 1 percent grade

Zero. In Ogden for work. Took my mother along. To keep an eye on her after chemo second treatment.  3 once a week and then 1 week off 

6 progressive increasing every  0.75 miles by 0.2 mph. Starting at 7.0.   Then ran last two at 6:53 and 6:43 

Zero. My mom had a bad reaction and had to rush her to the huntsman cAncer institute. Left work in Ogden. She was in bad shape. It was scary to see.  I stayed awake all night at hospital caring for her and trying to thing of how to help her pain.  It was just awful!! 

19 on my own. Missed the text saying meeting somewhere else at different time. Actually miss read the info so missed the group and ran all on my own the alpine loop. Just easy to help teach my body to use glycogen stores.  So 8:07.  My sister stayed with my mom last night. Som much btr today but still not ready to leave. Possible viral meningitis.  I  hoping it is not and it as just an arctic migraine with a fever which is common with chemo. Migraine howeve is. It so much. My mother was incapacitated. 

8 easy. This run is Tuesday and Tuesday's entry is today.  My phone is so small I. Opulent see the whole calendar. Grrrr.  Ran this on hotel treadmill in ogden at Hampton inn and suites downtown.  Had a lovely room with a spectacular view.  A suite.  The ogden temple back dropped with mountains beyond. Ap about 8:12

my mom was dischArged yesterday.  She is back at my house.  Went to gym. Ran three easy warm up and then four tempo. 6:53 6:48 6:44 and 6:39 slightly faster as I increased the pace to 10 mph by end. Felt good.  Feel bad so very sad for my mom and the fight she must fight. I wish this night mare would go away. So for now I hope for a miracle that my mom would be the first cured from this cancer. 

Worked on mom baby. 13 hours. Non stop. Go go go. 

five easy outside.  Kim is gonna have her baby early tmr. 7 weeks early. She is high risk and will have a hysterectomy and part of bladder removed. She has placenta accreta a serious scar tissue disease in pregnancy.  Her baby is 33 weeks and 1 day tmr.  Kim got steroids to help improve his lung function. Go Kim!! Love you so!!

1 mile at 8 pace and 1 percent then 7 mile medium tempo. First 3 miles at 7:03. Miles 4-6 at 6:58 and last mile at 6:45.  7 miles in 48:54.   No stops. Felt easy.  So much stress at home that my running drug is needed. To conquer my worries and fears about my mom.  We shaved her head yesterday as after third treatment on Tuesday her hair was coming out in coumps. I put on my nursing role and did al I could to help my mother feel good about this physical change that hopefully is temporary as . But worried as there is no end to her treatments until she soaps she has had enough as there is no cure for pancreatic cancer and all Treatnent they say is palliative only. Meaning to prolong life as long as possible. I hAte this. I hate this to the bone. But I have passed the denial angry sad stage and now I am in the fight stGe the hope stAge the miracle stage. The battle can be won!! And I won't give up on my mom!!

ran from car rental place in Webster Texas to Cruise ship terminal---11 miles.  Easy pace.  It was noon.  Humid and windy.  

cruise ship miles on the way to the Carribean.  Treadmill. Such a nice work out facility.  11 treadmills overlooking the carribean.  Felt like a rolling sea.  So fun!!

Saucony 5s.  Treadmill miles.  Did two at 6:35 pace after warmup then 1/2 mile in between then two at 6:35 again. 

rest day.  Three off shore days in a row kind of tiring and eating all the time is tiring.  :D

TM miles.  pretty decent pace.  7:41ap I believe.

Saucony fives.  Loving the rolling ship over the waves while I run.  And while I sleep.  Sleeping the best every night.  Just too relaxing and heaven like.  No obligations. Eat run rest in the sun.  Shows. Whatever.  Just fun.  Ap 7:32.  Played a matching game the entire run.  Now that was fun to keep pace and focus on matching cards.  They were exercise symbols of varying colors and exercises.

11 miles to car rental.  Running back was easier and more fun. Probably because it was morning and I had rested all week on cruise.  Rushed on to plane. Last ones on.  Customs took longer than we thought.  Made it home safely.  Miss the Carribean already.

saucony fives. 7 miles rather quickly next to Jane.  Should have slowed down to adjust to higher elevation and colder temps.  7:30ish  last two miles were sub 7.

ran with well behind mel and jane.  So tired. wish I stayed in bed.  Work is every day 8-5 except monday which is 1-5.  and for some reason untrained I decided to pace SLC marathon.  not good. not ready at all and it is hard as my mom is having chemo and staying at my house.  feel like I am never home due to work.  

rather fast.  not a good idea in hindsight. winded me for slc considering my age, my full time job and stress at home.  so stupid. again.

hurry and get to slc with daughter at 7 pm. get to expo at 8pm   bed at 10pm.  so not ready.  only one 19 miler and two 11 milers last three weeks.  and slc is hilly to say the least.  

on pace until 21 miles.  then slowly drifted away from lack of training.  3:33:01.  first woman over forty however.  hills after hill after hill.  so the lovely down hill at mile 22 didnt save me.  it hurt after all the rolling hills.  ha ha.  uphill finish for 0.3 miles.  that was fun.  

walking normal all this week but need to take a week off to be smart.  

6 easy miles on tm with friends beside me.  very easy.  just want to not over due as hey i am 46 and should try and take it easier on myself.  

easy miles outside.  before work at 8.  working with new computer program for healthcare.  interdisciplinary.   

4 miles easy  wait  I think I added one mile fast...6:44.  again before work.  busy busy.  not much time in my life but work, kids to school and activities and watch over my dear mom at home.

outside.  nice to be outside.  easy.

really just no time and when I run I try to relax so it is easy.  usually without a watch except when I try a fast mile.  so some premeditation in there at least.  otherwise i skip the watch.  so once a week I wear a watch.  i just run my 5 mile route forwards or in reverse to spice it up.  so green out.

no running.  just didnt feel like it.  and time slipped away. competition soccer is draining on the brain.  cancer is draining on the brain.  

sadly ran out of time to run.  so tired sunday night that i couldn't get up early enough before work.  had to be there by 730 and drive brooke earlier to school.  wow three days off.  yikes.

4 is all i had time for before training class (I help teach it). easy pace.  no watch.

so tired. late soccer game (7pm) in Kaysville for Amber.  So couldn't fall asleep. felt like a zombie so just ran three. Middle mile a little quick (7:08).  Last mile 7:31.

5 easy no watch.  then off to cardiologist for my mom and a TMJ brace for my lower teeth.  I dont talk of it but it is a daily battle with a locking jaw and painful spasms to my head and neck on the right and when I eat suddenly my jaw locks up and sharp pain shoots all by mandible.  I have had this for years but just over the last two years it has gotten progressively worse.  I honestly wonder what it would be like to have a normal jaw with no pain to my neck and shoulder and face 24/7.    It actually takes a lot of my mental energy to just zone it out.  Kind of wearing on me after over 20 years.  

5 easy miles around my neighborhood.

Pacer for Goldilocks Half (1:40).  Ran 1:39:03.  Pouring rain from 2.5 miles to finish.  I was the leader until mile 7.  And then at mile 10 another girl passed me.  Very low key and more so with rain.  Beautiful course.  Right by Oquirrh Mountain Temple.  Mile 12 went right in front of it.  Hilly course.  

8 miles very very easy.  Sore from race and tired.

5 miles outside easy.

work next three days.  not into running before work at this moment.  

12 miles starting at gym with Jane Angie and Jen.  Ran to Alpine and back. Last two were rather quick.    No watch.  

saucony fives.  speed work at gym next to Jane. We decided on a lactate threshold run.  3 x 2 miles.  Ran 1.5 miles of a rather quick warmup.  Then 6:39 pace for my two milers increasing to 6:35 for last bit of second and third set.  Ran 3/4 mile in between second and third set.  Took potty break after first set so only ran 0.25 miles.  

fell down the stairs of back yard porch.  Missed last step and badly sprained/possibly broke big toe.  No running for a few days.  Also bruised intenstly left knee.  I blacked out while I was falling.  It was scary and hurt a lot.

Toe normal size and no pain.  Just a bruise left.  But after five miles it ached and the next day as  I write this it is swollen again and tender to walk on so probably a fracture going on.  Oh well.  Ran up to AF high school from my house then the back way of AF half course to mouth of canyon.  One tiny stop to potty on way back.  Literally ran into Jane, Angie and Jen (I knew they were coming down but left earlier than I wanted but oddly enough leaving 50 minutes later from my house I caught them as they were reaching 9.5 miles and  I was approaching mile 8.  Yay.  So turned around and ran the same way back.  We stopped three times before finish.  But ran pretty quickly.  My toe was quite achy by that point. Also I am having daily headaches.  GRrr.    Went to Final game of State Cup and watched La Roca u14 win in Penalty kicks against Avalanche when they were down 3-1 with ten minutes left in the game.  Wow!!   Over time of two 10 minute halves and no score.  It was cool however  Ithink ref gave it to La roca. He let the game go over six minutes!! Crazy.  I don't mean that mean just that I have seen games be lost due to refs.  But hey I am not a ref.  Wouldn't want to be.    Oh yah, no watch today. Been watchless a lot lately.  Payson Temple Open House.  Nice!!  :D  saw Jen Hughes directing traffic.  Totally would be awesome to live right across the street from there!!  

Memorial Day run with Amber. Brooke ran it with her friend Brooke.  Amber last year ran a mile every week in her fifth grade class. This year she did not and was without training except soccer practice once to twice a week.  She was out of breath but made it in 28:20.  Brooke and Brooke came in at 29:50.  

no mood  to run and knee and toe are still bugging me from fall last week.

worked in the level two nursery. 

worked in the nursery.

easy run in new kinvaras a size smaller (ahhh so much better)to get back into running.  Testing the knee and toe.  

Hiked the Narrows in Zions National Park.  16 miles, 13 of which is through the Virgin River.  By the end you are so excited to see one more river crossing.....and another and another!! but OH so beautiful. Plus two old fogies doing it in 9.5 hours is pretty darn good!! Me and Troy were like in the Amazing Race or Something...leap frogging 20-something year old pairs.  

worked on the floor. So sore from hike especially injured toe from fall and left knee from fall.  Never fell on hike :D.

worked in admit nursery.  so love newborns!!

Ran on track at my daughters soccer practice.   First two mile jog. Then I did 4 x 400s with no watch. It sucked.  I am so fat and out of shape. I am 10 pounds heavier than last year. NOT COOL!!  Depression and menopause a bad mix...and cancer (my mom).  Finished with a one mile jog.  So glad no watch.  

depression hitting hard.  no running.  starting on some medication.  effexor.    i can't fight it on my own anymore.  So thankful for scientists and their research on depression and making medications to help.

worked in level two nursery. 

worked in level two nursery.

track.  ran 3 at 7:54 AP.  

Totally on the fly half marathon.  Utah Valley.  Texted Melanie last night and she was running it (not racing) so decided to drive with her to the start and run it with her. We met at the finish and drove to the start in my car (better than catching a 430am bus, we got to start at 5:40am).  She was suffering from a leg infection so was going easy (her easy is still faster than my out of shape pace).  I being out of shape had no interest going her easy pace.  The run on white concrete was hard enough on my muscles in my back from lack of training. We warmed up running from my parked car uphill to the start 1/2 mile really easy.  I slowed last three miles of race. Would have been 1:36:xx had I kept up my pace but with medication and no training I was dizzy from the first 10 miles under 7:30 pace avg pace.  Ended at 7:33 average pace for 13 miles, turned to the left to where my car was parked as soon as my garmin beeped 13 miles.  1:38:13.  So would have slid right under 1:39 had I gone through the shoot.  Lots of work to do if  I can heal my brain. 

Vasa Gym with Kim and Jane. Ran six really easy. Started at 8:57, then 8:48, 8:41, 8:34, 8:27 and 8:22. No cheating except last 0.1 miles I ran at 6:22 pace.

one mile with Amber and Fiona (and later Ashlyn) at 9:00 pace.  Then I left them to practice soccer while I ran to mouth of canyon a mile a way and ran up two and fast down for two and one easy back.  First three avg was 8:41.  Next two avg was 6:35.  Last mile was 7:48.  SOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOTTTTTT at 10am in the canyon!!   holy heart attack running up that thing.  I had to find a place to walk down to the river in order to pour water over my head and survive the two down hill miles.  First speed work down hill.   Not awesome but legs still tender from Saturday and I am still an old fat lady.  DIET SO HAPPENING!!!

two miles with my dear amber who was not excited at all to run. It was  845am.  Hot again.  She definitiely needs to start running again. She sounded so out of breath from last year and we were A LOT slower. First mile 9:49.  Second mile 9:00.  Then I ran 5 easy on my own. Avg pace 8:05.  last mile I picked it up a little so helped my AP. It was 7:23.    HOT HOT HOT.  Gotta stop with these 10am runs!!!

group run.   Then mostly with Kim who has miraculously returned to running after a hard recovery postpartum and surgery and more!! Serious miracle!!  Walked some and jogged some with her.  Ran eye of the tiger 1100 north.  

eye of the tiger repeat.  23:13 to top from house going past sanfords house.   Ran on trail coming back.  So miss the days running was less well known and I roamed the trails on my own.   I guess a pioneer to running on the canal before it was a trail.  Lots of good memories.   Easy miles. 

910 am and the heat was on!! So wish I could get my head out of bed on am.  But so love my sleep lately.  So sweat fest!! Out and back five miler on trail past lone peak high school.  Easy pace. 8:31. 

2 mile warmup at 8:34 pace 1 % incline.  Then 2 x 2 miles with 1/2 mile in between followed by another 1/2 mile easy and finishing with another fast mile.  First two miles at 6:53 pace. Next two 6:49.  Last mile at 6:49.  1/2 mile cool down. Then some abs.  

worked in the nursery.  no running.  no soreness at all from yesterday.

The BEAST (eye of the tiger hill) 2.5 miles steep uphill.  22:48 from my house rounding up by Harrison's first.  Last Thursday it took me 23:13.  Left later today so less shade and oh my heat!!  I don't stop at the top.  I continue past the block of lined trees and loop around them and head back down to Canal Trail. Take some water there (so luke warm) and head on out the trail until I can cross Canyon road where the road goes to the Timp Temple.  I like coming back this way as it is usually shaded from the mountain side.  NOPE not at 9:30am.  I also like the gradual decent this way.   I headed down 1300 west back home.  8:15 ap.

five miles to gym.  weights and abs. ran home 2 miles.  all easy pace.  wow its hot out!!

1:50 pacer for the midnight half which starts at 10pm (try to beat midnight I guess :D).   Ran all 8 min pace miles til mile 9 with one girl (ended up second place) and third place girl we picked up after the turn around at mile 7.  I didn't mean to go faster than pace that is just the pace that was nice and easy....but it was super hot!!  85 degrees at the start and muggy. No wind and no cool spots.  Just brief warm (less hot) spots.  I guess it was pacer slow down body strategy because after mile 9  I got cold chills like I was dehydrated or had heat stroke and my breathing became labored. Luckily it was when I was planning on slowing to 9 min pace what I didn't plan on  was how HARD IT WAS TO EVEN KEEP THAT PACE!!! mile 11 was a 9:30. I had to stop and walk to catch my breath.  My right leg cramped up at mile 12 after I tripped on the trail (fell off the side actually).  It was dark as I forgot my headlamp (I signed up for this Thursday and had lots going on friday, competition soccer for my girls).  I arrived at the race at 945pm.    And off we went about two minutes until 10pm.  The trail was bumpy from concrete lifting from tree roots.  It was like jump running to miss them at times.  I knew the route as I lived over there and used to 10 years ago run it all the time!!  Some new additions with the tunnels but all in all the same but the darkness was the tough part. It was eerie in spots.  So glad Mick ran by me with her headlamp (21 years old she ran it in 1:43:57).  I felt it was stifling. She said she loved running in warm weather.    Anyway, with the six tunnels on the way out and then the same six on the way back our garmins read the course shorts (12.87) as it can't pick up in the tunnel.  Because of that I thought I was on pace for 1:50 but actually ran faster in 1:48:11.    So today when I write this (Monday) it turns out that my leg cramp really is just my back (scaitica to the MAX!!, probably reinjured herniated disc), when I fell off the curb.  It is quite painful in my back radiating down my butt and hamstring to my foot burning on the bottom.  Icing it.  Motrin too.

soccer games. Amber's team came in second to USA premier (six older girls on it). Brooke's team came in first!! at riverton bubble field tournament. HOT HOT HOT!!

back killing me and hamstring.  painful miles in the heat at 8am.  started at PG rec and ran south on Locust and then East (uphill ) and did a circle back to rec center.  8:32 AP.  first mile 9:18.

back pain continues to hamstring to bottom of foot (herniated disc) until Saturday morning.

2.67 up and back down at mouth of provo canyon.  This whole run is impromtu.  I honestly just woke at 5am and said...its forth of july and its saturday.  hmmm....I should be running with friends so I group texted what the run was and met up there.  I was late for six add on with Jane and Angie but early for Kim and Staci and Jen who were running less.  So I warmed up running up the provo canyon trail.  Ap 8:33 for those miles then ran up five miles with Kim and Staci and Angie and Jen and some with Jane.  Ran further by myself to water fountain thinking it was only 0.2 miles away while the others turned around.  Well it ended up being 0.75 miles away (so 1.5 miles behind them on the way back).  I was then running solo the remaining miles back to car.  I picked it up a little then I just cooled it.  One mile 7:14 the rest 7:30s.  AP for 11.5 = 7:52.

easy miles on the Provo River Trail out and back by BYU (old food 4 less parking area by trail).  AP 8:45. It was 10am.

heart rate zone pace. wow i have to run real slow to keep my heart rate below 140.  According to one site it should be below 130!!!  hmmmm but I like to think i am younger than i am.  Going for Aerobic base building running.  I hope I can last.  

2 mile slow warmup. 8:49-8:57 pace, 1%. . 2 x 3 miles at half marathon pace--7:18, 7:13, 7:08  .. 3 min rest/jog, 7:08,7;03, 7:03.  At 0.5 %.  Cooldown at 8:49-8:57pace, 1%. 

1 mile warmup real easy.  9:31.  4 miles at steady state (20-30 seconds slower than marathon pace). I  am guessing for St george with proper training that my mp is a 3:15 (7:26per mile).  Steady state is comfortably hard. It was today because I had just run fast yesterday the six at half marathon pace (7;08ap).  Normally this would have been a rest day but I wasn't watching the schedule close enough so I opted to put the two in a row and be smarter next week.   My mile paces  for the steady state were 7:46, 7:41, 7:36 and 7:34.    1 mile cooldown in 8:20.   

easy 12 8:43 ap. Delightful 

2 miles to track.   3 d1 mile at 10 sec faster than half marathon pace.   6:43, 6:48, 6:49 then 2 x 800 at goal marathon pace as yassos.  So 3:15, 3:14.   Two mile cool down home. 

4 easy. Two to gym. Weights. Two back home 

7 easy.  1 with Brooke at 0940. Six easy alone. With 6 strides for 20-30 seconds near end.  3 min in between.  Ap 8:15.

5 easy after work in the extreme wind. Woosers!! 828 ap. 

9 miles with 4 at marathon pace from miles 9-12.  Holy wind!!  Left at 820 am and still windy from last night at 8 pm.  Fast miles were 7:06,7:10,723,7:17.  Ap for 13 was 8:04

five easy at pgjhs track after dropping brooke off at soccer practice.  it is always easier to run faster on a track.  8:39, 7:47, 7:35, 7:25, 7:21.   :D   Then 45 minutes later I ran 3.1 miles with Amber--- warm up 0.6 miles then 10 x 1 min on/offs then cool down to 3.1 miles (like only 0.25 miles.  28:04 for the 5k total time to do work out.  Go Amber!!

two miles with amber.  easy.

Bed at 1130 pm.  up at 235 am.  Drove to Salt Lake Eccles stadium.  Rode bus to start of course at 345am.  Arrived at top at 445am.  Race started at 530am.  Small crowd.  Less than 500 runners I think. This race is bigger for the 10K classic.  Kept pace above 8s the entire race as pacer. Downhill miles a little closer to 8 pace at times but all others 8:15-8:24.  One mile at 7:47 to catch back up to my pace partner after a 4.5 minute potty stop waiting for two guys to come out of the bathroom.  This was just before the hill climb at mile 5.5 that lasts 3 miles.  Didn't catch my partner until 12.5 miles.  I didn't want to overdo it but only steadily gain on him.  Held the sign the rest of the way except for one other mile.  And three before the potty break.  We had a great group  from 12 to 18 then those guys burned out.  AP was supposed to be 8:34.  Ended up with 8:28 with 0.2 long course.  As pacer I don't like to slow too far down at end especially when  I could tell from my garmin that the course was long.  Each mile hit early.  So we ended up 1:04 seconds below pace (26.4 miles however).  Since it was long I was glad I didn't slow more thinking the course was on or I would have gone over time.  Work the next three days 12 hour shifts.  Ouch.  

5 miles easy after dropping brooke off at soccer.  out and back on Locust ave.  nice cooler day.  marathon fatigue at mile 4.5.  muscle, especially quads and sides of glutes majorly sore all weekend.  

2 mile warm up 1 % incline 8:57, 8:49 pace.  10 x 800s at 12 k pace with ONLY 1 minute rest in between at 6mph (10pace).  So I did  5 x 800s at 6:53, and 5x 800s at 6:49 pace.  0.1 mile cooldown. Had a feeling I should go home right then so hopped off before finishing the mile.  My daughter Amber was coming out the front door asking where to find my garmin so she could run two miles.  Good timing :D No pun intended!!    Okay legs fatigued and out of it for this but heart raring to go.  Hung over from Marathon on Friday.

Ahhh so nice to do Spin with friends at Vasa gym--- Kim, Jane and Jenny.  Good sweat and nice for my legs.  Afterward all soreness and weird leg cramps gone from yesterdays speed work.  

worked all day.  was supposed to get day off but too busy at work.  Plan to go camping with family right after work so no time for a run.  left for camping at 715 pm.  no room at any campground or hotel in heber, midway or park city (except the much dolares ones). Drove back around on I80 to salt lake and slept at Little America. Arrived there at 1130pm!!

Woke up in hotel at 9am.  Read the wonderful results of my friends at the timp half. Jane came in first in 1:20 on a long course. I think they said 1/4 mile.  I left my hotel on my run at 920am and headed north then east past Sunnyside Ave (hogle zoo turn off) on Foothill drive for two more miles (7 out and back) and was sweltering so stopped at gas station for some H2O.  Nice.  Ran back.  8:35 avg pace.  ran 5 strides for 60seconds with four minutes in between.  I was seriously hot!! it was near 90 when I finished.  Plan was to run easy and it was easy.  JUST hot.  Left to camp in Kamas with the family.  Fun!! 

two miles in the rain at the track while my daughter was at soccer tryouts.  Then thought about doing the workout I ended up doing on Tuesday.  lasted only two in the pouring rain as I stopped to talk to parents about tryouts too much.  Ran two  400s in 1:36 and 1:37 trying to hit a 6:40 pace ended up with a 6:24-28 pace.    Was going to run 16 and could have if I wasn't distracted.  

2 mile warm up at the gym easy pace 1 % incline.  Then 16 x 400s at 6:35-6:40 pace.  1 minute jog in between at 10:00 pace.  1 mile cooldown.

busy work day.  no running.

2 mile warm up easy 1 % incline.  3 x 2 mile at 10 sec faster than half marathon pace. 6:58, 6:53.  3 min jog,  6:58, 6:53. 3 min jog.  6:53, 6:49.  1 mile cooldown.  no music.  just sweat.

2.5 miles up suncrest from bank.  2.5 miles back to car after braces put on to close my bite.  Feel like a prisoner in my own mouth.  

quick 16 miles at 6am before taking off to Park City for Courtney's bday bash at Olympic Park with her friends and her sisters.  My mom went too. We watched while they did the zip lines and rope courses and alpine slide.    AP 7:51.  

easy run at 820am.  8:43 ap.

2 mile warmup easy.    6 x 1 mile repeats at 10k pace (thinking 6:45 best case scenario) with 90 second jog in between (10 min pace).  Ran 6:48, 6:48, 6:44, 6:44, potty water break 3 min at most.  60 second jog and right back at it.  6:39, 6:39.  SWEAT FEST!!!!!  1 mile cool down in 9:04 total time :D.  love the jogging!!

out and back with jane, kim, jenny, jenny and chandi.  So tired but pushed the pace (due to yesterdays 6 x 1 mile repeats).  Not to mention I am still struggling with depression.  Eating me alive some days.  But better than I was a couple months ago.  AP 7:43.  canal from jane's.

12.5 hour very busy shift in the level 2 nursery.  so tired when i got home but could not fall asleep.  got a race bib from a friend who couldn't run the hobble creek half but the closer it got to race start the more guilty i felt.  i mean the race bible is quite strict.  they really should just charge people 15 dollar change fee.  Doesn't take that much to change a name.  I know I wasn't the only one.  Anyway didn't fall asleep until 1230 then alarm went off at 4:28 am.  I had taken 1/2 a muscle relaxant that makes you sleepy so felt very tired when the alarm went off--tired like drugged tired.  But it was that or not even sleep a wink.  I have been dealing with insomnia for a long time.  My mind just races and races.  Grrrr....so... read tomorrow for details...

Holy flip!! what am I doing????  I felt so drugged from the soma when Kim picked me up.  Kim was like "I slept awesome"   Yay that always makes me feel great.  Wish I didn't struggle so.  It wasn't nerves.  It is just plain old insomnia.  And knowing the alarm is gonna ring at 430am does not help.  So at the start I was so tired my kidneys were in overdrive....I had to pee several times.  Since I had a friend's bib (a guy)...I began to feel more and more guilty as I had read the race bible just yesterday afternoon.  Lots of "better nots" about the race.  So needless to say I was not relaxed at all.  Kim and I were supposed to run together. I had a feeling due to her no speed work this week and her great sleep she was gonna feel pretty good and surpass our goal of easy running it in 1:35 (she ran 1:28:30).  She had invited me Thursday's run to join her and the gang (Jane came in THIRD!! Melanie in FIFTH :D).  Today was not in my plans and I so wanted to bail the moment the alarm went off.    I felt out of body the whole run. Anyone taken soma before??? well it was still in my system and usually stays in me for 24 hours.  The first half of the race I was at 45:08!!!(6.55 miles)  so about 6:48 ap.  Nice work and then mentally I checked out.  I was seriously dead tired so  I walked the hills and through water stations.  At mile 12.3 (hey I was gonna quit at mile 9, then it was 10 and then it was 11...  so to 12.3 was a miracle).  Yup I just jogged over to the side of the road and washed my body in a sprinkler.  Ahhhhh felt so lovely and refreshing.  I took off my bib and ran the rest of the way on the opposite side of the street passing the turn to the finish until my watch read the full half marathon.  1:33:30 most likely if I kept my turtle like speed I was keeping for the last five miles....yup from 8-13 I ran an avg pace of 7:43.   Good thing it felt like a 10:00 pace and not a 6:45.  My friend Jessica passed me at mile 11.4.  She looked strong.  Awake!     Basically no more soma for me 6 hours before I race.  Better to get no sleep then to feel like a graveyard.    All in all this being my first race since St George marathon 2014 i feel a few more races will get me in the groove.  So far this year I have paced four races--Salt lake marathon (3:25), Goldilocks half (1:39), Deseret news marathon (3:45) and the midnight half (1:50--- the hardest of all of them!!humid and too late for my tired brain in 100 degrees).   Made it right under all of the times by one minute except the slc marathon when I bonked and had to rely on my companion to finish on time.  I was ill prepared and really wanted the 3:35 pace gig (I managed to run 3:33:01) and somehow landed at the faster spot.  didn't train well.  Only one 18 miler.  crazy. PLUS-- um my mileage is up to twice what i have been doing. Havent run this many miles in a LONNNNNNGGGGGG time!!

10 miles with Kim and Jane.  I was going to run only 5 easy pace miles while I watched Jane and Kim run speedwork at Manila Pond.  But meeting up with them they were also kind of tired in the legs so they opted out of speed and instead we ran the 10 mile To mouth of AF canyon loop. My oh My...up hill the first 3.75 miles!!!  AP 7:52.  Good times!!

8:33 ap. Five miles before 6am work day 

Lots of shoulder and arm pain.  Been going on since Deseret news marsthon. Holding pace sign for 20miles.  3 hrs plus plus 

picked up one car at shop then drove to hubby's place of work and exchanged cars and went to drop of said car in af repair shop.  ran to vasa gym...warm up 1.6 miles,no garmin (used course tool).  Warmed up one mile on TM--started at 6.7 mph and went up by o.1 mph every 0.1 miles.  Then when at a mile ran 6 miles at st george marathon pace (not flat course marathon pace, he he).  Reality check here.  Anyway I ran 7:13 x 2, 7:08 x 2 (1 percent through 3.5 miles) then fifth mile at 7:03 and last mile 7:03 until last 0.3 miles when I increased the pace several times until at 9.3 mph I believe (6:27 pace for the last 0.1 miles).  Talked with Jane and Jenny for 20 minutes. Then  ran outside 0.75 miles until my mom picked me up. I was starving so I called for a ride home. Obviously I would have made it since I only had 1.25 miles more to my house.  But I sweated so much it wasn't too wise.  I DID NOT STOP THE ENTIRE SIX MILES AT MARATHON PACE :D. Began taking Mood Sync over a week ago and it seems to be helping my depression.  

easy miles at 445am before work.  8:33ap.

2 mile warmup 1% incline.  Easy.  8:49-8:27.  Then stretch and water.   Then 0.1 miles easy before 8 x 1000meters at 10k pace (6:31x 6, 6:27 x1, 6:22 x1)- most likely I would be  slower in a 10k but that is so much slower than I used to run 1000 meters HOWEVER this workout calls for ONLY 30 seconds in between sets of jogging---6mph, 10 pace.  First four done in 19:35 including warmup for 0.1 miles (2.86 miles). Got off mill and potty and water (two and 1/2 minute break, necessary for the SOUL).  Next four in 19:35 (2.88miles).  Warmup for 0.1 miles was slower.  I got distracted for a moment because after two I needed more water and when I got back to the mill a guy took my mill under the fan.  Not that the fan was felt much.  I was dripping sweat.  1.26 mile cooldown. Nice and easy. Avg probably 8:40.  Jane was running 2 x 20 minutes with 15 min jog in between. We ended pretty close to each other so that was cool.  

too busy to get a run in.  chemo with my mom.  drove her to airport for her long awaited three week vacation in New England (where we are from) to visit relatives.  then amber and i went swimming at 7pm.  swam a few laps.  probably 7-8.    Shoulder bugging me still.  

2 mile warmup similar to Monday.  Just more increases in second mile to 8:12 pace.  same 1% incline.  Then stretch and water.  Plan 3-2-3  lactate threshold run at half marathon pace (6:48-6:53? on a utah course with actual rest and no sleep medications four hours before the race or intense speed work three days before and a 13 hour out of control busy shift the day before).  Ran first three at 6:53.   Four minute break..talking away with a friend and lost track of time (supposed to be 3 min rest).  Just stood there.  No running.  Then 6:53, 6:49.  First set I talked the entire time.  Then my friend left so I put on my music and ran the two.  It was nice to know I was only doing two in the middle.  Five minute rest.  When I got water my mill was almost taken but instead the lady went right beside me which was nice of her but  sadly she had on wayyyyy too  much hair spray so I had to  go a row back to avoid a headache.  So this took extra time with a potty break in there.  Last three miles-- 6:53, 6:48, 6:48.    1/2 mile cooldown. nice and easy. Fan by treadmills not working and it is super humid out so  I was quite the sweaty mess.  Soaked every area of my clothes.  Is this normal????  or am I just out of shape???  I am 9 pounds heavier then 2011!!!!!!! HELLLLLLL-o!!!! trying to lose weight....hope five comes off before October 3!! 

945am-- heat is on!! six easy miles that felt like the whole world was weighing down on me!! like so fatigued.  not sore just fatigue.  intensely. nearly quit altogether but i was far from my house. ran from the car shop home.  8:36 pace.

sweltering run at 2pm. Major fatigue all morning so nothing.    91 degrees.  8:25 pace. My sweat madee itch so intensely.  Think I was allergic to lotion I put on.  I still feel itchy after shower but not as bad.

so very fatigued. met up with kim.  her knee killed at one mile so she bailed and ran back home.  bummer.  on my own.  plan for us was to run the murdock half in reverse then turn around at mile 9 for us (we live 1.6 miles from the park it finishes at).  i honestly had and have since i got braces to close my jaw in alignment (teeth are actually straight, good enough) but my jaw won't shut and i have been wearing a TMJ splint for three months.  So.... its this or surgery. and braces won out as it really is an alignment issue.  long story.  anyway it has been three weeks since i got them and i feel major fatigue. hoping i am not allergic to them (i have a copper allergy) but I am going to tough it out and sacrifice running for my jaw. seriously my jaw was in oodles of pain from feb to june when I got splint.  lock jaw with every bite of food.  i couldn't take it.  got a great dr who is helping me tons!! i have had tmj since my early 20s.  just recently completely locking up.  avg pace unknown.  my watched died at mile 7. ran to mile marker 5 of race and turned and ran with 1:45 pacer which just felt hard to me.  seriously i felt so weak.  so i stopped at water stop stood and waited for holly and stephanie.  they kept going.  i started running 30 seconds after they passed.  just jogged for a bit and caught them two miles later.  ran a mile with the winner who ran 44 seconds faster than i did last year--1:33:02 (merri hackett :D).  considering i m 13 years her senior and she is a great runner I feel pretty good about my time last year.  this course is honest !!  EVERY ONE IN UTAH SHOULD RUN IT TO REALLY SEE HOW FIT THEY ARE !  Too many downhill halfs here in good ol' Utah. Love them too but ONCE IN A WHILE go for the difficult!!  

2 mile warmup. 1% incline.  8:49 pace then over 0.25 miles I increased pace to 6:53 avg pace to get to the two miles.  Ran 6 x 1 mile repeats at 9.0 mph for first two then 3-5 miles I alternated between 9.0 (6:39 pace) mph and 9.1 mph (6:35 pace) every 1/4 mile.  0 % incline.  Last one done at 9.0 mph to 9.3 mph (6:31).  90 second standing rest in between reps.  HELD to this exactly.  With TM off.  So miles ended up being (TM takes a bit to go from 0 to 9.0mph) 6:44, 6:43, 6:42, 6:40, 6:40 and last one 6:38.    Cooldown mile done in 8:41, 1 % incline.  Then for fun cause I moved by speedy Jane after everyone else left-- I ran  30-35 seconds on/offs at 10.3 mph (5:49 pace).  Basically from TM at zero it would take about 27 seconds to get to 10.3 mph and I would run that until 1 min.  Rest a minute and repeat 7 times (1.12 miles).  

easy miles on my new treadmill.  first treadmill.   a gift from jane.  a very fast runner and a very good friend.  thanks again jane.  avg pace 8:30. 1 percent incline.

words cannot not express the amount of exhaustion I felt yesterday after work---I was in bed from 730pm until the next morning at 7am. Got kids off to school and fell back to sleep at 9-1130am!! still wasted tired.  holy moly.  but forced myself to mill it.   i actually got in the intended workout albeit slower and broken down more than i would have if i didn't feel drugged to the max without drugs.  Ran two miles at 1 % on tm at 8:57-8:27 pace.  Then started 8 mile tempo at 10 secs faster than marathon pace - goal 7:07 marathon pace (fantasy) so 6:58 for tempo but knew my fatigue was too much to even start there so I started at marathon pace 7:08 it was mill can do at 8.4 mph.  Ran a half mile and hopped off in utter zombie fatigue.  Was like "snap out of this Julie"  and started again.  Told myself I could take as many stops as I needed to to get it done.  Went another 1.5 miles at tempo pace of 7:08.  Stopped less than a minute and started again.  Two more miles at 7:08 pace.  Yay finially at 4 miles!!  Next I ran another two miles after a two minute stop to use the bathroom and take in some water--sweat fest in my basement TM room!!   This time I was able to do one at 7:03 the other at 7:08.  Then to mentally do it (the fatigue was intensely in my brain seriously)  I ran 7:03. Stopped less than a minute and another 7:03--a little faster as I picked it up the last quarter mile to 6:35 pace.  Ran 1 cooldown mile in 8:41, 1 % . 

busy morning.  run at 1110am from just above Lone Peak High school on trail (parking lot by golf course and bathroom).  Ran up two miles to and past mouth of canyon (1/4 mile past booth where you pay for your drive thru canyon).  then turned around and back to car.  SOOOO hot!!  And windy!!! Then repeated.  Was gonna try to run my 14 miles today since I work all day tomorrow (13 hour shift) but just couldn't hack the heat any longer.  Avg pace 8:10.  

worked all day. busy nursery admit shift.  Came home late (stayed an extra hour til 7:15!!) and ate dinner with NO intentions of running....but then somehow I talked my body into it.  AFTER a 13 hour shift on your feet and the stress running is never easy.  Now with food in tummy.  Funny.  Anyway so thankful for my gift from Jane (treadmill).  Got on and just knew I had to go easy as to not lose my cookies or my heart.  Two miles at 8:57, two miles at 8:49, two miles at 8:41....then at six miles followed my plans to run 6x 90 second surges with five minutes in between surges.  NORMALLY with rest and being the morning and this being 8:30 pm....a surge for just 90 seconds sounds doable.  But oh my heavens I was beat!!  Even the five minutes in between was mentally daunting!!  But I persevered....I finished the reps. A couple times (four I think) I stopped the treadmill to rest after the surges.  I surged only to 6:53 pace.  The entire run was at 1 % incline including surgers.    After the surges x 6 and five minutes in between I only had 3 miles to go!!!  So I knew I could finish.  TM turned over at 100 minutes (11.7 miles)..didn't know it would do that.  So was confused.   But I just started the time over and the other information still stayed on the TM...wow that was cool.  So finsihes the last 2.3.  FiNALLY.  AP 8:32.  Glad that is over.  Now I can't sleep as I type this at 2 am and have to be at work in three hours.  I got super nauseated and had to take tums.  I nearly threw up but that passed with the tums.  I don't think my body liked running at night.  

wasted tired but finished first part. bailed on second part 1.2 miles in...then Jane showed up as I was leaving so just added another fast one by her (even after I already cooled down).  The mill by her shook like no other so I had no desire to do more.  I was hungry.  5 miles at 6:53 miles. Then 1.2 miles at 6:53.  Then cooldown one mile at 8:42.  Then another 6:53.  Supposed to be 2 x 5 miles with four minute rest.  I always seem to lack energy after a weekend of hard worked hours (26.5 hours!!) 

home mill at 211pm.  easy paced miles.  8:14 ap.  1 % incline.

worked for a friend until 215pm from 6am.  appts then soccer game for amber.  too tired to run.  well and ran out of time then it was late.  

5 miles easy with six strides of 20 seconds at the end.  8:13 avg.

massive fatigue again. went to byu versus utah game last night with courtney.  won 1-0 at last two minutes of game.  went to work and my phone was dead and they tried to put me on call.  went home and did some bookkeeping and stayed up and now still way fatigued. tried to nap at 430pm.  fell asleep and woke to nearly choking to death. was very scary. thought i was dying.  woke me out of my massive fatigue when i came to.  seriously very strange.  reflux moment??? 

yay hit 500 miles on my kinvaras albeit with holes on the top!! Anyway...sleepless night as usual for me these days but frustrating.  Awoke to alarm (did sleep 3.5 hours so technically not sleepless)at 3:42am. Drove up to Cotton Wood Heights.  Got on second bus to the top of the start of the half.  Ran 3.5 miles then another .37 before the race (ap 8:35).  Ran up and back down in the pitch black avoiding buses heading up for the start of the marathon.  It was very cold up there and this was wise in order to wake my body and warm it.  I got up there at 525am and the race starts at 6:45am.   Well met up and met my pace partner along with hanging with pace group for a moment.  We were unaware how close it was to start time apparently. NO announcement and the race was started before we even knew it.  I still had my race bag with me so ran off back in the area of the second loading truck a quarter of a mile away.  I came back and noticed the race had started.  I was in shock.  At mile one I passed the 2:00 pacer.  I was passing tons of people sprinting down the mountain not ready at all to be running faster than goal 1:30 pace.  I had put my watch in average pace mode which turned out to help me (as later when I noticed I had run a 5:59 and 6:09 mile for miles 5 and 6) .  Had I seen these paces I would have assuredly inwardly be anxious about how fast I was running and immediately slow down.  I pretty much ran by feel.  Paces were--6:52, 6:42, 6:41, 6:23, 5;59, 6:09, 6:31 (shoe came untied,hard to stop when flying and hard to start rolling again but it happened), 6:14, 6:36, 6:52,  Intentionally slowing or for sure I would be in at 1:26...7:30, 6:54, 7:25, and 0.17 at 7:14 pace ( realized I was close to 1:27 but too late in this noticing...but it wasn't a race for me) .  Basically I cheered anyone I could on the way down...chasing my pace partner who incidentally is in the results right next to my name (she ran 1:27:50).  13 seconds apart in chip time although I started 3.5 minutes after her!! ha ha.  I passed the 1:40 pacers at mile 4 and was trying my hardest to catch Melissa but apparently she too was flying fast.  Anyway....last year I ran it perfect.  I thought arriving early I would be even more perfect.  Totally bummed.  But wow I got a good work out.  Ran 3 miles after race at 8:38 ap. 

so sore from downhill running fast saturday.  ap 9:15.  started at 10ap so 9:15 is pretty good. took my mom up for ct scan at huntsman.  neck and arm pain are quite bad.  (me).  Been going on since end of july.  tendinits/arthritis of neck shoulder and arm.  but need to see a dr.  it ain't going away. boo. 

too sore and too fatigued. developed a small shingles-like rash on right rib cage.  however i did pee in woods up cottonwood canyon and there was poison sumac that i remember seeing there.  so it is probably that.  

2 warmup.    some deep buttock pain-muscle pain noted.  did 8 x 800s with one minute rest in between (two minutes after fifth one for a water break).  Ran them at 10k pace.  6:27 x 4, 6:22 x 4.    The last one my leg really was bugging so I broke it into two 0.32 miles.  So shorter but overall longer.  One mile cooldown.  8:47.  Leg on right (IT band) giving me trouble.  Probably should have taken entire week off.  Just tired in general.

7 miles easy.  was gonna try 13 but just too tired.  treadmill.  1 percent incline.  3 percent incline alternated with 4 percent incline at the end of each mile for 0.25 miles.  very slow.

work too tired to run. 13 hour shift tiring.

work.  same tiring 13 hour shift.  took sacrament at work.  

still tired to run. well and i picked up a shift on NICU at UVRMC for 6.75 hours.  Very busy there.  

six easy outside.  8:19 avg pace. First mile 9:03. Last mile 7:31.

work for Taunya while she is Hawaii.   Wish I was.  ha ha.  long 12.5 hour shift.  no run.  pretty fatigued every day.  shingles and braces not a good combo.  shingles are a small patch on my rib cage of like 10-12 blisters that have diminished 30 -40 percent since they showed up a week ago monday.  nerve pain down arm and shoulder but relieved more and more since Josse massaged my shoulder.  Thought shingles were really from a leaf I squatted by up at Big Cottonwood....but six days later I talked with two drs at work and they feel it is shingles.  You can't catch shingles but can catch chicken pox from shingles if you were never vaccinated and you actually physically touch the  tiny blisters if weeping but mine havent as I have had them covered and pasting on calamine lotion.  It is the fatigue and burning pain down my arm that is ridiculous. but very improved today.   was bad yesterday.

I feel like I have mono again from when I had it in 2003....or it is the shingles? the rash is still the same maybe 30 percent decrease in brightness of blisters since a week ago monday.  Burning pain in my right arm and random areas in my rib area on right side...  the fatigue is also like when my ferritin level was 5.  Like so massively fatigued.  But I am best right when I wake up so I decided to run at 648am.  Ran scheduled run (I have been skipping a lot of these runs due to working long shifts and fatigue so I gotta get back on the schedule for the last week).  1 mile warm up and 2 x 2.5 miles at goal marathon pace.  Which at this point is like maybe 7:45 but I ran them at 6:58 first mile 6:53 second mile and 6:49 last half mile.  Felt like I was dying so opened the window rested three minutes like I was supposed to...then  started up and felt like I could not do it again.  Stood there.  Probably another three minutes and decided to do at my real goal I had for myself before braces and shingles-- 7:07 avg pace for saint george.  Ran first mile at 7:08, second mile at 7:03 and last 1/2 mile at 6:58.  Felt better but still like no way in this year was this gonna happen.  I feel so confined with these braces and weak. Like SuperMan and kryptonite.  Julie and nickel titanium falls to her death like coma fatigue.    But I was tired of my jaw not closing and locking in pain if  I tried that I had to do something rather than complain the rest of my life.  I may even need jaw surgery near the end to get my jaw better aligned. I am considered a class III orthdontic bite which if very hard to fix but can be fixed.   And braces are not freeing.  They tie me down.  So I sacrifice this running year to a good jaw in the future for the last part of my years on this earth.  Crazy but true.  My body is so stressed from the change I got shingles.  ha ha . YAY.    I must add this was done on my home treadmill which was jane's tm for many years up until a month ago.  She verified that sw on her mill is harder than at vasa gym.  PHEW!!  also I ran warmup mile in 8:30.  Cooldown in 8:53.  wiped out.  carpool as soon as I was done.  hanging with my mom.  love having her around.  :D.