Believe to Achieve

Worked all day.  Still walking funny.  Right quad really mad!!    Perhaps I shouldn't have run so fast Friday???

6:30am Drove Courtney to her first swim team practice.  Came home.  Drove Brooke to Lindon Elementary to take her bus ride to Clear Creek for Summer camp for the Week.   Drove back to the Swimming pool in PG and ran 4.2 miles before Courtney got out of swim practice.  That is all I had time for.  Right quad a train wreck.  First mile (.8 uphill, steep) 9:15.  AP for 4.2 =  8:15.  Recovery run but man I feel like I am recovering from a marathon just on my right side.   I had a super migraine all weekend too just for fun.    Drove Courtney home.  Cleaned a little then went out to finish my 8 miler exactly two hours from when I started the first half.  NOW it is super hot.  Not a comfortable run considering my quad.  Managed a 7:30 last mile.   Odd.  I was in recovery mode.  Ooopps.  AP again 8:15 for 4 miles.  Total 8.2 @ 8:15 easy pace.  Iced in river for 10 minutes. VERY NECESSARY!! 

Two HILLY loops around PG rec center while Courtney was at swim team.  We rode our bikes to the pool slowly.   Courtney doesn't like to bike fast.  She is not into exercise like myself.  It is hard to motivate a teenager. 

Bike 2.75 miles

Run 8.2 miles (8:15 AP).  Right quad still sore but mending.  Oh my never going to do that again.  I was less sore running Mt Nebo half marathon with a 5 mile warmup running it in 1:19 then my 1:26 on the fly last Friday down AF canyon.  But I was in so much better shape last year.  I did some crazy stuff like run an unplanned SOLO marathon half uphill half downhill in 3:34 including 7 stops (and that was after already running 15.5 of those miles two days before UPHILL for 13 with Kelli).  Weird.  And then I ran speedwork at the track the NEXT day!!!  I was insane!!!   Sorry just reminiscing my craziness.   No wonder I was tired for SG. 

Bike 2.75 miles back home. 

Marathon grocery shopping, price matching and double coupons.  Joy. 

Dropped off Courtney at swim team.  Jogged over to rec center and ran on TM(first time in a long time) for 8 miles VERY easy as I am needing a slow recovery run--  started at 2 @ 8:57, 2 @ 8:49, 1.5 @ 8:41 then varying speeds from 8:13 to 8:34, mostly the slower.  AP-- 8:37.  Ran back to pool a short jaunt away.  I scraped my quad yesterday so taking it easy today was in order.   I am all covered in bruises and petechiae a sign of acute inflammation if the scraping is done right.  I didn't even have to push hard.  In Chinese it is call Gua Sha.  Gua meaning "to scrape" and Sha meaning "petechiae".  It said it is "serious medicine" but easy to do and very effective on releasing toxins held in muscles/nerves.  Oh did planks x 3 minutes front (3 x 1 min), 1.5 minutes each side (45 sec x 2).    Only 14 pushups (7 x 2) when my daughter needed me.

nothing.  so tired when I awoke at 515am for work this morning.  I probably walked 10 miles at work today no joke.  busybusy busy for 13 hours.  left home at 540am got back at 740pm  no workout  going to bed early for sure

so very tired from a tossing and turning night-- anxiety from my long day at work yesterday.  got up at 420am and ran 7 miles before driving again to UV hospital for a shift on NICU.  My muscles aren't feeling right.  I don't seem to be recovering well from any increase in mileage.  My PF is showing its ugly face once more.  Melanie scraped it Friday and it seems to be worse now.  Frustrating!!  AP 7:48 for 7 miles.  I wonder if I will feel good anymore?? hopefully I will tomorrow morning in order to run Kim in the marathon's last 6 miles!!  Good luck everyone.  kind of jealous.  Last year this race I was so very tired.  And here I am very tired again.  I suppose I could actually run the marathon because I am THAT masochistic but my body really needs a break.  No PRs in my future for the moment.  .......Good news-- I am on Rachelle's Ragnar team!!  last minute but hey that's me :D.  I am always up for an adventure !!

I got up feeling really achy this morning but definitely could NOT stand Kim up!!  Last year  she ran me in the last 6.2 miles of the race.  This year I did the same thing.  I parked at the finish and ran up 8.25 miles on the sidewalk/river trail (so not on the race course) beside the runners cheering as I went.  On the trail by the mouth of the canyon I couldn't see people for two miles but when I got to Canyon Glen Park and got a great view of the leader pack for the marathon--- two Kenyans (I believe) and  a BYU runner closely together.  I then proceeded back down the trail to the next river park and cut over there to the highway to meet up with Kim.   I was just .1 miles from mile 20.   At this point I had run 7:42 avg pace (8.25 uphill) for 10.41 miles.   I chatted with a few people.  Even saw Tara in her regular clothes but running shoes :D.   We were worried about the women taking long to get to mile 20.  We saw Emily Bates in the lead by a margin and if the race was on time she was on for a 2:59 marathon.  She obviously picked it up since she came in 2:56 (so I heard).  Next was Danielle Johnson who said she was done but she kept going.  Then an older looking lady (sorry if you are young ) .  She looked to be in her late forties early fifties.  Then came a girl I did not know.  Then Julie Esplin then a blondes chicka alongside my wonderful friend Kim.  So I took off with her.  I paced her in at a 7 AP.  She stopped at water stops so we actually ran a little faster as the stops put us at 7AP.  We passed Julie Esplin just before mile 24.   THEN the saddest part of it all-- OUT OF COMPLETE NOWHERE my hamstring felt like it was ripping from the back of my leg.  I started to limp (but I couldn't tell Kim and worry or slow her down).  I thought this is BAD.  I can't keep this up or I will truly tear my hamstring.  So I stopped and hurried Kim off as I told her my hamstring almost ripped off.   I tried stretching etc... and even grabbed a complete stranger (luckily she is a nurse) to drive her elbow in to my hamstring as I layed on the grass and watched JulieE and Josse run off.  So sad.  I didn't even get to see Kim finish strong btw she ran a 6:48 last mile and came in sixth overall with a time of 3:06:09.  Apparently there was one chickadee we didn't account for.  A girl with a nose ring in.  Don't remember her but it all went by so fast when the first 7 women were coming through.   So bummer Kim missed out on the podium picture and the $200 for fifth!!    AP for last 6 miles for me limping the last mile =  7:06.   Splits for fun-- 8:42, 8:00, 7:42, 7:43,  7:47, 7:39 (can't believe these are all up hill :D), 7:36, 7:23 (the steepest uphill mile, strange),  now turnaround-- 7:24, 7:13, and 7:07 for .41 (on the course for this).  Splits with Kim--6:51, 6:59, 6:59, 7:17 (walking thru water stop and the uphill mile), 7:06 (was faster just before my hamstring bit the dust), and final mile after roadside repair by nurse-- 7:28.  NOT sure how I managed that but I was on the course and the crowd pulls you through anything.    AP for all 16 miles=  7:28.     Massaged by chiropracter after race and he told me I had a second degree tare.  There was bruising on the skin which isn't a good sign.  I didn't scrape myself there so it is kind of concerning.   Iced in river with Kim and Jane x 10 minutes.  BTW my plantar fascitis was very ANGRY in this run UP UNTIL the moment my hamstring crashed.  Now I barely notice it.  I am apparently falling apart at the seams!!!   Not sure why but I didn't feel any wind going down the canyon for 2.41 miles so I think the wind ended in the race at mile 18 or so. Even when I stood on the sidelines watching the lead men just before mile 19 I didn't feel any wind.