Run Yogi Run!

Testing the foot out after a long rest. Did pretty well. It was good to get out with Mara again.

Good morning Friday! Got out to explore some new trails with my Warlordblade.  We started at the pond and did a lot of hiking on a rough trail (we both had crazy sore legs!). Once we looped back onto the Farmington Canyon road, it felt good to just run it out. Then we hit the firebreak road and went south for while, turned around and came down the BST to the pond parking, down to the pond and back up. 3.4 miles. Foot felt good, so that's encouraging!

Sad panda. I tried to run with the funnest group and just couldn't hang with them, with sore, tired legs, and a very upset digestive system. I turned around a quarter mile in and hit the outhouse on the way down. *hangs head*

Easy Monday morning run up the FH switchbacks to Little Valley Rd and back. Foot felt good. Didn't worry about pace (that means we were slow), just ran/hiked whenever we felt like it. 

Did a Flag Rock loop from Davis Creek trail head up the south side, down the north and back on the BST. Gorgeous morning!! It was cool and I wished I'd brought long sleeves at first, but once I got going I was fine. I was just loving the trails this morning. We even made some new deer friends on our way back on the BST. Foot is still feeling pretty good. I'm hopeful Spartan Beast won't be a total bust. I haven't trained enough miles, but I know I can nail most of the obstacles, so hopefully whatever fitness I have is enough. My running buddy likes to hike more than run (especially on hills- up or down), and our time frame for runs doesn't really allow more than about a 10k at our current average pace. Real training just doesn't happen much. *shrug* As long as I'm not miserable, I guess it's all good! Once yoga teacher training is done, I'm hoping to be able to get in some longer Saturday runs in prep for the Moab Trail Half.
Anyway... Great morning run! Happy to get in more than 5 miles!

Mile walking around the aquarium, mile easy hike in Little Cottonwood.

Gorgeous 4 mile Monday morning run with Mara. Up the FH switchbacks to Rick's Creek WF.  Seems like there is always something that slows us down. Good times and good company. Spartan Beast in less than a week. *eek*

4.7 mile Super Moon run up in Heber with my big brother and crew. Aaron and I made the long drive up to run in the rain at Soldier Hollow. It was a blast and the moon came out to greet us just as we finished!

Easy run/hike with Mara. She was sore and I was trying to rest up for Spartan on Saturday. Good to get out!

SPARTAN BEAST!! Holy cow. This would have been so much more fun if I had had time to train well for it. As it was, I struggled, but I made it through! I only had to do burpees at 3 obstacles. The long rope climb (which I sat at the top knot on forever and tried so hard, but was not fueled adequately to complete), the horizontal traverse (my forearms were SO tired and my hands were swollen and burnt from not enough salt and the rope climbs, pulls and hot tires), and the spear throw (because I didn't practice throwing a spear... duh).
30 burpees each and 5 compulsory burpees at another obstacle makes for 95 burpees. Dang.
12 miles, 31ish obstacles. A lot of the obstacles were feats of strength. And not easy ones at that. I was pretty confident with most of them- enough to forgo waiting for the "girl weights/sizes" and do the guys ones instead.
One strange note. My feet got SO HOT in my shoes. It was crazy! It was 102+ out there, so that made things harder too. I was totally impressed with the amount of trail vert in this race. It was kind of insane. I wish people hadn't backed up the single tracks, because I could have flown down some of those had it not been for the line up of slowpokes!
Warlordbalde was an animal. That man is insanely strong and fast. He was nice enough to stick with me the whole time.
We finished in under 4 hours (3:50 we think). 4 hours was my goal time, so I'm happy and proud! .... And exhausted, sore, burnt crispy and beat up. :)