Went do the gym and did 4X400 meters. One mile warm up at 9:13 first three repeats were at 7:18 (8.2) last one I did half at 6:40 and then started to really lose form so I bumped it back down to 7:18
Ran two miles at tempo pace, came home and picked up my husband for our three mile walk. The clouds started to roll in. We turned around after just one mile and with .5 miles left to go it really started to rain hard. I told my husband sorry but I am not walking in this! I sprinted the .5 home. Then I was nice and picked him up in the car.
Ogden Marathon (26.2 Miles) 03:58:58, Place in age division: 10
Easy Miles
Threshold Miles
Marathon Pace Miles
Track speed mileage
Hill mileage
Total
0.00
0.00
26.20
0.00
0.00
26.20
I had a really hard time getting up for this race after
Boston.I did little training in the
three weeks between the race and gained four pounds!When my alarm went off Saturday morning I almost
rolled over turned it off and went back to sleep.Good thing I had promised my neighbor that I
would drive her to the start.
I got to the race met up with Maynard, Charlie, Mark, and
Smooth we set up camp and still no butterflies no adrenalin…nothing.The plan was to try for a 3:50 and have Mark
pace me.I always go out too fast so his
main job was make sure I stayed on pace.Mark did his job and at mile 13 we were 30 seconds ahead of plan but
feeling good.About here I fell apart
mentally, pain started to set in and the fact that I really didn’t want to be
there in the first place made it hard not to just quit.Mark talked me through it and was a great
coach.During the next four miles we
lost our lead and ended up 2 minutes behind.If I kept up the pace I could still PR by 2 minutes, but to be behind was
yet again another mental blow.Mark
slowed down at mile 16 and told me to go on, his cold had finally caught up to
him.I latched on to Lowell, a friend of
Smooth, and ran with him for a couple of miles until he started to fade.I than ran into Gavin a runner who was on my
Wasatch Back team a few years ago, ran with him until he needed to fix his
shoe.At mile 22 I saw the Zimmerman
boy (sorry forgot your name) FLY by he was looking so good I knew he was going
to have the race of his life!Now to
make matters worse my ipod died, I was mentally and physically in the crapper,
all alone and I had no music.I walked a lot of mile 23. I decided at mile
24 I was going to pass 10 people there were a lot of people walking so I did
this before I hit mile 25.I had reached
my goal so I stared to walk for no other reason than the fact that I didn’t
want to run any more.A man ran up next
to me and said “don’t stop you have been pacing me for the last few miles” I
ran in the rest of the way but still no excitement even when I crossed the
finish line.
