Lack of MoJo day! couldn't bring myself to run :( I am really worried about Ragnar and if I can pull it off this year everything seems to be going wrong, not with my running just the race itself.
5.5 miles 3% decline. I wanted to do 6 but I had to "GO"! I hate getting old everything falls apart even your bladder!!!! 2 miles at 8:49 1 at 8:41 2.5 at 8:34. I was trying to go faster to get the six miles in but I think it only made things worse.
Lifted for legs added extra 5 pounds to each rep. Also did walking lunges.
Started my run today and my right heel felt like there was a rock in my shoe. Because of the race tomorrow I told myself if the pain didn't go away after a mile I would turn around. At the one mile mark the pain was still there, I went a little further and then I thought it was not worth it and turned around. It is on ice now and still a little sore...I am not happy about this!
My son is going to the temple tonight! It kind of gets in the way of my Ragnar routine but is TOTALLY worth it!!!!!!
What a fun time we had!The race had 1050 teams this year and so parts of it were really crowded
but other than that I think Ragnar put on a great race.
It all started Thursday at 6:30 am.I wanted to go to the temple with my son so I
knew I had to have everything ready to go by 6:00pm.I first went out for a six mile run.My right foot was giving me problems so I
called it quits at 2.5 miles.I then
cleaned the car, cleaned my house, bought groceries, decorated the van, met my
son at the distribution center to buy him Garments, and went to the
temple.As you can see I didn’t have
time to eat so at 9:00 when I got home I ate some fruit and went to bed.
We woke up at 4:00am packed up the car and headed to
Logan.Kim had been sick all week and
she was not getting better.She had a
killer cough that was giving her fits.She was running leg three and at the end of her first leg she was sure
that she couldn’t do her very hard last leg (8 miles up hill)so we traded legs for that round.This would give me a 7 mile trail leg, an 8
mile uphill leg followed by another 8 mile uphill leg.Knowing this early in the race gave me enough
time to wrap my brain around it, so it really was not that big of a deal.
My first leg started around 2:00 I was hoping to do it in 59
minutes but I came in closer to 62 minutes.I started to feel weak right from the start and then realize I had
hardly eaten anything for the past 48 hours.This leg has two uphill miles followed by two downhill miles and
finishes with three rolling hill miles.
Splits: 9:43, 9:36, 8:52, 8:38, 8:29, 9:11, 8:55
My next leg started at 10:30 and is 8 miles mostly up
hill.I love this leg I am not sure why
the uphill seems so easy but it did.I
had 26 road kills on this leg.I met up with
a young guy from Kaysville; we ran the last 4 miles together.At one point it got really windy.He let me draft of him and when I went to
take my turn in the lead he said I was too skinny!I could have kissed him!
Going into my last leg my legs were already killing me.I set a goal to run the first four and then I
could walk after that.I didn’t quite
make it to four miles before walking but I was still proud of what I did on
this leg. This leg started at 7:40 in the morning.
Splits: 8:37, 8:58, 9:08, 12:08, 11:32, 10:17, 11:50, 7:53
(only .85 of a mile)
Update on Kim – When she got home she went to the doctor and
discovered that she was coughing so hard she cracked a rib…yes she ran the
Wasatch back with a cracked rib!!!!!
Other fun facts: I saw pron8er, Alisak, rdrunner, and mrs. Rdrunner
during the race, lost and found my
Garmin, Went to the wrong exchange, and said my first bad word during a race.
