Here we go again~

Nice recovery run this morning with the Heidi's and Brenda!! We had planned to do the Mailbox run but after careful consideration of my back injury (that is still lingering), Heidi's IT band, Heidi C's shin splints and Brenda's injured ham string, we decided to lay off the down hill and go for the "new Leaf" route today, a little flatter course!!  Call us whimpy!! 

We had a slow start but eventually warmed up a bit and settled in at a comfortable pace. Poor Heidi C was in a lot of pain due to her shin splints but hung in there the entire run.  She said that they usually go numb after a mile or so, but the pain stayed with her today so she had to take it a bit easier.  I tried to run ahead a bit then lap back to check on her so my 6.5 course ended in 7 miles total today!! It was a very nice morning, I love this chilly weather, it tends to help me a lot with my energy levels!!  I look forward to a pretty solid week of training and a fun weekend with my family in Park City!!

Avg. Pace: 8:44

Lucky me had to go to Jury Duty this morning so I had to get out the door a bit earlier (about an hour and a half earlier, ouch!!) today which meant I had little time to exercise. I was actually proud that I got up and got at least 30 minutes in of something.  I did about 5 minutes of yoga is all, 20 minutes of pilates (abs and arms) and then finished it up with some planks.  Not much, I will try to do more tonight but  with our Ward Party and all it may not be possible, I guess we will see.  The good part is, that I went to Jury Duty and didn't get selected as a juror!!  Yeah, I am off the hook!

Weekly Obligations (among others): Run kids...check, Ward Party......check, Jury Duty......check, weekly temp run....check, CHECK, CHECK!!!!  I am not sure if there are many happier feelings then knowing I am done with my tempo run for the week. I think it's official that I mentally kill myself when it comes to tempo runs because they are hard for me!!  But BOY is it nice to have them over.  Our plan for this morning (according to our handy dandy schedule prepared by Tyler, I swear the guy should go into coaching as a profession) was to do a mile warm up, 5 tempo miles at 7:37pace, and a mile cool down.  We decided to do the "Seventh Heaven" route (name courtesy of Teena!) so it was a 3.5 out and back.  The weather was perfect this morning and everything went as planned.  We stopped at about 6.4 for a quick water break and ran out the end.  Our splits were as follows:

9:17 (nice easy warm up, we were really milking up the time here trying to brace ourselves), 7:37, 7:29, 7:28, 7:29, 7:30, 7:51 (cool down mile, its amazing how you feel like you are trudging if you slow down even just a bit after tempo'ing), 7:14(last .1 mile. Hey, I had to add it :).  Avg: 7:48. WAHOO, I am done with Tempo. Now it's off to the showers to get ready for work.  Have a great day everyone ;)  

I guess I paid the price today for taking 2 days off in the exercise dept.  The Heidi's and I had planned on running Payson canyon this morning and when Tyler heard about it, he decided to come and go along.  We ran from our house out 8 miles and then home.  The first 8 miles were of course mostly up hill which in turn, completely kicked my keester.  I know I am not good at hills but today completely confirmed just how horrible I stink at them.  I liked the way down though.  It was a beautiful morning.  Hard to believe that Fall is just ahead of us as I can already see the change in the morning temperatures!! 

8 Miles up averaged a 9:46, but we made up some time in the end and ended up with an average of 8:56 overall. I am glad it's over :)