Stronger, Tougher, Faster, Smaller

Chris had the day off and we biked together as a family.  He was hauling the kids in the trailer and it just about evened us out!  Yes, I'm more competition on my bike I guess then on my feet.

We hit speeds of over 18mph, and hit 7-11 for slurpees at mile 9(mine was crystal light).  It was actually a lot of fun and I don't ever remember enjoying a bike ride like that. 

I went through Lake Park again today, this is the course for the Westfest 5k.  I averaged a 12:30 pace but I would really like to learn to keep a steady pace.  This was a lot of up and down speed.  Would walk for a minute, then start to pick it up, then I'd look at my watch and it would say something like 10:20, YIKES! So I would try to slow down, then it would happen again.  So I end up walking more than I would like and running too fast to maintain.

I'm also having a problem with my feet going numb.  It doesn't take much walking for it to go away but they are consistently going numb, almost my whole foot, and I don't like it? Any suggestions?  I'm thinking about my weight gain last year that maybe my shoes are too small now?

Oh on the weight thing -5lbs so far............ 

I got some new shoes yesterday and did two miles on the treadmill with them.  I think my shoes were too small.  I knew they weren't the greatest but I was just trying to make them do.  My shoes disappeared after st. george last year and I was hoping they would reappear.

I got in two miles, mile one at12min, mile 2 in 11:35.  After that I did 25 min of circuit training with Jillian.  And the sweat keeps pouring................16 days until Ogden half!
 

Three treadmill miles, just watching for the foot numbness thing, but nothing!  Yippee!

mile one 12:45

mile two 12:30

mile three 11:35

The shoes were a good cover story but I really needed this run because baskin-robbins had 31cent ice cream cones last night mmmmm! 

I flaked on my running, house is under construction and it got put off.  Now I'm annoyed.  Live and learn, run in the mornings!

But I'm blogging to put in my two week weight loss of -6 lbs.

 Only four more to go to my first goal which is where I want to be before Ogden Half marathon in 13 days.