Stronger, Tougher, Faster, Smaller

Oops. I was gonna go run outside but right as we were falling asleep Chris remembered he had his early morning physical therapy. So as soon as I awoke it was get ready to go onto the treadmill.

I got in 2.5 before first child came into my room, but he did great and just played on my bed for the rest of the time. Child two came in right as I was finished. Hurray!

Mile one 12:30

Mile two 12:15

Mile 3 12:00

Mile 4 11:37

Weight change -9 lbs. The goal this week is to do 4 miles everyday and to keep them about 30 -60 seconds slower than my most recent 5k time. I think I have been trying to keep my times as low as possible, I believe if I slow down just a tad that getting more miles in a week shouldn't be so hard.

I walked another 1.5 round trip to the park and back with the kids. I walked as fast as I could pushing the stroller.

Chris got dibs on the outdoors today so I ran on the treadmill, again.............good thing I like to listen to Chunga on the radio.

I'm finding it hard to run slow for shorter distances I just can't stay at the same pace I love to pick it up some.

mile 1 12:16

mile 2 12:03

mile 3 11:41

I basically kept the same pace but about every half mile I would jump up the speed to 10 min miles for about 30 sec, just enough to stretch my legs out some but not enough to get my respiration out of control. I know the goal is 4 miles today but I am walking to the childrens musuem from my sis-in-laws and I have no idea how far it is, but I am guessing we will be pushing strollers with two/three kids each for about 3-4 more miles today. So I'll update when we get back.

We are back and it was 4.4 miles pushing 2-3 kids in the stroller about 20 min pace.  It still hurt though.  Will all this extra walking affect my training, is it good for me?  I am planning on increasing my running miles 10% each week and keeping my walking miles seperate.  Is that okay?

OH BOY!!!!

I, um, just volunteered to fill in a leg of WBR.  wow, I've never done it before and I have never met the people  I will be running with so lets see how it goes!
 

Well maybe getting outdoors isn't that great after all. It really has started warming up. We finally got the swamp cooler going but it had a leak, oh joy, and then the vent in the ceiling got knocked out. Ugh, just more work to do.

I think the walking miles are hurting me some right now, but I think I could get used to it. It took me a mile to loosen up and not feel so tight and tired.

mile 1 14:00

mile 2 12:02

mile 3 12:32 (this has a considerable amount of uphill so it is a bit harder.

mile 4 12:25

And 7am is not early enough to run!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally, I got it done.  Not the distance I was originally planning but because of WBR I am adding miles this weekend so I will actually be a little ahead of where I need to be.

 2.5 barefoot miles very sllloooowww on the treadmill.  And it was broken up some to take care of a sick child.  My husband is already in Logan to help with the start line he will be there until all the teams have started.

No results are posted yet, but I'm not sure how we stand. I know we were not competitive but I ran my best. I think I was the only person who stayed within 1 minute of my predicted time.

I was runner 7. Start time 6:30 pm First leg relatively flat little downhill, and yet a rookie at heart I took off too fast. Temp 90.

mile times 11:22, 12:17, 12:18, 12:23

Second leg, start time 3:19am, two hours of sleep, temp 38. This has a good downhill in the first mile and then climbed higher with each mile. Total elevation gain was over 600ft.

miles times 12:17, 13:03, 15:15, 15:07

Last leg, temperature 95, start time 2:30am , but there was a breeze and it didn't feel like the sun was cooking me but the radiant heat coming up from the asphalt was frying me. Oooh it was so hot. I had the van stop at least every mile so that I could spray myself with water and that really helped. This leg was really flat and quite nice to run.

mile times 11:40, 12:41, 11:48, 13:20

I had lots of fun, I am a little tight and sore but not incapacitated and feel like I got a really good workout. Missed the FRB teams but it's hard to see everyone in this race. Ragnar not only hurt our runner but killed our car as it overheated. We were pawning off our last runners with any car that drove by so that they at least would be where they needed to wait.

Our team won a case of myomed, something like the most beautiful disaster, after disaster, after disaster. We were an all girl team called Darla Angels. Darla was the team captain sis in law who died last year at 38 after an 8 year battle with breast cancer. So our car was decorated in that theme. It was a bit crude in some places but we laughed and so did some onlookers.