Stronger, Tougher, Faster, Smaller

Natalie did the first 4 with me on her bike. She is getting better at her two wheeler but still lacks confidence, but she can do it!  Chris ran those 4 with us too. He then got on his bike with the kids in tow while I ran another 6.5. Not bad for a tuesday mornin'.

3 miles on treadmill. Mile 1 easy warm up 11:30, mile two still felt good at 10:50, then kept picking up the pace for the last mile. Time for number three was about 9:45.  

I did another 1.5 mile jogging behind kids to free lunch and back.  I have a new recipe I want to try today so will be heading out to the store soon.  

June/July have been hard weight months. Err, too much new food being offered to me all of the time. I need some consistency but any weight I gain comes off the next week of controlling my portions again.  All in all I am still down 48 lbs since november. I need to loose a total of 75 at least. 

RHPC 1/2

I got lucky today because I was able to spend the night in American Fork so I didn't have to get up as early to do the race.

 I didn't even realize who all the people were who were there. It was lots of fun.  I was nervous about starting off too fast but I averaged about 11:30 on the way up the canyon(was sooo glad to turn around) I then averaged 10:30 on the way back down. YIPPEE and I even had a potty stop. Total time was 2:25 that is only 7 minutes from my all time PR and that was over 5 years ago!  It also happened to be 50 minutes faster than Moab 1/2 THIS YEAR!  (Ok, so I could have run Moab half faster than that but I was pacing with a "virgin" halfer-who I talked into doing the race) But still even if I had pushed it I probably would have finished in 2:45ish. I am very pleased with my run today and can't wait until next year!!!