Let's do this!

14 miles even this Friday morning. Alone.  Left by 5:30. The roads here in my neighborhood and most of all of Spanish Fork are all pretty dry now. There are a couple of slick spots, but majority were good. Had a good run. Went up the hill of Center street around mile 4. It's a mile long uphill. Then turned around and ran back down it. It was a good workout for me for sure. 

My pubic symphysis has been kind of making itself known during longer runs lately. I am kind of sore today :(

I felt good about getting outside and keeping a good pace during my long run today. BCAA capsules before and just took a couple more.  

Ran 6.5 and 41 minutes of elliptical.

strength training. 

3.5 more miles in the pm  - river trail loop.  7:22 6:49 6:40 6:40 whatever it was about this run.... just wow, effort didnt feel hard. My fitness is gaining!

Got out at 3 pm in the sun! Thought I was running easy, and a few times saw my watch at a 7:16. Got home and checked my watch. Avg pace 7:15. I really thought I was taking it pretty darn easy. It is feeling eadier as each week passes. Experience tells me I'm gaining fitness. I feel pretty good about my progress.

goals this week:

hit 55 miles 

6 mile tempo at a 6:30 pace. 

Ran 9 miles in way thick fog. I felt like my pace was slow because of the fact that I couldn't see, and that I had 5 pounds of clothes on. I still froze! Not the most fun run today. Okay, it sucked!

Pubic symphysis bothered me a little today. I guess I don't understand the cause of it. 

1 hr and 45 minutes elliptical. Some strength training.

No running because I am a tad worried about my pelvis issue. 

8 miles outside. Avg pace: kind of slow.  I can't seem to catch a groove early in the cold-dark. Maybe I will start running in the afternoons? I am frustrated.

A pm run is going down later.  

3.5 rivertrail miles with Rachelle. such a nice afternoon and good company! 

8 miles with Rachelle in the Santaquin Orchards loop. It's such a GREAT LOOP! I can't even explain it! Love it.

Got a little 3 mile tempo in. That stretch of road was perfect until the last mile which is uphill. Kind of hard! I am not back to full potential but I have plenty of time. 6:34 6:33 6:41. I will take it! :)  Rachelle is running so well. Way proud of her!  It was cold when we started, but our quick heart rates warmed is up.  It was like 10 degrees according to my car temps when we were done. 

ran 8 miles. walked a mile cool down. 16 minutes elliptical.

8 miles avg pave 7:30 I have had to back off a bit from running far and hard efforts because of pelvic and back pain. 

30 minutes elliptical. I tried to do some strength training after but it was to overcrowded in all areas due to meathead overpopulation.

I am not going to Boston anymore. Long story, don't really want to get into it. Just thought I should mention that on here 

8 miles avg. pace 7:25

15 min ellipticize, and that was all she wrote.

7 outside. I do not like running outside in winter. I am sorry but I cannot love it. My muscles don't really warm and I cannot find a groove. I got home feeling like a total failure. I am not feeling it right now.

Went to the gym after running since kids were all at school. Elliptical for 38 minutes. Then strength trained. Fun to see my husband in the gym on his lunch. 

ran 8 outside. felt better today. avg pace 7:20

43 min elliptical hell at the gym after. All in the name of avoiding valentines day damage.

7.50 easy pace.

20 minutes elliptical. Hard effort.

Already feel carb bloated from Valentines treats. Eeeeek! 

4 miles in the am

56 minutes on an elliptical

Going to try and get out for another 3-4 in an hour or so. 

7 miles along the beautiful river trail. Sunday sin run.

8 miles with pick up the last 25 minuets.

31 minutes ellipitical

weights 

8 outside, easy pace.

7.50 on the river trail. 1.5 miles of warm up. Then 10x1 min on/offs that kicked my rear. I always feel like a failure when I do speed workouts. I really don't know why.

The river trail is being worked on up at the top where it's fenced off, to connect to the other trail system that goes up to Canyon View Park. Which is near the mouth of S.F. Canyon.  I am so excited! The trail is going to be connected by the time summer is here and I should be able to run 7-10  (or more) continuous miles, and it's off the road in the river bottoms,  before I have to stop and flip around! Stoked! Awesome! So excited! So blessed to live by this trail!

Core work, some strength training, rubberband stuff etc at home. 

8 fast miles later this morning. I didn't feel to good. I didn't sleep very well last night, had no motivation to go running. But I got it done!

 Avg pace: 7:11

25 minutes elliptical hell. It was total hell.

Strength training at home. 

8 outside. Ran up the center street hill and back down. Interesting that after you run up a hill and back down, footfall quickens and then continues as you hit flat ground. I love that.

Did about 15 minutes of cool down walking afterwards. It's hard to do that right now when it's cold outside. It feels COLD once you've stopped running.  

10 miles on the dreadmill. Hated it yet loved it. Loved it because I included a speed workout from miles 4-8. Pulled off some pretty good tricks that boosted my confidence. I have been lacking that for a couple of weeks. I love days like this. Pelvis didn't feel to bad through out. 

I think I made it to 56 miles this week. YEEEAAAH!!! 

Um yeah, noo I didn't run on this fine Sunday. I just couldn't. My husband is out of town until Thursday and I stayed in bed and woke to snow. Not a fan of wet shoes and feet so I stayed inside. However, I did do a round of INSANITY the cardio circuit in my bedroom this morning. I can't believe how fracking sweaty I got doing this. I am sore!

Is it just me, or has February flown by? I swear it was just the 1st. Not complaining, I am not sad to see this harsh winter goes as each week passes.

Ran 7.5 -bored as hell. And 25 minutes of ellipitcal.  Hoping to get out this afternoon again. I hope...

8 miles. Tempo for 4 of that. 6:53-6:35. Have not done a tempo for awhile. I could feel my low back, kind of uncomfortable for a few minutes there. I don't get it. 

Strength training for about 15 minutes. 

21 minutes elliptical. Should have just left home. Ah well. 

7.5 outside recovery run. Felt slower than slow and I let that bother me to much. I always hurt after speed workouts (like yesterday & Saturday) and now I am remembering back to Summer 2011 when every time I tried to do more speed my low back would teeter. So I think I am going to go back to just trying to run a good effort everyday and forget the crazy speed workouts. It's not serving my body well at this point. I am going to work on getting my cadence to a good clicking effort each day and keep it at 7-8 miles. When UVM is close, I will add in 2 long run days a week. I should be good to go. Better than getting injured. 

Wearing 5 lbs of extra clothes is bugging me. I want it warm now! I feel so bogged down outside. UGH!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, around 5 miles, a dude that lives in my neighborhood came trotting up next to me and said something. Scared the hello out of me. I had headphones on so I screeched out loud. Keep in mind this was 6:15 in the morning. Holy motha!  Kyle runs, has run some long distance races, done some tri's, an ironman and I believe a 50 mile. He works with Davey Crockett. He took great delight in saying "YES! I get to tell everyone that I caught up to Lily". Recovery runs suck!

I decided to take a small break from running. Just till Sunday. 

1 hour 25 minutes elliptical. Not to bad.