Let's do this!

4 tm miles in 30 min and 30 minutes on the eliptical. 

On a mission brothers and sisters on the FRB. I ate so much on memorial day that I am afraid of turning into this:I declare this month no sugar and low carbs month.  wish.   me.   luck.

No running or anything else today. Julie was kind enough to watch my kids yesterday. I don't  feel so great when I don't get moving in the morning. BTW- my daughter just leaned over and looked at me doing this post and said "Mom that's a big fatty man, can I see his face?". ha!

6 tm miles in 44 minutes, and 45 minutes on the eliptical. Lifted weights for 20 minutes as well. Boating 2marrow, or was that run2night Burt?

Speaking of, I'm going to run2night. anybody want to go?

TylerS from the blog stopped by my house last night for a second. He's a nice dude and a super fast strong runner. I like to think I can pace him if I tried my best :)

My pet peeve is when I see people running at the gym in cross trainers or silly shoes like sketchers

Enough about that. This morning I ran 7.50 in an hour and then I worked on the eliptical for 35 minutes.

Sunday sinner again. Got up at 6:30 this morning & ran 4 1/2 miles. 

Spilts: 7:27  7:21  7:13  7:38  3:40

I sweat so much this morning it was honestly unbelievable. It was pouring down my back and front, and flipping off my long ponytail. Crazy!  Ran 11 miles in 1 hr 20 min.Worked my abs a bit and I was done. This week I am concentrating on running distance. So each day has to be in the least 9-10 miles or more if I can hack it. I'm a crazy girl,. Really ....I know.

I was so close to running to 11 miles again today but I needed to stop and lift before I had to leave. I hate stopping short of a full mile! Anyway, I ran 10.60 in then lifted for 15 minutes. I never did run last night, it was to windy.

I woke up and must have turned off my alarm and kept sleeping. Don't remember doing it though.So I had a time crunch.

I ran the river trail loop twice and then down Spanish Fields drive and back for a total of 8.08 miles in 58:34.Saw a Deer run across the trail about 20 ft ahead of me. Startled me. If it had been darker that would have freaked me.

Splits 7:47 7:23 7:23 7:10 7:12 7:09 7:12 7:12 0:35

Another 10 miles today. Yesterday was the only day so far this week I haven't run at least 10. I actually feel pretty good considering. My legs have felt fine to. And I'm still near the top of the list of the mileage board. Yes!

Ran on the tm 10.60 miles later this afternoon. I find it harder to workout later in the day. But I made it 10 miles each day this week (minus thursday from the late morning start but still did 8). I think my legs feel pretty good for this weeks mileage.

Ran 10.20 this morning. I kept thinking through the run, do I really want to try and do another week of 10 miles each day? My right heal was kind of hurting yesterday, but isn't hurting today. Eh, so maybe I'll try and see what happens. Lifted and worked core for about 15 minutes as well.

This morning I ran the river trail loop 3 times totaling 11 miles. Last mile and a half killed me. The river trail looks like it's been snowed on because of all the falling cotton seeds from the cotton wood trees. I will have to go back up it with my camera and take a picture because you've got to see this. It's crazy!

Ran 8 this morning before Julie came along. Then I ran 2 more with her before going home. 

This morning I made one of the biggest decisions of my life.  I am going to run the Top of Utah Marathon ahhhhhhhhh! I am a little scared!!!!  Wish Julie and I luck on our training for the next 3 months.

**pm update** ran 3.60 up the river trail with Julie. Wahooo!

Woke up at 5:35. Got dressed and gathered all my running crap (ie headpones, pepper spray, shoes, Garmin).  Got all set up and I was off- right out my front door down to the river trail for  9.20 miles in 1:07

Splits: 7:35 7:28 7:26 7:28 7:22 7:01 7:14 7:19 7:29 1:18

happy friday. Good luck Ragnar runners.

That last two days have been rough. It's not normal having to pick your thigh up just to move it, or ask for some help to sit down to pee, or hold onto the walls when your quads buckle out of nowhere. LOL! I went on a walk around the block last night to try and help move some of the lactic build up through. It must have helped a little since I was able to hobble into the gym this morning. I got to the gym around 5:15 and worked on the eliptical for and hour and 30 minutes. There's a man there named Scott who I am friends with. He noticed me walking funny. He said: "are you hurt"?  I just laughed and told him I'd tell him next time we ran by each other. After all, it was kind of crazy of me wasn't it? -running down a steep rocky trail at full speed. It didn't hurt at the time but this after pain is rough stuff. Still, it was a good experience and I had fun.

But I'd give anything to feel normal again.

Oh have to mention, I swear my quads doubled in muscle size. Think I like my distant runners tone better then this super rock hard look. Just my preference anyways.

1 hour 35 min on the eliptical. My quads are still hurt. I am noticing some small improvement each day. I worked out to this album, but can't seem to get this song out of my head.I go to bed and it's in my head, I wake up and it's playing in my head. It's all good, I like this song.

1 hr 30 min on the elliptical. Legs feel better today. I'll try running tomorrow or Friday. I have a feeling it will be Friday.

Lot's of funny/weird things happening today. I weighed myself first thing when I got to the gym and I'm down 2 lbs since Monday. Woohooo! . I worked out with Kira on the elliptical for 1 1/2 hrs. Then I worked core for 15.

There's a guy ( I can't really call him a man)  who has been attempting to flirt with Kira and I with big cheesy smiles and staring and walking past us back and forth through the workouts. I find it funny because   a) he looks like a little boy to me    b) he has no idea we are married and to us, he looks stupido    c) He is SO obvious and cheesy.   d) I swear he's wearing bowling shoes.  Every time he would put his headphones on I would start singing a song I made up about 'I'm going bowling tonight'. I give Kira side aches from laughing.   LOL!  I know nobody cares about this but I want to put it down here so I can laugh again later.

What does this have to do with running? Not a damn thing. Happy Thursday peeps.

**pm update**  ran 3-4 miles on the track with Julie and Kira and it was FUN!!!

I was able to run some today. I did 5 miles in 37 minutes with Julie. Then 30 min on the elliptical.

Last night I met Kira and Julie at the track and I was able to run 3 1/2 miles without any soreness. We even did some 4X1 minute in sub 6 paces w/1 min jogs in between each. Tomorrow I'm going to try a longer outside run and see how my legs do. Sunday we go to Lake Powell until Thursday night. I think I'll take a nice run in Page Arizona on Sunday night and Monday morning. Hey why not? Maybe there are a lot of drunks there, but I own pepper spray.

** pm update** Ran the river trail loop reversed. There was a bit of nasty head wind for the first 1 1/2.  The head wind will reflect a bit in the first two splits.  4.15 miles total. Splits: 7:53 7:40 7:02 7:10 7:21

Random thoughts ahead.  From the crazy  run I did last Saturday I wasn't able to run at all until Thursday evening and Friday morning. I feel a ton better but my uppers quads are still sore and tight. The thing I am worried about is a lack of running/exercise while at Lake Powell Sunday-Thursday. I'm supposed to run the Red Hot Pink Chicks 1/2 Saturday July 10th. What was I thinking? I hope I am not toast. Maybe I'll be doing some Lake Powell beach runs. Yayyers!

A few months ago I blogged about this article. I had my  body fat percentage tested recently and I am at exactly 19%.  Not bad peeps

                                        not. to. bad.

I am still aiming to loose another 1 or 2%  more. But If I am going to loose  more, there is a definite breast enhancement coming with it, thank you very much.

This morning Julie and I met on at Spanish Fields drive and ran 2.60 to Golds. It was the craziest morning ever. When we got there it was 6:05 am and it still wasn't open. The Saturday morning girl didn't show up. All of us peeps were standing around waiting. Well Julie Kira and I got fed up and we ended up leaving and running around some city blocks for awhile. We came back and still no gym person. We stood there for a bit again and finally at 7:05 a guy showed up to unlock the door. Everybody was a little peeved. So we got inside and I ran 5 more miles. My upper quads hurt so bad so I jumped off and did the elipitical for 25 minutes. Then Julie and I tanned, then we ran back home for another 2.60. The workouts seemed so broken up from stopping and starting again....we just felt blah!  Julie did a total of 13.50 miles today I think. Rock on Jules! I am worried about not being able to run while on Vaca. It socks my stamina right between the eyeballs. I am going to be in big trouble!