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Hobble Creek half

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Spanish Fork,UT, USA

Member Since:

Jun 11, 2009

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

My Running PR's

5k-   18:25

10k-   39:06

13.1-   1:25

26.2-   3:09:03 (Boston Qualified and 1st marathon)

Personal:

I'm Lily, and I love to do hard things.

 

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94.10
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7.50

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So.....this is really weird to write this. I have been thinking a lot the past few days. I am generally just burned out with running. I feel like crap most days. I go in and out of motivation. I feel really tired. I feel more physical and mental stress, the more I try to increase mileage. I must be getting old :)

To get right down to it, I've realized that for now, I have had enough. Enough of the daily grind of running and training. It isn't feeling fun anymore. So I am taking a break. Who knows for how long. I will do other forms of exercise. But I won't be running daily anymore for now. I need a reset.  Probably won't jump on the blog very often.. It's just that I need a break from it on all fronts.

Loves & fist bumps to all.

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5.00

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10.00

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8.25

8.25  on the trail twice. Had a blast running in the dark alone. I love alone runs sometimes. Today was a day like that. I had a lot of pep and energy.

avg pace 7:50 

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4.00

3 miles of sprint on/offs. 1 mile steady.

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18.00

18 miles with Carina. We went up Provo Canyon trail 9 miles (into south fork) and back down 9. I have not run quite this far for like, 2 years. Wowza! avg pace was 7:41 for me. We always click well, her and I. We have good chats. I feel bad I probably slowed her a bit. I still don't have the most awesome fitness. But the last 3 miles I told her to go and do a good tempo. And she did. She's so fit! I hovered around 6:55-7 on the way back. I am excited to see how Carina does in St. George and how her progress comes along in the next year.

If I can do 18 today, I can do a marathon in September right? :\

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3.50

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7.00

7 groggy miles around Spanish Fork. I took a muscle relaxer for my jaw last night. It gives me the worst hangover like feeling.  

Excited to run hobble creek half on Saturday. Notice I didn't say "race hobble creek half".  lol I don't really have the racing fire in me this year... it left, when my leg got hurt again. 

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Surprise track workout with Rachelle, Jen, Melissa, Mackenzie, Aubrey and Amber! Surprise for me totally. Rachelle is a sly devil, she knows what she's doing with me especially. If she would have told me last night, she knows I probably would have chickened out!

The plan was 6x800 with a 200m recovery jog. I didn't do all the 800's with them, I felt a pull in my left hammy after the 3rd set. (3:03 3:06 3:09) so I just pulled back to a 6:40 6:50 pace and held it there for the remainder of the workout. Still not to shabby for me. I haven't done anything by way of speed for months and months and it shows :( But my effort was there.

Fun morning with these ladies. We did a warm up and a cool down on a little 3/4 mile path next to the high school. Really cute little path.

Mileage is a guess.

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7.00

7 miles with Jen and Amber on the river trail. We all had somewhat tired and heavy legs due to our 800's at the track yesterday. So we tried to keep the pace easy, easy for jen is a 7:20 :) 

Jen Hughes who is a very talented and inspirational Utah road racer, now has a website. Check it out and read her 'about me' section. She is amazing. If you've ever raced with her, you will always note the right foot turned in. She runs like a superstar!

http://motherracer.com/

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3.50

easy

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Race: Hobble Creek half (13.1 Miles) 01:33:00
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13.10

Things were going great in this race for me until my left hamstring pulled and I was thrust into a painful walk/jog from miles 11-13. I am pretty down about this. I was on track for about a 1:27. A huge boost from my UVM half time in early June.  My splits tell the story of today:

6:21 6:30 6:42 6:30 6:40 6:45 7:04 6:50 7:00 7:00 (then hamstring pulled up at the top of a hill here) 8:50 8:00 9:24.

Why me? Why do I keep getting hurt? I pulled this hamstring a bit at the track on Tuesday. The track will forever be banned on my workout regime!  :(  But I had to finish. I had to keep going. I dedicated this race to my nephew Vaughn. He has been in primary childrens all week. He was vomiting non stop for over a week. Dehydrating and looking like death. He is only 7 weeks old. So in the end, he was the reason why I didn't DNF. So a walk jog it had to be. Mass pain!

I felt really good. I had planned on doing a 7 min pace through mile 11. And I had plenty left in the tank for a 6:50 for the last 2 remaining miles. That was the plan until the hammy pull. 

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