Moving Forward

What a crazy day... When I got to the gym I had not packed my running shoes... so I had to head home and run around the hood. The other thing that was bad was I also could not find my garmin.... I was going crazy!! I had had it on Tuesday when I ran outside, but Weds. was a quick 5 on the treadmill at the gym, because of the sister date. I was certain someone had taken it. I could not sleep at all thinking about it. So I had to go out on map my run.com to see what the miles were for this run. I was real slow and had tummy issues in the middle. 

Continued from yesterday... I took off work today because it's our 29th anniversary!!! 29 years married to a good man :)
I went to the gym to see if I could somehow by a miracle find my lost garmin... I have pretty much torn my house and car apart at this point. No luck, so I ran the parkway a bit... plagued with tummy issues so I cut it short. My husband had told me when I got home he would order me a new garmin for our anniversary. Like I said he is a good man :) But I was really sad and angry that it had been lost or stolen at the gym. Anyway to make my long story come to an end. As I was pulling into my drive way, the girl that works the front desk at work called me. My garmin must have fallen out of my gym bag when I was walking to the car from work!!! I'm so glad it was found!!!

Happy weekend bloggers and to those that are raceing Good Luck!!!

I ran Green Pond loop with Sue this morning. I was chilly at up there... about 35 degrees. But I over dressed and was got too warm about 1 mile into it. The fall colors were glorious up there I love this run!!! It's one of the last runs I did with Scott before he died. Sue and I talked about how much fun that run had been. Today was similar conditions... frost on the leaves when we started. When we got to the maples/icebox canyon intersection we decided to run down into icebox canyon. It's probably been 3-2 years since I have run down there. Again is was absolutely lovely. 

The only down side to the run today was that my breathing is still weird. Like I can't take a deep breath. So it made it difficult to run. Then I had a stabbing pain between my right sholder blade. So bad I had to stop at one point and have Sue try to rub it out while I streatched. It helped a bit. But I'm not going to complain any more. Today was beautiful... the kind of day that reminds me why I'm a runner. 

Tonight was a much better run then the past week has been. I'm blaming the last week on hormones... nuf said. 

I ran the parkway but decided to try to fast miles in the mix.

1 8:44 - still having trouble making my warm-up at slower miles.

2 8:37 - still just supposed to be taking it easy.

3 8:15 - This was my first mile picking up my pace. I was hoping for 8mm but it was a rolly uphill part of the route. Effort was hard

4 9:02 - slowing it down

5 8:33 - still easy, I have turned around and it's a rolly down hill now.

6 7:51 - picked up the pace... as you can see still mainly down hill.

7 8:33 - slow down

.30 8:45 more slow down back to the car and almost getting hit as a huge truck pulls out of a parking lot. I let him know I thought he was number 1. I don't think he even saw me.

Nice easy miles tonight after a wonderful massage! Kept it at about a 9:20 pace for the miles. 

Today when I got to my desk at work there was a Runners World magazine on it. The name for the subscription had been blacked out, but I could still read it. It was the name of one of our Vice Presedents. He resides in Sweeden so I was surprised to see his name. Anyway someone in the mail room had inked out his name and wrote mine :) What a fun gift for some one to give me :)

On other wonderful news my 19 year old son is going to school for auto body. He was been trying to get a job in the field but has not had much luck, until today!! He was so happy. It's great to see him do something that he seems to have quite a passion for. I'm hoping having this job will let him see if this is truely where he want to be.

I guess I can call this an almost easy 8. Hopefully in time they will be easier, but for now I'll take is as an pretty easy 8. 

I have not run the lower part of the parkway in a while so that was the plan. I circled the 21st street pond 4 times. As I rounded the pond you could look through the trees and see the mirror perfect reflection of the mountains. Just as I was getting done with my last lap I could see one other couple of people on the other side of the pond. Other then that I was all by myself. It was so pretty... perfect weather. Went back to the gym and did some core work. 

laps: 8:55, 8:55, 8:35, 8:33, 8:26, 8:27, 8:39, 8:27, (.13) 8:55

Nice run tonight... ran the upper parkway. As I was coming back from my turn around point I knew that there was a nice hill that I thought would be good for some hill sprints. So I don't know how and didn't plan for it so I didn't mess with my garmin... just ran them. So it turned out that there was a tree at the top of the hill and a tree at the bottom that were my marker. I would run as hard as I could to the top... turn and walk back to the other hill. I did this 5 times. I don't know if this is how you are supposed to do them or if they are doing my any good. But every time I got to the top my legs and lungs were burning... so I figure it's a pretty good thing. 

There is a running store along the parkway and I stop in there sometimes if I need a potty break. I figured out I just passed the 500 mile mark of my shoes, so I stopped in to see if they had my Asics because last time I was shoe shopping all the local store were complaining of running out of the shoes I love. Turns out they don't have them so I told the owner I would be back Saturday to try on others and see what will work. I'm very bummed. I know the owner and have run with him several times... really nice guy. Tonight when I was talking to him he looked different to me, I realized he had over groomed his eyebrows. Men should not have overly arched eyebrows, it makes them look to feminine and in some ways strange. Then when I got back to the gym to streach and do abes they had tables set up letting you try all these drinks and stuff. There was a man behind one of the tables that had the largest and weirdest muscles I have every seen in person. He looked like a cartoon... so weird. I thought to myself he was not a good choice for that company to promote what they were selling because I can't imagine anyone wanting to look like that. Oh well that is just my weird observations tonight.

Nice run... a bit cooler they last night and a few more clouds. Had just the tiniest bit of sprinkles at one point in my run.

7.34 miles - 1:05:24

laps: 8:39, 8:26 (need to slow down my warm-up miles) 9:00, (should have been faster here) 8:41, 10:56 (LOL I'm pretty sure this was my hill sprints, the walking back really made my mile slow... either that or I realy stink at hill sprints) 8:39, 8:18 (wanted to speed up a bit at the end) (.34) 8:06

Snuck out lunch to get my run in, I hope this will give me a bit more time at home to get some things accomplished before the weekend. Nice run for about 95% of the run. As lucky as I am to be able to run on a beautiful parkway by the river at lunch, I still hate the gravel and railroad that I have to run on to get to it. It's only the first 1/2 mile and last 1/2 mile though so I'm not going to complain. But today that last bit was particularly difficult... I guess my legs were more tired then I thought. Kept it pretty slow and easy.

5.11 miles 46:27

Ran the shoreline trails above Ogden with Sue. It was a bit chilly but beautiful. Took it pretty easy, my hips were bugging a bit. 

An almost easy 8 again... my hip was buggin a bit the first 2 or so miles. Then it seemed to ease up, but as I was walking to the car it was bugging again. Don't really know what this is all about. Not to painful just kinda catchy. Ran around the park in the center of town (where the marathon ends) before I started up the parkway. Man there are a weird bunch of people out there. I probably could have run around the block a few more times just to watch and see all the people (best was an older lady with a big gray beehive type hairdo in biker clothes... I have to say she was pretty fit looking but strange also) The parkway was nice but none of the regulars were out tonight. 

8.04 miles - 1:09:01

AP 8:35

I needed a change of scenery tonight, so I ran through the city and up to the cemetery where my friend is buried. I stopped and had a chat with him... no tears tonight just a "happy birthday" and a "I still miss you". His birthday was last week... and the anniversary of his death was a few days ago. Then I ran around the cemetery for a bit. Ogden cemetery is an old cemetery with lovely markers. It was overcast and gray today so kinda weird to be in a cemetery when it's like that. After I went out on the road for a bit til I hooked into the lower part of the parkway and back to the car. Took it easy tonight because my hip is still bugging. I don't know if I should be worried or not... I think I will take it easy for a few nights and see how it feels.

AP 8:44

Had to have a very quick.. but easy run. Busy night with my sisters. Now my doll sold and I have to pack her up so I can ship her off :) Yepppeeee

Another try at doing hill sprints. I made sure that I had turned off the auto lap so that I could time the sprints. But I must be technically challenged because I think I hit the wrong button a few times. It was a beautiful night for a run and even though my legs felt tired and sore, I think due to insufficient stretching, I felt pretty good for most of the run. I ran up the parkway and it must be young love night on the parkway. There were quiet a few young couples holding hands or necking on the park benches. A few of them looked way to young and I almost yelled at them to go home and play with their barbies and GI Joes. Is it just me or I young people in a big hurry to grow up. Any way I digress... I turned around at the three mile mark and then I wasn't quite to the 4 mile mark when I started my hill sprints. Like I said I think I hit the wrong buttons a few times, but here are what I think my times were on the sprint. 

1 - 26.25 sec - 7:55 this the distance of the sprints I did last week... obviously to long

2 - 17:83 sec - 9:17?? don't know what happend here I readjusted the distance, but it's still too long, but somehow I'm getting slower??

3 - 10:99 sec - 8:39 better on the time so now I know from where to where it will be ten sec. Bit still not fast.

4 - 11:00 sec - 8:04 a bit better

5 - 10:80 sec - 8:31? Do I have any fast twitch muscles... it dosn't look like it :(

6 - 11:15 sec - 8:29

7- 11:43 sec - 9:08 went too long, starting to slow even more :(

8 - 14:59 sec - 8:05 too long again but faster... maybe I need more time to get up to speed?

So am I doing this wrong? Do I need to do shorter faster steps? Longer strides? Or just give up because I'm somehow genetically just slow.

Ran back to the gym and made a better effort to stretch, then headed home. Did anyone else see the sunset? It was fantastic... like the clouds were on fire!! So Beautiful :)

Just a nice run tonight. It felt pretty good and easy but I didn't really want to go to far. I ran down the parkway and around the 21 street pond. I was beautiful! I took a few pictures with my phone that I will try to post on my blog. (The link is at the side) I never run with my phone and I don't know if I will do it very often. I got a new phone that is smaller then my old one and I thought I could squeeze it in that little pocket in my running shorts. It worked for the most part but slipped out a few times and I had to hurry and catch it before it fell. One funny thing happened tonight. I had stopped to take a picture and had just put my phone back in the pocket. I was about to start running again when I hear this really pretty music... I kept looking around to see where it was coming from... then it stopped and there was a guy walking towards me, I asked him if he heard the music... he looked at me very strange and said sometimes I just hear voices and kept walking. Then there was the music again... now you all know where this is going... it was my phone.  I realized it the second time. I almost ran after the guy to let him know it was my phone and I'm not crazy but I let it go. 

5:03 miles 45:01

Forgot to turn back on the lap button after my run yesterday... but my AP was 8:57. It also says my Max was 6:14... OK how can I run that fast when I'm taking it easy... and so slow when I was trying to go fast yesterday???

Ran trails with Sue above 22nd street. It was beautiful!! Had a great time but kept it pretty slow and easy. My hip was really hurting when I got home and I think I need to make a doc app. to see if this is more then just a pulled muscle. 

AP 11:10

Nice run tonight, just took it easy to see if my hip will feel better. It was very windy when I started and I thought it would get worse as I when up the parkway. That's usually how it is, but it actually got calmer. I had so much fun when I ran around temple square. On the west side of the block all the leaves had piled along the side walk on that side, so I was running and kicking all the leaves and crunching them... I had to run around the block twice to I could do it again. 

6.64 miles - 58:20

AP: 8:47

Pretty nice run tonight. Temp was perfect!! Tried to pick up the pace at the end.

7:27  1:01:51

 laps: 8:24, 8:30, 8:34, 8:45, 8:43, 8:34, 8:16, (.27) 7:48

Had to get up and be to work an hour and a half earlier then normal today... so I'm beat!! But I did get a lovely run in :) I decided to do a longer... slower/easier run. I don't know if it was really easy though, I was getting tired by the end. Tried to keep it at about 9mm and I think I did pretty well. Had to stop and have a potty break at about mile 7. Then when I was coming back down the path, the sun was setting and it looked absolutely beautiful! When I looked to the east the mountains look bright red due to the sunset... so cool. There were a few placed along the path that I was running on the yellow brick/leaf path :) all the lovely golden leaves are starting to fall and the path is covered in a few places... so much fun. 

On the bad side... the PF in my left heal was bugging almost the entire run... time to get more dilligent with the icing. Hips felt better though... I think because I was at a slower pace. 

9:04 miles - 1:20:20

Laps: 9:05, 9:05, 8:44, 8:43, 8:43, 9:02, 9:00, 8:49, 8:53

I needed to do something different tonight. Mentally just was not in the frame of mind to do any type of running. I decided that I needed to somehow incorporate weights into one of my days. I’m not very good at doing them and as I get older I know that it’s something that would help me. With that said this was my circuit/Yasso workout.

Two mile warm up – kept it at a 9:30 pace

First Yasso – 3:58

Then off the treadmill and did bench and triceps dips

Second Yasso – 3:57

Biceps and overhead press

Third Yasso – 3:57

Squats

Forth – 3:58

Back and assisted pull-ups

Fifth – 3:55

Abs/planks and then cool down two miles 9:30

Felt good after I was done… I think I’m going to try and do this workout once a week or until I get bored of it LOL Don’t know if this is doing me any good… I tried to keep the circuit rather fast, probably only about 3-6 minutes when I’m doing the weights. Kept them pretty light so I could keep the reps faster, I completed three sets of 10-15 reps.

Took it nice and easy tonight. The plan was to keep my pace at between 9:00 - 9:30. Because I had to be at work early a couple of days this week, and because they have us on a no OT rule I was able to be off work at 2:30 YEEEPPPEEEEEE! So I had my run... the showered and changed into my witch costume to meet up with my grand kids for my works trunk or treat :) It was fun to see my grand babies all dressed up sooooo cute!!!

My run was just up the parkway as usual... I don't know if I have said it before but there is a skate park at one point along the parkway. I'm always amazed by the grace and balance it takes for them to weave in and out of those deep bowls. The way they fearlessly dive off the side with their bodies at parallel angles to the ground. My friend that died was a skateboarder and I was always stunned with his ability to do it.

Laps: 9:13, 9:16, 9:16, 9:12, 9:07, 9:09

Ran with Sue this morning... we figured the trails would be muddy from last nights rain so we opted for the parkway. Neither of us were feeling particularly speedy today. I don't know why but I had a bad case of lead leg, so we just ran it pretty easy. Average pace was 9:19. Well off to get a long list of things accomplished. Have a wonderful weekend bloggers :)

Left my garmin on the counter this morning so this was a low tech run... It was a lovely night out and I did my regular parkway route which I think is between 6.5 and 7. My hip was bugging extra buggy tonight... I go for a massage later this week, I hope it will help. 

Tonight was cold and windy for most of my run. I took meds and iced my foot so my hip and foot felt better tonight. Started having major tummy trouble at the end and had to walk a bit to make sure I didn't have an accident. I don't know how some of you can run fast when you need to potty... I usually have to stop and walk. Started to snow at the end so I just beat out the storm. I don't know what route I'm going to do when it's daylight savings time. I don't know if I want to run the parkway in the dark. I thought I had turn back on my auto lap but it didn't work. My AP was 8:53

I decided to do my circut/yasso workout today because tomorrow I have a massage after work... I'm hoping to get my run accomplished on my lunch break, keep your fingers crossed for me. It's supposed to be cold tomorrow, weather looks like it will be in low 20's at munch time. Guess I better pack warm gear. 

2 mile warm up at 9:40 pace

.50 - 3:57

3 sets 12-15 reps bench and tricepts

.50 - 3:55

3 set 12-15 reps 2 different back machines

.50 - 3:55

abs and planks

.50 3:56

3 sets 12-15 reps lungs with bicept curls

.50 - 3:57

2 1/2 miles at 9:13 pace

streatch and a bit more abs

There you have it felt pretty good. Think I might add one more speed bit next week.

Todays run was... short... fast (for me) and painful.

I got out at lunch and did the loop around the airport from my office. When I run at work I always have in the back of my mind that I have to hurry... that I don't have much time. So I ran pretty fast and it didn't feel very good. Also the weather was clear skies and cold. I had been having trouble all morning at my desk feeling cold. I over dressed for my run, by mile 1.5 I was taking off my jacket and wishing I had worn shorts. Oh well seems like just when I know how to dress for conditions they change LOL.

5.01 - 42:22

laps 8:35, 9:08 (trying to get my jacket off over my garmin... was pretty silly) 8:16, 8:07, 8:11

AP: 8:28

I figured since I going to have a massage tonight I might as well make everything as tight and sore as I can LOL

Bad nights sleep and headache most of the day. I think they were a product of each other. Feel much better now. Just got a small little 4 miles in before I went to my daughters and carved pumpkins with my grand kids. I'm on my own tomorrow... no real plans yet, so I'll see how I feel in the morning. 

Slept in because I knew that I didn't have to meet up with Sue for a run. My husband wanted to go to the gym to work out so we went to the gym together and I ran from there to the parkway and around... to get the ten miles in. I was tired by the end I think I need do some longer runs on the weekends I feel like I'm loosing my endurance. Then I was at a Halloween party at my son's for a bit... Been a fun and crazy day! I hope all you bloggers are having a fun and safe Halloween!

1:28:56 - 10:00

AP 8:53