Moving Forward

Tonight was a pretty good run, it took me a while to get into a frame of mind that I wanted to run, but once I got started I was OK. My right shin protested for about the first two miles, but then mellowed a bit. As I was running the street before I got to the parkway I was honked and yelled at... I couldn't hear what they said, because I was jamming to Pearl Jam on the ipod. But I think he was yelling to me that I looked super sexy and athletic in my stretchy pants, doing my old lady shuffle ;) I just smiled, waived and told him thank you as I ran past. As I started on the parkway there was a guy a ways in front of me, I thought that maybe I could chick him... and guess what I did YAHOOO!

7 miles - 1:04:40

laps: 9:26, 9:21, 9:27, 9:25, 8:57, 9:06, 8:57

A bit slower and... shorter, I need to conserve a bit for the 1/2 Saturday. Felt pretty good... but shin was still bugging a bit. I'll ice it more tonight.

6 miles - 56:15

laps: 9:15, 9:17, 9:39, 9:21, 9:30, 9:12

Today is my Momma's birthday, she is 83! The sister's and I will be taking her to lunch today. She is also an identical twin.... My dad was a faternal twin :)

I tried to do 2 miles easy/moderate,  2 miles moderate/hard, 2 miles easy moderate. I think I did pretty well, but I was hoping the 2 moderate/hard miles would have been a faster time. But it was all I had tonight.

6 miles - 55:20

laps: 9:42, 9:33, 8:56, 8:26, 9:23, 9:20

I was tired today.. I forgot my sports bra... then I had an operator error with my garmin :( So I'm not certain of my time and I estimated it was 5 miles... probably a lil bit more but any way I seemed to struggle through the run. I'm worried about the 1/2 that I will be running Saturday. I'm thinking I will just do a slow easy three or four tomorrow. Anyway at least I got it all done before the storm came. 

I'm finally getting to post my time/miles. We went to dinner tonight, so as soon as I got home and cleaned up we went to dinner. Tonight was a good run, it felt better then last night. I could have run farther but with the race tomorrow I thought that I had better not. So I usually don't post any goals of what I want to accomplish at a race. But goals that are not wrote down are just wishes. So my goal for the race tomorrow is: 1) Beat the girl that is 30 seconds ahead of me in the cumulative totals. 2) Don't go above a 9:30mm pace for the race.... so there it is... posted for all to see, so it is not longer a wish, it's my goal. Wish me luck and pray for good weather, it's supposed to be snowing. 

5 miles - 46:40

laps: 9:17, 9:23, 9:31, 9:12, 9:17

So I will update the post when they post the results... then I can see if I accomplished my #1 goal. 

This was a difficult race!! The first four miles was down the canyon, so it seemed warm even though there were a few snow flurries. In fact I took off my gloves and unzipped my jacket. But I was glad that I didn't dump them because as soon as you were out of the canyon and around the bend you got blasted with a cold head wind that would not give up.... AHHH I though I was running in place at some points. This on top of the rolling part was killing me. So goal #2 was to keep my pace below 9:30. Here are my laps: 8:40, 8:49, 9:00, 9:08, 9:00, 9:16, 9:12, 9:13, 9:47 (this is where the wheels were starting to wobble. My goal here was to not stop and walk) 9:30, (able to rally a bit) 9:51 (not for long) 9:36, 9:24, the last .1 8:04!   So I didn't make goal #2, but I feel pretty good about it. My garmin read 2:01:03, that is about 4 minutes faster then Moab!! so that feels pretty good. When I get my results I'll let you know if goal #1 was accomplished... wish me luck!

** Family things... My oldest daughter's birthday is Sunday, she will be 28, I can't believe my baby girl is that old. I don't feel much older then that! I will get to take her shopping and have some fun with her :)  Also my oldest son took the gmat test today... his past three pre tests were 720, 720 and 730... he was hoping for a 700. I think he did a fantastic job... he got a 690. He was a bit disapointed, but he will accept it for now.