Moving Forward

So I had disturbing dreams last night. I woke-up very tense because in my dream I had to bike Lotoja (Logan to Jackson 200 mile bike race) before I ran the marathon... don't know why but I was very upset that I would have to do it. I remember thinking I have not trained and it was going to be too hard. Do you think I might be a bit worried about the marathon?? I do. 

So my run tonight felt pretty good. After the turnaround at about 3 1/2 miles I tried some 1 minute fast 1 minutes slower paces. The fast I tried to keep at 7:40 - 8:00, then the slower paces was about 9:00. I did this about  6 times. I should try to be more technical with my runs, but I'm not certain how to program my garmin for this type of run. I'll have to read up on that. 

8 miles - 1:12:31

laps: 9:04, 9:13, 9:29, 9:19, 9:01, 8:47, 8:37, 9:00

So my DH is always a snorer, but he has been congested with a cold lately and it is making it worse. Even with my earplugs he woke me at about 4:30 this morning. After a good deal of nudgeing on my side to see if I could get him to stop. I finnaly realized that even if he somehow quite snoring, I would not be able to get back to sleep. So I got up and decided to run. I needed to put new batteries in the headlight, it was not very bright, and I was out of the door by 4:50. It was very dark, just a fingernail sliver of a moon in the dark sky. I warmed up around the neighborhood for about 1.5 miles, stopped back at the house for a potty break. Then ran my five mile loop, circled the nieghborhood a bit more and back home. Not a good run for the fact that my right hip and shin hurt the entire time... really annoing. Not sure what more I need to do to get things feeling better.

7.37 miles - 1:10:44

laps: 9:41, 9:34, 10:17, 9:19, 9:15, 9:59, 9:11, 9:27

Warning: Whining Wedensday: 

Today at work seemed like a week, don't you just hate days when you think it should be close to end of day, and you look at the clock and you still have 3 hours! Then I decided to run trails because it's suposed to start raining tonight and not stop for 7 days! This means that the 30K Saturday will be in the rain. My run was painful from the start. Calves felt like they were going to explode when I was running up hill. Hip and shin hurt running down hill. And who was the sadist that thought up ice baths!! Holy cow that is not fun. But I will probably do it again and need more ice next time. How do I know if all this hurting is muscles or injury?  Last but not least my youngest son was hit by a car on his bike! Nothing broke but banged up pretty good.

OK that is enough.... silver lining. The rain will be good for the new trees and shrubs I planted last weekend. Trail running always is better then road running. Ice baths will (hopfully) make me feel better. My son is fine, it could have been so much worse.

8.3 miles - 1:35:08

Ran on my lunch break today. My schedule dosen't always accomidate being able to do this, but it's nice when I'm able to. I think I will be able to tomorrow also. The first bit, almost a mile, is on the gravel and train tracks but after that I'm on a path by the river. They have been working on connecting all the paths and there is a new section almost ready to pave! It will be great when it's all connected. You will be able to run from the mouth of the canyon, (This will be park of the Ogden Marathon) to South Ogden.

On the way out the river looked like illusion silk. The silk that has different colored warp and weft. So that as it wrikles and shifts it there are two colors. The river looked like the bronze with lavandar/blue in it. It must have been an effect from the sun and my sun glasses. Because on the way back it just looked like churning chocolate milk. Something that I have been craving lots after my runs LOL. There were a few kiakers on the river, and best of all I ran into my running friend. She lives down by this area but I thought she would have been finished with her run. She ran me back to the railroad tracks. It was great to see her! Better run then yesterday, but my hip is still bugging. I get a massage tonight so I hope this helps. Then off to see my sister, for a sister date. Tonight we are making cards.

5.1 miles - 48:30

laps: 10:16, 9:19, 9:13, 9:09, 9:41, 8:44

Didn't feel very well... did 5 miles on the eliptical at the gym. 

So I had no expectation on how this race would go. When I woke up and got ready I really was not feeling too good. I eat my oatmeal and felt a bit better, but as I drove to the start I was eating a banana and my tummy started to churn a bit. The race was not too bad it started to rain pretty good right from the start, it got a bit windy and towards the end I was getting a bit cold. I needed to stop at a port-a-john at about mile 13. Shortly after that I started to try and pick people off, you know the game. So the first was a little girl with a pink scarf that was hanging out the back of her jacket... it looked like a pink tail. Then a big guy... then the guy that kept walking... I can't remember how many I got, the last one was an older guy, his name is Bill, but I was unable to get him. I was happy with the second place in my age division. The first place lady was way ahead of me. I will have to see where I am at on the cumulative results. I'll update when they post them. After the race I eat a couple of orange slices...stretched, then ran until the gamin reached 20 miles :) I got up the nerve to intoduce myself to His Majesty Walter! He was overall winner of the 30K and the cumulative races! Congratulations!

laps; 9:02, 9:10, 9:23, 9:32, 9:26, 9:27, 9:40, 9:28, 9:36, 9:41, 9:14, 9:12, 11:02 (potty break), 9:15, 9:29, 9:36, 9:28, 9:27, 9:02, 9:11,

**Update: Third in my age division for the cumulative total of the races. There were only four ladies that finished all the races.