What ever it takes!

Not a great run, I didn't really hurt just didn't have much energy, and I ate way to much junk yesterday so I had stomach issues.  For me, any run is a good run though.

Someone put up a barbwire fence across my trail since last Friday so I had to do a little cross country running through rattle snake country to get around it.   Planned for 10 miles but I was behind schedule so I had to take a shortcut home.

Plan was 6 miles on the treadmill then 6 miles on the River trail when the light came out.  Got on the treadmill, made it about .02 miles and realized it was going to be 6 miles of pure torture, so I went and changed into a swimming suit and swam 32 laps instead.  Then I decided to stick to plan A.5 and ran the Rivertrail for 6.  Some girl came out of nowhere in front of me and made me feel slow, so I caught up to her.  Found out her name is Julie Gomez, and she is on the blog, I don't think I've ever talked to her on the blog before though.  It was fun talking to her for a bit then she was done and I went off alone.

I'm really in a state of confusion right now, basically I have no idea what the heck I'm doing.  It's foolish to think I can get ready for a 50 mile run in less than 8 weeks, any other distance race would just make me feel bad cause I'm so much slower than I used to be.  I travel to much to get into Biking.  So I'm basically just a lost sole.  When I started running my only goal was to loose weight and get in shape so I could play with my kids and they wouldn't be embarrased to be seen with me.  Well now I'm in great shape but I hurt so bad all the time I still can't play with them.  So seriously what am I doing?????

I dusted off the ol' bike last night, took it for a spin around the neighborhood to see if all the shifters still worked and the tires held air.  It all checked out so I threw in in my car.

I wanted to find the group of guys I rode with last year, went to the normal meeting spot at 5:45 thinking they met at 6:00, I looked through some old text messages and realized we used to meet at 5:30, so either I'd already missed them, or they don't meet anymore, so I just went off on my own.  I always forget how much I enjoy riding bikes, it seems so hard to get all the equipment ready compared to running but once I do it I love it.   Started up Big Cottonwood canyon and then took off through the neighborhood east of Wasatch Blvd, headed south and ended up back on Wasatch, headed up Little Cottonwood for a ways but the headwind was miserable so I took the turn at the Y and headed back to Wasatch,  followed that until I hit 10 miles, decided 20 was good enough for my first ride out and just backtracked back.  Felt really good, I've lost some fitness but the best part is, my Hip and Shin's don't hurt at all.  It felt great, beautiful morning for a ride.  I think I'll be on the bike a bit more the upcoming weeks.

I was planning on running today then last night I got a text from one of the guys in the cycling group saying they still meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays so I quickly changed my plans.    The group was small but we still had fun, we did almost the exact route I did yesterday with a few more additions, like climbing up Dimple Dell road back up to Wasatch, that one hurt, my legs were jelloy.  I was quite happy to see that I was still pretty much the strongest rider despite not being on a bike for almost a year, and these guys are pretty tough, they do LotoJa every year and are training or the Rockwell Relay right now so that made me feel good.  They probably hate me showing up on my cheap $900 bike and saying, well I can't run, I guess I'll ride this dumb bike, and then out ride them.

Tomorrow I run. Oh and I talked to my Doctor, he is going to refer me to someone who does Ultrasound guided injections for one last try at a cordizone shot.  If that doesn't work I heard them say they will send me off to a beautiful ranch in Montana where I can sit in a pasture and eat grass the rest of me life.

1 hour on the elliptical, 30 minutes of weights.

16.3 miles with Ryan on our normal West Lehi route, ran on lots of the Thanksgiving 1/2 route but I'm guessing we were about 15 minutes ahead of Jake.  A police officer asked if we were the first ones through at the mile 12 sign, I told him if we were we wouldn't be able to answer the question.

Felt really good, Ryan pushed me pretty hard compared to what I've been used to and my hip held up fine.  Other signs of low mileage started showing through but a pretty good run.  7:30 avg I think Ryan told me.  My watch died.