Running For Trevor

AM:  7 miles on the Santa Clara river trail in St. George.  Beautiful morning in sunny st. george.  7:20 pace

Drove Christie out to Sand Hollow to ride the bike portion of the St. George Half Iron Man course.  That girl is an animal.  While she rode for 3 hours I went shopping. :)

PM:  5 miles on the half marathon portion of the half Iron Man course with Christie.  It is such a tough course but Christie was an animal.  I cannot even fathom the thought of running uphill after biking 50 miles but she seemed just fine.  We finished with a 6:16 mi on the downhill portion.

Such a fun weekend down south and a big thanks to Christie for letting me crash her condo for the weekend.  It was so nice to run in shorts and a tanktop!

30 min strength training

8 mi boring progressive run on the treadmill.  Started at an 8 min pace and finished with a 7 min pace.  60 minutes

So hard to be at the gym after a fun and sunny weekend down south.  I am really starting to hate the gym.  Nearly every single treadmill is broken and some of the guys that do weights there are just down right rude!  The only thing that kept me from poking my eyeballs out today or tripping a meat head was a nice chat with pregnant little Merri! :) 

PM:  4 miles easy, 8:04 pace.

Fun (did I really just call it fun?) workout at the BYU indoor track this morning.  Jen & I were planning to meet up there and found out Melody, Julie, Josse, Melanie, & Emily would be there doing a workout.  Perfect because Jen & I were just planning on jogging around for an hour. ha! 15 x 1 lap on/off's.  I have no idea what the distance is for one lap?  61, 62, 62, 62, 62, 62, 63, 63, 63, 63, 64, 64, 63, 63, 62.  Not sure what that pace would be but it was definitely a good push for me.  Considering I am coming off of lots of high mileage I felt pretty good about this workout.  A big thanks to Melody & all of the other girls for pushing me this morning.

1 mi or so warm-up (sheesh those girls warmup fast!) and 2 mi or so cooldown.

PM:  2.5 mi shake out run, 22 minutes.

Who knew the circus lasted until 10:30pm?  Didn't get to bed until almost midnight but it was fun! :)  I tried to sleep in but my body is just used to waking up early so I got up and went to the gym.

25 min weights - lots of rest breaks

Slogged through 7 miles in 56 min on the treadmill.  My only goal was to run at a pace slow enough that I didn't sweat enough to have to wash my hair.  I definitely did not have the energy to wash my hair! 

PM:  3.5 easy, did not feel good.

Easy with Jen in Salem, 7:50 pace.

Started running outside this morning but fell before even getting out of my condo complex.  I was going VERY slow!  I'm sure it would have been better once I got out on the roads but I just decided it wasn't worth it.

20 min weights at the gym & 7 mi on the treadmill, 7:35 pace.  I was feeling pretty drained today, thank goodness for pandora!

I really hope the roads clear up tomorrow so that I can get a tempo workout in.

Due to icy roads I opted to do this workout on the treadmill. I had a bad attitude about it but wanted to get it in. Quick 1.5 mi wu and then I got down to business, just wanted to get it over with. Eased into the tempo with .5 @ 6:53 pace then did a 6 mi progressive tempo 6:39, 6:35, 6:31, 6:27, 6:27, 6:22. 2.5 mi cd for a total of 11 mi. Tough workout for me but ultimately I'm glad I pushed through it. My tv on my treadmill was broken and my cellphone died (no pandora) so it was mostly a mental battle today but a good reminder of what it feels like to really push when you really dont want to! Sweatiest Fest I've had in a long time, crazy how much I sweat on the treadmill.

Pm: 3.5 easy shake out mi OUTSIDE. Still lots of icy patches but perfect for some easy jogging.