Running For Trevor

brrrrrr....5 miles of misery.  wind, rain, rain, wind. 

Todays weather made cutting my run short quite easy.  :)

pushups, planks, sit-ups, biceps

7.5 miles easy.

PM:  2 miles jogging very slow with the pup.   Foam rolling & icing next.  Writing it down now so that I actually do it! :)

35 minutes full body weights.  triceps, shoulders, chest & back.  The only thing I like about marathon tapering is screwing around in the weights section more and pretending like I know what I'm doing. haha

Tempo workout 2 x 3 miles.  I wanted these miles to be about 20-25 seconds faster than MP to build a little bit of confidence.  Why do I always start doubting myself right before races?  Anyway Warmed up 1 mile and then went into the first set 7:14, 7:09, 7:00, half mile jog in between and then into the second set 7:14, 7:09, 6:58, 6:48 (half mile).  All at 1% incline except the last quarter mile when I hit 5k pace and dropped down to .5.

I didn't feel great to start but once I got going I got into a rythm and by the end I felt pretty good and like I could have kept going.  A great workout!

PM:  jogged for 12 minutes with the pup.  No watch but we probably barely broke 10 minute mile.  My calves are sufficiently sore from the tempo this morning.

Purposely setting my alarm for 15 minutes late this week to force myself to taper.  It is causing me to wake up with anxiety but it works. :)

30 minutes weights - 80 sit-ups, 115 pushups, 10 minutes plank (not all at once!)

6 mile easy recovery run gallivanting around the streets of Spanish Fork.

PM:  Work experiment.  I have several employees that are training to walk they're first 5k.  (yes I completely encourage them to train for such events at work. ha)  We were told that walking all the way around the Hospital campus was exactly 1 mile but after doing it a few times I had my doubts.  Today I verified it is exactly .87mi but I figured out a small extension that will give them exactly 1 mile. :)  2 mi total nice and easy.  so dang nice out!  Want to come work for me?  I'm hiring....for reals. :)

Slept in WAY late this morning.  10ish minutes weights.

5.6 miles easy on the treadmill.  Climbed heartbreak twice and sprinted out the last 400. :)

PM:  Did a very mini speed workout.  6 x 1 minute on/off with a warmup and cooldown.  I do not really know for sure but think the "on's" were right around 6:00 pace.  Way windy out but I felt really good.

5k "Bunny Hop" Time Trial:  Okay the time trial is on for Saturday.  Starting at 8:00 a.m. at 3300 N. University Ave. (by Jamestown Square).  Finishing at the courthouse in Provo.  This is the new Provo City 5k course.

If you do not want to jog back up to the start after you will have to provide your own transportation at the finish.  Come one, come all!!!!  Spread the word.

Woke up with an awful stomach ache this morning.  I generally have a stomach of steel so it was weird but I wasn't feeling any better tossing & turning in bed so I got up and went to the gym anyway.

30 minutes weights feeling kinda dizzy and like weaksauce.

7 miles very slowly on the treadmill.  Felt pretty weak the entire time but not too terrible.  I kept it way slow and actually felt worse after I stopped running.  I haven't eaten anything different than usual so I'm not sure what is going on.  Going to take it easy today and leave work early if I don't start feeling better. 

Very unofficial 5k Time Trial this morning.  I'll try not to drag this report out too long.

Spent all of last night curled up in the fetal position sicker than a dog!  Read the first 4 Chapters of Once a Runner and tossed and turned until midnight.  Up twice in the night with stomach pain.  Kept thinking I would throw up but never did just dry heaving. yuck! (tmi? sorry).  Anyway woke up at 7:15 still feeling like crud, stomach in knotts. I aborted all original running plans.  I wasn't going to run at all.

Back to bed and woke up at 9am.  I felt significantly better and decided I would at least go out and jog.  Heck I had big plans for today I needed to freaking do something right?  No breakfast was way too afraid of how my stomach would handle it.  Ran 3 miles in 25 minutes and felt way better than expected.  Decided I would at least try 1 mile repeats.  If I didn't feel good I would just quit.  No big deal.

6:19 (as soon as this mile clicked I decided I just wanted to get this over with.  Didn't want to have to stop and jog and then start over. So 5k Time Trial it was.)  6:34 (holy cow this is hard maybe I do want to quit.  Just one more freaking mile you can do it and your done for the day.) 6:23 (focus, focus, focus.  You can die when your done). 5:44 (no kick completely depleated and no finish line or fancy balloons.)  3.07/6:24 pace 19:41  This was all ran on the first half of the Payson Onion Days 10k course.  First mile is a very slight downhill and 2nd two are pretty pancake flat.

Okay so this is very unofficial becase I accidently knocked my ipod onto the ground (was swinging my arms so dang hard) right after the 2nd mile and stopped for about 30 seconds to retrieve it.  Should have just left it and went back.  And I accidently stopped my watch at 3.07 instead of 3.1.  But despite those 2 things I am still really really happy and this definitely proves that I am in good shape. 

Jogged 5 miles afterwards trying to wrap my head around how I am feeling about my fitness, what my Boston goal should be, ect.  I felt like I was hardly holding a 10 minute pace but was actually running 8:30 for the cooldown.  Amazing how slow you feel like you are running after going fast.

PM:  2 miles easy