Running For Trevor

5.3 miles way earlier than I care to admit I ran on a Sunday!  Slippery out but I accomplished my goal of making it through the run without any falls. :)  I am doing the 5K a day challenge so even though I didn't get home until midnight last night (new job catering christmas parties to make some extra cash) and had to be up at the crack of dawn this morning I still got my run in.  Running in the snow was actually quite lovely!

Crazy busy weekend with all of my family in town.  I think I need some diet coke!

11 miles in a snowy blizzard with JulieC on the JRP via Willow Park in Lehi.  I had the day off of work and was up north at my parents house so we started at the glorious hour of 8am.  It was my third time running this route but my first time actually seeing it.  Very pretty run!  Thanks Julie for meeting up with me. :)

8 mile Santaquin Orchard loop plus 2 with the south county crew.  This was one of those runs that I live for.  It started with a "I'm tired can we walk to the corner before we start running?" followed by a "We should probably run easy because it's cold, and the roads are slick, and well we ran pretty fast on Sat."  (all complaints by me of course!) And then it turned into this:

7:58, 7:29, 7:18, 7:10, 7:03, 7:13, 6:41, 6:41  I mentioned to coach Jen that we were on track to beat our CR of 59:32 with 1.5 mi to go and she started flying.  Such an awesome push to the finish and it felt good to get a completely unplanned workout in.  And we beat our time by 2 min finishing in 57:29!  I went out for a cooldown after the crew left and was riding such a running high I just couldn't slow down.  7:11 pace for the 10 miles.

25 minutes upper body weights

8.2 easy miles on the treadmill in 65 minutes.  No words to even describe how terribly boring this run was.  I did move the incline up and down periodically in an attempt to make it interesting but that didn't really help.

PM:  2.5 mi outside :)

10k loop in Springville with Josh & Jen + 5k loop in Spanish Fork on the river trail solo.  9.4 total in 1:12.  Awesome weather this morning despite the wind.  So much better than the treadmill!

Tentatively planning a Payson Canyon run Sat starting at my house at 7 or 7:30am.  11-12 miles.  It is an awesome route and totally worth the drive all the way down south. :-)

12 mile out and back in Provo Canyon with JulieC in 1:33.  My legs were definitely feeling heavier than normal this morning but it was still a great run with Julie.  I really need to get me a new pair of stability trainers for all of these junk miles I've been running.  Kinvaras are just too light and do not support my knees/IT band well at all.  Why do I have to be so dang hard on shoes.  Sheesh!

Finally closing on my house refi this afternoon!  What a huge sigh of relief Yippee!

Everyone bailed on the run this morning except Josh.  We enjoyed a lovely 11.8 miles up Payson canyon and back in the snow. :)  The weather was nice and warm but wet and a little slick so we just took it nice and easy.  8:11 pace.