I wear girl running shoes cause I have small feet

Real easy run. 7:35 AP. Hip just a liitle tight. I hope that it does not effect me on Sat.

5 easy AP 6:55. I think that this is my last run until the marathon. I am going to rest the hip flexor.

Me, Sariah, Rose, Josh, (I don'tknow), and Emily

Here is the reason that I didn't get my sub-2:40 by 5 min. 2 blisters the size of half a dollar bill.

Gross factor

So, I just started running again a year ago and I am happy with my time (2:45), but disappointed also.  I was shooting for a sub 2:40, and I know I have at least 2:37 in  these legs right now. There is always next year. This was my first St. George Marathon. I will defiantly  do some things different next time.

Just before the race, I met people from the blog for the time because I live in Boise. I met Josh E. Brandon D, & Dave Taylor. Josh and Dave was shooting for the same time.

The race started off, and we hit the first 5 miles and the pace was nice and comfortable, but I started to feel the blisters coming on.  Amber G ran with us for a few miles and then surged ahead, Then Emily and Rosy came and ran with us going up Veyo. I hit the 10k at 36:58. Around mile 9, I started falling back from the group. because I felt like I was beginning to feel the hill to much. I kept the group in sight and I was hoping that I would catch up on the  downhill. I hit half way in 1:21:09. I was thinking perfect and I am right where I want to be, but then the downhill started to make my feet really hurt.

 Miles 15-16,  I was able to run through the foot pain, but I thought that I could go faster. I was getting passed and couldn't latch on. I still though that my goal was still possible.  I could still see Emily's pink jersey . Mile 18-19 I started to see my goal slipping. I was feeling tired, feet really hurting, and I started to easy off  the pace. (This was the pint in the race that I wish I could take back. I should have just kept pushing the pace, but my will power was week). Mile 22, I thought that I could get sub 2:45 if I run 6 :30 +- till the end.  At a few of the last aid stations I walked a few steps to  ease the pain. At mile 25 I gave mentally and just coasted (slowly ) in

1. 6:06
2. 6:07
3. 5:56
4. 5:53
5. 6:02
6. 5:42
7. 5:46
8. 6:42
9. 6:16
10. 6:23
11. 6:42
12. 6:27
13. 6:11
14. 6:14
15. 5:57
16. 5:56
17. 6:07
18. 6:20
19. 6:36
20. 6:19
21. 6:13
22. 6:33
23. 6:28
24. 6:37
25. 6:53
26. 7:15

       .2.  1:25

I am still sore from the downhill race.

I am all ready planning next years St George Marathon. A few things that I will do differently. I think that I am capable of running 2:30, and my training predicted that I should have been able to run 2:37-2:39 but the blisters and lack of downhill training got in the way.

1. Better racing flats.
2. I will train more down hills. There is Bogus Basin road. It has an elevation change of 3500 ft in 15-16 miles (very steep). I have ran it twice. I didn't want to train on it because it was so steep, but I think that it will help in the training. Any suggestions?
3. I need to put in more mile. 90+ week. I will have 2 years of good training behind me.
4. Longer tempos/ MP

My legs are starting to come around and my blisters don't hurt anymore. I did 3 easy miles from BSU along the greenbelt. Quads were hurting a little but no limp.
 

4 Easy from the house. I was able to run a bit faster. Quads are feeling even better today. Still feels like I ran a marathon on Sat.

Five easy slow miles. Nothing hurt today, just a stiff calf muscle. I used the foam roller and it didn't hurt.

Just keeping it low key this week with the feet and quads. I don't want to risk anything.

My legs were feeling good so I thought that I would test them a little. 8 miles in 51:42. It ended up being progressive run. The last two I really pushed it in 5:48, 5:45. I could feel the marathon at the end of the run.

10 miles easy in 1:10:55 from my house to the greenbelt along the golf course loop. My right calf got a little tight. I am guessing that is still from the marathon. Just trying to ease back into training so that I don't get injured.

Short quick workout during lunch today. I didn't have a lot of time today. I did 6 x 800 with 1 min rest in between. I wanted to run them under 2:45 and didn't want to go too hard because the legs are still tired from STG. I just wanted to test the legs out. (2:43, 2:44, 2:44, 2:45.05, 2:43, 2:44).

I was going to try to get a second run in later but I had too much going on today.

10 eays along the greenbelt. I got passed by some guy which does not happen that often even when I take it easy. I had to resist the erge to speed up.

An easy 10.1 out and back. I should have gone hard but was debating on racing tomorrow. However, I have now decited not to race tomorrow and will do a longish run with some tempo at the end.

I ran a 7.5 out and back from my house down along the greenbelt and back. The first 10 was at 7:00 pace the I did 5 at MP but it felt more like a LT run. 6:08, 6:02, 6:22 (big 0.5 mile hill) 6:11, & 5:58. I can tell that I have lost fitness form the marathon taper and recovery.

I did the an easy pace greenbelt country club 10 mile loop in 1:12:34. I kept wanting to go faster but that is for tomorrow. I should have done my speed workout today but I was not feeling well on Sat. evening and yesterday morning.

I wasn't going to run today because I felt like crap last night with a fever, and even this morning I was not feeling to great either. This afternoon I feeling really good so I went for a really easy run without the watch.

I had planned on a LT or track workout today.

This was a tough workout plus I just got over being sick.

1.1 warmup

3 x 800m @ 2:30 w/ 3 min recover for the first 1 and 5 min for second because I had to hit the port-a-potty  (2:30, 2:31, 2:31) The first one was not that bad. The second one hurt and my tummy started to rumble.( I knew that I had to hit the john before the next one).  The last one was really hard and I almost stopped at 400m. I then had a 3 min rest and then did a 3 mile tempo (5:57, 5:54, 5:56). The tempo also hurt but it was expected because of the 800s.

Another busy day and I did't budget enought time for a longer run. So I only got in 6.3.
 

Long-run. I did 12 easy then ran a 5k tempo in 17:30. Cooled down with 1.1

10.5 miles along the greenbelt country club loop. AP 7:03

Warmed up 5 then I was going to do 5 tempo miles but stopped at a stoplight at 4.3 (24:30) AP 5:43, and decided to be done and cool down. the last 1.3 really started to hurt.
 

Easy 10.8 mile run on my Birthday. Happy Birthday to me!

Warmed up 1 mile to the track then started into my 4 mile out-and-back MP run in 24:50. Then had 1:30 rest and into my 6 x 800 with 1:30 rest (2:43, 2:41, 2:44, 2:42, 2:43 & 2:42. Cooled down 2 miles.  This was a beast of a workout for me. I almost did the first 4 @ LT but, I am glad that I didn't (someday soon, I need to work on my speed. I have gotten slower at the shorter distances as I get older). I didn't really have a goal for the 800's, I just wanted to be under 2:45

Easy 10.2 early in the morning on the treadmill.