Sock tans

First snowy run of the season! We went up to pipeline and went to the overlook and back then added to 10. Ran with Angie for most of it! There came a point in the run where I stopped trying to avoid the puddles and just ran through them because my feet were numb and my shoes were already soaked. Did my core. It's supposed to snow in Salt Lake on Christmas!!!

Really bad day for me. Went to the oval. Mile repeats. I was way off my time and I think that really got to me (6:03). I was already discouraged when I realized the only distance we were doing was a mile when I had thought, or rather hoped, we were running a shorter distance for the rest of the repeats. I felt awful, lost my breakfast in the bathroom on the recovery of the first repeat (I did one lap instead of two). The second one I managed to make it to the start in time, but not without making everyone wait for me. I lost the battle that went on in my head. I thought I was strong mentally but apparently not. The combination of feeling sick, not hitting my time on the last one and knowing I was only holding everyone back lost me what little focus I had, ended up just running a lot of it (6:37). Completely ashamed of myself for running that slow I called it quits, justifying it by Bills words from previous speed workouts "if you run slower than ___ you're wasting your time." I honestly feel that on any other day I would have been able to pull off this workout, it should not have been that terrible. Did the cool down.

We met at Jordan River Parkway and went 4 out and back, coming back added in a couple pickups (10x30 sec on/off). Bill asked if I was feeling better than yesterday, the answer was yes (at least today I wasn't gonna puke), but I still felt sort of off, not like I normally do.  3 minutes into those pickups my legs got really heavy and I felt like I couldn't move them. Got frustrated when I fell off the group. When we got back to the parking lot we added out the other way, I could see the group ahead and I followed. 11.25 total, Did my core. I was wondering why I have felt off, and I realized I have forgotten to take my vitamins since Saturday, can they really make that big of a difference? Ahhh getting a run in tomorrow is gonna be tough... Maybe I'll squeeze a quick one in before we head over to my grandmas house.  

I had more time than I thought, so I was able to squeeze in a small run in the snow! Merry Christmas!

Tis the season of black ice and unshoveled sidewalks. I was gonna do my Wasatch/Thunderbird loop, but I got to Foothill and saw the condition of the sidewalks I thought I'd better not. So I went up to Wasatch and the zoo, then down to Foothill and VA loop. At this point I thought I might as well do Shriners run again, was just entering the U campus when I hit some black ice. I caught myself, no injuries thank goodness, but gave me a good scare and I decided to turn around. At the light on guardsman I went backwards VA loop to Sunnyside, then decided I wanted more mileage and the sidewalk here wasn't very icy so back again to guardsman :) Then ran back home along 17th. Feeling much better than the past couple days. Did my core. Almost had a heart attack because I thought my garmin was broken (was frozen and had changed to Military time, then I pushed a button and slowly the image faded until it was blank. Plugged it in cause I thought maybe it was dead. Image came back but it was at 70%, when I took it off it disappeared again. Panicked I held the two buttons on the side to reset it, seems to have fixed it. Maybe my garmin just hates the cold as much as I do.)

Good run, feeling much better. We started at Bills house and ran along Holladay and turned down some street then kept going North. Turned around at 5ish. I fell back like 10 meters 3 miles in, the group barely made the light (AKA it was yellow) so I missed it. They stopped for a minute at the turnaround so I was able to run with them again for a bit. We hit the random street we had turned down, now uphill, and I fell off again and missed like 3 more lights. I actually liked stopping cause I could refocus myself a bit. When I hit the bottom of the hill by the street we turn up I stopped again for a minute (I was tired and still debating whether or not I really wanted to add on) then decided I would add, I went up by the light where I hit 10 (7:16 average at that point). Then came Bill from the other direction and I knew I wasn't getting away with 11, I admit I would have cut it short otherwise. Thanks for making me finish to 13 though! The last 3 miles were the slowest part of the whole thing, bringing the 7:16 average I was pleased with up to 7:28. But I guess that's still good. :)

Later I did 3.15, 7:58 average. Definitely felt the effects of the earlier run.