| Location: UT, Member Since: Oct 14, 2008 Gender: Female Goal Type: Age Division Winner Running Accomplishments: 85 marathons, 5 times Utah Grand Slam finisher (division winner twice).
7 Bostons (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016).
Two 50Ks, one 50 miler (Pony Express).
A handful of AG wins in all distance races.
Marathon PR: 3:57:09 (Boston'08)
Half Marathon PR: 1:48:41 (Bryce Canyon '11)
10K PR: 47:50 (Spectrum 10K '09)
5K PR: 22:31 (Nestle 5K '08)
Short-Term Running Goals: 2017 Races:
June 10 - Utah Valley Marathon (5:13:43)
June 24 - Morgan Valley Marathon (5:49:01)
July 8 - Hobbler Half (2:19:37, 2nd AG)
July 24 - Temple to Temple 5K (27:43)
July 29 - Timp Half (2:08:01, 3rd AG)
Aug 26 - Mt. Nebo Marathon (5:16:16, 3rd AG)
Sep 16 - Huntsville Marathon (4:48:53)
Oct 7 - St. Geroge Marathon (4:57:11)
Nov 4 - Canyon City Marathon (5:30:07)
2018 Races:
Jan 13 - St. George Half (2:19:45, 3rd AG)
Mar 3 - The Woodlands Marathon (5:01:35)
Apr 6-7 - Ragnar So. California
June 1-2 - Ragnar Wasatch Back
June 9 - Utah Valley Marathon (5:19:22)
June 30 - Morgan Valley Half
Sep 1 - Pocatello Marathon (6:00:43)
Sep 15 - Huntsville Marathon (5:37:08)
Oct 6 - St. George Marathon (5:25:43)
Oct 20 - SoJo Marathon (5:29:23)
2019 Races:
June 1 - Utah Valley Marathon (5:44:24)
June 22 - Morgan Valley Marathon (6:15:13)
Aug 31 - Pocatello Marathon (5:38:47)
Sep 14 - Big Cottonwood Marathon (6:03:51)
Oct 5 - St. George Marathon (5:57:46)
Oct 12 - SoJo Marathon (5:55:45)
2020 Races:
Jan 18 - St. George Half (2:38:28)
Feb 15 - Sun Marathon (5:51:54)
May 5 - Conquer Covid-19 Virtual Marathon (5:49:07)
May 16 - Clear Creek Canyon Half Marathon (2:32:15)
May 25 - Utah Valley Virtual Marathon (5:33:110
June 9 - Independence Run Virtual Marathon (5:55:22)
Long-Term Running Goals:
Run happy and healthy all the days of my life. Be an example and inspiration to my family.
Personal: I'm 64, retired RN, happily married, nana to 14 beautiful grandchildren, mother to 6 children (1 daughter, 5 sons) who are kind, hardworking, caring, wonderful people! Wish they live closer!!! :) :) :)
Picked up running in 2005 at age 50, to stay healthy so I can take care of my husband who had endocarditis resulting in AVR and MVR in 2004, end stage renal failure in 2014, kidney transplant on Dec 30, 2015. Six months after the kidney transplant, we discovered that he has a rare auto-immune disease that was probably triggered in 2004 with then the undiagnosed infective endocarditis. The doctors had to make up a name for this rare disease, Monoclono Gammopathy with Renal Significance (MGRS). It is not curable. After desperately trying different chemotherapies, the doctor finally found one immuno-therapy, Daratumamab, that works to treat the MGRS. It is a miracle!!!
Grateful for the gift of life, blessings, dear friends and loved ones!!! Thankful for the ability to move, walk, jog, and yes run!!!!
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 1990.29 | 334.26 | 64.45 | 11.00 | 2400.00 |
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| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 249.50 | Mizuno Nexus2 Miles: 29.00 | Inspire 5 (2) Miles: 13.50 | Inspire 5 Purple (3) Miles: 75.35 | Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 390.50 | Mizuno Ascend 5 Miles: 5.25 | Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 559.81 | Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 536.64 | Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 324.56 | Elixir (ski Patrol) Miles: 55.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 1231.00 | Nap Time: 2.00 | Total Sleep Time: 1233.00 | Weight: 0.00 | |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.00 |
| No matter how late I went to bed, I automatically woke up the same time, no sleeping in, but did lay in bed thinking wonderful thoughts and dreams of a promising 2011. I truly have a lot to be grateful for. Finally got up to make breakfast, lunch and dinner for David who's driving 10 hours back to college. Hubby's foot and ankle is more swollen today. After getting him up, wrapped his foot/ankle, and situated nicely in front of the TV. I text my SSF and RAD to see if they have already left for the Olympic Oval, a place I've never ever been to before. Just as I was pulling out of the garage, RAD called and arranged to meet me on Bangerter and she would drive me to the Oval. HALLELUJAH!!!! RAD is right: good things come to those who sleep in! We got to the Oval just as Maurine was leaving. Sweet Maurine loaned us her "counter", a very efficient way to count laps. THANKS Maurine! Although RAD had conjured up a very clever "loose your marbles" system to count laps. She figured we would need to run 55 laps to complete 15 miles.
We got there in time to see Teena and Matt running effortlessly and speedily by. Thanks to their expert math skill, we were confirmed that 55 laps indeed make 15 miles. SO FUN to chat and run w/ Rachel and my SSF! I cannot think of a better way to run the first run of 2011 than with these two special special special friends! THANK YOU RAD & SSF!!! Update on grand baby: He is still in NICU but improving. He is off tube feeding and taking breast milk in a bottle. Hopefully he'll be able to nurse tomorrow and off TPN. His respiration is stabilized! I hope he'll be home when I arrive next week! :)
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| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 15.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 4.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 4.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 3.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 15.00 |
| 15 in 2:09:20. 1 min on @ 6:58 1 min off @ 10:00 x 30. AP: 8:37 |
| Mizuno Nexus2 Miles: 15.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 14.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 14.00 |
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Dentist first thing in the morning: Steven had 4 wisdom teeth extracted...one tuff boy! :) I have zero cavity! :) 14 miles in 2:10:01. AP: 9:10. Very very tired! Right knee complained at mile 10.
My bags are packed...taking first flight out in the morning to Houston! :) Won't be running much the next 15 days! Baby Jett is still in the NICU! :( Hubby's friend at work gave him a walking cane to limp around with! :D
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| Mizuno Nexus2 Miles: 14.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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Flew out to Houston in the morning. Spent the rest of the day at the Kingwood Medical Center NICU enjoying Baby Jett and visiting w/ my daughter and her family.  |
| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
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Ran w/ Luke in double stroller/bike trailer on north pond park x3 and south aquatic center loops x 2. Luke slept most of the run. At mile 4.5 I turned around and found Lex at the trail head looking for me in his barefoot. Took him home and since Luke was still asleep I ran for another mile. 6 in 59:02 AP: 9:49. Splits: 10:40, 9:36, 9:14, 9:32, 9:45, 10:14. Baby Jett came home at noon! YAY! 
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| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 6.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.50 | 0.00 | 5.00 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
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AM: Ran w/ Luke in double stroller while Lex rode his bike. He was riding so fast that I lost him. I stopped by corner of house where the 2 trail heads intersect to wait for him. By then everyone was hungry so we quit. 1.5 miles in 16:16 PM: After lunch the boys wanted to watch TV, baby was asleep, mommy was awake; so I went out for a run by myself. A lot easier w/o pushing the stroller. 6 miles in 52:06. AP: 8:42. Splits: 9:45, 8:33, 8:36, 8:20, 8:26, 8:27
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| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 7.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 18.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 18.00 |
| Ran all over the Kingwood Greenbelt Trail system. The first couple miles ran w/ two groups of ladies. One girl told me about the Kingwoodfit.com site for group runs...might check it out for next week. :) Ran to Kingwood Lake (part of Lake Houston), to trail north of Kingwood Dr.(Royal Forest) to Golf Course to Woodland Hills Dr. to Deer Ridge Park to River Grove Park to KingWood High's FFA Science Center and baseball fields to trail south of Kingwood Dr (Trailwood Village) to Royal Forest Dr with last mile on King Manor north loop. Beautiful paved trails in wooded forest of oaks and pines and lake view. Took about 11 pics w/ my cell phone. Perfect running temp (high 40s/low 50s, but feel cooler in shaded forest) saw lots of local walkers and runners all wearing tights, l/s tops and jackets. It is winter here afterall. I, the Utah, wore running skirt and s/s top. Hand carried one water bottle, gu'd at mile 9 and 14. 18 in 2:54:54. AP: 9:42. Splits: 10:44, 10:45, 10:04, 9:45, 9:22, 9:40, 9:38, 9:19, 9:36, 9:54, 9:05, 9:15, 9:20, 9:45, 9:40, 9:41, 9:44, 9:24. Going to Jade's first b-ball game! :) |
| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 18.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Couldn't go down the stairs w/o knee pain this morning; so decided to NOT run. Went to Gold Gym, a first EVER for me!!! 35 min elliptical (resistance and incline at 6) 25 min bike (moderate hills) 10 min abs and adductors. ***Been having pain at the insertion point of the right tibial tuberosity for the last 4 weeks. The pain would come mid run and get worse post run. Decreasing mileage has helped some. My son, Eric drove down from Dallas (where he's having his Residency Interviews) today to spend couple of days with us! We're sooo happy to see him!!! :). Haven't seen him for over a year!!! :) :) :) Between his and my daughter's exam/assessment, we all concluded that I have patella tendinitis. Conservative treatments may include REST, DANG IT! :(, adjusting body mechanics, strengthening the quads, patella tendon strap, iontophoresis, corticosteroid injection, massage. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/patellar-tendinitis/DS00625/DSECTION=treatments-and-drugs Guess I better be a good girl and listen to my son who advised NO running or any activities that cause pain/more damage to the patella tendon! :/ |
| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Nada, zero, zilch, nothing today! The tibial tuberosity still tender to touch! Had fun going to the movie (Chronicle of Narnia) w/ Eric in the afternoon. |
| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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Sunny blue sky, temp in the 40's. Patella tendon still tight! Another nice running day down the drain...gone, gone, gone! :( Took Eric and the kids to lunch at Jason Deli...good stuff! :) Had fun taking Baby Jett to his first check up. He gained 6.5 oz in 6 days! YaHooo!!! :) :) :) Evening: 3 circuits of core strengthening exercises ~ abs, abductors, adductors, front & side planks, wall sit, calf raise, bicep and tricep while the family watched Batman Begins.
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 45 min elliptical (resistence 8-10) 30 min bike (level 10) 10 min abs, leg lifts, My heart heart barely got up to 150. The sound of people pounding on the treadmills behind me made me want to go outside and run soooo bad. The weather here in Kingwood is perfect for running, darn it! Injury stinks! :( Eric drove back up to Dallas for more Residency Interviews. Hope everything goes well for him! |
| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| The weather is so NICE!!! Did a no-no...went out for a test-run! The right knee complained almost immediately! STINK!!! Finished up the loop in snail pace feeling dejected! :( |
| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 3.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
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50 min elliptical ~ intervals 2 min ON (resistance 10) , 2 min. OFF (resistance 5) 30 min bike at level 5 That's all the time Brandon and I had at the gym and child care time for the little ones! FUN day with the grandkids. Larissa and I went to meet Flatlander and his sweet wife at Chimichurri by Lake Houston for a very nice dinner! NICE to meet a fellow blogger who has so much in common (family, kids, church stuff)! GOOD TIMES!!! :) ***** Right knee was fine, just a tad tight! But the next day, Sunday, the left hammie was quite sore! STINK!!! May be I need to do so yoga!
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
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Overcast sky w/ a misty precipitation. The grandkids have no school so they wanted to go to the park. I jogged w/ Luke in the stroller while Lex rode his bike and Jade jogged along. When we got to the park, the playground equipment was still wet so we didn't stay to play! The right knee is still tight, left hammie still sore! What am I going to do? I may have to revise my training schedule for Boston which is 12 weeks away! Aaaaghhh!!! Meanwhile I'm enjoying my time w/ the grandkids and sweet tiny baby Jett! :) Evening: 30 min core while watching Lost on the iPad
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| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 3.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
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PM: 60 min elliptical ~ cross-train-program: tried to keep strides/min @ 180-200 at low resistance forward, 120-140 at resistance 8 backward. Max HR 160 20 min bike @ level 5. HR 130 Sweat fest!!! Right knee feeling better w/ movement but the right tibial tuberosity insertion area still tender to touch! Evening: 30 min. core while watching Lost.
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| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 8.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
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80 min elliptical ~ variety program: resistance varies from 6 - 16 every min. 20 min bike. Another sweat factory! My bags are packed. Dinners are cooked. Stupid flight is delayed. Steven received his mission call this morning! BUT he has to wait till I get home tonight, like 11pm, so we can skype and watch him open his call. Testing his patience! :) ****** Got home at 10:30pm and immediately skyped Steven! I videoed him opening his call via web cam. Guess where he is going??? TAIWAN TAIPEI You should have heard the shouts and cheers! YAHOOO!!! FINALLY, after 4 sons, the Lews have one son going to Chinese speaking mission! :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
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Hubby has a meeting in SG at 11am so we got up bright and early for our drive down to SG. After two weeks of granny duty in TX, it was nice to have a little get-away w/ my honey. While hubby went to the meeting I went to the hotel's fitness center. I was really tempted to run outside as it was sunny w/ temp in the 50s. I hindsight I should have. There was one elliptical which looked like it was going to fall apart, the roughest, most pathetic thing I've ever seen. After 5 min of attempting to pedal that thing I gave up and got on the one bike which was no better. So I got on the treadmill which sounded like a train wrack. The patella tendon started to complain after about 30 min into the run. It didn't seem to matter whether I run fast or slow. Then I went to the pool to do some resistance exercises for the legs. That seemed to help.
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| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 7.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 4.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 4.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.50 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.50 |
| There was no knee pain when I woke up. Was really tempted to go for a run; but went to the Gold's Gym instead. I was impressed with the Gym. I tried out the ArcTrainer. I like the LifetimeFitness ellipticals better than the Precor. Also tried out the strength training machines for various muscle groups. I don't think they make equipments for a 4'10.5" person! :) I think I was there for 3 hours, another sweat fest! :)
Hubby got done w/ his work early so we went to the movie, Tangle. I really liked the movie, love the part about *dreams*! Hubby usually doesn't care for animation movies. But he liked this one. Then we went to the Dixie Center for the Expo and packet pickup. The Bank has a booth there. Then we went to Red Lobster for dinner, long wait.
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| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 8.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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St. George Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:55:53, Place in age division: 4 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.00 | 11.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.10 |
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I debated over and over many many times the last few weeks whether to run this. My hubby happened to schedule work/branch visits/offsite in SG and Hurricane for Thur, Fri and Sat. RAD convinced me (not in a Helga way) to sign up! I would at the least have a mini vacation and a $40 race shirt (which btw never fits me). My son had advised me not to run if there's any pain at all; or just jog the 5K. Even my SSF text me to be careful! Did I listen to the voice of wisdom and reasoning? NO!!! Stubborn stubborn me!
Plan was to run w/ my friend, Karen, who ran her very first half marathon at Snow Canyon in 2:04. We met at 8am in the Dixie Center where we saw RAD, Kelli, Tom & Kim, Pron8r and others. We walked to the start w/ 5 min before gun time. Temp was in the high 30s, partly cloudy and no wind, perfect race weather. I had shorts, s/s top, compression sleeves and gloves on, a bit cold...imagine my joy when I saw Kathie who's always at races' starts to keep me warm. It was a bit crowded, within a hundred yards of crossing the start, I lost Karen. I took comfort that she was running with her sister Kathy (her first half) and Kathy's husband. Kathie does a wonderful job dodging the crowd and kept track of me; we soon found ourselves running side by side at a comfortable pace. The first couple miles felt easy although it took awhile to warm up my arthritic joints in the cold. I love running with Kathie so I just hung with her for as long as I could. At about mile 2.5 we saw Canyon (MarcieN). The 3 of us ran together at conversational pace. It was so fun to catch up with what our families been up to. Marcie found her friend around mile 7 and took off with her. Kathie does a great job keeping a constant pace! I really appreciate that. I just ran w/ how I feel although my strides did not feel smooth at all, I was trying to be careful with my knee. At around mile 9.5 Kathie said we were on pace for 1:52 but fading. I had Gu'd at mile 9 and felt no sign of fatigue. Breathing was easy and legs felt fine, even the knee was ok.
It was at one of those turns that the first sign of cramping showed up. I slowed down a bit, while Kathie walked up the little hill at the aid station I caught up to her. As we made the turn, her friend who was supposed to run w/ found her. At that instant, my left calf cramped up. With fear and sadness I watched them run off. It was like dejavu...the first year we ran Painters, it was on this part of the trail that I watched Kathie and her sister Kimmie passed me and took off and I longingly wanted to run w/ them! :)
The next 2 miles (12 & 13) were agony fighting off charlie horse which would start at the toes, then crept up the calves, then the shins. I HATE these involuntary muscle contractions, it's creepy snake like convulsions, sooo scary! If it seized up I would be DONE, collapsing in a heap of ugly agony! I was running with REAL fear! I tried to relax by thinking of all the wonderful blessings and happenings in my family lately...didn't help!
An amazing thing happen, I looked to the horizon and saw the SG Temple. The words of this hymn came to my mind: "Fear not, I am with thee; oh, be not dismayed, For I am thy God and will still give thee aid. I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand, Upheld by my righteous, Upheld by my righteous, Upheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand." I repeatedly sang that over and over (in my head of course) 'till I made the last turn towards Dixie Center where cheering friends and families sustained me. I looked down at my watch and saw 1:54:11 and determined to come in sub 1:55. I was elated to see that I made it and crossed the finish w/o collapsing. Hubby and RAD was there to collect me and help me recover. :) This is my 5th year running Painters/SG Half. I have come in 4th place in my AG every year. I was ecstatic when I saw the posting that I was listed 3rd place. Hubby said: "Oh darn, now we have to stay for the award!" It was so fun to watch and cheer our FRB friends, MichelleL, AmberG, PaulP, JulieC, Kathie's mom, got on the podium. Imagine my embarrassment when I was NOT called up. O well, I'll just have to run this thing again to rid of this "4th place jinx"...5th place would've been ok! :) :) :) Splits: 8:51, 8:45, 8:33, 8:33, 8:29, 8:50, 8:33, 8:41, 9:09 (Gu'd), 8:36, 8:46, 9:58, 9:58 (I'm surprised to see the last 2 miles so consistent even in pain), 0.1 @7:13
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I am glad that I've completed the Runner Series requirement garnering a guarantee entry to SG Marathon. My legs are very sore today with occasional involuntary twitches, weird! It will take some time to let everything heal. I am going to take it slow and easy and hopefully make it to the start line at Boston in runnable shape! Hubby booked our flights already while I was in Texas...so I better make it! :)
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| Calves are swollen and tender to touch. No running today. Did yoga while Wendy hang out at my house. After she left, I spent the rest of the day cleaning the house which had turned into a bachelor pad while I was gone. There were things growing in the fridge, the pots and pans had major burnt spots, the house plants died. It's a good thing I love my hubby and son so much! :)
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
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Karen ran 11 yesterday to Alpine, just 2 days after she ran a 3 min PR at SG Half!!! WOW!!! She has no soreness! This morning she ran with me for 7.5 and I was the SLOW one (my legs are still very sore especially the calves). She is thinking about signing up for UVM, it will be her first marathon. A light snow started mid-run, so peaceful and beautiful!
Went to lunch w/ Diane, Holly, Cheri, Karen for Wendy's belated 50th birthday at Zupas. Afterwards, Wendy came over to cut quilt squares while I did some core exercises.
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| Inspire 5 (2) Miles: 7.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 20 min arc trainer
60 min elliptical 20 min bike Lower legs are still sore. The tibia tuberosity area is acting up again. Ice and ibuprofen per my SSF!
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| Inspire 5 Purple (3) Miles: 10.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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I heeded my SSF's advice to rest the legs today. NO running, NO cardio workout! Karen came by after her 10 miler. She was debating on UVM, some self-doubt. So we looked at some training schedule and I loaned her one of my running books. I think she's going to sign up!
20 min P90X ab-ripper Yoga Calves are feeling better. Knee was okay then started to hurt in the evening; icing it now.
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 1.60 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.60 |
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Calves felt so much better this morning, I even lost the 7lbs that I gained after the race. Sheez, it took 6 days to recover and it was only a Half. Debated whether to run or not this morning when Karen called and said she & Lauri wanted to run 4-5. I decided to give it a test run, plus that's all the time I had anyway...my daughter-in-law & Emi are arriving around 1pm. I am so excited!
Ran w/ Karen (Sky) & Lauri around the bench for 5.6 mi in 53:12. AP:9:32. Icing the knee as I frantically get the room/beds ready and off to buy WHOLE milk and cheerios for baby Emi. :)
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| Inspire 5 Purple (3) Miles: 5.60 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 15.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.50 |
| Ran w/ Karen (Sky) to Alpine. Stopped at *fountain of youth* for first drink; then north and east to mile 7, turned back to gu at *fountain of youth* (mile 9). The bathroom at the park was LOCKED!!! Thought I could make it to the church, another 2 miles away...nope!...had to make a VPB stop behind a giant rock and leave-bare-bushes! Karen was laughing so hard at my dire-emergency! :) :) :) It was a nice chatty run, very slow! That's the longest Karen has ever run and first time taking gu which she really likes. She is going to run Salt Lake City Marathon as her first marathon. This girl is tough and gutsy! This means our training schedule will match more closely and able to do our long runs together. Only bad part is I won't be able to run her first marathon with her as I will be flying out to Boston that morning! My knee was sore yesterday later in the day and evening. It was fine during the run so I am icing it now (after shopping and in b/t errands). I am hopeful that I can resume training on a scaled down version...79 days to Boston! Aaagghhh!!! Baby Emi is such a delight! Her daddy is driving here, hopefully beating the storm! I am so excited that they will spend February with us! HAPPY TIMES!!!! :) :) :) :) :)
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| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 15.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.50 | 2.00 | 4.50 | 0.00 | 11.00 |
| Week 10 : 77 days to Boston
2 miles warm up. 1 min ON @ 7:30, 1 min OFF @ 10:00 x 30. 2 miles cool down @ mp. 11 mi in 1:37:45. AP: 8:53 Right knee tight. Will ice and stretch.
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| ZERO running, NADA!!! The knee was hurting yesterday late afternoon and evening. I iced it numerous times and did some light stretching. The quads were unhappy this morning! Man, I'm a wrack! :)
20 min of P90X ab-rippers. 30 min P90X stretch.
Had a wonderful lunch with my favoritest people! Then went to my SSF's. She worked magic on my leg. I am going to be a good girl so all her hard work will not go to waste! :)
Note to self: diligently stretch and roll the tight muscles!
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| AM: Legs still sore. Good thing I have Emi here to distract me from going crazy with no running. We went walking around the block to look at the horses, chickens and dogs, to explore crunchy snow and shadows. It was brrrrr cold so we didn't go very far! :) PM: Walked on 1-5% incline TM for 5 miles. Stretch and roll the legs tons.
Core workout. Barbell 10lbs for biceps and triceps. Foam roll and stretch the quads again.
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 5.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 2.00 | 0.25 | 0.00 | 8.25 |
| Legs felt much better after 2 days of no running so I took the new shoes out for a test-run (I wore them yesterday walking on the TM)! Temp was 12 degrees, sunny, no wind. Wore, 2 pairs of socks, Boston 3/4 zip fleece, CW-X insulator tights, beanie and ski-mittens...it was PERFECT! The first mile felt hard...feet, knee, quads started to complain immediately...almost abandoned the run. Once warmed up I focused on smooth strides, listened to foot-falls and pumped the arms more. Finally got in the groove after 5 miles. However marathon pace felt harder than it should be. Not going to worry about speed right now! Recovery: 15 min of stretching, 10 min of foam roll. Will ice if knee hurts and more stretching and rolling to follow this evening!
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 8.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 16.00 | 0.00 | 0.25 | 0.00 | 16.25 |
| My son is receiving his Temple endowment tomorrow. Karen is taking her daughter for bridal dress fitting in Bountiful tomorrow. So we changed things up and ran our long run this morning! Karen (Sky) picked me up and we met Lori at the Lehi JRP after the kids were off to school. Temp was in the high teens, cloudy, no wind, quite pleasant! It was a nice day for a fun conversational run. Lori runs like a gazelle. Both Lori and Karen ran track in high school (800 meters). Today's run was the longest distance either of them have ever run; however they have run half marathons. Lori's knee started to hurt at mile 9, I showed her a few stretches. She turned back at mile 12 while Karen and I went on. It's a good thing she asked how far we've run or I would have kept going. 16.25 in 2:41:27. AP: 9:55.
We saw geese, hawks, fox, cats, cows, horses, goats, llamas and a few walkers with their dogs and of course, my friend, Rick roller-blading!
Knee was fine once warmed up. Will monitor closely. There's going to be a house-full of young RMs tonight and tomorrow which means I'll be feeding lots of hungry boys! :) |
| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 16.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| A wonderful day with family and friends witnessing our youngest child make sacred covenants in the Temple with our Heavenly Father! Cooked breakfast and dinner for 12 adults (10 hungry men) and one toddler!!! The downstairs family room was transformed into a dormitory with my son and his 3 college roommates sleeping and playing ping-pong there this weekend! I am treasuring the moment as my baby will soon be leaving home for 2 years...every milestone is the *last*. Did 30 min. of core, biceps, triceps exercise.
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 10.25 |
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Week 9 to Boston!!! Baby Emi was still in bed when I got up. Legs felt decent after 2 days of no running so decided to get right back in the training schedule which was supposed to be GA run + speed (8 mi w/ 10 x100m). When I turned at Smith about mile 1.75 I saw Karen and Sky running on the other side of the road towards me. So I ran over to her and found out she wanted to run 8 miles. I told her of my running plan and asked if she wanted to do some strides with me. She was hesitant at first. After 7 miles at EZ pace, we hit our first interval on 3200 North which is a straight wide road. We ran 0.1 mile fast (6:50ish pace) then recover for 0.1 mile. We turned around at 1200E just as we finished our 5th interval. I sensed that Karen was doubting herself; but I pressed on and she responded. On our 10th interval I told her it's the last one and to "give it all you've got"! She responded beautifully and Sky was superb (Sky is a hunting dog with long slender muscular legs). I am so proud of Karen! She is re-discovering the runner within her. 10.25 in 1:39:44. AP: 9:42. Legs were a bit tight on the last mile after dropping Karen off at her house.
After I got home, Emi and her mommy were ready to go to the library. I changed clothes quickly and went to the library for story time and checked out couple of books on swimming. Evening: Foam roll, stretch and yoga.
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.25 |
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A nice EZ recovery run w/ Karen (Sky). It was a beautiful winter wonderland...the whole world is a glistening white, sunny blue sky, gentle breeze! We ran on crunchy peanut brittle, slushy root-beer float, vanilla sundae while the motorists thought we were NUTS!!! Extra careful at the slippery!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE playing with Emi. She is soooo smart! She loves to *exacyse* like me: rolling, downward-dogging, pushup-ing, jumping, kicking and of course running! :) Had a *girls lunch* at Cafe Pasean! So good to see the Utah County bloggers...it's been toooo long since we've seen each other!!! FUN times!!! :) :) :) :) PM: Abs and core.
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| Mizuno Ascend 5 Miles: 5.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 3.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.50 |
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I put a bandaid on the blister (left 4th toe) before hand but it came loose mid run. The poor little piggy was a hurting as I reached the fountain of youth park. Luckily I saw a school bus pulled into the church parking lot across from the Peppermint Place. Most buses are equipped with first-aid kits. I asked the bus driver if he has a bandaid after the passengers (most likely from the Training School) exited the bus. Roger, the angel bus driver saved my life. He was astonished that I ran *so far away from home*! :) The little piggy was happy for the remainder of the run.
Walked all over South Town Mall with Emi, Eric and Marianne as we were looking for a pair of dress shoes for Marianne. Four hours later, we were all tired, no shoes was found suitable; but Eric did get 4 dress shirts and a pair of sunglasses. The legs and feet are very very tired. The insertion area of the right tibia tuberosity is very sore. Will rest tomorrow.
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 11.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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Rest from running today. Babysat Emi while her parents went to the 6am temple session. Then it was my turn to go. Had lunch with my long time friends at the temple cafeteria. GOOD times! :)
Evening: Abs and Core.
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
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AM: Ran EZ with Wendy and Karen (Sky). Haven't run w/ Wendy for a long time. It was a beautiful day! :)
6 circuits of Pfitz CSE. PM: Washed, cleaned, vacuumed. Stretch and foam roll.
Evening: Played w/ Emi while her parents went to the ballet! I love her so much!!! :) 
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| Inspire 5 (2) Miles: 6.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 11.00 | 6.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 17.25 |
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KT taped right knee before heading out. Temp was in the mid 20s, calm, partly sunny. Perfect running weather. Ran w/ Karen (Sky) down Center St to Cedar Hollow to AF Jr High to bridge by the Temple (mile 6). Gu'd and turned back same route since Karen only needed 12 miles. Stopped at AFJH for potty break. Ran up Center St strong. Mile 12 was mostly uphill and was able to keep it at mp. After dropping Karen home ran 5 more by myself at mp. When I got home, Emi and her mommy were just getting out for a walk. So I walked with them around the block. We checked out the chickens and rooster, big rocks and pebbles, neighbors' dogs and cats. Emi likes to run 3 sidewalk sections at a time. We'd say: "get set, ready", she'd bend down to touch her toes then up to run on "GO!". She'd call out "Nana!" whenever I run behind her as if to tell me to keep up....SO CUTE!!!! April 18, the day I run Boston will be Emi's 2nd birthday and her mommy's 28th! :) :) :) :) Afternoon: Iced the knee. Shopping = lotsa walking.
Evening: Stretch & foam roll while watching Lost!
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 17.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 11.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.25 |
| ♥ HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!! ♥ 11.25 MLR Mile 1 - 3 with Carolyn, Wendy, Karen (Sky). AP: 10:15
Mile 3 - 5.5 with Karen (Sky). AP: 10:00 Mile 5.5 - 11.25 by myself with hills and wind. AP: 9:40 Early Valentine's dinner with my love at Red Lobster at 4:30pm! :) :) :) :) :) :)
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| Inspire 5 Purple (3) Miles: 11.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.25 |
| Plan was to run 13 today (a scaled down version of Pftiz schedule). But the run didn't go as planned.
Ran w/ Karen (Sky) down 3rd West, crossed State St. to 900 North ran west, then turned north to 1500 North, turned around to run on 1500 North to State St. then on the new trail by the rail road to 2600 North. With the exception of 900 N and trail, there were lots of traffic and barking dogs. I have never run this route before and probably won't again by myself. We got to Karen's house at mile 9.25. Stood and talked for awhile which made the legs all stiff. The right knee and hip hurt really bad on the last mile home; so I walked most of it. In hindsight I shouldn't have run 2 MLRs back to back, both days with hills and cold wind. Ice the knee for 20 min in the afternoon and evening. Foam roll and gentle stretched. My son counseled me to scale my training way down. I may follow Higdon's Novice II or Intermediate I schedule so that I can give my knee best chance of healing and hopefully run Boston with not too much pain! Onward and upward! :)
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 10.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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Eric, Marianne and Emi are all sick, runny nose, cough, fever. Emi threw up all night. :(
On the bright side, our new shoes arrived. Marianne got the Saucony Triump7, Eric got Mizuno Inspire 6. I got Mizuno Inspire 6 and Elixir 5. I really like the Elixir's fit. Have never run in one before; can't wait to try them out. AM/PM Yoga
45 min of CSE and leg lifts (8 sets of the following): ab crunch (60 reps) leg pushaway (60 reps) straight leg supine lift (30 reps each leg) plank (60 sec) side L & R plank (60 sec) back extension (15 reps) clam shell (60 reps) straight leg lift (20 reps forward, outward & inward) **********
BAA announced the new registration process for Boston 2012 and the new qualifying standard for 2013:
http://www.baa.org/news-and-press/news-listing/2011/february/boston-athletic-association-announces-new-registration-process.aspx I'll be able to register for Boston 2012 (my 5th Boston) on Sept 14! YAY!!! :)
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| Night Sleep Time: 3.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 3.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Let's see. I played nurse, Nana, friend, chef, Costco going buddy, wife, mother, laundry-maid, housekeeper! :) Yep, everything but a runner today! Sigh! :/ Oh and I ate way too much dark chocolate covered blueberry/acai! :) |
| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 18.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 18.25 |
| KT tape the knee. Karen picked me up and off we went to the JRP. Temp 31, cloudy, 10mph SE wind. Got a nice tailwind running north. We *trespassed* the construction site since there were no workers and the torn-up trail (aka mud) was frozen; also avoided the school traffic at the elementary had we gone on the *detour*. The knee started to complain almost immediately, but survived the uphill. Running downhill was a different story. Going south was no fun w/ the headwind. Took the detour on the return since we didn't want to trudge thru mud. Reload the fuel belt at the car (mile 10.8) and stretched a bit; then continued onto the south portion. Encountered a few dog-walkers which always make Sky a bit skittish. She seemed to enjoy watching the hawks, Canadian geese and other fowls. Stopped at Willow Park's pop (mile 12.80) and stretched a bit. The last 3 miles were nice as we got a bit of tailwind. This was one of the slowest 18 miler I have ever run. The knee held out ok but the pelvic symphysis is not happy. Poor leg turnovers, no energy, forgot to eat breakfast, drank gatorade before start and every 2-3 miles, took 5 Powerbar chews at mile 6-7, hammer gel at mile 13.
Busy day today as we have out of town friends coming to stay overnight and ski tomorrow. Fun weekend! :)
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 18.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Our friends from Idaho got here yesterday. I was too pooped to cook so we (all 9 of us) went out for dinner Fri night. It was fun to catch up on each others' lives. All the boys & men went skiing at Deer Valley even though they were sick (except our friends). They have been planning this ski trip for a long time. They had to cancel couple weeks ago b/c Paul had to conduct a funeral...turned out to be a good thing since my husband's ankle was still recovering. They had fun even though it snowed the entire time. I stayed home with the girls/ladies, cooked and visited. Didn't notice how sore my knee was until bedtime!
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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Having a houseful of sick family members while entertaining company is tough! Thank heavens for Sabbath where we just rest! I was the only one to stay for all three hours of church plus an hour of choir practice in the afternoon.
Eric came to Sacrament and played a viola solo. He was asked last Sunday to do that, before he got sick. He's been sick all week and today was the worst with a fever of 102. He played I feel my Savior's Love with his own improvisation. I could tell he tried really hard not to cough during the performance. It was a beautiful number that brought the Spirit to the meeting. |
| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 7.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.50 |
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Hubby woke me up bright and early and asked if I wanted to go skiing with the family. I thought everyone would stay home b/c they were all hacking up a storm. 44 inches of new snow (over the weekend) was very tempting. But I was too sleepy/tired. Jeff and Jenn had a photo-shoot which got canceled on Sat b/c of the rain/snow. So I thought I'd go with them to ski in the afternoon. After everyone left for Solitude, I decided to go for a run. Was going to run 5 miles but once I got warmed up the knee felt good to go up on Suncrest Rd. Since I didn't carry any water or fuel, I ran to Ridgeline Elementary (mile 3), thinking I could get a drink. Duh, it was closed b/c of President's Day. So after stretching a bit I decided to run the next few miles at mp. Ran to Alpine City Park to drink from the *fountain of youth* then kept the pace up on the return. Felt pretty good throughout the run. 2 days of no running did give me *fresh* legs. It was a beautiful sunny day, lots of runners out, mostly high school or college age kids.
10.5 in 1:36:30. AP: 9:11. Splits: 10:40, 9:50, 9:57, 9:06, 9:10, 9:08, 8:49, 8:50, 8:23, 8:26, 8:10. **** Hubby said I missed the BEST ski day of the season; but it's all good since Jeff and Jen didn't make it back in time, plus they closed the canyon b/c it was too crowded. I think my knee would not have been able to take the downhill skiing anyway. After cooking & feeding the hungry skiers, I iced the knee (which started to ache) and rolled the quads while we watched a Disney movie Wendy Wu, ridiculously funny no brainer! What a fun and exhausting 3 day weekend!!
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| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 10.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.50 |
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Was worried that I might be sick since I have a bit of congestion in my sinuses. Karen texted me that she wanted to run 8-9. If it weren't for her invitation I probably would have wimped out. Quickly drank EmergenC and ate a banana then headed out towards her house. We ran a new route today. Ran west on 2600 N to 600E then south on 600E (aka Killer Hill). I haven't run down that thing for ages. It's a dangerous steep hill, narrow county road w/ blind curves and zero shoulder. We ran down it w/o getting hit by a car, whew! We then ran east towards Cedar Hollow Rd just in case we need to get a drink at the Jr High (we didn't need to). I was going so slow. Karen was kind enough to stay close. At the intersection of 1200 E we decided to go further east to Highland. By then my legs got warmed up and I was running comfortably alongside Karen and Sky. I like running in Highland and LOVE Karen's company. We decided not to back track but keep going east then turn north on the first road that leads back to SR 92. When running on the 2 lane construction zone on the down/up hill portion of SR92, a motorist stopped and warned us that there was a cyote up ahead. That was very kind of her...it would have spooked Sky. So we crossed the road to the north side which had a wider shoulder and was partially blocked off with orange construction cones. We reached the traffic light by Smith and crossed SR92 to the south side safely. Ran Karen home, then tried to pick up the pace a bit for the solo mile home. Was dishearted to see how hard it was to get it to 10 mm pace! It was a good recovery run, easy pace, fun conversation and great company! After I got home, I played with Emi while her mommy helped Eric study for his Board exam. ****Hubby just got home early from work feeling icky icky sick! He's working from home now before heading to his other job as Stake Pres.! :) Now off to take care of the sick and afflicted! :) *** Karen ~ if you are reading this. I want you to join the blog so I can comment on yours! :) Pretty Please! :) |
| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 10.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
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AM: Too beautiful a day to pass up running outside. After taking Emi to the library for story time, Karen and I ran an EZ recovery 5 miler. We saw Wendy turning as we approached on 1200 E, such perfect timing, finished the run together w/ Wendy to Karen's then home. I have missed running w/ Wendy so much! ***Sinuses cleared up nicely after the run. Jeff came home early at lunch time feeling sick as a dog. Everyone in the house has gotten sick now. I'm knocking on wood that I won't get it! :)
EVENING: 8 circuits of the following CSE about 80 min.: Abd crunch ~ 60 reps Leg pushaway ~ 60 reps Prone plank ~ 60 sec R side plank ~ 60 sec L side plank ~ 60 sec Back extension (straight arm & bent elbow) ~ 60 rep Clam shell ~ 60 rep Abductor leg lift (forward and invert) ~ 60 rep Walk sit ~ 60-90 sec Biceps & triceps ~ 10 lbs 30 rep Light yoga to stretch things out ***I'm thinking that my knee seems to hurt only after I pushed the pace or running longer than 2 hrs.
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| Inspire 5 Purple (3) Miles: 5.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 17.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 19.00 |
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It's been said that *it is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission*. Well, I really didn't have time to ask for either. I was NOT planning on doing a long run today. Dale ~ You are so funny!!! All the scenarios you mentioned could very well describe silly ole' me! :) SSF ~ I am sorry I didn't mention this run; but I thought I left a voice message in your cell blurting out somethin' about just finished a long run, blah blah blah! But I was seriously very worried about you and the last thing I wanted to talk about was my silly unplanned long run! Hope you forgive me, please! :)
My original plan was (I've been taking the one-day-at-a-time-approach) - if the knee feels fine in the morning (it hurts the worst at night) run some 400 repeats either outside if weather permits or on the TM if not. This morning Karen text me about when to do our long run. After telling her I planned to run on Sat., she sent me an alert about the possibility of 6-12 inches of snow accumulation on the bench. She wanted to run the long run TODAY!!! My first thought was: "What?! I'm not afraid of snow! I've run in all kinds of weather before! Plus, I am SO NOT ready to run long today!" I mumbled something about how long run is the bread and butter of marathon training and should be well planned in advance, blah, blah, blah. Well, may be I'm a push-over or perhaps in a sleep-deprived-state-of-mind, I agreed to run long, totally threw logic and sensibility out the window! She showed up within 15 min. to drive us to the JRP. Gulp! :)
I tried not to whine about it! But seriously, the first 3 miles were painfully slow. I was a huffing and a puffing right off the bat. I had to WALK up the last hill at the top! Very pathetic! :) I tried to be very very careful going down the hills so the knee won't get mad at me. ;) It was warm running north but cool quickly running south w/ a headwind!
Felt better as the run progressed. We ran a faster AP today than last Friday's 18 miler on the same course. We stopped twice to gu and potty break. 19 miles in 3:12:57. AP: 10:09. Splits (for Karen's reference): 11:20 (told ya I was SLOW), 10:35, 10:25, 10:23, 11:36 (walking uphill), 10:45 (Gu), 10:11, 10:06, 9:47, 10:10, 10:20, 9:55, 9:40, 10:38 (Gu), 9:59, 9:33, 9:07, 9:33, 8:32. So proud of Karen's tenacity and positive attitude running her longest run ever. She is a GREAT runner and athlete! She is going to do AWESOME on her first marathon in April. I only wish I could run it with her! Afterthought ~ SO GLAD we got'er done. The weather man is forecasting a winter storm warning this weekend! Hubby is thinking about canceling the ski-trip to Deer Valley! ooookay!
****The aftermath ~ No time to stretch due to a busy afternoon and evening schedule. The knee is complaining a bit (tight and tender at the tibial tuberosity). Have been icing and heating after dinner. Will see how it feels in the morning!
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 19.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 6 inches of fluffy snow on the road/lawn and still snowing as we drove down to the LC.
55 min elliptical
upper body weights leg extension core, stretch By noon, all the snow has melted, sunny, cold and windy, very strange weather! :)
Birthday lunch w/ friends and family at Cafe Rio. Dinner tonight at Market Street Grill.
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| Night Sleep Time: 2.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 2.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| Congestion galore, swollen glands! Light snow, wet/slushy road, not wanting to get the new shoes wet (really really want to try them out). So ran on the TM instead. The shoes feel really snug; may be I should get a half size bigger. 10 in 1:33:39. AP: 9:21. 2% incline. Off to watch BYU vs SDSU. Go Cougs!!! |
| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 10.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 8.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 8.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
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Worried that I might have a sinus infection as I slept fretfully, congestion, headache and woke up with achy muscles. Will take it easy today. Ran to Karen's to meet her for an EZ recovery run. Ran down 3rd west to trail-head then up on the trail 'till it dead-ends at SR92. We trespassed the construction zone; ran on dirt then thru the newly constructed tunnel heading east; then back on Bull River. Temp was in the low 30's but felt colder with the windchill. No splits or exact mileage since my Garmin's battery is dead. Grateful to have Karen's company or it would have been a miserable run! :) Felt fatigue all day while catching up on laundry, kitchen mess, church stuff, etc. Thankfully there's no fever or other symptoms! Lots going on right now w/ my family: Jeff signing the papers and closing on his first ever BIG purchase today...54 days before his wedding. Eric taking the Board Exam on Mar. 2 in AZ. Bryan trying out multiple violas that cost $1600 and up...gulp! Steven getting ready for his mission.....joyful as well as stressful time! :)
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| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 9.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 9.50 |
| HELLO MARCH!!!! A beautiful sunny day, perfect running weather! Karen texted me before heading out the door. My schedule calls for VO2 max of 5X1000m @5K race pace today. Not feeling particularly speedy today (actually haven't felt speedy for the whole winter) I opted for a few 800s (1/2 mile) repeats and invited Karen to join in the *fun*! We did 2.5 miles of warm up then started our 1st repeat just after crossing 1200 E. Felt good to run at a faster (for me) pace @ 7:30ish. Karen asked how many we're doing. I thought *6* is a good number. The first recovery took 0.5 mile as we were discussing where to run and the 5K race pace. The second repeat was up on Bull River. Took .25 mile recovery this time and thereafter. Finished 3rd repeat right at the end of Bull River dead-end then turned around for the 4th and 5th. Karen wanted to run only 7 miles so she stopped after the 5th repeats and jog the 0.25 mile home while I continued east with my 6th interval which came in at 3:55. Recovered for 0.25 then ran the remainder 2.25 miles home at marathon pace. 9.5 mi in 1:28:06. AP: 9:16. Splits: 10:25, 10:20, 8:44, 8:45, 9:03, 8:43, 9:08, 9:30, 9:00, 8:38. When I got in the house, Emi was ready to go outside and play. Spent an hour playing with her on the playground and trampoline. She is so fun...she won't let me rest though. :) Knee felt fine during the run. The pubic symphysis was tight. Now after sitting for awhile, both are sore. Will do some stretching and yoga today! |
| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 9.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 3.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.50 |
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What happened to my body this morning?!! Some old old old lady possessed it,,,everything ached!!! Almost talked myself out of running. Got up way late. Ate breakfast with Emi & Marianne. In no hurry when I'm with Emi...but she kept saying: "Nana running?" :) Dragged the "old granny self" out the door only to turn around within 0.2 mile! Whoa, some wind was chillin' my achy bones! Got back in the house to put on a jacket. Emi had a puzzled look then a big smile; then blew me a kiss goodbye, for the 2nd time! :)
The knee hurt during the first mile...should I be smart and go home or keep running to see if the pain goes away?!! Can't go home to disappoint/confuse Emi! Stopped at mile 1 to stretch the quads and calves. Knee felt fine going up Suncrest. It sure complained a lot going downhill though. :( Stopped at Ridgeline Elementary for pit stop and drink before continuing on to Alpine. Stopped at *fountain of youth* for another pit stop and drink. Turned around at mile 6, again stopped at Ridgeline Elementary for pit stop and drink. Saw Karen running up Suncrest as I was running down at my mile 9.35 and her mile 3ish. She had a late start too! ;) Seeing her brought a little sunshine to my otherwise cloudy/gloomy run! :)
Ran the last 3.5 home at mp with headwind! Emi was so happy to see me! :) She *tackled* me with a big hug then promptly said: "WET!" as she always does when I come home from running! :) I'm gonna miss her SO much when she leaves! :(
12.5 in 2:01:06. AP: 9:40 Splits: 10:50, 10:16, 10:17, 9:55, 10:10, 10:07, 9:32, 9:23, 9:40, 9:02, 8:42, 8:42, 8:42 Going to dinner and BYU vs NM game tonight! FUN!!! :) GO COUGS!!!!
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| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 12.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
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6 miles w/ Karen down 3rd west up rail parkway in the rain/snow and 12mph wind! AP: 9:55. The rain/snow stopped just as we finished! Mother nature is too funny in March! :)
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| Inspire 5 Purple (3) Miles: 6.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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Zero running nor exercise today! Spent half a day playing with Emi while her parents packed and got the car ready for their long drive to Oregon. I am going to miss Emi terribly! :( Busy busy weekend with family stuff. Here's the invite for group run tomorrow if any of you are interested, meet at: 1. Place: JRP in Lehi at 1500 North access. 2. Time: 6am. Early, I know! Hey, what a great way to say goodbye to Winter, eh!!! ☺ Have a great weekend! GOOD LUCK to Kathie and her team at the Lake2Lake tomorrow! :) |
| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 13.50 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.50 |
| Met four GREAT ladies: Toby (for the first time), Karen (& Sky), Rachel and Luz, at the Lehi JRP dark and early this morning for a great run! PERFECT temp! WONDERFUL WONDERFUL company! Lots of CUTE CUTE baby calves! The miles flew by! I would have loved to run more or linger for visit...but had to high tail outa there to make it to a family's baby blessing in Orem! I made it there in time! Today's run re-affirms and reminds me why I LOVE LOVE LOVE to run! :) :) :) :)
THANKS girls for driving the distance in the wee hours to run with me! I just love you all soooo much!!! You are AWESOME!!!! 15.5 miles AP: 9:38.
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 15.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.50 |
| Nice and EZ with Karen. My knee was and is still bugging. Karen's achilles was bugging. STINK!!! Saw Wendy with a mile to go! Took her home to find some ski boots and skis for her. She and her honey are skiing on Wed. I'm jealous! :) Spend the afternoon taking Steven to get his Typhoid immunization; then shopping for mission clothes and stuff. We are now broke! :) |
| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 9.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 3.00 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 16.00 |
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16 MLR TT: 2:22:47 3 mi warm up. TT: 28:43 (AP: 9:34). Ate 3 Powerbar chews & water (30 sec.) 4 mi hills. TT: 38:29 (AP: 9:36). Starting at 2%; finish at 10% (increase 0.5% every 1/4 mi); starting pace @ 9:40; finish @ 9:22. Ate 3 Powerbar chews & water (45 sec.) 6.2 mi tempo. TT: 51:04 (AP: 8:13) Pace: 8:34, 8:27, 8:20, 8:13, 8:06, 8:00, last 0.2@7:03. 2.8 mi cool down at mp. TT: 24:41 @ 8:34, 8:49, 8:57. **** Jeff came home mid morning sicker than a dog...chills, fever, aches. Thought he got over it couple weeks ago. Man, now Steven is home for Spring break, hope he doesn't get it, especially since he's on the expensive Typhoid vaccine. PM: foam rolled the gnarly knots out of the legs!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 16.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| Woke up to stiff achy body. With a busy day and limited time, it's just easier to lace up the shoes and head out the door rather than drive to the LC to use the elliptical. 36F, cloudy, breezy. Both knees were complaining, right more than left. Stopped couple times to stretch. The SR92 express hwy construction is progressing along. There was a huge machine making this loud pounding sound along the canal at the Center St. bridge, very annoying! Wish I was running w/ music! Speaking at the L26 Ward R.S. birthday dinner tonight! I am nervous! |
| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 7.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
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The talk in the L26 ward RS last night went well. I am so impressed with the whole event. We used to be in the same ward years ago and I was the RS president. Even though they live within 0.5 mile from me, I hardly ever see these sisters after our ward was split. The love I have for them is still there even though I forgot some of their names! :) I am so grateful that I belong to this greatest, oldest women organization in the world, the Relief Society. After the dinner/mtg. we lingered and visited! Wanted to run 12 miles this morning, only had time for a quick 5 miler before heading to the temple, luncheon, picked up Steven's roommate, hemmed up Steven's temple pants, cooked soup for my ward RS birthday dinner...etc.etc. My ward's RS dinner/mtg was very simple. We worked on quilts afterward.
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 5.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 4.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 4.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| Got home late last night. Had a restless night. Hubby woke me up with the sad news of the earth-quick in Japan and tsunami coming to Hawaii. Laid in bed trying to sort out the sadness while taking stock of the body's aches and pain...sore throat, swollen glands, congested sinuses and very achy stiff joints. Figured it would do me good to *run* it all off! My SSF called just as I was lacing up the shoes. Should have taken the cue to stay in. It was a miserable run...gusty, chillin' headwind. The sun was deceiving...only wore a long sleeve shirt, wish I had a hoodie to cover my head/ears. It was an hour of hacking, spitting (which I rarely do), dodging tumbling weeds...so much for trying to *run it off*!!! Frantically trying to call my relatives! Hope my niece and her husband are okay in Hawaii! Another busy day awaits!
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| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 7.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 4.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 4.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20.00 |
| Woke up feeling like I was run over by a dump truck. Could hardly breath. Hubby tried to make me stay home. I told him I've been planning this 20 miler with Karen for weeks. I HAVE to run it. I carb-loaded properly last night, ate my last bowl of noodles while watching BYU beat NM...YAHOO!!!! So AWESOME to watch Jimmer broke his own record of 52 pts!!! :) I was ready to go at 6:30am. Waited till 7:30 to pick up Karen. I felt chills so took a Tylenol and brought a blanket with me in case I couldn't finish the run then I could just stay in the car with the blankie! :)
Got to JRP at Winchester to meet Kathie, Matt, LuzyLew and Teena! We took off at a much faster pace than my lungs could handle, wheezing away while Luz and Kathie did all the talking. At mile 3, before turning around, my SSF let me use her inhaler. I think it helped. So glad the weather was nice! Got back to the car, took another puff of the inhaler, gu'd and drank an entire 8 oz. water. From mile 7 on Karen ran w/ Matt looking so strong with Teena and Kathie leading the way. Before mile 8, Karen turned back to run w/ us. We used the rest room at the park. When we got to around mile 11+ we kept looking for the others thinking they should have turned around already since they were planning on 18. At mile 12.25ish Teena came running from behind, I guess they had taken a detour. Bid her goodbye while we went for another 0.75 before turning around.
We stopped at the turnaround (mile 13) to gu. I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to finish and asked if anyone had any drugs. Thankfully Luz had one Aleeve. She graciously let me take it, saying I needed it worse than her. THANKS Luz! :) (So I was the drug-dealer on this part of the trail in West Valley, ha!) Karen also let me drink her water b/c the gatorade just *burns* my throat. All the hydration (from feeling sick) made me need to pee bad. I ran as fast as I could the next mile where there was a park. Alas, the bathroom was locked, so onto the next park as fast as I could before the bladder explode. Whadaya know, that bathroom was locked too. It wasn't until we got to the park at mile 17 that the bathroom was open. Thankfully the Salt Lake Running Company also had two coolers of fluid there. I filled up one of my two flasks w/ gatorade. The knee and pelvis hurt the same whether I ran fast or slow. So I took off hoping to finish strong w/ some MPs, thinking I would just run back at end of every mile to meet Luz and Karen. I was getting into a good rhythm so I never did turn around. I took off my fuel belt at the car and was going to go back for Luz and Karen; when I saw Teena driving up. I felt bad that I didn't stay w/ them; but took comfort that they had each other to run with, sorta. We stretched while drinking chocolate milk and slimfast to aid in recovery. My only regret is that I didn't get to talk to Kathie at all. I wanted to hear all about her Lake to Lake Relay. And I never got any SSF time! Stink!!!
Well, what I learned from this run is that I could never been able to finish without the company of Luz and Karen and the help of drugs! :) THANK YOU Luz and Karen! You have no idea how much you helped me! Just love you to pieces! :) :) :)
20 miles in 3:04:54. AP: 9:14. Splits: 9:28, 9:10, 9:03, 8:51, 9:00, 9:01, 9:23, 9:27, 9:29, 9:46, 9:47, 10:03, 9:54, 9:39, 9:05, 8:38, 8:50, 8:47, 8:43, 8:37. Stopped at mile 6 & 13 to gu; mile 8 and 17 to void! Drank a total of 21 oz gatorade, 16 oz. water on the run, a can of slimfast at finish. Now icing the knee! Going to veg in front of the TV watching BYU play SDS tonight! :)
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 20.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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Surprisingly there's no knee pain. May be it's masked by the ibuprophen I've been taking for my sore throat and headache. I went to church with my son and his roommates. I'm glad I went even though I wasn't feeling well. I wouldn't want to miss my friend's son's mission report. His dad was our bishop. He just returned from serving 2 years in Fiji. He spoke on Obedience. He is such a fine young man!!! Then my son's former YM president spoke. I can tell Steven was touched by the wonderful leaders who have taught him and helped us raise him over the years! :) I was going to go home after sacrament. But Valerie's excited and exuberant hug was irresistable. She grabbed my hand and dragged me to Primary. She kept patting my back and with sincere concern, "you sick?" "you ok?" "feel better." "you my friend?" "you my friend?" "you my friend?" "you my friend?" "Sue-AnnaH, my friend!" "watch Valerie?" "Watch Valerie?" "you my friend?" "you my friend?" for the entire 2 hours! If that doesn't make one feel better, I don't know what! :) Yes, Valerie, I'm your friend. I LOVE YOU! and I will always watch over you! :) Then I went to Choir practice. I'm the ward choir director. I didn't bake any treats today. Thankfully I had some Costco mini-cream-puffs. The choir was a noisy bunch today. Not paying attention to my directing or hoarse-talking-voice! It didn't help that I had to keep covering my mouth while coughing. I am very concerned as we are singing in two weeks and then singing two numbers on Easter which happens to be the day of Steven's *non-farewell*.
After giving Steven's roommate a haircut (he's a fine young man, recently return missionary serving in Ogden, a polite boy with a headfull of curly dark hair that most Latin Americans have), fed them a quick dinner, I bid them goodbye for the 2 hr drive back to USU. The next time I see Steven will be on his brother's wedding on April 23 and Steven will speak at Sacrament on April 24, before leaving for his mission. I did well holding back tears until after the car was out of sight, then the tears just flooded! The evening's highlight was when Larissa got on web-cam and I got to see Baby Jett all sleepy eyed, dressed in his white blessing outfit. It's bittersweet that I couldn't be there for his blessing. It is so hard to have my grandchildren so far away. I miss them terribly! Hubby got home from attending a fireside. He was bummed that he missed seeing Baby Jett. He hasn't even met the baby in person yet. Oh, the sacrifice he makes!
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VERY SICK!!!! I couldn't sleep last night so I took an ibuprophenPM just before midnight. Wow! That thing worked like a charm (err a nighty nightlight). For some reason, drugs affect me quite powerfully. Evidence of my ability to finish strong on Saturday's 20 miler, thanks to the aid of drugs! :) Anyhoo, I slept like a log, vaguely remembered hubby kissed me goodbye (did he?). I woke up to the sound of text message from Carolyn asking if I wanted to run with her! Yikes, it's 8 and I was supposed to meet my sister-in-law at 8:45 at the Lehi Main St. interchange to drive to a family member's funeral in Tooele. Quickly checked my emails and got dressed. I called my SIL to alert her that I was running late...NO VOICE!!! I have LOST my voice!!!! How is it that I could cough non-stop producing barking noises and yet I couldn't speak? At the funeral, I hid behind massive layers of tissue papers, coughing in between sobing! I must have been quite a mess. My brother-in-law who's a doctor took one look at me and ordered me to GO HOME, GO TO BED, and gave me a Zpac! Hubby came to drive me home, I was freezing, yet the temp outside was in the high 50's. I took the anti-biotic and crawled in bed. Finally dozed off for half an hour when hubby came in to wake me up. We're supposed to pick up our friends for dinner and Jazz game at 5pm. Yikes, I had 15 min to get ready! I took 2 ibuprophen and carried tons of cough drops. HAPPY NEWS ~ Eric received formal posting that he's accepted to the Residency program in Cleveland, OH. He will start on July 1st at the Cleveland Clinic, one of the country's biggest and innovative surgical hospital! Jen, Jeff's fiance, finally moved into the condo they bought...much much lesser commute time! YAY!
Bryan is very happy with his $16000 viola (yes, we are very very very broke now!) He will be performing a solo concerto with the Symphony on March 30. He will leave on April 27 for a performance tour in China then stay in China to do internship in May/June, then to D.C. to be in the National Orchestral Institute in June, then spend a month in July in the Czech Republic in the International Music Academy. All this means: HUGE $$$ expenditure = investment in a child's musical carreer = future starving artist! :)
Jazz won at overtime! :)
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.50 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| I shouldn't have gone to the Jazz game feeling so sick. but hey, the ibuprophen kept the headache away. I even ate good and thanks to the congested ears, I couldn't hear the NOISE in the Event Center. And without a voice, I just clap!!!
Anyhoo, couldn't sleep at all last night. I didn't want to take another PM pill, don't want to get hooked, so I just took one ibuprophen and sat on the couch so I wouldn't wake up hubby with my coughs. One thing about being sick and awake in the middle of the night is you get to read scriptures, you get to count your blessings. Blessings: 1) I was the only one not as sick in the family when everyone was deathly ill the last 3 weeks! Who would take care of them, otherwise? 2) I got to run with Karen for her first 20 miler! :) She is going to do AWESOME at SLC.
3) I got to run with Emi while she was here in February on a few days when the weather was good, albeit a few yards at a time. I have a feeling she's gonna be a great runner or gymnast! I will be running my 4th Boston on her 2nd birthday! I will finish the marathon even if I have to crawl!
4) My family in Hawaii and Japan are safe! 5) My children have grown up to be fine people. They are kind, Christlike, humble, busily and anxiously engaged in good things. I am very proud of them. I love them soooo much! I miss them terribly! 6) My sweet, kind, gentle husband is healthy. He is loved and respected by all who know him. I have learned to accept the fact (or through FAITH) that I must share him or his time with those he serves and works with. 7) I have met many wonderful friends like you through running! What a great community of good good people who care deeply! My association with many of you have greatly enriched my life! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! Scripture: Isaiah 40:31 ~ "But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Yes, I need to *wait* upon the Lord daily! :) :) :)
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| Night Sleep Time: 3.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 3.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 13.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
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13 in 2:05:45.
4 mi warm up (5 - 6mph) 4 x 800 @ 8mph with 400 RI @ 6mph 6 mi cool down (6.5mph)
After 3 days of zero running and moping around the house, I had enough. The antibiotic should be kicking in; but the chest was still tighter than a submarine. Couldn't get any over the counter inhaler. So decided to do some walking on the TM to see if I could loosen up the lungs. I sounded like a freight train during the initial miles. Had to stop numerous times to drink, blow the nose, cough, cough, cough!!! Gasping for air during the 800s so stopped with just four. During the cool down, my knee really bugged. I concluded that treadmill running is BAD for my knee.
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 13.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 2.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.50 |
| 10.5 miles in 1:39:05. AP: 9:26. (10:20, 9:57, 9:38, 9:29, 9:29, 9:27, 9:14, 9:20, 8:57, 8:49, 8:50). Headed out just before 1pm with no idea if the lungs would let me run. Had one yogurt and EmergenC for breakfast. So decided to carry a hand held 20oz bottle filled with Gatorade. The chest congestion got loosened up about 30 min. into the run. Legs felt fine after 6 miles so kept going and made it home in one piece! whew! T was 41, a slight breeze, cloudy, could have used some gloves, my hands were cold the whole time w/ a hand held bottle! It was worth it though since sipping gatorade helped so much w/ the cough and throat! ♣ HAPPY ST. PADDY'S DAY!!! ♣
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| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 10.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 1.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.50 |
| Didn't get much sleep...that's what happened when I talked to my kids on the phone late at night. It's all good! :) Carolyn and Wendy called to see if I wanted to run w/ them. Ran w/ Wendy for 2.5. Ran Carolyn home for 5.5. She left her jacket on my porch, so ran it back to her for another mile. Still a bit chilly, sun's out but hazy! Forgot gloves again! Mucous galore...I suppose it's good de-congestion therapy! :)
6.5 in 1:02:45. AP: 9:39 (10:37, 10:09, 9:49, 9:35, 9:26, 8:56, 8:20)
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| Inspire 5 Purple (3) Miles: 6.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 4.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 4.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 18.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 18.00 |
| Met Karen, Kelli and Scott at the Lehi JRP at 8. I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE running with Kelli. I think she should get free entry to every race by being a pacer! :) Not only can she run whatever pace and distance, she makes you feel like a million bucks running side by side her!!! :) :) :) WONDERFUL conversations! GREAT confidence booster! TRUE friend thru and thru!!!! THANK YOU SO SO SO SO MUCH, KELLI, FOR COMING ALL THE WAY TO RUN WITH ME every step of the way! You're the BEST!!!! You're gonna do FANTASTIC at Buffalo 50 miler next week! :)
It was a beautiful run except for ONE little minor thing, the WIND!!! GOODNESS!!! I think I actually felt the wind pushed me back a few steps. I am very happy for Karen. She stayed with us the whole time, plus she had Sky on a leash. She is going to do GREAT at Salt Lake Marathon. Today's run really boost her confidence! We stopped only once at the car at mile 11.25 to drink and I gu'd. After the brief stop at the car we continued north. Then everyone turned back by the elementary school since they only wanted to do 12 but accompanied me for an extra mile for 13. I couldn't do any math so they figured it out for me, I continued on 'till my Garmin hit 14.7, then turned back to make 18. I tell ya, my last solo miles was a battle over fatigue & wind!!! The thought that I might have forgotten to lock my car kept me going! :) I am happy with my effort. No potty breaks, only stopped once to gu. Drank while running, a total of 14 oz and 1 gu. I am now starving! :)
18 miles in 2:47:43. AP; 9:19. Splits: 9:39, 9:14, 9:16, 9:11, 9:22, 9:37 (drink), 9:09, 9:15, 9:18, 9:11, 9:08, 9:39 (said goodbye), 9:09, 9:18, 9:04, 9:21, 9:36 (major wind, got a text from RAD about hers and SSF's Spectrum time! WOW!) 9:09. The last 3 miles pace surprised me, especially the last mile, it was all headwind w/ some rolling hills, I thought I was running in the 10s. Side note: An hour into the run I kept thinking
about my SSF at Spectrum, calculating in my
mind where she'd be on the course. I even talked out loud,
"GO Teena GO, PUSH it, you can do it!" when she had about a mile to
go!!! I sure hope all our friends did great at their races today.
Can't wait to read the reports. :)
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 18.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.75 |
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4 weeks 'till Boston!!! Ran nice & EZ with Wendy (for 3), Karen (for 8.5) then by myself for total of 10.75 all over the neighborhood on the bench in brand spanking new shoes, shorts, l/s top. Cloudy sky and breezy. AP: 10:05. 6 circuits of Pfitz. CSE. |
| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 10.75 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 6.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.50 |
| Karen's text woke me up & asked if I was doing speed work! Today's schedule calls for 11 mi w/ 6 x 1,000m @5K race pace. Quickly got ready and Ran to Karen's and did our usual loop together (6 miles). She only needed 5 miles. After dropping her home I did not feel like doing speedwork so I ran down on 3rd West to the rail Trail and loop back up home. I wanted to run some hilly miles at marathon pace. Mile 8 was downhill on which the knee held out okay. The last 4 miles were all uphill. Coughing a bit. Did not have a single drop to drink or eat other than the EmergenC before leaving the house! T was in the high 30s, partly cloudy with a slight breeze! Felt really good about the run.
12.5 in 1:57:12. AP: 9:21 Splits: 10:15, 10:21, 10:21, 9:55, 9:52, 9:52, 8:31, 8:26, 8:43, 8:44, 8:53, 8:59, 8:28
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 12.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.00 | 2.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 14.75 |
| Gorgeous day!!! sunny blue sky with a good 6mph SSW breeze! Ran with Carolyn for 5 around the 'hood; then by myself up to Alpine. Turned around 1 mile shy of the fountain of youth to make it home in time to shower and go visit teaching. The legs definitely felt the miles from the last two days, especially on the hills. Had only EmergenC and 20 oz gatorade from the hand-held...somewhat glycogen depleted.
14.75 in 2:20:35. AP: 9:35 Need to do yoga, stretch and foam roll later...I am very sleepy and tired at the moment!
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 14.75 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| Could never sleep well when hubby's out of town. Spent the evening foam rolling the legs...TORTURE!...but oh SO GOOD! :) Surprisingly the legs felt OK this morning. Ran about 0.2 mile; then abruptly turned back home. The storm was rolling in, serious dark ominous clouds and wind approaching. Karen picked me up within 5 min and off we went to the Legacy Center. LUCKY DAY...there were only two ellipticals open and they're next to each other!!! Hallelujah! We had a great workout chatting and sweating away. Got really excited planning our 20+ miler on Sat., longest run before our marathons! Yahoo!!! :) :) :)
Went to the temple then to Costco. Getting ready to watch Jimmer and the Cougs make history tonight! :) :) :) RISE N SHOUT!!!
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| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 8.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.50 |
| Rather than brave the wind and snow this morning, Karen and I opted to save our legs for tomorrow's long run. So we hit the LC again. We also used some of the machines to work our abs, chest and oblique muscles for 30 min. Then we drove the route that we plan to run tomorrow. Hopefully there won't be much traffic and the storm clears out. It has been so fun planning these long runs with Karen. I remember I used to train alone for my first couple marathons in 2005 and 2006, without Garmin, fuel belt, etc. It is so much easier to have someone to train with. I think I am more excited for Karen's first marathon than my upcomig Boston. She is a GREAT runner and will do AWESOME on April 16.
GOOD LUCK and HAPPY RUNNIN' to y'all fellow bloggers running and racing tomorrow! May the running gods smile upon all of us!!! :)
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| Inspire 5 Purple (3) Miles: 6.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 17.00 | 3.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20.75 |
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Longest run before Boston DONE...THANKS to the WONDERFUL company of Kathie, Kimmy and Karen!!! :) :) :) :) :) We ran from Lehi to Highland, American Fork, Pleasant Grove/Manila, Cedar Hills, Alpine. A total of 20.75 very hilly miles in 3:18:38. AP: 9:34. Kathie drove Kimmy to my house dark and early to start our run at 6:30 am. Karen ran halfway (0.5 mi) to meet us, perfect timing! We headed west, then south and east to Mt. Timpanogos Temple where Kimmy had dropped off her car earlier (mile 7.5). My hands were frozen; thanks to Kimmy giving me her gloves, they were happy the rest of the run! THANKS!!! :) We bid Kimmy goodbye then continued eastward for more uphill miles. We turned north on 900 West (Silo Rd). From mile 7-12 is a steady climb along the foothills of PG, Manila and Cedar Hills to the mouth of AF Canyon. Then we got a mile of nice gentle downgrade and canyon tailwind going west on SR 92. That mile sure felt GREAT! :) :) :)
We turned north, meaning more UPhills, on 4800 West Highland to Alpine. As we approach a series of UPhills on Westfield Rd (around mile 15), Kathie's ankle started to throb. She had twisted it earlier around mile 1 from a rock while running in the dark. Dang! I felt terrible and began to worry! :( She had run 22 miles last Sat., such a STRONG AWESOME runner!!! I don't think I could do back to back long runs! My knee was behaving fine since we were running mostly uphill. At the crest of the last uphill we turned south on Suncrest for 1.5 mile of downhill where I opened up a bit, paying attention to the knee. Was relief that Kathie's ankle was fine on the downhill. Pushed hard the last 3.75 miles home pretending to embrace the pain of the last 5K from Kenmore Square to Boylston! :) This is a confidence builder that I will be able to finish Boston and Karen will do GREAT at SLC!!!!
Ate one package Powerbar chews and 8oz Gatorade! My bad!!! Immediately drank a huge glass of chocolate milk post run. Ice-bath 15 min. before shower then lunch. Now icing the knee. Busy day getting ready for a big day tomorrow. My choir is singing at Sacrament. Bryan's Mission President and wife are coming to dinner after church! Gotta clean house and go to the store! Hope I get a nap in b/w reading fellow bloggers' race reports! :)
THANKS Kathie, Kimmy for driving all the way here to run with me! YOU ARE the BEST!!!! LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!! :) :) :)
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 3.75 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.25 | 1.25 | 0.00 | 2.50 | 10.00 |
| 3 weeks 'till Boston
Warm up 5 miles with Karen. Then without pause, got right into 5 x half mile repeats @ 5K race pace w/ 1/4 mi jog between. Running east and west on 3200N, interval 1, 2, and 4 were with headwind...sucking wind and wheezing!!! 3 and 5 with tailwind...NICE!!! Didn't get splits for the intervals except for the last one at 3:54. Cool down 1.25 mi @ mp. 10 in 1:34:24. AP: 9:26 (10:18, 10:27, 9:59, 9:51, 9:55, 8:22, 8:32, 8:21, 8:33, 9:01) So glad I got it done and beat the storm!!! :) It's a howling and snowing out there now!!! BUSY week doing wedding stuff, bridal shower for my future daughter-in-law, my boy has a concerto solo performance, etc. etc. etc. :)
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| DEAD legs run, STINK!!! Met Karen halfway between her house and mine. We ran down 3rd West to get on the Rail trailhead. Not sure what the temp was, but it was cold with frost still on the lawn. My right knee was hurting. Going up the trail seemed to help with the knee and warmed up nicely. We got to the top/dead end of the trail (it will be nice when SR 92 construction is complete and the trail is connected all the way north to the point of the mountain), we turned around to head down to the Pheasant Pointe trail access towards Fox Hollow Elementary. When we reached 1200 West, instead of kept going east on 3200 North, Karen wanted to head north on 1200 West. I haven't run that 0.3 mile (approx. 9% grade) uphill for awhile. I used to run that to gauge my fitness keeping the pace under 10mm. But today I felt like I was hauling boulders. When we reached the top I was getting dizzy and a little out of breath. We turned east on Bull River and within a quarter mile, instead of feeling recovered, I felt as if my heart was going to jump out of my throat. I could feel my heart pounding under the skin of my chest. I also felt nauseated. I had never felt that way EVER before. It was quite frightening. I stopped running immediately and leaned on Karen in case I passed out. Karen also could feel the pulsating heart in my chest with her hand. My breathing was fine so I started to walk and got the heartbeat under control. When we reached Karen's house at mile 7. I went inside to get a drink of gatorade. After chatting a little, I went back for 5 more. I should have just run the one mile home because by mile 8 both my knees had tightened up and hurting. By mile 10 my legs were as if on fire. Each step was painfully slow, like death march at the end of a marathon. The wind has also picked up. Never have I felt so relieved to make it home!
Took an ice bath as soon as I got in the house. I am still puzzled by that arrhythmia episode. I wonder if that is what a heart attack feels like??? 12 in 2:03:21 AP: 10:22. Stinkiest MLR EVER!!! :(
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 12.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| 5 slow wheezing miles with Karen, Wendy! Very fatigue! |
| Inspire 5 Purple (3) Miles: 5.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| 7 slow slow slow miles to figure things out! Still wheezy and fatigue. Called the doc. office to ask for prescription. Was instructed to go in and pick up a Symbicort inhaler, the same stuff doc. gave me couple years ago when I was diagnosed with cold/exercise induced asthma. I only used that inhaler couple of times then. When I got to the doc. office, the receptionist saw how labored my breathing was; she insisted that I be seen by the doc. I really didn't have time for that; but they said they could fit me in after the two patients he's seeing. Bleh!
My O2 sat. was 82. The doc. had me take the inhaler and it went up to 88. I told him about Tuesday's scary tachycardia episode. He did an EKG to make sure the heart fine. The diagnosis: asthma as a result of viral/bacterial bronchitis, allergens, etc. Teena was right that the tachycardia was an acute reaction to the asthma attack causing a rapid dumping of adrenalin. He sent me home with enough Symbicort to last a month and a prescription of Ventolin! Blah! He told me I must carry the Ventolin inhaler with me while running! Stink!
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| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 7.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 1.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| Went hiking with Wendy, Jennifer, Diane and Karen in the A.F. Canyon. It was such a beautiful day. After I got home I wanted to run outside but the farmer across from my house was burning weeds and the irrigation ditches. SMOKE galore! That would not be good for my lungs. So I ran inside on the TM. Felt good to have some quick leg turnovers.
7.5 AP: 8:49
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 7.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 9.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 17.50 |
| Was gone all evening and night last night trying to shop for a dress to wear for my son's upcoming wedding. Didn't eat dinner until 9:30 pm, legs and feet extremely tired. Took my inhaler just before going to bed at midnight, BIG mistake!!! It kept me up!!!! Yick! On the way to Draper City Park I could see the big US Flag at Geneva Rock blowing in a complete horizontal display which only means one thing: STRONG gusty wind!!! Despite the strong wind, I had a FUN FUN FUN run with WONDERFUL Teena, Lowell, Karen, RAD, Toby, Kathie, TomSlick. Other GREAT Chumps: Annie, Nic, Matt, Brooke, Marty, Kim, Kendi and Andrea came too. 17.5 in 2:42:21 AP: 9:17. I wanted to wait for Teena who needed to run 2.5 more to make 20; but had to get home for General Conference. THANKS ALL for a GREAT time!
Busy busy busy day with company and bridal shower for my son's bride-to-be!
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 17.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 3.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 3.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
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14 DAYS 'till BOSTON!!!! 19 DAYS 'till the WEDDING!!! 20 DAYS 'till the MISSION FAREWELL!!!! 
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| Inspire 5 Purple (3) Miles: 2.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.25 |
| AM: Nice and easy de-stress run, first 5 with Karen. AP: 10:00
PM: Karen got addresses to all these bridal shops around University Mall (had no idea there are so many of them). Then she drove me there. We had so much fun trying on *MoB* and *MoG* dresses and gowns!!! Why are they SO EXPENSIVE?!?!?! Funny thing is I could fit in the flower girls dresses better than the MoB/G's gowns! Karen got a good laugh!!! :)
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 9.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
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5 EZ with Wendy.
Today is my baby's 19th birthday! He will be leaving for Taiwan for his mission in a month! I am feeling both happy and sad at the same time...kinda like MotherNature's bipolar personality lately! :)
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| Inspire 5 Purple (3) Miles: 5.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| 8 mi with 3x1600m @ 5Kpace 800 RI. TT: 1:07:50 AP: 8:28. Forecast for Boston looks like a wet rainy weekend, Teena's favorite marathon weather! :)
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 8.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.25 |
| 8.25 AP: 9:17 I will be flying to Boston one week from today...so NOT ready!!!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 8.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 8.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.50 |
| A WONDERFUL run with Maynard, Luz and RAD on the Lehi JRP under snowy sky. RAD had gotten there earlier to get some miles done before our start time at 6:30am. How that girl get up so early and get some much done in a day is beyond me!
It was so cool to watch Chad Robinson ran stealthily ahead disappearing within 60 seconds; then floated smoothly by us 3 more times. I seriously am in awe at how effortlessly and fluidly he runs! The miles just flew by in the company of such GREAT friends! Thank you for driving such long distance to run with me! I would have wimped out if it weren't for you!!! 13.5 in 2:02:53. AP: 9:06. Perfect last MLR before Boston!!! After a quick shower I went to a viewing and funeral of a neighbor. It was an honor to be asked to do the music. I used to give him subcutaneous injections. I treasure the memories of visiting him and his wife over the years. You would have never known he had terminal cancer for the last 4.5 years. He always had a quick wit and sense of humor, a twinkle in his eyes with a sweet smile. He and his wife were married for 65 years...theirs is a real life love story! Then I went to the baptism of my neighbor's 75 y.o. mother who is Korean. Her sons were converts over 30 years ago. She was very opposed to their joining the church and serving missions. What a joyful occasion for me to witness the baptism of this dear mother/grandmother. While at the baptism, hubby and I saw a Korean couple who were our friends in the days when we were students at BYU some 30+ years ago! Sweet reunion! :) In the evening we attended our son's concert, 4th one in the last two weeks. At the end of the concert we saw many friends among them a friend whose toddler was drowned while I was the R.S. president in the ward years ago.
I feel so very blessed that these great friends were so much a part of my life over the years!!! The gospel is all about becoming Christlike and bringing people and families unto Christ. I am so thankful for Christlike friends! :) :) :) :) :)
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 13.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.15 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.15 |
| One Week to Boston and my grand-daughter's and her mommy's birthday - April 18!!!
A week from now I will be sitting on an air mattress in the Athlete Village at Hopkinton soaking in the pre-race atmosphere, waiting for the F16s to fly overhead before heading to my corral! Hope the weather will be as nice as today, sunny blue sky and a bit cool. Had a nice chatty run with Wendy (she did 4), and Karen (did 5); then 2 by myself. The right knee was a bit sore the first couple miles. Forgot to take my inhaler yesterday and this morning; so was wheezing a bit during the run. I think Karen is SO READY for her first marathon as she was feeling antsy and wish the race was today instead of Sat. How I wish I could be there to cheer her in. :)
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 7.15 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
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Forgot to take the Symbicort again this morning; and the smokey air from Spring Open Burn made the asthma worse!!! By the time I made it home, I was a wheezing mess!!! It was a broken up 7 miler. Ran with Wendy to Karen's where she set up the refurbished Garmin 301 Lowell sent her. It was taking too long to acquire the signal, so we left it on the lawn and ran up to Bull River and back for 3 miles. The Garmin was still trying to acquire signal; so I rebooted it for her. It took couple minutes to find the location (which had been hundreds of miles from the last location) and acquired the signal. We then ran the 1 mile to my house to see if the Garmin works. Somehow it showed that we ran 0.98 in 7:14...NO WAY!!! So we reset it and ran 1.25 mile back to her house which showed our AP at 9:48. Then I ran home. It was a fun run getting Karen all psyched up for SLC and *peer-pressured* Wendy to sign up for SGM! :) Going to get a hair cut this afternoon, run some errands, then clean house and set up beds and bedding for my out of states family members coming to the Wedding & mission Farewell next weekend! We're going to beautify my neighbor's yard this evening. The dad/husband has terminal brain cancer. They are leaving this morning for Spring Break vacation. Hope they will be happily surprised! :) :) :) :) :)
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 7.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.50 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| EZ taper run w/ some mp thrown in. Aside from the arid smokey air, it was perfect day for running outside! Ran into Karen walking/jogging with Sky and her two youngest daughters. She is SO ready for Sat. marathon!!! :) :) :)
Really like how light and fast the Elixir feels. But I can tell it definitely works my anterior tibialis more. So I will stick with the old trusty Inspire for Boston; and train more on the Elixir this summer!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 5.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| 5 quick EZ taper run! Lots to do...
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 5.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.15 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.15 |
| Woke up with shortness of breath and congestion; a good reminder to take my Symbicort! :) Last taper run! Ran to Karen's and gave her little girls some cow-bells and instructions to CHEER LOUDLY for their mom tomorrow! :) Did 2 EZ on Bull River with Karen! I am so excited for her! Lots to do besides packing! Flying to Boston tonight!!! :)
GOOD LUCK to y'all running Salt Lake City tomorrow and Boston on Monday!!! :) :) :)
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 4.15 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| A LONG day! MarcieN, hubby and I flew to Boston on a red-eye Friday night arriving around lunch time on Sat. Our hotel room wasn't ready so we went to lunch at this brand new Italian eatery, Vapiano across the street before heading over to the Expo. It was windy and cold. Saw Ryan Hall at the Expo. Met Lowell and TJ. Bought some Adidas Boston clothes...the bright wasabi green is kinda different but beginning to wear on me. Also bought a fuel belt to hold race bib, gels, inhaler, etc. Went back to the hotel, this year we got the 18th floor. Tried out the new clothes and played with the fuel belt to see if I like wearing it on Monday. Met the gang (Marcie, Rhett, Doone, Kathie, James, Terry Omura and his family) in the lobby at 6pm. AmberG and her sil, Amanda, Kam and his family joined us. We walked 2 blocks to the Empire Garden for dinner while Larry, Slick and Ronnie (Hillbilly) stayed behind to wait for Lito (Bobcat). I made reservation for two tables. We were later joined by RattleTrap and his family of 4 for a total 24 people. So fun to eat and visit with everybody. There is much excitement anticipating a great race day weather with many possible PRs to be had! It was nice meeting Kam and RattleTrap in person. For some reason I could not sleep. I had so much on my mind and was strangely nervous. Another highlight of the day was when I got text messages and picture of Karen's Salt Lake City Marathon's result. She ran it in 4:09:xx!!! WOW!!!! That is so AWESOME!!! Karen and I have trained together this whole Fall and Winter. She is so dedicated! She is a GREAT runner! I will not be surprised if she BQ at SGM this year! :) :) :) :) I am SO HAPPY and EXCITED for her!!!
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London Marathon (26.2 Miles) 03:00:30 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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This is from an email sent by Gary, my brother-in-law, I just want to share it with you, some of you have met him in person! I am so proud of him!
Well, its done! I finished the London
marathon in 3 hours (and 30 seconds). This was a meaningful race
for me because 1) I was running for a great cause and with your generous
donations we raised over US$5,000 for Children With Leukaemia; and 2) I
have now run all of the World Major Marathons (yes, there is such a thing
- Chicago, NY, Boston, Berlin, London) in three hours or less.
A few details (runners have this quirky
thing about writing race reports). On Saturday, I did the usual carbo-loading
that included an egg and sausage bagel sandwich, big cinnamon roll, ham
bagel sandwich, pasta, hamburger, fried rice, more pasta, turkey sandwich,
energy bar and four bottles of Lucazade.
Weather conditions were perfect at the
start. A nice cool 8 degrees. Start time was 9:45am. By the end of
the race, however, it was a quite warm. I had brought my Garmin and heart
monitor having prepared for this race knowing exactly what my split times
and heart rate were going to be (or supposed to be). It was fully
charged two days before the race so I didn't bother rechecking it (a big
time rookie mistake!). When I turned it on at the start line it said
'battery low'. So, I was a bit concerned at first that I couldn't
rely on my trusty Garmin and had to run the entire race without the benefit
of it or any timing device, which I had never done before, but not much
one can do when you're standing at the start line. The course wound
through the city of London, passed a number of historic landmarks and ended
at Buckingham Palace. There were a few inclines but for the most part it
was a pretty flat course. The crowds were unbelievable. The entire course
was packed with people many many deep and they were very very loud and
energetic. Lots of great music too.
Thoughts during the race: family, friends,
work, memories, future, blessings, nothing, am I there yet, why is this
mile so much longer than the others.
The finish line is always a very welcome
site. All in all a great race experience and very satisfying. I then
had two hours to stretch, shower, find my traditional post-race juicy hamburger
with a Dr. Pepper and pack up and head for the airport for the long flight
home. Runners got to travel on the trains for free that day!
Once again, thanks to all of you who
gave so generously to Children With Leukaemia and supported me in this
effort. The staff at the charity were also extremely grateful for all of
the donations. The funds are being used for a very worthy cause.
With many thanks and best regards
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Boston Marathon (26.2 Miles) 04:19:13 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 26.59 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 26.59 |
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Had SO much fun the entire Boston weekend: meeting new friends, re-united with old friends, ate so good, Chinese on Sat. with 24 friends and families, Italian on Sun. and Legal Seafood on Mon. with the gang! Was so great to meet fellow bloggers in person: Kam, his wife and parents, RattleTrap and his family. Saw Ryan Hall at the Expo. Rode the hotel elevator with Paul Petersen. AmberG & Amanda had dinner with us...I was SO EXCITED for Amber...lots of giggles!!! :) New activity for me this year was going to the Old South Church for the Blessings of the Athletes with Lowell & Terry on Sun. which was also Palm Sunday...very cool!!! Had so much fun that almost forgot I had a marathon to run! :)
It had been windy and rainy everyday except race morning. The running gods were with us this year, temps in the 40s-50s, mostly sunny sky, WSW 16mph wind. It's no wonder that Geoffrey Mutai set the world record and won the 115th Boston Marathon in 2:03:02. Only wish I had the health and fitness to take advantage of the perfect race condition. Due to illnesses, patellar tendonitis and busy family events, my training this Winter hadn't gone as well as I wanted: not enough downhill running for fear of aggravating the knee, ran only two 20 milers and very very little speedwork. I did put in the necessary mileage and some tempo runs and marathon paced miles. Thus, my goal was to finish my 4th Boston without a trip to the med tent. We (Marcie, Kathie, Rhett, Lark, TomSlick, Ronnie, Jose, Lito) rode the bus to Hopkinton and got there at 7:45 with almost 3 hours to kill. Kathie and I had a ton of fun lounging on our air mattresses, lots of giggles, p-o-p trips, tried to stay warm, hydrated and snacked on honey pretzel, chex mix, banana, PowerBar chew, gatorade. We said goodbye and wished our fast friends great runs as they headed to their wave 1 and 2 start. Finally it was time for Lark, Kathie and I to head to our wave 3 start. We lost Kathie at the bag drop off. Lark and I crossed the start mat at 10:46am. He managed to keep track of me while we weaved through throngs of slower runners. I lost him at the first aid station. I told him I would try to stay in the middle of the road should we get separated. I figured he would soon find me. (Mile 1-6 ~ 9:14, 8:48, 8:51, 8:35, 8:55, 8:58). My pace and thoughts started to drift quite a bit as my mind was filled with thoughts of my children, my SSF, upcoming wedding and mission farewells, and memories of past Bostons. Somewhere after Wellesley, Lark came up to me and woke me up. We crossed the half at 1:59:xx. (Mile 7-13 ~ 8:48, 9:11, 8:54, 9:08, 9:09, 9:18, 9:13). Lark asked how my knee was doing. He said the ball of his feet were on fire. That's when I realized my knee hasn't bothered me at all, in fact it was fine the entire race. But there was a blister forming on the ball of my left foot and both my quads were screaming. I told him I felt fine...everything is great...(ya, big lies)! He soon had to stop to tend to his blisters and I continued the rest of the race alone with my thoughts and aware of how painful my quads were getting. (Mile 14-20 ~ 9:07, 9:20, 9:18, 10:08, 10:10, 9:54, 10:21) I started to wheeze going up the first hill past the highway overpass so had to take the inhaler.
I passed father/son Richard & Rick Hoyt at mile 16.8 just before the Newton Fire Station where we would make a right turn to begin the Newton Hills. It was so inspiring to see them giving me resolve to NOT walk the hills. On the steeper 3rd hill, I was asked by 3 different runners: "Is this Heartbreak Hill?" to which I replied: "No, not yet!" "Where is it?" "It's right after mile 20. No worries, it's not as steep as this one, you are doing great!" The crowds, the music, the drums were AWESOME!!! I was able to RUN (albeit in the 10s) the hills! From Newton on I did not look at my Garmin once because I was afraid to see how slow I was going. The crowd at Boston College was as wild and loud as ever. However my screaming quads was much louder. I knew it would be disaster if I charged down the hill. I just focused on shorter strides and ignored the painful quads. I managed to high five all the kids (the only spectators at my level of height)! At around mile 22, Sharla Fillmore (Kam's mother) came up and asked: "Is that you Smooth?" I was so happy to see a familiar face (even though I had only met her for the first time at Sat. night's dinner). I congratulated her and told her how PROUD I was of her. Here she is at 64, running her 2nd Boston Marathon and passing all these youngsters (me)! It was as if I was running backward with all these runners flying by! I finally looked at my Garmin and was horrified at how slow I was running. I bonked BIG time!!! I could not get my legs to go any faster. The Citgo sign was still half a mile away when my Garmin read 3:59:xx. Oh Well, I am going to finish and I'm going to finish with a happy smile instead of cramps! Finally reached Boylston, I looked for James, Doone and my hubby outside the Convention Center among thousands of spectators. I blew them kisses and headed to the finish with a satisfying smile on my face! It's over! No more running! I walked wobbly with throngs of runners to get our recovery drink/food, blanket and medal! I kissed my medal and started to tear up with emotions! YES, I finished and avoided a trip to the med tent! (Mile 21-finish ~ 11:09, 10:05, 10:36, 11:17, 11:24, 12:20, last .59 mile in 6:50) CONGRATULATIONS to all my fellow bloggers who ran GREAT times today! :) :) :)
THANK YOU all for your many well wishes, love and support! You're the best! :) :) :)
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| Checked out of the hotel and stowed our luggage. Walked to Quincy Market for lunch. Quads are SO SO SO SO SORE!!! It was raining! Hubby did not feel like walking the Freedom Trail.
Got to the airport early only to find the flights were delayed! Lots of sitting and waiting around at Logan International and Atlanta airport.
The flight from Atlanta to SLC was very choppy and bumpy as we flew over northern part of Texas through a huge storm. Arrived at SLC international at 1:00am. There was a security drill at the airport so the shuttles to the economy parking were diverted so we had to walk to the short-term parking garage to get on the shuttle. Needless to say we got home at 2am Wed. morning, exhausted from a long day of travel.
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Slept in till 6:30. Body so tired. Quads SO stiff. Wish I had time to do some active recovery! Quickly unpack before the day's busyness starts!
Busy getting the house ready for out-of-states families. Lots of phone calls to confirm the wedding luncheon guests. Errands and food shopping. Quads are very tight but no time to stretch and roll.
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| Picked up my sister from the airport at 10:30am. So good to see my sister who loves me more than life itself. Took her to Market Street Grill for lunch. Shopping at Target for wedding gifts, etc. Picked up my daughter and grand baby at the airport at 8:30 pm. Baby Jett is almost 4 months old and has grown so big since I last saw him at 2 weeks old. |
| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.25 |
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Got up early before everyone wakes up. Went out for a short recovery run. Had to stop every half mile for the first two miles to stretch the quads. It felt so good to run. I LOVE running in the Elixir. Saw Wendy, Karen and Karen's sister Jill (who's visiting from CA) at half mile from home. They were just starting and I was about done. We stopped to talk and give each other brief reports of how our respective marathons went.
Picked up the tuxedos. More shopping and last minutes prep. for the wedding and food for Sunday's luncheon after the farewell. Picked up Eric, Marianne and Emi at the airport at 2:30pm. Cut Steven's and Bryan's hair. Thankgoodness I didn't have to go to Logan to pick up Steven. His cousin, Emily, drove him. He was good to entertain Baby Josiah in the backseat during the drive.
Took the whole family to Texas Road House for dinner. We had "call ahead seating" but still had to wait for an hour and were seated at 2 separate booths (boys in one and girls in another). So much for celebrating our 33rd Anniversary. I got to wave at my sweetheart across the booths.
Jen brought over the bridesmaid's dresses for Marianne and Larissa at 11:30pm. while Jeff and I were working on the guests seatings for the wedding luncheon. Larissa, Marianne and I had so much fun giggling and trying on the bridesmaids' dresses. They look darling.
Eric went to pick up David from the airport at midnight. David hadn't eaten yet. He ate the leftover from our dinner at Texas Rd House. I had to iron Jeff's shirts and pants and fixed the hem of his suit pants. We finally went to bed at 1:30am.
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 4.25 |
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Wedding day!!! Special day!!! My third child, Jeffrey, is married to Jennifer in the Draper Temple. The weather co-operated! The newly weds coming out of the Temple!
Jen and Jeff waiting for the families to gather for picture taking!
Bride's family (l-r): Jessie, Kelsey, Kent, Jeff, Jen, Diana, Kayla and Jaymie:
Groom's family: Back (l-r): Eric holding Emi, Marianne, Bryan, David
Front (l-r): Steven, Larry, Jeff, Jen, me, Larissa.
At the luncheon: Eric, Marianne, Emi, Larissa, Jett, David, Bryan & Steven:  The newly weds and the bride's parents: Diana and Kent:
Baby Jett and me: 
Reception at the Lion House:  The groom's brothers: Eric (married), David (very available bachelor), Steven (going on mission in a few days) and Bryan (available bachelor):
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HAPPY EASTER!!! Today's one of the most special days of my life!!! Today we celebrated and commemorated the resurrection of our Lord Savior and Jesus Christ! It is through His atoning sacrifice than we may attain eternal life. My baby, Steven, had the opportunity to speak in Sacrament Meeting. Because of yesterday's wedding, all of his siblings and many of our families are in attendance. Families coming from California, Texas, Arizona, Oregon, Colorado and Idaho are able to hear Steven speak before he leaves for his mission to Taiwan Taipei in couple of weeks. It was wonderful and special to have my SSF, Teena, and her family there!!! Steven spoke on the atonement and what it means to come unto Christ. He has grown up so much! He will be a wonderful missionary bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the people of Taiwan. My choir sang a medley of He Is Risen and Christ the Lord Is Risen Today with piano and violin accompaniment. (Eric did a great job playing the violin at the last minute). The choir sang BEAUTIFULLY!!! Hope all in attendance were uplifted!
After Sacrament, families and friends gathered at our home for lunch. My sister and I had gotten up early to do last min. food prep. By the way we did not get home from the reception till 10:30 last night and went to bed well past midnight. Thanks to my sister, everything turned out beautifully. I am so very blessed!!! I am very grateful for the blessings of the Gospel! My dream and goal in life was to have all my children live to be Temple worthy. Yesterday everyone of my children were in the Temple sealing room to witness the union of their brother and his bride, my newest daughter. My heart was full and over-joyed with the promises and blessings of Eternal Family. I am thankful for a wonderful husband who puts up with me. We have been married for 33 years. I love him so much! He is a man of integrity. He is a great leader and example to those around him. He serves humbly, quietly and faithfully. He is very devoted to his family, church and work. I am grateful to be blessed with 6 great kids (1 girl and 5 boys). When I was young and naive, I wanted to have 12 children (6 girls and 6 boys). Now we have 6 sons and 3 daughters. When my 3 other sons get married I will have my 6 daughters! :) Larry and I strive to give our children *roots and wings*. We hope our children are rooted in the Lord Jesus Christ and His ways; that they have a firm foundation upon which to build and never falter from. We hope they are rooted deeply in their noble heritage and family ties of which they can be proud of and identify with. We hope our children are taught, trained and nurtured that they may reach their highest potentials; that as they leave the nest, they will have *wings* to fly, to reach high and lofty goals. It was bittersweet to bid goodbye to my children at 3 pm this afternoon: Eric and his family flew back to Oregon to finish up his last externship. David flew back to school in Glendale, AZ. Steven back to Logan (his cousin, Emily drove him home and back) to finish up his last week of school and finals at USU. Bryan back to BYU before he leaves for China on Wed. The last 48 hours went by too quickly!!! I don't know when it will be the next time we are all together again! Sigh!!!
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No running today so I could spend every last possible minutes with my sister, my daughter and grandbaby. Took the newlyweds to the airport at 9:45am for their honeymoon to Kauai. Took Larissa and Jett to the airport at 11:15am. Returned the tuxedos. Took my sister, Sissy to the airport at 2:15pm. Began the *de-guesting* process of taking down beddings, towels, linens, etc. Had a quiet evening with my sweet hubby! WE need to go on a honeymoon ourselves! :) **** I notice the knee (same old right tibial tuberosity) was very tender to touch and sore when flexing and bending the knee.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
| Was going to go running when a long time friend came by with the wedding gift. She ended up staying the whole morning. Got on the TM and was interrupted by several phone calls. The missionaries who found me and baptized me (the elder found me, the sister taught me...they ended up married after their mission) came over to the house with a wedding gift and a sister from HK. We visited all evening long. A sweet day recalling wonderful memories and renewing friendship!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 2.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| AM: 12 recovery miles. 4 with Wendy around the Smith's Market Place and Center St. block. Then 3.75 by myself to Bull River and ended up at Karen's house where she gave me 8oz gatorade.
4.25 with Karen down 3200N to trail by railroad and back up on 300W. Quads were very tight. PM: foam roll, stretch the legs. Abs.
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| Inspire 5 Purple (3) Miles: 12.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 11.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.00 |
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AM: Ran 6.5 with Wendy, Carolyn and Karen. PM: 4.5 TM with 3.5% incline. Foam roll and stretch the quads. Core Stability Exercise while watching a cute Chinese movie, White Dragon. Quads felt fine during the run. It sure hurts when doing deep bend. Right tibial tuberosity (knee) still hurts. Strange that it did not hurt during the marathon or the days after. With almost a week of rest you'd think the knee would be fine; but the soreness shows up a week later and now is hurting. I am thinking that the tendon might be getting stiff from inactivity...so I am going to keep running instead of taking 6 weeks off skipping Ogden. So onto Ogden then UVM I go! :)
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 4.50 | Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 6.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| 7 hilly miles with Karen (Sky). Very windy and cold. Ran west to meet Karen then south on 300W (downhill), east on Frontage to 1200 E (rolling uphill). Then north on 1200E to Cedar Hollow and west to Center back up on 300 W (uphill). Quads are fine!
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 7.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| A TWO attacks run!!! The original plan was to run with the AF Fleet Feet group on their 15 mile-loop starting at 8am atWillow Park on the JRP then west to Harvest Hill, south to Utah Lake and back on the JRP to the start, a route that look really fun but have never run before. Was late getting home from the musical, Sunset Blvd, last night. Got Karen's email that she didn't have time to go with the group, opted to start at 7:30 and run close to home. Woke up to two inches of snow and still snowing!!! It is almost May for crying out loud!!! After much debate, Karen and I decided to brave the cold, and run on the icky road to Alpine instead of running in the LC. With the 8am start, I was able to eat a good breakfast of oatmeal and banana and drank EmergenC; but forgot to take the Symbicort. I still have not gotten in the habit of taking that thing and have never taken the nightly dose. Reluctantly put on my *winter* running clothes and head out to meet Karen.
First sign of trouble came as we crested the hill going up Suncrest around mile 4, my breathing was labored although I felt I have lots of energy and leg power. Going down the hill, instead of recovering, my heart was pounding and I was wheezing audibly and coughing (it was as though my lungs was filled with cotton). It was comforting to have Karen there, so we walked till my breathing was under control. We turned back at mile 5. Again I had to take a breather to walk down after cresting the hill. The rest of the run to her house was uneventful. We made it 9.5 miles at her house. I went inside to drink some Gatorade while she showed me her basement construction work and the girls' rooms that she painted. Feeling refreshed I left to run 3 more alone on Bull River. Planned to run 1.5 mile west to 1500W then turn back.
At the turnaround, my breathing became labored, perhaps due to the cold east wind; and I was feeling weak. It was as if I had hit the wall, that is not possible...not at mile 10.75...I had a good carb dinner last night and breakfast this morning. I frequently run 15 miles without any fuel. My legs feeling fine, not tired or sore. I felt so weak that I just started to jog/walk the 2 miles home.
As I got to about 0.25 mile from Karen's house, I heard this growl and something nip at my left ankle. I looked down and there was this stupid mutt trying to bite my heel. I didn't hear or see him at all. I stopped, turned and yelled at it to "GO HOME!!!" while running backward. He wouldn't budge. When he charged at my other ankle, I kicked him. He still didn't go home and keep chasing me with his stupid growling. I thought I out-run him but he actually gave up chase because we were approaching this house with an open garage where a dog was standing. I had passed that dog earlier and he just stared at me. My heart started to pound wildly thinking he's going to chase me now that he's seen the stupid mutt chasing me. He is a much bigger dog. I slowed down a tad as I got near the garage and only glanced over and tried to act brave. He kept staring at me and turned his head to look at the retrieving mutt. Whew! as soon as I passed the staring dog, I started to run towards Karen's. But I felt like a blob of jello, I could NOT run!!! I saw that all her cars are still in the driveway with the garage door open. Thankgoodness they haven't left for the gymnastic meet yet! I stumbled into her kitchen wheezing with a pounding heart. Her daughters sat me down and brought me water. Karen rushed out and was about to call 911 when I told her to just take me home. My hands were numb, head was spinning, chest was tight and my heart was racing while I wheezed in between telling her what happened! There's noway I could have walked the mile home without passing out. She quickly drove me home where I immediately took the Ventolin. Stupid stupid me!!! I need to remember to take my daily Symbicort doses and carry my rescue inhaler on long runs. Karen saved my life today!!! My breathing is fine now although I feel totally drained. Going to take a nap before getting ready to go to Stake Conference. Had to be there early for dinner with the visiting authority and Stake Presidencies and wives. |
| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 12.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| A WONDERFUL WONDERFUL Stake Conference Sunday! GREAT speakers. Elder Steven J. Lund was presiding. Very faith inspiring talks. Hubby gave an unplifting talk on living the Gospel...everything we do: covenants, ordinances, daily activities should lead us to Christ.
I was moved to tears by KellyA (our very own JohA's sweetheart)!!!! She shared such a powerful, faith inspiring testimony and the miraculous story of how the sacred and precious things were untouched yet almost all other things in their house being burnt down in January. WOW!!! I just LOVE her and Jon so much! Had a great evening, dinner with Eric and the newly weds. Spoke and Skyped with Larissa, Marianne and Emi. Got a quick short email from Bryan in Beijing. Watched the welcoming news of the death of the All Time Evil Terrorist on TV! Oh, how I need the Sabbath!!! My spirits are renewed!!! :) :) :)
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
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7.75 recovery miles. phlems, phoughts and phlowers! Gorgeous morning! I wanted to do some strides at the end of the run; but got winded from the SSE wind; so managed to do only 4 strides. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/83074307
Here are some of the pics from Boston exactly 2 weeks ago! :) Sat. dinner at Chinatown. (l-r): Ronnie, TomSlick, Sharla, Kam's dad, Kam, Kam's wife, Amber, Smooth and Amanda. 
Pre-race dinner/party at Little Italy. (l-r): Kathie, Rhett, Doone, Terry, Lito, Lowell, Larry, Smooth, Lark and Marcie and all the glorious pasta!!! James was taking the pic.
RHETT!!! The FUN way to run Boston!!! Notice his camera in hand!!!
The CUTEST couple EVER!!!! ♥♥♥
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 7.75 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.50 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.50 |
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Ran with Carolyn to pick up Karen for 8. Saw Marsha started out her run on my way home. So ran with her and had a nice chat. Marsha was my secretary when I was RS president. We are in different wards now; we had so much to catch up on. Nice cloudy day, windy going east, air filled with smokey scent from burning fields. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/83251297
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 10.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.25 |
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Ran with Karen down 3rd west up railroad trail. Sunny blue sky breezy. Easy chatty run. Going to USU tonight to move my youngest home. :) Maynard showed me how to post the run. Voila! THANKS! Bradley! :)
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 7.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 4.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 4.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 1.00 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
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HAPPY CINCO de MAYO!!! Beautiful sunny day! Birds a chirping! Blossoms a blooming! Perfect morning for a GA run. NICE to run solo sometimes so I can focus on form. Concentrate on midfoot strike and toe off. It was pretty cool to feel the *springy energy* of the hamstring and calf. I think I'm in love with my Elexir; so light and responsive compare to the Inspire. Definitely going to train more in them and hopefully become my go-to shoes.
Going to lunch and shopping with my sweetheart and our youngest boy. He needs suitcases, a watch, toiletries, sheets, towels, all the miscellaneous stuff. People ask us if it's becoming easier with each boy leaving for missions. I have to say that it's easier in some ways but bittersweet in others. It seems that everything we do with Steven becomes our "last" thing since he's our youngest. :) :) :)
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 7.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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No running today. Had a wonderful temple trip with Steven, his friend, Tanner and Tanner's parents to the Manti Temple. After the endowment session, we got to meet privately with the Temple Pres, Prez. Pinegar, who taught us meanings of the temple ordinances. He asked us questions and helped us with answers from the scriptures. I'm going to write those scriptures down and study some more to fully understand the meanings of the sacred ordinances in relations to the Atonement of Christ. It was so wonderful for us to be taught my Prez. Pinegar inside the temple and taken to some rooms and walked down the 150 steps of the amazing spiral stair case. The Manti Temple is magnificent, truly a house of God and Glory, full of stories and testaments of Pioneer heritage! So glad Steven and I had that opportunity before he leaves for his mission! :) :) :) :) :)
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 7.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.50 |
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Ran with Kelly and JonA to south part of town. GREAT company and FUN conversations. They're such a wonderful couple. I'm in awe of their tremendous faith and Christlike example. THANKS Jon & Kelly for running with me!!! :) :) :)
Garmin showed less than 5 miles b/c I forgot to restart the thing when we crossed some major state roads.
After we got home, I went inside to slap on my fuelt belt. After last week's scary *attack*, I wised up and carried my rescue inhaler and mace, one flask of gatorade, gel and headed up to Alpine. Stopped at the *FoY* to drink and gu and doctor the blister on my right pinky toe.
Saw lots of cyclists, a few runners. Many aroma and scent of freshly cut grass, fertilizer (both animal and chemical kind), pesticide, burnt weeds... By the time I got back to the traffic light at SR92, my lungs felt like it's filled with cotton. Instead of taking the inhaler, I pushed thru the last 1.5mile home.
Off to the Salt Lake Temple for the sealing of my niece/nephew to their adopted baby girl. Hope y'all having a WONDERFUL weekend!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 15.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| We had a WONDERFUL day yesterday witnessing the temple sealing of Clara to her parents. Sweet little Clara is eternally joined to her parents, an older sister who was still-born and her younger sister born 7 months after her. This is what the Gospel is all about...eternal families! The visiting and celebration continued on today. I spent the morning preparing and cooking food for the luncheon after
the blessing of Clara (11mon) and Ainsley(4mon) Mitarai at church in
the afternoon. Such sweet baby girls blessed by a grateful father, caressed by a joyful mother, witnessed by proud grandparents, loved by so many!!! Amidst all the family gatherings, my other niece, Seidi, had her baby girl. Her oldest brother's wife had her baby boy on Monday. Can't think of a better way to celebrate Mother's Day than seeing these young mothers experience the joy of bring new little ones into the world.
On our way to the airport at 10:30pm to pick up Eric, my sweet hubby gave me a fat envelope. He had secretly emailed all my children and asked them to write me letters. What a JOYFUL SURPRISE!!!! The BEST Mother's Day gift I have ever received!!! I shall treasure them forever!!! :) :) :)
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.50 |
| Ran with Karen. Strong gusty wind, rain, sleet, mud!!! Cough...wheeze...cough...laugh...cry...home...freezing!!! |
| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 6.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
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Trying to spend every minute with my baby. Got his socks, shirts, pants labeled. A steady stream of friends coming to say goodbye. He went to the H.S. to say goodbye to his former teachers and Seminary building where his teacher asked him to bear his testimony. Cooked a nice Chinese dinner, his last home-made supper, for the family. His bishop, brothers, Eric & Jeff assisted his dad in setting him apart as the missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the Taiwan Taipei Mission. Hugs and joyful tears...my baby is now Elder Lew!!! :) :) :) :) 
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 6.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
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AM: Spent the morning doing laundry so Steven will have freshly laundered or new clothes in his suitcase while he wrote a letter to the graduating seniors for the Seminary Graduation that his dad will be speaking at. All week long he kept asking: "Are you sure you don't want me to take the bus to the MTC?" "You sure you don't want me to take the bus?" "I can ride the bus." "Nope, you would need a companion to ride the bus; so we might as well take you!" :) Went down to grandma's to have a nice hello-n-goodbye lunch. Sarah and baby Charlotte, Seidi, Danny, baby Charlie and baby Mina (3 days old) also came. Emi had so much fun playing with baby Charlie (they're the same age). Stopped by Bryan's condo to look for the camera cord (no luck) and say goodbye to Ben. The SHORTEST, QUICKEST drive EVER to the MTC to drop off my baby (err Elder Lew) at curbside!!! I held up ok...no tears until his back was turned as two elders whisked him & his suitcases away!!! Then the tears flooded uncontrollably!!! I won't see him for TWO years!!!! He was so happy and ready to go! I cried like a baby all the way home feeling happy and sad at the same time!!! PM: I needed a quick run to *let-go*!!! It was very windy!!! Running on Bull River was horrible, gusty dusty dirt-filled air, from the construction to build up the road and cover the canal. Got a major headache!!!
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 7.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 4.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 4.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.25 |
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Ran down 2600 N to railroad trail up to canal trail east on Bull River with Wendy & Carolyn. EZ conversation run! Beautiful day! Played outside on the trampoline, swing & slide with Emi. Walked/jogged to see the neighborhood's horses and animals. Played some more outside. Picnic on the deck. FUN morning!!!
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 5.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 1.00 | 4.30 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 6.30 |
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6.3 w/ 1.8 cough-wheeze-warm-up mile, threw in 6x100m strides the last mile w/ 0.3 cool down. [I think I could have done 8 strides if I wasn't trying SO SO SO hard to chase my SSF down...she totally killed me!] :) :) :) :) :) But she & Kathie also saved me by convincing me to turn back to the car to take my inhaler! (hmmm, may be they were annoyed by my constant coughing and wheezing, hahaha!!!) Nothing like having the harem run together...FUN FUN FUN! SUPER FUN and more giggles when we met up with Brooke for breakfast!!! :) :) :)
Another beautiful sunny day to spend outside playing with Emi!!! My bum bum is sore from going down the bumpy slides a gazillion times!! :)
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 6.30 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
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Met Luz at 6:30 am to run the PRT. She ran down the big hill from Timp drive looking AWESOME!!! We waited 10 min for the others who actually started at the mouth of the canyon (2-3 miles north of where we started). Nice morning, temp in the mid 50s, overcast sky, strong headwind going up the canyon. Lots of runners & cyclists on the trail. It was like a burst of sunshine when we saw MacK, MichelleL and Josse floating down the canyon. We ran for another mile or so and hooked up with Ericka coming down at my mile 6.25 (perfect spot to turn around). Then the three of us ran down together. What a fun easy chatty pleasant run with GREAT companies! THANKS Luz & Ericka for running with me! :) :) :) :) :)
Side note: Last night Eric KT taped my right quads and knee (I'm his first guinea pig) and put moleskin and bandaid on my left foot blister. He also showed me some quads isometric exercise. Nice to be taken care of! :) Wore the Elixir two days in a row...ball of left foot a little sore. Wore them on last Saturday's 15 miler with the same soreness and some tightness on the plantar fascia. Still debating whether to wear these shoes for Ogden! Spent the rest of the morning playing with Emi outside. Got silly dizzy doing lotsa crazy fast ring-around-the roseys on the trampoline! :)
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 13.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 4.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 4.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.25 |
| 7 easy bench loop with Karen. Windy. Cold. The tongue of the Inspire 6 feels stiff. It irritated the tibial tendon on the foot/ankle. Still debating which shoes to wear on Sat.
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 7.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 6 with 2 at mp. Fun day with my sister!!! :) Eating out for lunch and dinner everyday this week! I must have gained 5 lbs today already!!!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 6.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| 5 easy miles!
Another day of playing, shopping, eating, movie watching w/ my sister! Probably gained another 5 lbs!!! :) :) :) :) :) What's with the rainy cold weather...so much for trying to show off the beautiful Utah mountains to my sister and brother-in-law whom I'm trying so hard to convince to move here!!! Dang!!!
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 5.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.50 | 0.00 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| 5 miles with 6x100m strides! More eating and partying with sis, bil and hubby! :) :) :)
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 5.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| 5 easy :) :)
Eric checked out my shoes and feet. I am going to take his advise and run in the Inspire 6 on Sat. I will continue to train/run shorter and faster distances in the Elixir. :) :) :)
Carb-loading in earnest! : |
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 5.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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Ogden Marathon (26.2 Miles) 04:02:30, Place in age division: 6 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 26.37 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 26.37 |
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This is my 5th year running Ogden. I met Teena and her brother in the middle miles of Ogden 2007. Many fond memories and friendships were made at this marathon. On the flip side, the Ogden course has not been kind to me. I ALWAYS cramp up badly and swore never to run it again and yet kept coming back for more. Thus, I dub Ogden my *angels and demon* marathon.
Weather was perfect, 45-65 temp, partly cloudy sky with a strong canyon breeze! It was AWESOME to see SO MANY friends (even my friend/neighbor, Wendy. Btw, she WON her division today and her husband ran a huge PR!). It was SO FUN to meet many bloggers (Carina, Stacie, and others) for the first time! :)
Last year my running-guardian-angel was Maynard who stayed with me every step of the way and literally dragged me across the finish line. This year RAD was my angel! :) We had SO MUCH FUN running 21 miles together!!! Hope she wasn't too annoyed by my silliness, especially the asthma attack at mile 14! ;o)
Between mile 11-12, my phone rang! My son Eric, left a message that he's somewhere between mile 20-22 waiting to run with me!!! :) I called to let him know what I was wearing so he could spot me! :) So EXCITED to have TWO angels (allie and Eric) to look forward to in the canyon! For details of how the day unfold please read RAD's detail report
here: http://radrunning.fastrunningblog.com/blog-05-21-2011.html THANKS RAD for running the happiest EVER 21 miles with me!!! LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!! :) :) :)
We spotted the 4:00 pacer around mile 17. He was running a steady pace, no stopping at aid station, nice and easy on the downhill. I was able to stay with him 'till mile 23 when suddenly an overwhelming fatigue hit me (I had taken 3 gu's). I wanted to stop running so badly!!! My sweet Eric kept encouraging me to run with short quick steps, pump the arms, chin up, run like Emi. I tried with all my might, but my legs would not work, my breathing became labored, hearts pounding. The cramping demon showed up at almost the same spot on the parkway as last year. I fought with pain and fear from mile 25 on. :(
I wish the statute horses along Grant St. were the real ones we saw earlier in the pastures. These colorful horses were standing still, lifeless, mocking my death march. I had told RAD earlier the meaning of *run like a horse*! How ironic!!!! Only Eric's comforting voice kept me going now! With the finish arch within sight, I heard my hubby's cheer. Eric gave me one last encouragement then peeled off course to join his dad. I think my body must have known that I'm done at 26.2 (the course measured long according to my Garmin which shows 26.37 miles in 4:02:26) I stumbled and fell at 0.1 short of the finish!!! What in the world!!! Eric rushed back to scoop me off the pavement. Another ugly demonic finish!
Experience taught me that I must keep walking after crossing the finish. I walked for at least 5 min. I was about to stop by the fence where my hubby was when BAM!!! charlie horse seized my left calf then right shin! :( I managed to break the fall by grabbing onto the trash boxes where a kind older gentleman, Sherman, got a hold of my arm. He coached me to step down hard on my feet/heel. It was painful yet the only way to stretch out the cramps myself. He and Eric held onto each arm and walked with me for another 15 min. He made sure I eat a banana, drink water/powerade and walk unassisted before leaving me. Another Ogden angel!!!
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Eric gave me three things to incorporate into my training: 1) Frequent proper stretching to increase flexibility.
2) Core exercises to improve postural control to facilitate efficient running form.
3) Upper body strengthening exercises to share the work load especially late in the race.
Eric showed me some stretching exercises in the evening. Tomorrow he will show me some core stability exercises. :) I'm the luckiest mother!!!! Wish he could stay longer before heading to his three year residency!
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 26.37 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 3.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 3.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| Walked with Wendy. Stretched a ton.
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Ran 4.5 with Karen. Walked 0.5 with Jessica. Missing Emi, Eric and Marianne terribly! :( But we'll see them later this week when we flew to Des Moines for his graduation and help them drive/move to Cleveland! Lots of stretching while cleaning the house!
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.25 |
| 5 easy with Karen. Beautiful blue sky! Shin were bothersome, R worse than L. Wearing compression sleeves. Gentle stretching throughout the day. Need to register for PCM soon. |
| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 5.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
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After a long day of flying, finally arrived at Des Moines around 4:30. The hotel is within quarter mile to the airport. Eric and I went for a quick run before dinner. It had rained the day before so a bit humid. Looks like today's the only sunny day this week. We had dinner at Waterfront Restaurant in Ankeny, a nice seafood restaurant. Note to shubby, do not take a toddler to fancy restaurant! :)
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 3.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 4.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 4.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 1.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
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30 min. elliptical in the hotel's fitness center. The University hosted a picnic for all the graduates and their families on campus. Emi loves picnic! :) After taking the family back to the hotel, while Emi napped, Eric drove us to Gray's Lake for a run. It was a very pleasant run in the rain around the lake twice. The parkway has imprints of birds and butterflies. I don't know if it was short on time or running at sea level, I ran it progressively faster. The legs felt pretty good. :)
In the evening, hubby and I and Emi had our own dates while Eric and Marianne went to a dinner and reception for the graduates and their spouses.
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 7.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.25 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.25 |
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Eric and I got up at 5:45am and drove to Gray's Lake for an early run before Graduation Commencement which began at 9am and we had to leave the hotel by 8am. We ran along the Des Moines River out and back for a little over 6 miles then around the lake once. It was overcast with a misty rain, the sun peeked thru the clouds for a brief moment while we ran at the lake. This was a very memorable and beautiful run. Eric used to run here when he was a med student with couple of his classmates. This will be the last time he'd run here. Many emotions went through my mind as we talked about the past, my childhood, his dad, his experience at DMU and his future. I would treasure our talks and this beautiful run forever! :) The commencement was great; but a little too long (3+hours) for a wiggly two year old Emi. My legs got stiffened up and my feet very sore from walking in heels. 
Dr. Eric J. Lew After the graduation ceremony, we grabbed a quick bite; then went to get the rental truck. We loaded Eric's and Marianne's household items and furnitures from a storage unit onto the 16' truck. Thankfully the rain has stopped when we were loading the truck. My arms got pretty tired. 
Marianne hadn't seen her stored contents for 18 months. I think they did a fantastic job dejunking and boxing up their things. They had to move their furnitures across town twice while they were in Iowa. They're grateful for our help to move across States this time.
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 8.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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A LOUD thunder storm woke me up. Hadn't slept much the last few nights anyway. We went to Church in Ankeny where Eric and Marianne lived for 2.5 years while he was attending school at DMU. It was great for them to see their friends again, although only to have to say goodbye. After church we all went to the condo where they used to live and have a farewell BBQ. It is the last time they'll see each other for a long long long time as everyone is going off to their Residency programs all over the country. 
We began our long drive to Cleveland at 2pm. Eric would lead the way driving the yellow Penske truck. Marianne and I would take turn driving the Sonata followed by Larry driving the Infiniti. It was more challenging to keep Emi happy strapped in a carseat than to drive. We arrived at Joliet, Illinois a little after 8pm, exhausted and hungry. Ate dinner at a restaurant very close to the hotel, the Jn Michaels, good food and friendly service. It being Sunday, I tried to call my other children, Jeff, David and Bryan, but only got their voice mail. :(
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| Night Sleep Time: 4.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 4.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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Slept in till 6:45. Grabbed a quick breakfast while Eric impatiently ushered us out of the hotel to continue our drive to Cleveland. The drive wasn't too bad except for the annoying toll booths we had to go thru each time we exit and enter the freeway or between statelines. I drove through Indiana. It was awesome to see many flags, big and small flown along the route, many farm lands and beautiful country. The temperature got warmer and warmer as we head further east. At long last, we arrived at their new home in Parma, OH around 2pm.  Emi is so happy to have a backyard and deck... and open basement to run around in! :) Then began the hard work of unloading the truck's content into the house!!! Finally, the last and heaviest piece of furniture is moved in! We were so tired and exhausted! Eric drove us to the Cleveland Clinic's HUMONGOUS campus/compoud! WOW!!! We were impressed! Then we went back to Parma and shopped for grocery. We filled up 3 carts and finally got back to the house at 9pm to have dinner. We were starving and did I mention exhausted?!!! :) One of the many buildings at Cleveland Clinic I think this is going to be a great Residency program for Eric.
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
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Got in a short run early before leaving for the airport. Ran around the neighborhood on sidewalks. The roads were very narrow. Had to watch for folks driving out of driveways for work. Very hot (70F) and humid, sweating buckets!
Barely made it to the gate for the flights home. Hubby was on different flights which got delayed in Dallas for over 3 hours! Legs were stiff and sore. Already missing Emi! :-(
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 4.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 14.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 14.00 |
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Slept in, checked the mail and email. Ate breakfast. Did laundry. Good to be home but I'm missing my kids and grandkids terribly! :( Could not find the motivation to run. But today being National Run Day (I think) and smack in the middle of the
two marathons (Ogden and UVM); plus it's first day of the month, I'd better get a run in whether I feel like it or not. Finally headed out just before noon, very warm, windy with overcast sky.
The legs were stiff, tired and heavy. The right patellar tendon protested immediately. I could not get in a good rhythm. The pace was slower than tar. Could not get the left footfall to quiet down. It was as if a rock was embedded in the sole. I even checked it twice. Drank from the f.o.y at mile 5, 9, 11. Ate 3 shot blocks left over from Ogden at mile 5.
The only good part of the run was the surrounding beautiful mountains and valley. I saw many horses, 3 camels, 1 mule, mothers jogging with strollers and children at Field Day and Dance Festival.
How am I going to run UVM in 10 days? It's gonna be a very LONG painful one, I'm afraid! :(
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 14.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.10 |
| AM: Ran easy with Karen. Good thing Karen reminded me to take my inhaler. It was very windy and I started coughing one mile into the run and had to use the inhaler. A bit cooler than yesterday. Legs still dead! :( |
| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 6.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.50 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 1.15 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.15 |
| Easy run with Karen. Yesterday I talked her ears off. Today was her turn! :) |
| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 5.15 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 11.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| FUN FUN FUN run with three beautiful friends!!! MANY THANKS to Toby for the invite and for packing our drinks!!! :) MUCHO thanks to RAD for the fun chats!!! :)
Drove Karen to the PRT where we met Toby and RAD at 6:30am. The PRT is perfect for a 12 miler, just the right amount of rollers and up/downgrade, and beautiful vista of the valley in the base of Traverse Mountain!!! Weather was GREAT! The company were SUPERB!!!! What else can a girl ask for?!!! Except may be time for breakfast afterwards! :) ********
The knee is still bugging! I am not fully recovered from Ogden. I will do some serious rolling and stretching this week; tape up the darn knee and hope I finish UVM upright! But I will have FUN and find JOY!!! The journey and friendships, the joy and pain in overcoming my limitations and weaknesses is why I run; and the marathon facilitates that beautifully!!! :) :) :)
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| I can't believe last week this time we were driving east from Iowa to Ohio in a 1-truck-2-cars-caravan! It was hard work but very enjoyable!!! Missing Emi terribly!!!
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I really like Elder Ballard's Conference talk on "finding JOY through loving service". I need to have this as my daily reminder:
"The Gospel of Jesus Christ is simple, no matter how much we try to make it complicated. We should strive to keep our lives similarly simple, unencumbered by the extraneous influences, focused on those things that matter most." "How can we free ourselves from this tangled web of challenges and uncertainties to find peace of mind and happiness? I believe there is one simple but profound...principle...that will purify and sanctify us so we can live once again the in the presence of God. Love of God and of others. The love the Savior described is an active love. It is not manifested through large and heroic deeds but rather through simple acts of kindness and service. " "Great things are wrought through simple and small things. Like the small flecks of gold that accumulate over time into a large treasure, our small and simple acts of kindness and service will accumulate into a life filled with love for Heavenly Father, devotion to the work of the Lord and a sense of peace and joy each time we reach out to one another." I love Sister Hinckley's words: "NEVER SUPPRESS A GENEROUS THOUGHT."
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.50 |
| Ran 6.5 bright and early with Karen (Sky) and her sister Kathy down and up the rail trail then walked 0.5 mile with their mother and sister, Julie. What a beautiful morning!!! I'd go swimming if I knew how! Poor Sky had been slowing down lately. Foam roll, stretch, little bit of core. Going to check on Angela. Have a great week everyone! :) :) :) :)
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.25 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.25 |
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Beautiful blue sky, mid 50s, calm, perfect day for a run. 1 wu, 3 mp, 1 cd. AP: 9:17. Was planning on an easy run; but the thought of *p-dawg beating me* got me fired up!!! C'mon P-dawg! I'm ready for ya!!!! :) :) :)
Foam roll like crazy. Stretch. Yoga. Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate!
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 5.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.75 |
| Ran with Karen (Sky), Kathy and Erin! Perfect weather! Allergies galore! Sweat fest. AP: 9:32. Roll. Stretch. Drink. Repeat!
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| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 4.75 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2 circuits of CSE. Temple and lunch date with friends of 30+ years. My friends are FUNNY!!!! :)
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.00 | 2.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.25 |
| AM: Quick run to loosen things up. SO many aches and pains! eeeek!!!
Mid-morning: Going to packet pickup, luncheon with fellow FRBs!!! SO EXICTED!!! :) :) :) :) :)
PM & Evening: Stake Youth Conference, doing the Amazing Race, dinner and fireside!!! Fun! :) :) :)
Night: Try to get some shut-eyes before heading to Cougar Town for the early bus ride up to Wahlsburg, the start of UVM! EEEK!!! WaHOOO!!! :)
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 4.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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Utah Valley Marathon (26.2 Miles) 04:09:03, Place in age division: 4 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 26.32 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 26.32 |
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UVM: blessings and a blast!!!! Short version: [the long version is for my journal and posterity ;)] WHAT A BLAST!!!:
- FANTASTIC pre-race and post-race lunches with WONDERFUL friends! :) :) :)
- SUPER FUN hanging out with RAD, Teena, JohnV, MattL, Luz & Cath before the race!!! :) :) :)
- Had a BLAST running with AWESOME friends: RAD (3 mi) Lowell (15 mi) Cath (~ 4 mi) Suzette (20.5 mi) and Fonz (1 mi)!!! :) :) :)
THE BLESSINGS!!! So grateful that I: - Got a BQ (1st half in 2:04:23, 2nd half in 2:04:40, YAHOO for even splits!) with a bum knee and tired legs to boot!!! :)
- Had no cramps nor collapsed at the finish. :) :)
- Was loved and taken care of by awesome friends, especially RAD! :) :) :)
- Had a cloud covering the last 10 miles. :)
- Have a sweet hubby who faithfully comes and waits for me every marathon even on a busy busy day. ♥ :) :) :)
Long version: [you can stop reading now :)] Pre-race:
Had a wonderful Fri. luncheon visiting with many friends and families. THANKS Paul for organizing it!!! :) At the Expo met the two Kenyans and Mark Marrott (handcycle division winner). Kinda neat to talk to the champs at eye-level! :) Went to the store for some banana and sunscreen before heading over to the Stake Youth Conference doing the Amazing Race. Had a great dinner and fireside with the energetic youth. Well past 9 by the time we got home...SO tired!!! Got my running gear ready and took 1/2 AdvilPM at 11 in hopes of getting some sleep, no such luck! :( Was wide awake entire time wondering how I was to run this thing in the morning w/ tired sore legs?!! Finally got out of bed at 2:30am tired and groggy! KT taped the right knee (it came off when I removed my warm-up pants before the start, o well). Put on compression sleeves. Met RAD at 3:15am. So grateful she drove me to the bus loading where we unexpectedly met up with Teena, JohnV and MattL. Waved to Slick and Kodi as their bus pulled away.
So lethargic on the bus ride that I would've fallen asleep if not for the *entertainment* by a *certain royalty* and a very funny RAD. Has it only been 3 weeks since our silly ride up Ogden Canyon? Yup, still feeling the aches and pains of that marathon...what was I thinking?!!! Forced down a banana, yogurt and gatorade. The Start:
Did the pop wait where we saw JulieC, Walter, Carina, Flatlander, Sasha and bunch of others. Found Luz and Cath after walking past gazillion stinky smokey fire-pits. The smoke seriously made me want to puke. We lined up for the pop a 2nd time (to be expected when one gets up so early! It isn't even Boston, geez louise!) Was fun making new friends at the pop line though! The race started on time at 6am while RAD's time was *ten to*... yep, we were still ten-ding-to-business! hehehe!!! :) RAD and I were heading to bag-drop-off when Lowell finally showed up hurrying to the pop. He wanted us to wait for him. But we were freezing and it was already 5 min. after gun time. He and Suzette finally caught up to us at mile 1. He told us that he and Jason had to rescue the wheelchair athlete who has fallen into the river just before the start, goodness! First half:
My! That first mile was a huffer...not too concerned as I knew it was uphill. RAD pulled away at the mile 3 aid station. I have got to learn not to linger at aid stations. Ran with Suzette and Lowell, what a hoot! :) It was like Poky all over again, singing, laughing, telling jokes and completely lost all my dignity with Lowell's incessant teasing and harassing. Good thing I love him so much or I would've ditched him and his ole-fartin' at the mile 8, 9 & 12 hills. Instead we (Suzette and I, the sassy women according to him) stayed with him passing runners making lots of friends who were either amused or annoyed by his: "What's your name? We're wondering why you don't have any friends? Can we walk the hill with you?" "Good morning, Pain! Tell us your story!" "Smooth and Suzette are two sassy women! They lied. They are evil women!" I was only guilty on one count when I told Miles from Calif. (think that's his real name since I told him my name was Smooth) that once we got over that snow-peaked mountain, it would be *smooth miles* to the finish! :) I thoroughly enjoyed the beautiful green mountains & rolling hills of the canyon while ignoring the traffic noise on the concrete hwy! :) Second half:
I never looked at my watch until at the Half, 2:04:xx. I was happily surprised when I saw hubby on the north bound lane shoulder cheering! ♥ Was fun to see AlisaB and wish she would latch on to our group. We also caught up to Cath and she got to listen to Lowell's story of his early law days. Don't know when we lost Cath and Luz; but we stopped to take pictures for two girls who wanted the water-fall scenery as backdrop. The fun part of running at the back and middle of the pack is that you get to pass/meet all these people who run as friends, father-sons-daughters together. You get to hear inspiring stories. You get to cheer and encourage first-timers, people running for a cause, etc. :) :) :)
While I enjoyed the comradarie, I tried to listen to my body's signals, pay attention to my form, remember to drink and gu. UVM did a great job putting the aid stations close to the odd number miles and positioning the gu, powerade and water just right. That made it easy for me to gu at the stations where they handed out gu and took orange slices where there wasn't any gu. Thanked the volunteers profusely. :) A cyclist almost clipped me as I ran too close to the orange cones doing the tangent! That was scary! :/
We lost Lowell after mile 15. I think he stayed with Sarah, a first time marathoner. Suzette and I ran together till the mouth of the canyon where I told her that the race really begins and urged her to go for it. Now running with my own thoughts on University Ave. fearing charlie horse would hit any minute. My thoughts immediately turned to my missionary son, Steven, who's been in the Provo MTC for exactly a month. The first sign of cramps showed up at the top of my hamstrings where I've never experienced before; usually it's in my calves, shins or toes. The hymn, Called to Serve, immediately popped into my head. I sang that in my mind over and over, lengthened the back-swing-strides, far and wide His love proclaim...ONWARD...pressing onward...until the cramps subsided. I concentrated on good posture that Eric taught me, side-fived the children, thanked every officer at each traffic light!
The finish:
Just before mile 25, I saw a smiling Fonz jumped onto the course to run with me! :) :) :) He said: "I don't have a watch and don't know your goal but I'll stay with ya! What time do you have?" That's the first time I looked at my watch since the half. It read 3:59:xx. With that I told him: "Well, it looks like I'm not gonna make sub-4. But unless something disastrous happens, I should have a BQ in the bag!" I asked him how Teena and his other friend did. It was wonderful to run with him side by side. I just latched onto his energy and smooth strides. He grabbed two cups of water and dumped them on me while I took a last drink of powerade...felt soooo good! :) He pointed the blue thing - the finish line...but we still have NINE blocks to go...dang those street signs and traffic lights...and I couldn't even see the blue thing!!! I just fixated my eyes on the Wells Fargo building. Fonz peeled off at the last traffic light with a, "It's all yours! Enjoy the crowds cheering!" I saw Canyon (MarcieN), my hubby and Doone and I think I heard Kathie, Kimmy and friends cheering wildly! Finished at last where RAD was so kind to walk in circles with me and help me recover and find my hubby! Marathon #27 in the book! It was a successful training run! :) Post-race: Had a hunch that I placed top 5 (I passed two of my competitors) but didn't stay for the award. We had a great lunch/birthday celebration organized by Doone for Rhett. It was the best to top off the UVM weekend! I am so grateful for such great and wonderful friends! I am so thankful for the ability to run!
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 26.32 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Spoke in the Stake Youth Conference fireside. I shared my conversion story and my testimonies. The scriptures I used was 1Ne 3:7 and Moroni 7:19-22.
The best comments I got was from Sister Haws who is the Stake YW Pres. She said I made her son cried! (Hope that was a good thing!) She couldn't wait to ask him how the Spirit touched him. Later Bro. Moss (the Stake clerk) said that his sons said they liked me better than John Bytheway! Now, that might not be a good thing! :) Sister Hillary Weeks said: "I want to be like you. Thanks for reminding me to be the woman I have always wanted to become!" I humbly take that as the kindest compliment. In all sincerity, I just hope that the Spirit was there to inspire the youth to search their own souls, to seek a testimony of the Savior and live to keep that testimony alive!
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| Walked, jogged with Mary and Laura. Nice cool cloudy day. Legs are a bit tired and tight! Lots of stretching throughout the day! Ate more protein.
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| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 3.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| Nice and slow recovery miles. Would have gone swimming if I knew how. 3 circuits of CSE. Biceps and triceps. Lots of stretching with some light foam rolling. Tightness in quads getting better. Right patellar tendon still tender at the insertion point.
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 3.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.25 |
| Easy recovery run that got progressively faster. Legs felt pretty good. Knee is bugging post run and after sitting for awhile. Lots of stretching. |
| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 4.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.00 | 3.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.25 |
| Nice run on a breezy morning. AP 9:20. Tightness almost all gone. Knee not better or worse. Really like running in the Elixir. 3 circuits CSE. Biceps and triceps. Foam roll--stretch--repeat!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 5.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
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6 easy, although it didn't feel easy. 0.5 mile on dirt checking out the construction progress on the canal. Can't wait 'till it's all done and have the canal trail back! Nice cool morning. Ran by the field where my hawks were seen last year and nearly got attacked by some pesky black birds...GRRR!!!!
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 6.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
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Karen picked me up to meet RAD, ScottW, Chad, Maynard and Annette at 7 at the JRP. The river was very high and calm. Thanks to Chad guiding us around Willow Park to avoid the flooded tunnel under Center St. and the FUN chats, the miles flew by. Saw a deer, lots of birds (a Falcon?), a remote control airplane and a snake freaked RAD majorly when Maynard pointed it out to her! Ha!!! Good thing I was too blind to notice! :) Knee bugged here and there during warm up and at the end.
THANKS Rachel for the invite and everyone for coming; you're AWESOME company!!! I wouldn't have run this many miles and not nearly as FUN if it weren't for y'all! :) :) :) :)
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 12.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!! There are only two fathers that I love more than life, my sweet hubby and my Father in Heaven! I want to spend the day honoring both of them! :)
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Didn't get up early enough for a run before the drive to Sun Valley Idaho. The drive took 6.5 hours. It normally takes us 5 hours. But we took our time to stop for lunch plus there were a lot of road construction delays. Got to Sun Valley, spent some time visiting the vendors for UBA, hope I win some sweet prize. Wanted to run but had to get ready for the welcome BBQ dinner and evening events. Went for a walk with hubby before it got dark! Such a beautiful place! :)
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 4.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.50 |
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Had breakfast with hubby then went for a run while he attends the UBA Conference business sessions! Ran an out and back first northward to Trail Creek Lodge/Cabin for 3.5 then south to Ketchum to 4th St bike path and hook onto Wood River Trail. There is a drinking fountain on the trail about a mile from 4th St. So drank at mile 6 then turned around at mile 7.5 and drank from the same fountain (mi 9.15 since I took the wrong fork of the trail). Got back in time to shower and head down to the last business session before lunch by the duck pond! Very enjoyable run and morning. Temp in the high 50s to low 60s, sunny blue sky! :)
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 11.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.50 |
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Decided to sleep in rather than run the UBA 5K. Sleep and health is more important to me now than the $25 gift card prize or even pride! But hey, I did win $100 yesterday at the vendor's final prize drawing. Filled my handheld with the can of lemonade and small pack of jelly beans that I got at the vendors exhibit. Headed out for a loop run. I ran portions of this route as out-n-backs over the years I've been here. With the help of Google Earth I figured a route for the loop. Turned out to be perfect distance. Saw a fox just before I ran on the second bridge. He probably took a drink from the river and was leaving when I ran by. He turned to look at me then went back into the woods. Saw couple elks on the hill side. Stopped at the drinking fountain at the Elkhorn/Wood River junction but the pressure was too low. Forgot to restart the garmin. Drank and ate jelly beans at the fountain on Wood River, the same one I drank from yesterday, great tasting water!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 8.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
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Only had time to do a short run. Decided to do the hilly Dollar Mountain route. Good bye beautiful Sun Valley!
Nice lunch and visit at the Tateoka on the drive home.
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 5.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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Was I spoiled the last four days up at beautiful Sun Valley with nice cool temp, sunny blue sky, gorgeous mountains and river, luxurious room, fine dinning every night! Bill Cosby was so stinkin' funny at last night's outdoor performance...I got a belly workout from laughing so hard! :) Here I am back in Utah and looks like summer is finally here!
6 circuits CSE, biceps, triceps, yoga!
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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AF Canyon Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:49:10, Place in age division: 2 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 1.00 | 1.00 | 11.10 | 0.00 | 13.10 |
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KUDOS to the organizers and volunteers of the AF Canyon 1/2 marathon & 5K!
I signed up for this race because 100% of the proceed goes to cancer patients who can't afford treatments. It is the first year and possibly first race ever running down the American Fork Canyon. Very impressed with its superb organization, especially for a first year race. We received 3 email reminders with pertinent information during the week. Packet pickup was efficiently set up at the finish/bus pick up area at American Fork High School. They gave out gender specific Nike tech shirt that is true to size, YAY!!! The volunteers explained the course on a huge map and pointed out where the finishing chute was. They had prize drawing that took place prior to or during the run so all you had to do is check the list at the finish for your name and claim the prize, no waiting around! I won a free mammogram.
Picked up Karen at 4am, got to AF HS in 15 min. Saw Maynard and his two beautiful daughters on the bus so we sat by them! :) Couldn't have planned it better! :) The start staging was at Tibble Fork Reservoir, a beautiful setting surrounded by mountains. The parking lot has plenty of room for pops, music, etc., no cow pies, muddy field or angry farmers! :) We had plenty of time to do the pop twice. The race started on time, may be even a min. early. We lined up behind the 2:05 pacer but passed the 2:00 and 1:55 pacers within the first 1/4 mile. The river and run offs was so high that it spilled/washed over onto the road. We got our feet wet right before the first mile marker, not too concerned. I told Karen with the course huge elevation drop (1471' according to the race website), we could PR (sub 1:50 for me, sub-2 for Karen) even though I wasn't planning to race it. I wanted to treat this as a training run and just ran with feel. AF canyon is a winding 2-lanes road so I tried my best to do the tangents since we had to stay on the westbound lane. The scenery was BEAUTIFUL, lush green mountains and roaring river! I pointed out the rock formation to Karen. Did anyone spotted Abe Lincoln's profile? Mile 1 - 8:28 (200' elevation drop) EZ warm up while weaving around runners. Mile 2 - 8:00 (~ 75') Surprised by this but feeling good. Mile 3 - 8:04 (~125') Focused on downhill form and relaxed. Mile 4 - 7:48 (~200') Followed a boy w/ the UVM'09 shirt on.
Mile 5 - 7:14 (~400') Biggest elevation drop of the course. Passed UVM-boy. Gu'd at this aid station. Mile 6 ~ 7:39 (~225') Started to cough (campfire smell?). No inhaler, stink! Mile 7 ~ 7:20 (~250') Started to feel warm but saved by a canyon breeze. Mile 8 ~ 8:04 (~75') Got onto the trail at the mouth of the canyon. Legs started to feel the accumulative fatigue! Mile 9 ~ 8:25 (~50') Rolling and winding along the trail by Cedar Hills Golf Course. Started to fade while Karen gradually pulling away. She looked like she was just out on a Saturday long run, smooth & effortless! Mile 10 ~ 8:48 (~50') Thought I was running in the 9's. Feeling warm and tired. Mile 11 ~ 8:59 (~50') Had to walk on the small incline, coughing! Mile 12 ~ 8:38 Course flattens out. Dig deep to fight the urge to walk. Passed lots of 5K walkers.
Mile 13 ~ 9:23 Saw Lucy Gull, a friend I met in Spanish Fork. She was volunteering at the last aid station. I wasn't going to take a drink. But she handed me two cups and asked how I was doing. I dumped the water on myself and walked to talk to her. 0.17 ~ 1:30+ (8:36) I stopped my Garmin (1:48:25) when I crossed over what I thought was a timing mat and jogged to the balloon arch (about 100 yards away) where I realized sat the REAL timing mat! STINK! The clock read 1:49:04. The posted time at the finish was 1:49:10. Will take the PR albeit on an aided course and the division award for 2 movie vouchers! :)
Walked around at the finish and found my neighbors, Wendy Clark, Emily & Brian Hansen who all placed in their divisions. Karen ran a 1:47:48. I am SO SO SO SO PROUD of her!!! Heard they announced Walter's winning time! Saw and visited with AlisaB, but never found Kelly & JonA. Bummer!:( HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JonA!!! :)
It was a GREAT DAY (temp mid 50s-60s), beautiful downhill course, lots of food at the finish (french toast w/ honey butter, yogurt, grapes package, mini banana, chocolate milk, etc.) Hubby missed seeing me come in as he was getting there late from attending the 6am temple session. He found me in time to say goodbye as he had to be in the parade at 9. Not complaining as he is so very supportive of my running! I love him so much! ♥
Thoughts during the run: Susan who died of pancreatic cancer. AlisaB's mom who died recently of uterine & lung cancer. My neighbor dying of brain cancer. My nephew Alex, a great kid and runner, fighting Lymphoma.
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 13.10 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 4.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 4.50 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.25 |
| Nice cool morning easy recovery run with Karen. I didn't wear my Garmin. Karen took hers just for mileage sake, neither of us knew how far our legs would let us go. Quads are a little tight. We stopped to stretch at couple stop signs and felt pretty good the rest of the run. I ran 9.25, Karen did 7 since I ran to her house and back!
My Texas grandkids and their parents are arriving today! I am so excited! Need to get the bedrooms ready and stock up the fridge and pantry! :) :) :)
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| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 9.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.50 |
| AM: Ran with Karen (Skye), Mary, Carolyn and Wendy on the 3rd W-rail Trail-3200 N loop bright and early. Very pleasant cool weather, the trail was shaded. Got warm running east and uphill on 3200 N. No Garmin. Legs definitely did not like the hills. Foam roll. Stretch. Core. PM: Fun day shopping with Larissa. Picked up Lily at the airport. Went to Ocean Market on the way home. Cooked a nice dinner: chow fun (Larissa's favorite) and mahpoh dohfu (Brandon's favorite). In the evening took everyone to Day Break to visit Jeff and Jenn. Took the grandkids to the lake and park and walked over to look at the site of the Extreme Makeover Home edition. Long day, my dogs are tired! :)
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 6.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.15 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.15 |
| Karen had to take her daughter to gymnastics so we didn't get started until 7:20, by then the temp was already getting up to 70. Thankfully we had partly cloudy sky most of the way; however it was still warm & windy! I don't know how people in AZ or TX train in the summer. I was planning on no more than 11, Karen's schedule was supposed to be 7, we ended up running 12! Glad I carried Gatorade. We ran to the Alpine fountain of youth so Karen could get a drink and turned around. It was a pain running around the construction zones across SR 92 and the canal. My legs were fried! Let's see... I ran a downhill marathon 18 days ago and a downhill Half 4 days ago... no wonder they don't like me now! Ice bathed the legs, ahhh! So glad the grandkids enjoyed coloring & drawing after lunch so I could *rest*! :)
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 12.15 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.60 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.60 |
| Cloudy breezy morning, felt cooler than yesterday. Ran EZ with Karen on Bull River. On my way home from PCMC, I got a surprise call from David telling me he's driving home tomorrow! I am so excited! :) Is anyone running long on Sat.? What are your plans?
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 5.60 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Was going to take a rest day but Karen wanted to get a run in before leaving town. We started at 7:30 and took the hills in the neighborhood south. It was getting so hot. I walked the big hill up Center. Nice chatty run. Glad I went...need to start the month off right! :) Tomorrow's a different story! So not looking forward to run slow and long by my lonesome!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 5.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 6.00 | 1.75 | 0.00 | 16.75 |
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My quads were/are not recovered from last week's downhill Half and the hilly runs during the week. So when Kathie invited me to join her and Kimmy to run with them on the flat JRP, I was overjoy!!! :) Picked up Kelly and JonA at 4:30 to meet Kathie and Kimmy for our 5am run. SO HAPPY and THANKFUL for the invite and GREAT company or I would've struggled/suffered miserably with a solo run in the heat! THANK YOU K, K, K and J!!!! :) :) :) :) The miles just flew by and were done before it got hot! :) We ran southward out and back for 6 miles, then northward hoping for 10-11 more miles. The north portion of the trail was flooded with very stinky swampy water at about 3.5 mi out; so turned around and ran the south portion again for another 3 miles. So grateful for the water/gu provided by WRC at Winchester. Was cool to run into Teena, JohnnyV and JohnD who were so very SPEEDY!!! :)
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 16.75 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 4.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 4.50 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 3.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.10 |
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Lots of display of *old glory* in homes and yards. HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!! Ran up to Alpine. Carried 8oz water, refilled at the f.o.y. Lots of cyclists and runners out enjoying a nice morning, low 70s with cloudy sky. :) It got cooler in the afternoon which was perfect to have a BBQ on the deck for 18 people! :) David drove back to Phoenix at 8pm thru the night so he could be back to work in the morning. I think he had a fun short weekend, spending time with the family, going to Stadium of Fire, playing tennis with his dad, even practiced his neuromuscular manipulation on the cousins! :)
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 11.10 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.25 |
| Stayed up late with the 4th celebration so slept in. Only had time for a quick run so we can spend the day celebrating Lex's 6th birthday. After a breakfast of scrambled eggs, waffles, fruits and chocolate milk, we took the family to Monkey Island Fun Center so the kids could jump, climb, slide, colide to their hearts content. Then lunch at Lex's favorite place, McDonald, movie (Kungfu Panda) in the afternoon, pizza party dinner complete with pizza, cake and presents. I am so PROUD of Papa working at home so he could join in all the fun...well, except for the pizza party since he had church meetings! FUN DAY!!!! :) :) :) |
| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 5.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 4.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 4.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
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We stayed up late to watch the movie, Tron. I really didn't care for the movie...but the house is filled with boys who think it's a must-see...managed to watch 2/3 of it before dozing off! :) The earth is so fresh after last night's torrential rain storm. Nice easy run on the bench loop plus half! Stopped at convenient store for a drink at mile 6 otherwise no fuel or fluid. Today is Jeff's 28th birthdaty! :)
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 10.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| Beautiful day to go hiking with the fam. A bunch of us are planning to run the PRP in Provo Canyon on Sat. Y'all are welcome to join us. :) |
| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 3.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
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Cloudy morning! I don't know why...but it's always warmer running westward than east?! My weight is creeping up as a result of all the holiday BBQs, family parties and eating out! Consequently I'm running like an elephant. It seems to take 5-6 miles to *warm up* but it is plenty WARM out! STINK!!! With grandkids and family visiting, I have neglected my post-run stretch/recovery or any form of strength/stability exercise. On the positive note, I haven't given up running, not yet anyway! So onward and upward, slow and steady is better than NOT running at all, right?!!! :) Have a great weekend, everyone! We are running the Provo River Parkway tomorrow; meet at the park south of Riverwoods at 6am! Hope to see you there! :)
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 5.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 13.00 | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 18.00 |
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Friday PM: My legs, feet were dog tired from the hike UP Timpanogos Cave and the knees majorly trashed on the hike DOWN carrying a backpack full of water bottles and jackets yesterday afternoon. After the hike we walked around Tibble Fork carrying baby Jett looking at squirrels and chasing butterflies. :)
The little *splash* from AFCanyon1/2 couple weeks ago have GROWN plus a few more splashes and remnants of mudslide. But I think it will be fine for the Timpanogos Half in couple of weeks. Anyway, the feet took more abuse from standing around in high heels on concrete patio visiting at my hubby's Mission President's 50th wedding anniversary in the evening. Didn't have dinner until 9pm after we got home and took family pictures in my backyard. Said goodbyes to my Texas grandkids and their parents before going to bed. By the time I went to bed at 11pm I had serious doubt that I could get up and run in the morning. But can't bail on my friends since I agreed to drive. Saturday AM: Woke up at 1:40, 2:45, 4:00, finally out of bed to get ready. Larissa came upstairs to say goodbye (the rest of the family still in bed); they are driving home, a 24 hr drive, this morning back to Texas! :( Picked up Wendy, Carolyn and Karen and met Maynard, Kelli at the start of the RHPC for our run up Provo Canyon. The run: temp was surprisingly cool. As always we had the strong canyon headwind going up. I didn't dare look at my Garmin to see how pathetically SLOW I was! I am so grateful to have such great company to run with. Kelli, Maynard and Karen were so good to neither *push* nor *pull* me (see Kelli's Fri. blog). The miles just flew by. Wendy and Carolyn turned around at mile 6.5 since they only needed 13. I thought about cutting my run short but kept going since the knee felt good on the uphill.
Made a pit stop at Vivian Park, again grateful that they waited for me before running up South Fork, the steepest portion of the run. Was fun to run into Jeff and Mark who were just cruising down. Karen only needed 16 but I talked her into running 1/2 more mile then another 1/2 more. We got to mile 9 where a park, bathroom and water fountain magically appeared. :) Kelli gave me some Gu chomps, mmm yummy! :) That was just what I needed, the dreaded quads-burning, knee-screaming of downhill running didn't happen. The sun came out but it didn't feel hot. I was able to finish strong. Wendy and Carolyn waited patiently at the finish where Wendy brought us chocolate milk and blueberry muffins! YUMMM!!!! Thanks Wendy! :)
THANK YOU Kelli, Maynard and Karen for running with me! My 18 miler would not have happened if it weren't for you! You guys are DA BEST!!!! It was a FUN MAGICAL RUN!!! :)
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 18.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 4.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 4.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.50 |
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Had a dentist appointment so got out early for couple miles before meeting Karen, Wendy, Mary and Carolyn. It worked out perfectly since I needed 8, Karen needed 7 while the rest of the girls needed 5. What a gorgeous sunrise! Beautiful run with great friends to start the week! Life is good! :)
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 8.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 4.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 4.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.25 |
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Had a sneezing frenzy yesterday and woke up with shortness of breath and tightness in chest. Dashed out the door to meet Wendy, Carolyn and Karen; only to return to take 3 puffs from inhaler. The last time I took inhaler was at mile 5 of UVM a month ago. My friends insisted I take a rest day as I was having a hard time breathing. Had to walk midway and cut the run short. STINK! :/
Went to the temple then lunch at Costa Vida to celebrate Karen's birthday. While sitting in the temple, doing absolutely nothing, I had a yawning frenzy. Seriously! No lie!!!! UNCONTROLLABLE yawns every 60-90 seconds for 1.5 hours interrupted by a 5 min. hiccup episode, and blowing of the runny nose, very embarrassing! :}
Then I got home feeling completely exhausted and promptly fell asleep in my Sunday dress. Next thing I knew hubby was home and woke me up! So strange! Can asthma meds cause excessive yawning, hiccups and knock you out cold? The sneezing resumes upon getting up! Life is weird!!! :)
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 3.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.50 | Nap Time: 2.00 | Total Sleep Time: 8.50 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| Another beautiful morning! We saw a rainbow in the west sky; and brilliant sun beams shooting through clouds in the east mountains. A nice run, good conversations with wonderful friends. I love running with Karen. I have grown to love her. She is a great example to me! I am so blessed to have such wonderful friends as Wendy and Karen. Life is beautiful! :)
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 8.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
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Hubby had no meeting last night so we went to movie (got to spend the movie vouchers I won at AF Canyon 1/2) and a late night snack at Chick-fil-A! ♥ Life is sweet! :)
Met up with Carolyn and Karen. They wanted to run the RR trail. We took the first couple downhill miles easy as warm up. Then picked up the pace on the 3 uphill miles and cool down the last mile. Very proud of Karen and Carolyn on their good solid effort. Carolyn is feeling more confident for Saturday's RHPC!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 7.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Had a RS/High Priest quilt-tying-salad-social last night where I ate too much yummy homemade salad and dessert. Between the gluttony, the neighbor's dog barking and hubby's snoring I got a total of 2 hour sleep. Stink! :/
Got up early to quickly pack an overnight bag and out the door by 8:30am. Today I got to go to *work* with hubby, not in his office, but on the road! Yipee!!! There was a huge traffic jam between Provo Center St. and University. We were in a standstill for half an hour. Had a coughing spell (from the asphalt paving and exhaust fume) which made me realize I forgot to pack my inhaler, Stink! :/ Made it to Nephi where hubby parked at a gas station to do his conference call. He's such a task master but also a great cheerleader! :) Next stop was in Fillmore where we visited with each teller, personal banker, operation manager, store manger. Hubby is such a kind administrator! :) We love the small hometown store where everyone is family! The district manager and Randy, the regional manager and his wife came to cook a BBQ lunch for the bank folks and us. Forced down a burger and skipped the potato salad and chips. Still full from last night's gluttony...but didn't want to hurt Randy's feeling! :)
Then it's onto Parowan. Did I mention I love the small town folks? The store manager talked my ears off. Again, they were so proud to show off their *WOW* and *Solution* performance! They were so gracious and happy to see my hubby! :) The last stop was Cedar City where we visited the store in historical downtown while hubby's boss visited the store in south part of town. This is a much bigger and busier store than the two we visited. Hubby and the store manager did a lot of reminiscing. She had worked for 20 years while hubby has worked for 35 years in the same bank. She filled us up on what's happening to some of the *old-timers*. It was a good but long visit again with every single employee in the store. Hubby is such a people person! By the time we checked into our hotel, Springhill Suite Marriott, my dogs were dead tired from standing & visiting. We had an hour to rest, clean up and get into our evening attire for the Board of Governor's Shakespeare Festival Gala. There was a social hour with silent auction..more standing and visiting in heels, sipping sparkling juice. I hate these kind of events. The speech and presentation was long, dinner was cold. As usual in these kinda gala, the dessert (a delicate & beautiful chocolate and cream concoction) and the salad were sitting on the elaborately decorated table probably for hours. The salad was wilty. I devoured the dinner roll. I always love the crusty outside, soft inside, rolls, wish there were more. :) The entree was New York steak, grilled prawns with mango chutney, augrante potato with some fancy cheese sauce, baby carrots and squash. It would have been delicious if it was hot. There was just not even carb, so I ate the dessert which would have tasted good if it was cold. As you can tell, everything was lukewarm. But I shouldn't complain because the folks did a fabulous job to raise money for the new building to replace the old Adams theater. This is a great year to do it being the 50th year of the Shakespeare Festival. When dinner was finally over, we walked over to the theater for the show, the Music Man. My knees were in bad shape as I walked down the stairs in heels. I began to have thoughts of not running Bryce in the morning. I dozed off a few times during the performance which was really quite entertaining. I hope Earle (the Parowan store manager) and his wife seated beside me didn't see my snoozing off. How embarrassing! :) Finally at intermission, hubby mercifully excused us to head back to the hotel. Hubby's boss assured us that he would tell us how the show ended! :) We hit the sack at 10:30pm. The hotel suite was lovely, the bed very comfy. Hubby promptly fell asleep while I stayed WIDE AWAKE! What is wrong with me?!!! :) I could doze off sitting up in a crowded theater during a marvelous performance yet could not sleep one wink in a comfy luscious hotel bed? My legs and feet were soooo tired. Life is grand! :)
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| Night Sleep Time: 2.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 2.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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Bryce Canyon Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:48:41, Place in age division: 3 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 1.00 | 1.00 | 11.10 | 0.00 | 13.10 |
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Even though I was wide awake all night, I did not get up until the alarm went off at 3am. I wanted hubby to have the full 4.5 hr sleep so he could drive me 80 miles to Bryce Canyon City in the dark thru the winding mountain forest roads. Words cannot describe my gratitude for a wonderful sweet sweet hubby!!! :) What husband would give up sleeping in a nice hotel suite (especially after a long Friday of driving, traveling and working) or enjoying the hotel's breakfast buffet to get up at the wee hours and drive a crazy wife to a race???♥♥♥ :) :) :) My eyes were blood shot, my body dog-tired. I only had 2 hr sleep in the last two days. What was I thinking? Was so tempted to go back to bed or have hubby drive me to Provo Canyon for the RHPC1/2 instead! :) We checked out of the hotel (that sadly we didn't get to enjoy) at 3:30 am. I studied the google maps which estimated a 1hr 37 min drive. Since we've never driven from Cedar City to Bryce Canyon, we figured a 2 hr drive would give us some time cushion. A beautiful full moon illuminated the pine trees, river and dark winding forest roads. We must've seen at least a dozen deer. Thankfully there was zero traffic and only two vehicles passed us the entire 80 miles. I forced down a yogurt an hour into the drive.
We got to the start at 5:15ish. Not knowing the logistic I had hubby pull off the side of the road close to the start by the second lines of pops. Got my bib/chip and went to the pop. While in the pop, I heard them announcing that cars cannot be parked alongside the road and must be moved to the Rodeo Ground. What? Where? I quickly got in the car to put on the bib and chip while hubby assessed the situation. A lady volunteer asked us to move our car. Hubby kindly told her that he was just dropping me off and asked where to pull off. Good thinking on hubby's part, he pulled the car off the roadside just behind the police escorts and buses facing the throngs of runners walking to the start. I went to the pop a second time. My tummy was not happy. In the haste of packing, I forgot to bring a jacket. I was freezing so I stayed in the car while straining to watch for Leslie Petersen and hoped to spot Steam8 whom I've never met. I was getting apprehensive. Why am I running this? What a surprise and delight when AmberG tapped on our car window. THANK YOU AMBER for stopping to stay hello.! You had no idea how much that meant to me! It totally lifted my spirit! :) :) :) Then Lowell called! :) He and his buddies had just finished their 34 mile moonlight midnight jaunt on the Poky Course. It was so COMFORTING to hear Lowell's and Terry's voices and their *good luck* wishes. I choked down a banana. With a minute before start, I hesitantly kissed hubby goodbye and headed out into the cold darkness towards the start line. I started at the back of the pack. It seemed everyone had two or three running partners to walk, talk and laugh with. It was a lonely chore to weave around them. Saw a girl with long dark pony tail and beautiful long eye lashes, I ran alongside and loudly uttered "Amy! Amy!" (She had ear buds on). "Steam8? Steam8?" No respond! :) I was overjoyed when I spotted the beautiful Leslie at about 0.3 mile. She was bundled up nicely. We exchanged hugs and quick hellos. Was so cold that I had to keep moving. The first mile was a slight incline on Hwy 63 before dumping onto Hwy 12. First mile split was 9:30.
Mile 2-6 splits: 8:43, 7:20, 7:31, 7:56, 7:58. I had no time goal for this run. Based on Sasha's calculator, my UVM time would put me at 1:50 for this course. Since I was using this as a downhill training run, I decided to focus on form and feel and not worry about time. Was a little concerned with my labored breathing from the get-go. Then I realized the elevation was at 7,700 ft. The biggest drop came between mile 1.5 to 2.5 where I passed many many runners. My ears actually popped and breathing got under control and finally got warmed up as the sun rose. The scenery was spectacular with a vast view of the surrounding mountains and valleys, voodoos and sandstone formations. The sky was a cloudless sunny blue. I highly recommend Bryce for its spectacular scenery and sweet downhill course! :)
Mile 7-10: 8:25, 8:31, 8:59, 8:15. The first little uphill came just before mile 7. Up to this point no one has passed me. Some young legs now passed me on the uphill. I wasn't too concerned, just concentrated on even effort and running the tangent. My right knee, the one that's been bothering me, was holding out okay on the downhill. The left knee started to squawk and the 1st metatarsal on the left foot also complained. I chalked it up as a consequence of being in heels all day yesterday. The course flattened out a bit as we got near Tropic and another uphill leaving Tropic. I took a gu at the aid station in Tropic (mile 9). The smell of greasy food wafting from some diners almost made me puke.
Mile 11-finish: 8:11, 8:37, 8:29, 7:03. My GI started to revolt. Each time I came upon a pop, it was occupied, STINK!!! I kept running and hoped that I would make it to the finish before the thing explode! :) It was starting to get warm. With 5K to go, I finally checked my watch and realized if I held my pace under 9mm, I could finish in 1:50. I concentrated on reeling people in. There was a little girl in a pretty salmon color top that was running with either an older brother or uncle whom I had been leap frogging with. I finally passed them for good around mile 11. Another slight uphill just before mile 12. My shins started to cramp up with a mile to go. Ignoring the pain, telling myself the sooner I get to the finish I sooner I get to the pop and end this misery! :) With 0.1 to go, I saw hubby and heard JulieC's cheer which gave me the extra boost to *kick* it in. I was elated to see the clock at 1:49:4x. Yes! I PR'd! :) :) :) My official chip time: 1:48:41. What a blessing! :)
I kept walking in circles at the finish corral and saw Steam8. She is tinier and prettier in person than her blog pic. What a delight to meet her! :) She also PR'd and had a great race! She walked with me to pick up my race shirt. We had a nice little visit and snapped couple of pic. So happy I got to meet her! I had to go to the pop couple of times before heading to the award ceremony. I wanted to wait for Leslie to come in; but hubby needed to head home so he could mow the lawn and do his stake president's stuff. Sadly, I made hubby stopped at every gas station and rest stop on the drive home. The drive took 5 hours. My tummy was cramping up badly. Not sure if it was the salad from the RS social or the lukewarm dinner last night, but I must've had a bad case of food poison. I lost 5 pounds! After we got home, all I could do was lay in bed between bathroom trips. So other than the tummy issue, I had a great time and enjoyed the beautiful Bryce Canyon! If I were to run it again in the future, I would make it a vacation and hike Bryce Canyon! :) :) :) Life is a blessing!!!
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 13.10 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.25 |
| I slept for SEVEN hours! SO NICE!!! :) Still a bit of rumble tumble in there them tummy yesterday so I didn't dare eat breakfast before my run. Got out for an easy recovery run at 8:30 am. naked (sans Garmin)! Temp was around 78, I think, cloudy with a warm south wind. Quads were tight as expected after Saturday's downhill half. Everything else felt fine. It was quite a pleasant little run! Thinking about DNews! I ran it in 2007 and 2008. Not my favorite! Will only run it if someone needs company and running my snail pace!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 5.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.05 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.05 |
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Think I'm still trying to catch up on my sleep. Got another 7 hours sleep! YAY!!! Was going to get up early to run 3 miles before meeting up with Wendy, Carolyn and Mary. It didn't happen. Only had time to do an easy 5 miler with them before the builder came. Took Olga to lunch for her birthday. Got home and saw the big mess the backhoe has made.
My baby will be leaving for Taiwan next Tue. Can't believe 12 weeks of MTC has gone by so fast! Wanted to run some more this afternoon; but other things got in the way. Foam rolled the legs. Going to speak at a girls camp in Payson Lake tomorrow morning...so may have to run later in the day!
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 5.05 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
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Got up early to get 6 miles in before driving up to Payson Lakes. Not sure I made any difference in speaking to the girls in Cedar Hills 1st Ward. When you look into the eyes of these girls; you can tell the ones who have it and the ones who are seeking. Such a tough time to be teenagers! Still not sure about DNews.
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 6.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| 7 easy with Wendy & Carolyn 1 by myself. I talked them into doing 7 when they wanted only 5! :) It's all in the mind! :) So nice to not have the humidity! Didn't sign up for DNews last night...still thinking about it! How badly do I want to pay $75 to suffer? :)
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 8.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.25 |
| Temp was 74 this morning, sunny sky. Monday's forecast is more of the same, low in the 70s with high in the mid 90s. Going to be a scorcher!!! :}
Decision time: The quads survived AF Canyon and Bryce Canyon but I think DNews might push them over the edge. Better be safe than sorry. So I'm going to wimp out. Anyone running the Sogonapmit next Sat.? The website says it's not for the feign of heart!!! :) Oh the air-condition died yesterday!!! STINK!!! Well, it is 16 years old, not surprise it's throwing a fit like a teenager! :) Gonna be costly!!! :}
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 5.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 17.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 17.00 |
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I decided not to run DNews on Mon. and welcomed the chance to run with RAD on the JRP this morning at 5:30. Ran with Toby and RAD and yacked their ears off for 13.5 miles. Forgot to drink until we got to the lake turn around at mile 7 then Gu'd at the drinking fountain at Willow Park (mile 11+). The miles flew by (at least for me). Hope I didn't bore my GREAT running partners to death! :) RAD brought these sweet juicy oranges that we devoured back at the car! THANKS!!! :)
Toby needed to leave. My legs felt fine so I ran with RAD for 4 more to make 17. My Garmin data was messed up since I forgot to restart. RAD's showed that our AP was 9:20. Super happy for that pace.
THANK YOU SO SO SO MUCH Rachel and Toby for running with me and listened to my non-stop talking! :) It would've been a slow and miserable run for me if it weren't for you girls! :) :) :)
We ran into Chad then ScottW who finished his run while we were
stretching and visiting back at the car. I am so excited for his
Wasatch100. I seriously live vicariously thru his and Jun's adventurous mountain trail runs and ultras.
Start temp 61, finish temp 75. Sunny!!! Drank total 32 oz. No net weight loss/gain! Took ice soak while drinking a can of Slimfast. Will stretch and foam roll diligently. By Tue I may be able to assess any damage and decide on the crazy 26.2 next Sat. GOOD LUCK to y'all running DNews on Mon. I may drive up to cheer you in, will see!
The Whipple guys came yesterday to take apart my furnace/AC. The blower and mother board were completely fried. So we are forking out $13,600 to have a brand new furnace/AC unit put in. They are installing it now. Am glad hubby is home...having workmen in my house stresses me out big time!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 17.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.25 |
| Had a long weekend. The Whipple guy forgot to re-lit the water heaters on Sat. after installing the uber-expensive furnace/AC; so we did not have any hot water. But the house is now nice and cool. So glad I didn't have to get up early to catch the bus for DNews. My running buddies in the ward are all leaving for girls camp this morning. I text Karen who's back from her vacation to see if she wanted to run. She had slept in. So we didn't head out till 7:30, hot, humid and windy! Had no energy. Could not get my legs to turn over. Not sure if it was the 17 milers on Sat or the humidity or what. I would've quit by mile 5 if it hadn't been for Karen.
Got back in time to say goodbye to the YWs and leaders as they drove out of the neighborhood like a parade! Dang! I wish so badly I was going with them. Stopped to talk with my neighbor for an hour. So glad I did even though I missed going up to DNews to run friends in. My baby is leaving the MTC for Taiwan bright and early tomorrow. I hope he calls from one of the airports. I am going to be a basket-case!
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| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 8.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Big fat goose egg today. Longed for the phone call from my baby (err missionary) that never came! :( But, my SSF's call totally lifted my spirit. :) :) :) Lowell called twice to make sure I did not commit suicide or harm myself! Haha! :) :) :)
Spent the whole morning monitoring the drywall guy fixing the hole in the downstairs ceiling that was made by the Whipple guy installing the HVAC! Spent the whole afternoon answering questions and following the LonePineEnergy guy here to audit my home's energy efficiency level. He uncovered a few things that need to be fixed. The number one thing was the water heater which was emitting way too much CO so he shut it off completely. STINK! Thankfully we have two water heaters. Spent the entire evening looking for 13 months of utility bills. Then compiled them in a summary file and email it to the LonePineEnergy people. Wanted to run away so bad!!! :)
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.25 |
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While I was stuck at home miserably yesterday Karen ran 15 miles by her lonesome. So she agreed to run an easy chatty 5 miler with me this morning! Got back to find some funny emails from Lowell who has agreed to run the Sogonapmit Marathon with me. YeeHooo!!! I quickly signed both of us up!!! Spent the entire rest of day with my next door neighbor's teenage boy who loves to cook and is having a hard time with his father's passing. He is such an awesome young man. We had so much fun making all sorts of spring rolls, dumplings and fried rice! Then tonight the phone rang, by the happy surprise voice of my hubby, I immediately knew who was on the other end!!! ;) MY BABY just called from Taiwan. He was sitting across the desk from his mission president who has instructed him to call home to let us know he arrived safely! YAY!!!! He sounded very happy. Pres. Grimley who is a good friend spoke to us and said Elder Lew looked happy and prepared. He said his Chinese is really good and that he even said a prayer in Chinese! That made us so happy and proud! Pres. Grimley's last word was "keep on running, I'll be running St. George 2012, be ready for me!!!" :)
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 5.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.20 |
| The guy doing the foundation and footings were here super early so I only had time to do a short run around the block. Dropped hubby off at the doctor's by the AF hospital this afternoon. Then drove to the Cedar Hills Parkway trailhead. It was 87F at 1:40pm. I had T shirt, skirt and crocs on so I didn't run but walked/jogged 1.5 mile up to the golf course to familiarize myself with this portion of the course and back down to the car. Hopefully I won't make the wrong turn and lead Lowell astray in the dark on Sat. :) Got all sweaty and feet/legs pretty tired! Company coming tomorrow...so shopped, washed and cleaned the rest of the afternoon and evening. Now I am pooped!!!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 3.10 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| My legs and feet were so tired last night that I slept fitfully. No running this morning so I can finish up cleaning the house for company. I am going to get up at 1:30 am and get to the start at 2:30 am to run the crazy Sogonapmit. I hope I can make it up to the Timp Half Start before they start; then brace myself for the stampede down and hopefully not get run over by the speedsters. O man, what was I thinking when I signed up! :?
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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Sogonapmit Marathon (26.2 Miles) 04:38:11 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 26.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 26.50 |
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***warning! Please read only the short version and skip down to enjoy the pics!***
Short version: LOVE this course! Had a WONDERFUL training run!!! Had a lot of fun seeing, cheering such GREAT running friends, Kelli, allie, AndyB, Ryan, Steve, Crockett, Josse, WendyC, EmilyH and many many others!
I owe this run to my dear dear friend Lowell who came all the way from Pocatello to run it with me. I enjoyed every single second of running this crazy Sogonapmit with him. He provided me with headlamp, reflective tapes, blue probe-light, and flashlight/glow stick. He protected me from dangerous traffic, potential harm, and literally kept me from self-destruction. He was literally my guardian angel. He is the most kind, caring, generous, big-hearted friend! He spread joy and goodwill all morning! I am so so so lucky to be counted as one of his gazillion friends! :) :) :) Long version (for my personal journal):
I got zero sleep Fri. night after spending a fun long day with Lowell and preparing for out of town guests. I was so tired and wound-up that I took a TylenoPM around 8 and went to bed at 10 hoping to catch some shut eyes. Just as I was about to doze off, my cell rang. It was my son, Eric, calling from Cleveland, with news that his wife had the baby 3.5 weeks early. It's a boy!!! 5lb 8oz 18" long!!! :) :) :) We talked for a good 30 min. While hubby snored away I stayed wide awake with excitement and anxiousness, not for the run, but for Eric's little family, so far away and needing help. I finally got up at 2am to get dressed, ate a yogurt and drove to AF High School for the 3am start.
The Start: The nice thing about going to an out-n-back marathon is that there's no need for drop bag, long bus ride or pop wait. Got threr with 5 min to spare. Parked the car by Lowell's, put on the headlamp, fuel belt and bib, ate a banana and walked 50 yards to the Start/finish arch. The RD gave a long speech about how nice this course is and some last min. instruction: "follow the cones...stay to left side of road up the canyon...there will be help-yourself aid stations every 2 miles.." and a long speech about how great this race is gonna be... blah blah blah until someone mercifully stopped his talking by announcing it's 3:06 and time to start already. Kelli and JulieC were there to send us off with cheers! :) Crockett along with 5-6 guys and couple of girls bolted out leaving Lowell, me and one other lady, Carrie, in their dust! :) Mile 1-3: The goal was to get to Tibble Fork Reservoir before the Start of the Timpanogos Half at 5:40 am. I felt confident that I could do it in 2:30; but Lowell wanted to do the 4:1 Galloway method and since I've never done that before we figured the early start would give us the extra cushion just in case. So glad I drove the course and walked portion of the trail. The traffic cones were spaced a bit far apart for the first couple miles and the course was not marked. Carrie missed the first left turn, we chased after her to get her back on course. Lowell said he would have missed it too even though we drove the course less than 12 hours ago. Things look differently in the dark! :)
Mile 4-6: There are advantages of running in a dark summer night. You don't see the incline or the distance of the hills. I love the cool peaceful night air and the sound of crickets (when Lowell wasn't talking or singing or doing military chants). But I also quickly discovered some surprises. The south portion of Cedar Hills Parkway has houses bordering both sides of the trail. We were blasted with sprinklers from both sides, like going thru an automated car-wash! We were soaked head to toes, FUN!!!! So glad I had my fuel belt because aid stations were not set up yet. While Lowell took a quick pit-stop at the park's bathroom, I ran a little bit ahead. I soon discovered another surprise, nocturnal creatures (mostly cats) darting across the path. I decided I'd better stay close to Lowell who had me stick to the 4:1. He set his Garmin to alert the run/walk with a 10 sec beep. The first few walking cycles seemed unnecessary; but by the time we hit the steep hills in the canyon I found myself asking Lowell if it's time to walk yet! :)
The UP canyon miles: The headwind started at the golf course and got worse as we headed up the canyon then I began to wheeze and cough. In the haste of leaving, I did not take or bring my inhaler. Where's my SSF when I needed her? :) Lowell had me draft off of him. I barely kept up and was so glad whenever the walking cycle started. The buses started coming from behind. We turned on the blue flashing light sticks and waved so the drivers could see us. We noticed how closely the buses brushed across the cones. Lowell would pick up the knocked-over ones. We even picked up fallen rocks off the road. We had to step off the road and waited a few times when buses were coming and going on both lanes. Kelli and JulieC passed us around mile 7. I collected my hugs and watched them ran effortlessly up. :) :) :)
Was so glad to reach the mile 8+ aid station where I ate a gu and pocket one. The wind subsided and my breathing got under control. The sound of the river was very soothing. The Start of the Half was a massive congestion. The spot light blinding me and I couldn't see the arch. A bus was unloading right in our path. We walked weaving around the runners who were oblivious to our trying to reach the arch. There was no chute on the left as promised. We walked around to cross the timing mat which I did not see but assumed was there and dropped off our headlamps in the garbage bag held by one volunteer. I forgot to turn the headlamp off (Ooops!) and asked him to do it for me. When Lowell finally retrieved it at the end of the race, the headlamp was still on! Ooops! Lowell stopped to visit with his niece. I got a hug from Maynard! :) We re-positioned our lighting gears and headed back down. I think our half time was 2:22ish.
The DOWN canyon miles: We passed Carrie coming up and two groups of walkers going down. We saw buses still coming up which made us think the Half would start late. We were running on the right side of the road when an oncoming car and another car from behind approached which turned out to be the lead vehicle ? because the first Half guy was following it. So FUN to cheer him and a little later, the next two leading men. The 4th or 5th guy was friendly, he even answered our question of when the race started. I kept thinking allie should be passing any minute now. The first girl ran by alone. Soon came allie followed by another girl and Mary Ann. I was SO HAPPY & EXCITED to see allie! She was running smoothly and confidently! :) :) :) We exchanged quick hellos and cheers! She looked AWESOME running strong and controlled! :) It was so FUN when friends and neighbors (Emily, Wendy, Josse and others) exchanged hellos and encouragements as they passed...Rachelle from the blog introduced herself...she's SO NICE! The highlight was when AndyB called out: "Is that you? Smooth?" by the golf course (mile 21ish)! So glad he was back from having been sick and running this course! :) So so so happy to see him!!!! I tried to stay out of the way of the speedy Halfers. I know what it feels like to have to weave around slower runners/walkers on a narrow parkway. I had to do that around the slower Halfers at Ogden. The 4:1 method really helped preserve the legs. I did not feel any fatigue other than a little niggle on the left hip flexor perhaps from running on the uneven road shoulder. Lowell was cheering on the runners, volunteers and spectators. He would try to get people to sing together like a choir at every aid station or groups of spectators. He was hillarious! Mile 23 to the Finish: After we spilled out of the parkway, (btw, it would have been nice if the sprinklers were on then 'cause it was getting warm) I knew we had 3.2 to go. Lowell was having too much fun entertaining the spectators. He stopped to talk to the families. I just wanted to get the run over with. When I heard him asked "What's your name? Nic? I had a ... named Nic..." I thought to myself: "O no, this could take forever!" So I did the unthinkable...I left him! I felt terrible because I promised myself that I would finally finish a marathon WITH him! But dang it, my leg muscles were about to seize if I stopped so I kept going and turning back every min or so yelling "C'mon, Lowell! Lowell!!!" I think the other runners were annoyed. I even asked one marathoner if he saw Lowell. :(
I could tell the runners did not like the hill at their mile 12 going up by the temple. My legs felt fine, which rarely happened at mile 25. I kept a steady pace and kept looking for my hubby's car thinking he'd be leaving the temple about then and driving to the finish. I saw a photographer and waved. Turned out he's my friend, Cougar! I saw him earlier at the mouth of the canyon cheering his daughter! :) On the downside of the hill, the shin started to tighten up. Just then a black and white cat darted out in front of me, my right foot clipped him! The spectators gasped. A girl ran passed and asked: "Did you know you ran over that cat? That's not good!" I said: "yeah, me or the cat?" I think Lowell would've been disappointed at me! What a joy and relief when I saw Kelli and Misty running towards me. The joy was short-lived when I saw two emergency vehicles parked in our path, one with the door open. Hope whoever it was was okay. Kelli & Misty guided me around the ambulance. I crossed the finish, hugged my friends and hubby and ran back for Lowell. At the corner I saw Maynard and cheered him but I don't think he saw me. Then I saw Lowell and ran the last little bit with him. Post-run: We walked thru the food alley twice snarfing down food. I was also getting cold. It was fun to see so many friends (Maynard, Ryan & Kalai Jonson, Emily Hansen, Wendy Clark, Don & Ruth Bigger, Karin Rowley , Nancy Bishop , Rob Rhode and many many others). Hubby wanted to go home badly because we had out of state company coming
and I had to help make sushi and cut fruits for the Asian Ward reunion. But the RDs had pleaded us to stay for the award ceremony and promised there'd be nice gifts/prizes for the *elite Sogo marathoners* and group pictures. So we stayed. It was so NICE to hang with Lowell, Kelli, Maynard and Pron8r but we could hardly talk to each other b/c of the obnoxiously LOUD rap music. Finally we were happy to cheer our friends who ran the Half and took podium but there was confusion on the first three overall men and women placing. Over 2 hrs of waiting, the thing ended without a slight mention of the marathon. I felt so badly for Kelli who WON the Sogonapmit!!! She was the first woman to cross the finish (some 3 hrs earlier) even before the Halfers. The RDs have totally forgotten about the marathoners! Shame on them!!! But the medal was nice and hefty. I had a WONDERFUL training run on a BEAUTIFUL course with the AWESOMEST friends! Me & Lowell goofing! :) Me & Kelli, the Sogonapmit AWESOME WINNER! :) Me, Maynard & Kelli patiently waiting for the award ceremony to start. :)
My GREAT neighbors, the Jonsons! Ryan ran AWESOME taking podium! :)
Our *own* Sogonapmit group picture! :)
THANK YOU LOWELL and Kelli! Love you so much!!! :)
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 26.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.25 |
| I SLEPT IN!!! Wahoo!!! Actually I didn't want to wake up our guests sleeping in the next room so I waited 'till they got up! Perfect temp in the high 60s cloudy, the breeze made the mugginess bearable! The legs felt fine, just a bit tired from the marathon on Sat. but after couple miles they loosened up nicely! Would have run longer if I had more time! |
| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 5.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
| Had to make airport runs and fed our house guests breakfast this morning. Waited for the lumber to be delivered. So by the time I got to run, it was too hot and humid! So down to the TM I went with a movie, Chariots of Fire! Can you believe I've never watched that movie before? I LOVE it!!! It's on Netflix too! :)
2 mi warm up. 9 mi at half-marathon race pace (8:34). 2 mi cool down. AP 8:50. Legs felt great. I think the 4:1 method is magic. The legs "recover" during the 1 min. walk so they don't feel beat up after 26.2 and essentially no recovery needed!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 13.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| Ran 8 with Karen (Sky). Walked 2 mi to and from her house for wu/cd. We were both tired; ran so slowly but still wore Sky out! She ran 21 miles on Mon. all by her lonesome! It was fun telling her how my Sogonapmit Marathon went on Sat. and hearing what she did with her long run on Mon. I talked her into signing up for Park City!!! :) :) :) Her husband is gonna think I'm bad influence, hehehe!
Busy day cleaning out the guest bedroom downstairs so we can move into it while the master bedroom/bathroom is getting remodeled. The backhoe guy was here to fill the dirt back around the new foundation. My beautiful backyard is a mess...and so will be my bedroom! :) Happy Wednesday all! :) |
| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 10.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| No energy today! Good thing Wendy & Carolyn came by and asked me to run with them. :) Warm sunny day! I don't see my hawks anymore. All that road construction must've driven the hawks, golden eagles and falcons away. Oh they piped the canal so the duck families are gone too. In its place are plenty of morning doves, noisy black birds, robins, field swallows and pesty magpies!
Was neat to watch a huge portable classroom (size of a house) being moved down my street to the elementary school. Can't believe how quickly the summer is going by!
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| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 7.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.75 |
| Ran early with Karen, Wendy & Carolyn. We spent the rest of the morning and early afternoon helping in the Catholic Community Service Center. We served lunch to over 600 people. It was GREAT FUN! :)
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 4.75 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.00 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 18.00 |
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Karen picked me up at 6:15 to meet RAD & her SIL at the Lehi JRP where we unexpectedly met up with Morgan & Dave, 2 young bucks from Karen's ward. Turned out Morgan (a dentist) is Annette' boss. Dave ran the Timp Half last Sat and is training for his first marathon at SGM. I love to run with first-timer...he/she believes the big lies you tell. It was awesome to hear about Morgan's *eternal dates*, so cool! I'm gonna tell my *very eligible bachelor boys* the fun ideas of eternal dates! ;) :) :) :) :)
The legs surprisingly felt great despite a long day of moving stuffs up and down the stairs in the afternoon/evening and all morning serving lunch to the homeless. The GREAT company and chatting made the miles go by fast. ;) :) :) :) 18 mi AP at 9:19. Very happy with this run!
Temp was cool at the start and warm up a tad bit even with sunny blue sky, I did not feel hot when we finish. Took a nice 15 min ice soak. Drank from drinking fountain and ate one package of Powerbar chews, drank the whole bottle of water and one can of slimfast. Had a banana and mini bagel on the drive to the start. Off to help hubby with the yard then move out the bedroom furniture, FUN! :)
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 18.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| Ran with Wendy and Karen to Mountain Ridge Jr High. We RAN down the 12th East BIG DIP and UP on the other side thru the little neighborhood to the east. Told Karen that is what Empire St. is like! So proud of ourselves running it! But on the way back we wised up and WALKED on north side of that DIP! :)
I've been running long runs in the Elixir 5 over the last couple months. This morning I wore a new pair of Elixir 5. I think I'll run in the Elixir rather than the Inspire at PCM.
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 8.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| Wendy and I were so excited that Olga finally got some running shoes and agreed to run with us. This is the first time she ran and the farthest she's gone. She had done some walking and jogging around the block which is exactly 2 miles. :) We ran to Karen's (1 mile) without stopping, after 1.5 mile we'd walk 0.25 mile and run .75 mile. At mile 3.5 Wendy had to leave to drive kids to soccer . Karen and I stayed with Olga running .5 mi walking .25 'till we got to her house at 4.75 mile. Then I showed her some stretches. I then ran Karen home and back to my house for 7 total. Good thing my construction guy was late because I was gone so long. Turned out he was running up at Rock Canyon to prepare for the entrance test for firefighting school. The demolition of the bedroom started. You'd never know what's behind sheet-rocks. There was a bird nest in the tray ceiling by the outside wall. A few years ago I heard noises coming out of that wall and suspected a bird. Hubby didn't believe me. Ha, I was right! :)
One of our water heaters is corroded and leaking. It is now turned off. We are getting bids anywhere from $800 - $2200 for a 50 gallon water heater replacement! Crazy!!!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 7.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 8.50 |
| Ran down to the Jr. High with Karen and Carolyn for some simple speed work. Carolyn has never run track. Karen used to run 800m in high school. I haven't done any speedwork this year. So plan was to keep it simple. Ran 2.25 exactly to the track for warm up.
I wanted to run 5x800 with 400 recovery. Karen was short on time since we didn't get out till after 7am while we were visiting with Wendy whom we couldn't convince to join us. (It must've been me, the CRAZY running granny's bad influence!) :)
Anyway, we ended up doing 4x800 with 400 recovery. My 800s were 3:40, 3:39, 3:45, 3:45 and my RI were around 3:00. Ran Karen home immediately after. We did walk up the hill on Center St., legs were jello! :)
The demolition of the bathroom started! Tiles, walls, glass, sheet rocks, shelves, sinks, tub are all being blasted away! My master suite is a war zone!!! Aaaarghhh!!! Water heater guy coming on Friday! I need to run away!!! :)
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 8.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Easy run with Wendy, Carolyn and Karen. My neighbor passed away peacefully in the wee hours this morning. He was only 41 years old. He was diagnosed with brain cancer nearly 8 years ago. He left behind a devoted wife and 4 children. Spent the day with the family during their difficult time.
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 5.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| Ran with Karen and Carolyn. Couldn't talk Wendy into joining us. We were all short on time so only made it 4 miles. Bryan came home after a summer of internship in China, music festival in D.C. and chamber music in Europe. He lived out of a carry-on size suitcase, playing, learning, studying from the best of the best musicians in the world. He was able to stay healthy but on his flight home he felt sick. He went to the doctor today and was diagnosed with strep throat. :(
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 4.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| Ran the Porter Rockwell Trail with a group of great ladies, RAD, Bec, Toby, Kathie, Karen, Carolyn and Wendy. (Kimmy and Nic were there running solos for their extra miles). I like running this trail the week before a marathon, perfect distance of 12 miles gradual rolling uphill out and downhill back. There was a group of youth running a 5K as we were finishing. It was so fun to have their cheering...my last mile was 8:20! :) Spent the rest of the day shopping for tiles, carpet, wood flooring, light fixtures...just the start!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 12.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| Think I'm coming down with something, sore throat, swollen glands, achy neck, fatigue. The thunderstorm kept me up. Ran 7 miles down and up the rail trail with Carolyn and
Karen. I probably would have bagged the run if weren't for them! My legs were lead, felt crummy, hacked up copious gunk! So disgusted with myself! :(
Hubby had to sweep the rain water off the floor of the new addition (which has no roof yet) a second time this morning. Yesterday he had to sweep the rain water in between his meetings. He put the white tarp (which was supposed to keep the floor dry but didn't) on the lawn to dry, big mistake. His beautiful lawn was fried, it now has a 50'x50' brown patch, so sad! He has such a good attitude...never gets mad! It is now past 10am and I haven't seen or heard from our contractor! He was on vacation last week while his helper did the demolition alone Tue-Thu. It was a good thing I told him to not take out the outside-wall, as it is, the hole they made on the existing roof in order to join the new addition's walls have caused rain leakage inside. So, this has been 4 weeks and we've seen more *destruction* than construction, very frustrating!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 7.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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No running today. Woke up feeling achy, with sore throat, lotsa icky mucus and very tired. Called the doc. for an appointment but he was on vacation. Since I was a *sore throat* case, I was seen by a PA student. The MA swapped my throat. This was the conversation I heard outside my exam room. PA student: "So, you are doing the strep test? You know how?" MA: "I've done it before." PA student: "It's the sore throat in that room." some laughing...joking....5 min. later. MA: "How come all the strep tests I've done come out negative?" The PA: "Cause you didn't swap all over the throat." MA: " I did!...it's negatory!" Pause...then the PA came in and told me it's probably viral, but he had the PA student emailed an order for an antibiotic to the pharmacy anyway and said I could take it if the symptoms get worse (after being told that my son was seen by the doc on Fri and diagnosed with Strep.). So much for going to see the doctor! I didn't get the antibiotic. I still have a cough, icky sputum, sore throat, all manageable. I think the mountain air at PC will do me good, don't you think?
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
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Feeling no better or worse. I just had to go for a run to loosen up the mucus and keep from getting insane! Ran 7 with Karen. Busy busy busy day helping with the funeral of my next door neighbor who passed away last week of brain tumor. The service went on for almost 3 hours. It was very nice to learn of some of the things about him as I didn't really get to know him since they moved here last summer. He had brain cancer 7+ years ago, went through chemo and surgery, thought he was all better, until a few months ago it came back with a vengeance. His youngest daughters are 8 & 9 so the last 7 years was a gift. I feel so sad for his 38 yo widow. She is amazing! Busy in the evening with the wedding reception of a wonderful young lady in our ward. This is 2nd of 4 wedding receptions within a week. Hope I didn't spread any germs. :(
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 7.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| Promised Wendy I'd run 4 with her...so, ran with Karen, Wendy and Carolyn for an EZ 4. Still have sore throat, icky thick sputum, cough...but NO fever...so I am not taking any antibiotic. I figure if it is virus, antibiotic doesn't help. Saturday will be day 6 from start of the symptoms so I should be fine to run. I may still have the cough but I will take my inhaler if I start having difficulty breathing. Hope I'll finish PCM ok. Update on the construction: more destruction of the existing roof so they can put the trusses on for the construction of the new addition's roof. This afternoon, they hired a giant crane (the kind that you see in major industrial construction) that has a humongous mechanic arm that reaches over 150' high. It loaded and dropped the heavy 26 foot long wood beam in place across the new addition. I now have vision of a roof over the new addition! Here's to more construction than destruction! :) Going to pick up my PCM packet tonight. You think they will let me run with a hecking cough? They let me run SGM with a fever the year it rained the whole race! :) |
| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 4.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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Park City Marathon 04:30:14, Place in age division: 4 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 26.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 26.20 |
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PCM was the FUNNEST long run ever!!! Karen picked me up at 5am, then drove Becca and RAD to Park City where we met up with Teena. Went inside the hotel to stay warm, use the bathroom and meet up with Lowell. 2 min before start time, *the pod* (consisting of Lowell, Bec, RAD, Teena, Karen and I) walked out to the start line. Within 10 seconds Teena left us in the dust and disappeared with the lead pack. *The pod* ran together picking up new friends (Terry, Erika, Bill, Tara...) along the way and just thoroughly enjoyed each others' company with big lies and jokes. :) Temp was in the high 50s but quickly warm up as the sun peaked over the mountains. We waited for each other at each aid station, hydrated, ate oranges, visited with the volunteers... A strong side/headwind whipped up from mile 7 on. I had taken 2 puffs from the inhaler at the first aid station and by mile 10 started to cough and wheeze. My bladder was filling up quickly, stink!!! We reached the aid station around mile 12. There was one guy waiting for the ONE pop (he said he would be quick). We were annoyed when the person finally came out of the pop turned out to be a woman volunteer!!! She walked 5 feet from the pop to her car. What the heck?!!! The grocery store is just a block off the trail...GRRR! I urged our group to go on ahead...but RAD refused. She and Karen waited with me holding my Gu's for me. What great troo bloo friends! :) THANKS girls!!! :)
Hubby was picking up Karen's husband and kids at 7:30am to come cheer us along the course. I told him it would take us at least 2 hours to get to the half way point. I started looking for him on the Rail Trail. When I didn't see him at the first road intersection I hoped we'd see him at the end of the Rail Trail. Sure enough, I could hear Karen yelling "Mark! Larry! Mark! Larry!" just as we reached the aid station on Bonanza (about mile 13.5). They had just arrived 10 seconds earlier and were crossing the road to get to the aid station. Had it not been for the 3 min pop wait a mile back, we would have missed each other! :) We lingered for pictures and loitered around the aid station.
*The pod*: Karen, Becca, Lowell, Smooth and Rachel. By the stop sign are Karen's husband, Mark and daughter, Abby. We must've eaten 8 lbs of oranges between us! :) Oh, it felt so good for my sore throat!
My favorite part of the course is on Poison Creek Trail along city parks with tennis courts, trees and fun tunnels. Lowell stopped to goof off with a group of ladies doing exercises in the park, silly boy! Rachel and Becca began to take the lead up the climb to Deer Valley. My least favorite part of the course was running on the sidewalk on Deer Valley Dr. from mile 15. But it was redeemed by the fact that you could see the fast runners running down on your left. It was AWESOME to see Teena flying down (would've given her a hug but didn't want to interrupt her momentum!:-) ) Also saw some friends, BrentZ, but didn't see Slick or Marcie like I would in years past. I also saw and cheered on the two ladies, Sue & Margaret, in my age group. Running up the Deer Valley loop was not bad at all (thanks to taking the inhaler as suggested by RAD at the half), although I wished they had wash clothes for us like they had in the past. Looked forward to getting to the top where I know our cheering squad (Larry, Mark, Brad, Max, Beth, Abby and Gracie) would be.
We made it! Notice the guy running with ski poles?!! He came to Deer Valley prepared! Dang, I left mine at home! :) Here comes *the pod* reaching the skiers' bridge just before the last climb up to Empire. We had lost Lowell somewhere in Deer Valley. He stayed with Tara!
Here we were loitering around at mile 19 aid station again! :) So many choices of food and Gu flavors! We were told the Expresso was the best for the end of the marathon!  What? We have a marathon to finish?!!! :) :) :) We'd better get going...
But not until we got a couple of *jump shots*! :) :) :) On the trail again!
 The paparazzi's are everywhere! :)  We were SO grateful for the cloud covering between mile 17-23. But was now getting hot with a full sun beating down and a warm south headwind. The last 5K in a marathon is always work. This is Karen's 2nd marathon. At mile 24, she started to feel the effect of the miles but also felt so much stronger than her 1st marathon at SLC. With one mile to go, my shins started to cramp up, probably due to wearing the Elixir. In the last 4 PCMs, I had always feared succumbing to cramps on the winding narrow bike path that hugs the condo. There seems to be never-ending corners to turn with no sight of runners ahead or behind. But this year's different...it was so AWESOME to run side by side with Karen drawing strength from each other. The guy with a sprinkler hose was another blessing!!! With 100m to go we saw darling Abby and Gracie who ran with us to the finish with the cutest, happiest smiles ever!!!  The fun resumed at the finish and carried over to Cafe Rio!  Post-run assessment: Thanks to my SSF's giving me the inhaler at the finish, was able to get the coughing and wheezing under control! Knee held out okay. Shins would need some rolling. Need to recover well... Pocatello is in 2 weeks!!! :)
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 26.20 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.50 |
| Zero soreness!!! YAY!!! Ran with Wendy and Carolyn for 4. Passed by Karen's at our mile 3 while she was walking Abby to the bus stop with Sky in her running clothes. The school bus came just in time for Karen to join us. Ran 2.5 with Karen. 6 circuits of CSE Foam rolled the shins which I've never done before and discovered some tightness there, no doubt from the cramping on the last mile at PCM on Sat.
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 6.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Poor hubby got my sore throat on Sat and was coughing up a storm last night, thus we got very little sleep. Met Carolyn and Karen for our run at 6am so we could be done before the kids get off to first day of school. Ran down on the 300 W trail and back up on 3200 N. My sore throat is gone and coughing is minimal! 3 circuits CSE 10 lb free weight lifts for biceps and triceps
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 6.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
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Temp was already 69 at 6am. Gonna be a scorcher. Was nice to run with Karen and Carolyn and beat the sun coming over the mountains and the kids getting on school bus! 3 circuits of CSE. Rolled and massaged lower calf muscles.
The roofers were supposed to come on Monday. They still haven't come. So glad there's no rain in the forecast for that reason.
I am desperately in need of lodging for Friday night (9/16) in Logan for TOU. The hotels I looked are filled! Help!!!!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 7.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
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Karen and Carolyn took the day off from running so I slept. At the start of the run I felt some tightness/soreness in my right lower calf on the outside (distal) with every footfall and push off. I noticed soreness on the left lower calf on the inside (proximal) yesterday. I could walk with no problem. So I went home, put on compression sleeves and walked/jogged on the TM for 2 miles, stop to stretch every 10 min. Once the muscles got warmed up, I was able to run at easy pace with no problem. Will keep an eye on the Soleus. More foam roll and stretch!
The roofer finally came at 10 this morning! Still desperately in search of lodging for TOU!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 7.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Ran an easy 5 with Karen. We started at 7:45, temp was already in the 70s. Had no energy this morning. The calves did better today. :) Going over to help Beth clean and pack. They are moving tomorrow. I am so sad! I hate goodbyes! :(
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 5.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 3.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.10 |
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This morning's run was one of the most joyful runs I've had!!! Karen picked me and Carolyn up at 4:40 and headed down to Toby's. According to Karen's car, temp was 75. Toby had already gotten up SUPER early to run 8 solo miles and was back by 5am to run her remaining 12 miles with us. This was to be her first 20 miler!!! :) Thanks Toby for letting us be part of your awesome run!!! :) :) :)
Lowell and Terry came from Pocatello to join us since Terry's grand daughter was getting married in the Timpanogos Temple at 10am. Lowell provided us with flash/glow lights and we were off with much laughter and giggles! :) :) :)
The 6 of us meandered west on the streets of AF then north onto the river trail then east to Lone Peak High and back on the trail to the golf course. We had so much fun chatting and laughing, the miles just flew by. We stopped at the drinking fountain east of the golf course and realized it was already 6:15 and Toby had to be back by 7 for her Ward's Rodeo. We still have another 5 or 6 miles to go. So she proposed that we run to her house by 7 and finish the run at her ward's 5K race/fun run just up the road. Seriously, how in the world?!! :) I would not be able to do the math at the end of the long run to figure the mileage no less run a 5K at the end of a 20 miler. She is AMAZING!!! :)
Everything worked out beautifully! We got to the start of the 5K just before the race started. Only Lowell took a bib number and I carried the bag of safety pins and chased after the guy with the clip board. We just wanted to finish our long run so we stayed at the very back. When the gun went off (yes, there was a gun and they even fired it once for testing), I followed the people (about 25-30?) in front of me. The first 0.75 mile (per my Garmin) has an elevation drop of 90'. I took it easy down the hill passing a few people and chatted with the boy and lady on bikes. We turned left onto the river trail which we ran earlier in the dark in reverse. The course flattened out and I passed more people...breathing easy and legs feeling great. At about mile 1.5 there was a water station, I skipped it, then we turned east onto 300 North. I ran on the sidewalk as there were cars parked along the road and I didn't want to get hit by oncoming traffic. I spotted a group of young men/boys on this stretch so I focused on reeling them in. I was able to pass all (about 5) but one who had a #31 basketball jersey on. The course turned north uphill on 1100 East at mile 2.4. I stayed on #31's tail because I didn't know the course. We made one right turn into a neighborhood then a left turn. I saw a group of ward members and ran towards them thinking it was the finish; but one lady pointed me to the left up in the grassy area towards the finish. I never caught #31 but my time was 25:36 and found out I was top 10! :) Splits: 8:28 (downhill), 8:18 (flat), 8:30 (uphill), (0.1 @ 8:48 got a little lost). I grabbed a cup of water then we ran back to look for Lowell and Terry who ended up running up to where their car was parked as they had to make it back in time to get ready for the wedding. Didn't get to say goodbye but I'll see them in a week at the Pocatello Marathon. Got home and went to my Stake R.S. self reliance fair! What a FUN FUN FUN morning! :) :) :)
HUGE HUGE HUGE KUDOS to Toby for running her first 20 miler so AWESOMELY with a 5K race at the end to boot and...finish the whole thing in a kidK with her darling triplets!!! WaHoooo!!!! :) :) :) :)
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 13.10 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 4.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 4.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| Ran with Karen down and up rail trail. My breathing sure was labored on the uphill. Legs felt fine but the lungs aren't. What's the elevation in Pocatello? Still desperately looking for a place to sleep Fri night in Logan for TOU on 9/16. In the process of asking around, another friend (a girl from Arizona) needs a place to sleep too. So now I am looking for TWO of us. Anyone cancelling their hotel room?!!!!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 7.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.25 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.25 |
| Met Karen and Carolyn at the bus stop (for Jr High kids) at 7:45. It's so fun to talk with the kids in my Valiant 11 class, love them so much! :) 7th grade is tough time.
Lori ran by us so I ran 2 fast (for me) miles with her. Lotsa school traffic. We need to go a different way tomorrow!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 6.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 1.00 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Met Karen, Wendy and Carolyn at the bus stop again. We ran towards the elementary school where Lori would be running from. Crazy school traffic. We ran west thru a neighborhood west of 300 West to bypass school traffic; then north to Bull River. I really like running with Lori who's a 1:30 half-marathoner. She runs like a gazelle with long slender legs. We need to convert her and Carolyn to marathons. 5 miles AP: 9:02
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 5.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.50 |
| A quick shake down run with Karen, Wendy and Carolyn. Got some nasty pricks from pruning rose bushes. Right patella tendon squawked when bending down.
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 4.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Travel day, no running. Lowell, Terry and Sam met me at the packet pickup and Expo. Got a nice duffle bag and two sack of potatoes!
Then we drove to Lowell's house passing Terry's house. Had a fun tour of Lowell's house, back patio adjacent to the golf course and Kelsey's playhouse and admired Susie's beautiful, exquisite prize-winning quilts. Then we drove to the courthouse to view the Liberty Bell and the two 5000 lbs rocks with the mounted plaques describing the bell. Lowell is instrumental in moving the Liberty Bell, a 3 years process that finally took place this summer. We got to ring the bell...very awesome! :)
Me, Susie, Lowell, Sam and Marilyn under the Liberty Bell Then we went to Terry's house for a most delicious pasta dinner that Terry's wife, Marsha cooked for us. Terry gave us a tour of his house which took a year to build and his beautiful Corvette! :)
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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Pocatello Marathon (26.39 Miles) 04:06:07, Place in age division: 2 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 13.00 | 13.39 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 26.39 |
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Got back to the hotel at 9:30 last night after a nice dinner at Terry's. Got my race gear ready, took a Tylenol PM and hit the sack around 10:30. Woke up at 4:15 before the alarm. Had a banana, yogurt, instant oatmeal, EmergenC and gatorade. Went down to the lobby at 5:40 to meet up with Lowell's neighbor, Bill who shuttled us (Lowell, Terry, Sam, Kristen and Amy) to the start. The ride only took 10 min. Lowell and I helped a guy get onto his handcyle and pushed another guy up to the start. We made a quick trip to the pop before dropping off our bags. Temp was in the low 40s so Lowell convinced me to put on the long sleeve race shirt, gloves and carried my inhaler and cell phone but I forgot the gu.
We started near the back of the pack by the 4:30 pace group. Since it was a training run, I have no time goal other than to help Lowell gets his BQ time of 4:15. Had so much fun greeting fellow runners as we ran nice and easy on a beautiful morning in gorgeous mountain scenery. First hill came just before mile 7 on an out-n-back. SO fun cheering those ahead of us as they're running down and encourage those behind as they're running up! :) Since I forgot my gu, I took a twizzler at the turn around and ate a tootsie roll at mile 9. Had to stop and wait for the pop at mile 11 (a bit overhydrated! :D) Got to the half where a guy at the timing mat said our time was 2:02. I never looked at my watch as it was covered by the sleeve. Hubby was waiting and cheering near the half so we stopped to shed our l/s shirts and posted for pictures. I also took couple puff of the inhaler.
Once we were out of the hills into Inkom, the sun was in our back and a headwind started to whip up on the straight stretch along the old highway (glad I took the inhaler). Started to pass lots of half-marathoners and gave them cheers. Around mile 17ish, Lowell talked to yet another girl. I looked down at my watch for the first time and saw that our pace has drifted to the high 9s. So I picked up the pace a tad bit and fixed my eye on Ben who has been leap frogging with us since mile 3. Ben was carrying his own fuel/fluid so he never stopped at the aid station. It was a good move as Ben is a big fella and I could draft off him a little bit. We ran side by side till mile 21, the big hill where Ben slowed some. Felt good that I kept a steady effort and did not walk any of the uphills.
I stopped at every aid station to drink and sample their offerings of candy and gu. I turned to look for Lowell who had gotten further and further behind. At mile 23 I asked Ben what his goal was. He said he'd like to finish around 4:20. I looked at my watch for the third time and realized even if we ran at a 10mm pace we could easily finish under 4:15. So I told him to stay with me hoping Lowell would chase after us as Ben has a red shirt on. For the last 5K, I kept repeating in my head my mantra: "smooth, fast, strong", and with each mile marker told my self: "just 20 more min...10 more...only 5 more." I kept waiting for the dreaded cramps which usually comes during the last mile but it NEVER came!!! :) The last 0.39 mile (I didn't do the tangent well) split was 8:28!!! Ben came in a min. after me. After getting my medal and chocolate milk, I walked back to wait for Lowell. He finished in 4:15:06. YES!!! He got his BQ!!!! :) :) :)
We lined up for their famous Idaho baked potato, BBQ pork sandwitch and ice cream bars. I didn't stay for the award ceremony as I had to head back to the hotel to shower before the 12:30 check out. But did see Rob Murphy get his award and congratulated him! It was a fun fun fun day and great training run!!!
Terry, Lowell, Smooth and Sam.
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 26.39 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.10 |
| Slept in. Ran a progressive 5K while hubby♥ walked/jogged (9:53, 9:09, 8:52, 8:19) Other than the tight patella tendon, legs felt pretty good!
Worked in the yard in the cool morning with hubby♥ side by side. Silly me, forgot to change shoes and got my Inspire all muddy. Then we went to see the movie, The Help. It's a good show, I cried and laughed so hard. Then we went shopping and to dinner. FUN DAY!!!
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 3.10 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| EZ run with Karen, Carolyn and Wendy. We only had time to run 5. AP: 9:30. A much warmer morning than yesterday. Legs feel great! :) |
| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 5.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.25 |
| Ran with Karen, Carolyn and Wendy down 3rd west then up on rail trail. The rail trail is now connected to the newly paved canal trail up to Bull River, YAHOO!!! Can't wait for the entire canal trail to be paved then we will have limitless trail to run. :) Forgot to charge the Garmin so no splits, probably mid 9's on the uphill. Legs felt great! Off to shopping with hubby♥ for the renovation and some Cougars garb! :)
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 7.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| Ran with Karen, Carolyn and Wendy. Last mile by myself. Felt tired first couple miles. MP felt harder than it should be. (AP: 9:14. Splits: 10:00, 9:11, 8:59, 9:18, 9:18, 9:04, 8:51) |
| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 7.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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Got up bright and early for the flight to Austin via Dallas. Travel day so no running!
Look who's flying with us!  The flight from Dallas to Austin was delayed because it was transporting the flag that was flown over ground zero in New York to Austin, the Capital of Texas for the 9/11 memorial. After landing and getting off the plane, our party stood just outside the gate to wait and watch the flag being carried by white gloved National Guard off the plane. It was a very special patriotic moment. Jimmer stood right next to me! :) After checking in the hotel, the AT&T Education Conference Center in the University of Texas campus, we were bused to a Salt Lick, a rustic restaurant famous for their BBQ. I have never eaten so much meat (ribs, pork and chicken) in my life. Look who rescued me from a meat coma! 
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
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Got up dark and early to run on the hotel's treadmill. Only had time to run 12 in 1:37. Sweat bucket. Showered and went to breakfast with the group. Guess who sat at my table!
Then we went on a private tour of the football stadium and their athletic facilities. That stadium is HUGE, can seat over 100,000. I look almost as tough as the longhorn, Earl Campbell, behind me!  I'd love to run on this turf!  Look who drove all the way from Houston to have lunch with us!  The grandkids were so excited to see/meet Jimmer! "Daddy is taller than Jimmer!" :)  Cosmo is always cheerful even though the temp was 96F and sunny. I roast sitting at the southeast end of the stadium. Can't imagine how hot Cosmo must've been moving up and down the sideline in that fury coat! Can you see Jimmer's autograph on the back of my right shoulder?
My daughter and son-in-law sat in section 101 directly across from us. We sat in section 32 row 3. We are in the front row of that blue section show in this picture taken by my daughter's cell phone! See the blue block among the sea of burnt orange? 
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 12.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| Ran with Karen and Carolyn. AP: 9:21. Fun to hear about their Spanish Fork 1/2 reports. :)
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 7.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Ran with Karen, Carolyn and Wendy. Fun chats. Fall is in the air. Cooler mornings. Contractor removed the funky angle-cornered hall wall and entry to the master bedroom. In its place a straight wall with double door entry. Sheetrock to the whole master suite is completed. Tomorrow will be tape/mud. Construction dust will only get worse the next few days. We finalized the purchase of tile, hardwood and carpet. Cabinet is ordered and a slap of granite is reserved. Next decision is wall texture and paint color.
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 6.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Continue a trend of mini taper for TOU!!! Ran with Karen and Wendy! Just registered for Boston 2012! :) :) :) There's lots of Spanish talking, pounding, mud pudding, stapling sound going on in the *west wing*.
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 5.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.50 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| 4 easy shake down miles with Carolyn. Getting anxious for TOU! Hope I can help Lowell get a better BQ so he can register for Boston Sat. afternoon! :) |
| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 4.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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What a crazy day! The mud crew were here to sand and mud the walls of the *west wing*; and since there were repair holes in my downstairs bathroom wall (the holes were made to gain access to the circuit breaker); I had to wait until they were done before showering. So, that put me behind in getting out the door. Barely had time to eat a bowl of pasta while google map direction to get to Marcie's house by 1:45. Mindy was there at 2 to drive Marcie and I up to Logan. We stopped at Wendy's in North Ogden for a baked potato and chicken snack wrap. Mindy brings her own pre-race meals. She was drinking all sorts of specialty drinks during the drive; thus we had to make several potty stops. Made it to Marcie's sister, Christine's house in Logan before 5. Was nice to meet Christine, her husband and daughter and three little dogs. Got to the Expo just a little after 5. The race shirt is long sleeve and the xs fits nicely. Milled around the pacer booth for an hour as Marcie is the 3:50 pacer. Then we drove to/thru McDonald so Christine's daughter can grab dinner; then to/thru Wendy's so we can grab another baked potato, then to/thru Starbucks so Mindy can grab soy tea. Finally back to Christine's house at 7. I was still hungry. Thankfully Mindy shared her peanut butter and honey on white bread with me.
We each claimed our individual couch and set out our race clothes and drop bag gear. Plan was to get up at 4:45 and get to our designated bus loading area at 5:10 to meet Lowell and the Flyers. We turned out the light sometime after 9. I took an advilPM and crawled inside my sleeping bag on a couch that is next to the kitchen door and off the family room where Mindy and Marcie slept on their couches. Just as I was dozing off, the little dogs came exploring. One was ready to hop on the couch, I quietly said: "down!" Marcie got up to take him away. Then just as I was about to doz off, another dog came in. I was concerned that he would take my running gear away or pee on my running shoes. I moved my running shoes right next to me. Each time I dozed, the sound of a computer receiving mail would wake me. I must've slept because I dreamed that Marcie and Mindy woke me up to go. I could not find my running clothes or shoes. Christine found me a huge bra and some cargo shorts. Then she drove the girls to the start leaving me to get ready. She came back and said I owe her $100 because she told the RD to hold the timing mat 'till I get there and they agree to do it for $100. :D I was sweating bullets frantically trying to put clothes and her husband's hunting boots on. WHAT a nightmare. Next thing I knew I woke up with night sweat and Mindy got up to announce time to get ready! :)
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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Top of Utah Marathon (26.39 Miles) 04:01:07, Place in age division: 5 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 21.39 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 26.39 |
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Morning frenzy: Got out of my sleeping bag and looked at the cell phone reading 4:45am. Quickly went upstairs searching for a bathroom in the dark. All the doors of the upstairs rooms were closed. Dang! Hope I didn't wake the sleeping occupants! :) Quickly put on my compression sleeves, socks, shoes, fleece and jacket; grabbed the drop bag and out the door by 5am!!! Christine dropped us off a block from by the Park. Walked to the designated meeting place and called Lowell who was 5 min. away. He brought along a fella from his hotel. Meanwhile TomSlick has arrived. We saw no other Forumflyers. The six of us got on the bus. Ate my banana and a few chex mix nibbles and water. Marcie shared her gatorade. I was very sleepy and not coherent. The start: Got off the bus at 6:15ish. The pop lines were L-O-N-G! Got separated from the gang. Thankfully Lowell had his blue flash light and I my pink flash light. We went to back of line for a second pop visit. It started to rain. Lowell and I found a damsel in distress, name Gretchen, I think. I gave her my garbage bag, Lowell gave her his gloves. Soon we heard announcement that the clothing truck leaving in 5 min.! We quickly stripped down. I kept my Boston jacket on, Lowell gave Gretchen his spare jacket. He was so kind to take our bags plus two other people's bags to the truck while we were stuck in the pop lines. While still in line I heard the gun/riffle shot. Oh NO, the race has started! No worries, it was for the handcyclists start! Made it down to the start and found Lowell standing by the clothing truck. He had stepped into a huge puddle and both feet were wet. There were people huddling under a tent. Loved this wet madness! :) Walked over to the starting arch and hollered: "GO allie!!!!" Those toeing the line turned and I was able to get a glimpse of allie as she looked over my way!" :) :) :)
The riffle went off with a loud bang! Then 20 seconds later another bang!...hope it didn't hit anybody. We cheered on the speedsters and Marcie's 3:50 group then jumped in between the 4:00 and 4:15 balloons. The sun was up hiding behind heavy clouds but light enough we could see the wet road and puddles. :)
Goal of the day was to run a 4:10:00 (a 5 min BQ cushion) so Lowell could register for Boston that very afternoon. I have total confidence that he could do it as he ran 4:15 at Pocatello two weeks ago. I secretly wanted a 4:05 goal for him so needed to keep an average 9:10 pace. I was wearing a jacket covering my belt that holds my inhaler, my bib# with the course-tool-pace-band attached. Needless to say I never looked at the pace
band once. The game plan: Lowell was allowed to be in charge of the first 14 canyon miles and I the next 12. Lowell has a tendency to tell
stories to those we pass. He spreads joy and aid to anyone in need especially damsels in distress.
Thus it's risky to let him be in charge of the last 12 miles. I ran my first TOU with my niece and her husband in 2008 (their very first
marathon). I ran friends in from the mouth of the canyon to the finish in 2009 and 2010, so I'm familiar with *the work* of the Logan miles. The rule was to utter NO more than 3 words to those we pass during MY 12 miles! :) We'd let the gods be in charge of the weather, the last 0.2 or however long it takes to get to the finish.
The run: We walked at every aid station. Also my Garmin measured long so didn't match up with the mile markers. Here are my Garmin splits follow by the course-tool-pace in parenthesis. We were NOWHERE near the course-tool-pace! Haha! :) :) :)
1. 9:29 (9:07) The usual good-morning-how-are-you-chit-chat slow warm-up mile.
2. 8:57 (9:21) Lowell got carried away by the group of girls in black/red outfits!
3. 8:42 (9:15) Rain. Laughing and singing.
4. 9:34 (9:18) Lowell tried talking to a geezer w/ a straw hat who was hard of hearing.
5. 8:40 (9:15) More rain. Singing, telling jokes, general goofing off. :)
6. 9:05 (9:13) Lowell dropped off his long sleeve shirt. I removed my headband.
7. 8:50 (9:50) Still raining. Singing. Harassing other runners. :)
8. 9:04 (8:55) Gu'ed at mile 7 aid station. Where's the beautiful Fall foliage?!
9. 8:44 (9:23) More stories telling. Saw a few Grand Slammers.
10. 9:49 (9:18) Took a picture of Lowell running by the reflection pond. :)
11. 8:58 (9:33) Raining buckets. Thundering! :?
12. 9:05 (9:19) More rain. Thundering! Hailing!!! Kowabunga!!! :)
13. 8:36 (9:15) The timing clock showed 2:00:xx. I figured we crossed the start a min. later so probably ran the first half in 1:59 ish. Gu'ed at mile 13 station.
14. 8:52 (9:12) Saw hubby♥ huddling under an umbrella. Gave him my jacket which was loaded with a cell phone, firefly glow thingie, gloves, headband, Powerbar chews, energy bar. Whew! So much lighter! Loved the cheering crowds! :) :) :) :)
15. 8:39 (9:18) Ran with Darla, a USU student, running her first marathon. :)
16. 9:08 (9:07) Saw Nic, Teena's brother running his first marathon, looking strong! :)
17. 8:48 (9:08) Feeling good. Lowell broke the *3 words limit rule*! :/ I kept looking back to make sure he's staying close. :)
18. 9:09 (9:08) Kept a steady pace to not dip below 9:10. High fived tons of kids! :)
19. 9:09 (9:49) How's that for steady pace?! :)
20. 10:25 (9:38) Gu'ed at mile 19 aid station. Darla was groaning. Told her we'd run to the next aid station then we could walk. Saw Andrea, Nic's wife. :) THANKS for the cheers, Annie! :) :) :)
21. 8:43 (9:02) Must be a downhill here!
22. 9:22 (9:25) Kept Darla going. Could not see Lowell from behind anymore. :(
23. 9:54 (9:35) Shins twitched a little on the uphill. Darla hurting. Gu'ed.
24. 9:35 (9:42) Darla's friend jumped in to run with her. Saw the 4:00 balloons ahead.
25. 9:09 (9:23) Feeling good! Passed lots of runners! Darla staying with me!
26. 9:06 (9:23) Feeling strong! No charlie horse!
0.39 @ 8:49 (0.2 in 1:53) Couple of turns. Saw hubby♥ on the right! Awesome cheering crowds! Looked up and was surprised to see the clock just turned 4:00:00! Crossed the finish 67 seconds later. WaHOOO!!! Marathon #31 in the bag, 7th marathon this year since April's Boston!!! :) The Finish: Marcie was there to walk me to the finisher corral. Turned back to cheer Lowell in. He finished in 4:09:00. YES!!! HE DID IT!!! SUCCESS!!! He registered for Boston 2012 that afternoon! :)
HUGE CONGRATZ to allie who claimed her champion title and PR'd. Paul won with a huge margin. JeffL got his sub-3 goal! :) :) :) :) KUDOS to Haley, Darla and so many who ran their first marathons in soggy shoes! Double WaHOOs to Nic who ran his first marathon with a big ole bruise in his right leg! Marcie successfully bringing 20 runners in at 3:50 for her very first pacer duty! A GREAT TOU day indeed!!! :)
So grateful for wonderful wonderful friends!!! So thankful for the ability to run!!! :)
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 26.39 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
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Only had enough time to run 4 with Karen and Wendy. 1 mp mile by myself. AP: 9:15. No soreness to speak of.
The mud crew came to finish the mudding and textured the walls of the *west wing*. They call the wall texture Holy Smooth. :-D They said it's more popular than Orange Peel. :~)
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 5.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 3.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.25 |
| Ran with Karen and Carolyn down 3rd W, up on rail trail, east to Bull River. Was having a hard time talking and running the uphills while Karen was cruisin'. I chalked it off as I just ran a marathon 3 days ago whereas Karen's been tapering. Now that I check the splits, I feel much better about my effort. 7.25 AP: 9:19. Splits: 9:52, 8:51, 8:42, 8:46, 9:09, 10:33 (walked the steepest part), 9:26, 8:50 The *west wing* double door and baseboards were delivered. The outside brick work is near completion! But nothing else is happening inside the *west wing*.
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 7.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 1.00 | 2.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Just as I was heading out, the contractor and the drywall guys showed up. Ran with Karen and Carolyn progressively faster as I was in a hurry to get back home. Didn't make it back to meet the tile guy, o well. 6 mi AP: 8:46. Splits: 9:34, 9:09, 9:00, 8:33, 8:19, 8:02 There is a film of white dust everywhere in the house and garage! Sigh! Going to look for paint and finalize tiles selection.
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 6.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| 4 with Karen and Carolyn, 1 solo. AP: 9:11 Tile guy here! Lots of noise and stinky fumes!
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 5.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.75 |
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Ran with Wendy to meet Karen and Carolyn. Took it easy on hills, west to Bull River, jump on the rail trail then cross Timpanogos Hwy, to connect on the bike trail by Cabela. Turned around where the parkway ended. Can't wait for the trail system to be completed. They are starting to landscape the west portion of Timp Hwy.
Nice cool morning...sunny blue sky, calm...lotsa sunflowers greeting us with cheerful faces! Hope we get nice weather next Sat. at SGM! :)
Tomorrow will be our last group run before SGM. Y'all invited to join us for our traditional run on the Porter Rockwell Trail. Hope to see you there.
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 6.75 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| SO happy Jon and Kelly came to my house and drove Karen and I to the PRT. John and Wendy followed us in their car. They wanted to drive their own cars thinking they'd be running slow and didn't want us to wait for them to finish. Little did they know we all ended up running 8 easy miles together and waited for the *fast* one (aka RAD) who ran almost 4 miles more! Hehe! :)
Rachel, Toby, Jun and TomSlick were already at the Park eager to run...so the party began with the 10 of us running together. I really enjoyed Jon and Kelly's company...good chats and positive vibes. TomSlick was amazing, running smooth and strong...you'd never known he'd run a marathon a week ago! :) The miles flew by and we were back at the park to be rewarded with OJ, poppy seed lemon bread and banana. Weather was cool and calm. Wish every run could be this pleasant and fun with friends!
I was completely content to run 8 because I have not taken a rest day this summer (except for Sunday and the day before a marathon). Having run 3 marathons in the last 5 weeks, my legs are begging me to taper! :) My right patella tendon is still tight and tender at the insertion point of the tibialis tuberosity. My core is pathetically weak as I have not done any CSE the last 5 weeks. Hope I'm not pushing the envelope at SGM. I'd love to help Karen BQ which will be a PR by 2 min. 9 sec. for me! Will see what this old tired body can eek out on Sat. At any rate, I will enjoy every step and treasure the memory made with wonderful special friends!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 8.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.25 |
| Such a short run. Karen is holding her ground to not let me talk her into running more than what her training schedule calls for. :) My body and legs actually appreciated that...for some reasons...I'm SO SO SO SO tired lately! Since the flooring guy measured wrong on the bathroom floor, there were not enough tiles thus NO tile guys were here today! That means I'm not bound to stay home...yipee!
Sweet Karen picked me up after we showered to go for a shopping trip to Nike's Outlet. I HATE shopping! She found a cute cute cute running outfit. I got one identical to hers and another pair of shorts that is twinner to my SSF's...but could not find a tank top that fits me...so frustrating! Karen even took me to Sports Chalet and Sports Authority...she is so patient! Went lights and ceiling fans shopping with hubby. I never knew there were so many choices...I just let the lighting lady and hubby made the decision. Did I mention I HATE shopping?!! :)
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 4.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.10 |
| Such a short run, almost not worth getting ready for. Why am I feeling SO TIRED!!! Karen looks so beautiful in her new running outfit! She's gonna be fast and fab on Sat. I *modeled* the two outfits for hubby last night....."you're gonna wear that?!!!!"....let just say I'll be taking them back to the stores...sigh!!!
The tile guys were supposed to come at 8:30 this morning. It is now 3pm and NO ONE shows up to work! GrrrRRR!!! The back-order tiles are here though and they look darker than the ones already laid...sigh!! Weather forecast for Sat. in SG is calling for a sizzling one...sigh!!!
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 3.10 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 4.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 4.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
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Ok, the tile guy said he would be here around noon. So I took advantage of a *free morning* and went to Target to find a more modest black top to go with the cute shorts. Yahoo, I found two black sleeveless (NOT tank tops w/ the racer back kind) tops that are extra-small and on clearance! :) When hubby♥ got home I modeled it for him...he liked it! :) While he worked in the yard, I went out for a test run in the new outfit. I believe the temp was in the 80s at 5pm and sunny when I ran around the block. It was SO HOT wearing black under the scorching sun. I am rethinking wearing it on Sat. The tile guy NEVER came! Neither did the mason! NO ONE shows up to work today! Grrrr!!! I am sick and tired of the *destruction mess*. Did I mention they jack-hammered the cement steps in the back on Monday and left a gigantic pile of messy concrete along with the mason's mess of broken bricks and mortar, scalfolding, cement mixers, wood pallets...? Why do men love to make messes???!!!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 2.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| No running. Busy busy day. Got to attend the BYU Instrumental Showcase. Bryan is the principal violist! :)
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
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Quick 2 miles. Got back just in time to speak with the contractor, closet builder, tiler. Then quickly packed and made the 4.5 hours drive to St. George. Got to SG around 3 and hubby visited a bank store on River Dr. Then he wanted to go to dinner early at Chuck-a-Rama. Made it to the Expo around 4:30 and met up with Teena, her sister-in-law, Annie, Fonz and his friend, Ashton.  Was able to meet up with Toby and her husband Tim. Was great to see Kellie and Tyler Shepherd and their darling children. Walked over to the pasta dinner hall for the Flyers get-together. Was so nice to see Rob & Mindy Waite, Julie Ann Cook, Lex & Alisa Black, Bradley. Waited for Lowell and Terry to get there. Finally met Karen and her family who arrived at the Expo around 6. Made it to my daughter's in-law's house at Santa Clara after 7. After visiting with the Larsens and the Schumans, I made preparation for race gear and went to bed after the BYU vs USU game. Had tummy issues all night...Chuck-a-rama was a BAD idea!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 2.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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St. George Marathon (26.26 Miles) 03:57:51, Place in age division: 15 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 17.26 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 26.26 |
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Could not fall asleep even after taking a Tylenol PM. Tummy was tumbling all night. Finally got out of bed at 3am, took my time to get dressed, used the br twice and had hubby drove me to the bus loading at 4:30. Got there early enough to use the pop before meeting everyone at 5am. The bus line was LONG! Rode the bus with Karen, Toby, Bec, Rachel, Annie, Teena, Fonz, Lowell and Terry. Toby, Karen and I hit the bushes after waiting forever in the horribly LONG pop line and the race was about to start!!! Never had to do that in the 32 marathons and many other races that I've run before. Quickly dropped off our bags and met up with Lowell and Terry at the designated area so we could start together. So bummed that I didn't make it to the Flyers' fire-pit to see my friends.
Starting temp was probably around high 50s, no need for gloves or jacket. We jumped in behind the 4 hr balloons and marched to the start mat about 5 min after gun time. This is my 7th SGM, the excitement and energy never cease to amaze, SO AWESOME! I printed out a 3:55 pace band, it'd be a BQ for Karen and PR for me. My best SGM time was 3:57:41 two years ago; so I felt that it was not too ambitious a goal. However with the warm temp I pretty much threw that out the window and did so by mile 19. I told Karen and Toby that we should try to run the first half around 1:59 and go for a negative split. Here are the mile splits (followed by the 3:55 pace band splits in bracket):
1. 9:24 (9:16) Slower start to stay with the group. 2. 9:11 (9:06) Being patient.
3. 8:58 (8:44) Toby got ahead of us after the first aid station but kept her within sight.
4. 8:16 (8:33) Lost Lowell & Terry after the first aid station. Picked up pace a bit. 5. 8:33 (8:55) Gradually made up time from the slower start. Took 1st gu.
6. 8:17 (8:55) Right on with projected time. Caught up to Toby.
7. 8:15 (8:55) A bit fast but figure Vejo would slow us putting us back on track. Ran with Bradley (Maynard) and Brad a bit. It was AWESOME to see Tim (Toby's husband) at the base of Veyo! :)
8. 9:41 (9:59) I believe this is the fastest I've run Vejo. Really enjoyed drawing on each other's vibes. Walked a tiny bit as we crested the hill. 9. 9:19 (9:32) Loved the helicopter overhead!
10. 9:39 (9:16) Beginning of headwind. 11. 9:42 (9:38) Had to take the inhaler to keep breathing under control, darn headwind! 12. 9:44 (9:11) Tummy issue and lack of breakfast catching up on me. Took 2nd gu at the start of this mile at the aid station. 13. 8:51 (8:55) Felt revived. Our half split was 1:59:xx, right on target! Told Toby and Karen that we're now gonna erase all the previous miles and simply start to run a 1:55 half. They have both run awesome Halfs this summer (1:45-1:47) so it'd be a piece of cake to run 1:55! :) :) :)
14. 9:29 (8:44) Stupid headwind! Where's the 4hr group when you need them to draft off of! :) 15. 8:31 (8:28) Really enjoyed these beautiful miles with Karen and Toby. 16. 8:35 (8:44) Gratitude of running with friends and the gorgeous Snow Canyon filled my heart and spirit.
17. 8:34 (8:44) Took 3rd Gu. 18. 8:51 (8:44) Getting really warm. Latched onto the 4 hr. balloons.
19. 9:26 (9:11) Lost Toby at this aid station. 20. 9:37 (8:44) Stayed right on the heels of the 4hr pacer. Decided to let the pacer do all the work and tossed out the pace band.
21. 8:59 (8:23) I normally run this mile the fastest but held back with the 4hr balloons. Karen's hammie cramped up. Gave her one of my electrolyte caps that I'm glad I decided to carry at the last minute. Took 4th Gu.
22. 9:22 (8:44) Staying right with the 4hr pacer stride by stride.
23. 9:11 (8:49) Lost Karen after the aid station. Still staying right by the pacer but itching to go faster.
24. 8:29 (8:49) At the base of Bluff St. the pacer announced that this is the time to
split up the group. He'd hold his pace for a 4hr finish and anyone
wanting to go after a faster finish should make the move now...so I did. Dropped the 4hr pace group for good. 25. 9:06 (8:55) Legs feeling fine. Getting really really hot. The guy in front of me came to a complete halt at the mist tent. I had to veer off so as not to run into him...that's when the right calf started to get a twinge of cramp.
26. 9:22 (8:55) Saw Karen's family with a mile to go but could not stop as charlie horse was creeping up my calves bilaterally and on my left toes. Running slower to stomp off impending charlie horse. Missed grabbing the cup and spilled gatorade all over myself at the last aid station...cramping!
0.26 in 2:17 @ 8:58 (8:55) With 0.2 to go I looked at my watch and realized the 3:55 goal was gone...should I have ditched the 4hr pace group sooner?...should I not slow down when cramp twinge came on...o well...just get to the finish...so very very grateful to cross the finish without charlie horse in 3:57:51, about a min faster than last year and 10 seconds slower than two years ago. The best part is that I finally ran a negative split!!! :) :) :)
MarcieN and I must've crossed the finish within seconds of each other. She and I walked thru the mist shower and got our medals together. Walked around the finisher corral 'till Karen came in. She finished in 4:00:03, a very impressive time for her first SGM! Found Toby scooting along in the massage line. She ran an AWESOME first marathon!!! So so so so so proud of Karen and Toby!!! Saw TomSlick who has had an incredible racing year. Saw Don Bigger, MarcE, Rachel, Kelli, Scott, Rachelle, Katherine, Nicole and her sister and a few other friends. Got my Grand Slam medal and award before bidding goodbye to this beloved marathon. It may be a year or two before I will run SGM again. Although I had hoped for a PR here, I re-affirm my feelings that running and spending time with friends and family beats getting a PR. I'm very happy to have seen many friends this weekend and so proud of each one of them! :)
THANK YOU my dear dear friend for your continuous love and support! :-) 
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 26.26 |
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Signed up for the Runners Series right when it became open at 8am. I probably won't be running SGM next year but signed up anyway. I wanna run the RS races with my friends. Toby, Karen, Wendy, Carolyn, Mary all got in the RS.
Walked, jogged 3 with Wendy and Karen. The usual post SGM quad tightness. Going to loose the toe nail on the left big toe.
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 3.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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Easy 3 recovery miles with Karen and Wendy. Had to hurry home as the sofits guys were coming. Wish they would put in the rain gutter and drain. Every time it rains, the existing gutter would spill gallons of water onto the broken concrete stairs and new addition's exterior wall. I fear that it would flood my basement stairwell and into the basement.
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 3.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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Ran with Karen and Wendy. My legs are feeling pretty good. Would've run more if I didn't have to hurry home for the shutter guy appointment. The tile guy came at 6pm and finished the job at 10pm. He did a beautiful job. I really like my new shower!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 3.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Rain, wind and remodeling stuff kept me home to run on the TM. Yoga and core.
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 6.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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Vacuumed the sub-floor for the 3rd time while waited for the hardwood guy to show so didn't run with my friends. The hardwood guy was over an hour late...GRRR...then he talked my ears off and by the time I left him to start the job, it was nearly noon...too late to run. GRRRR!!!!! But it's all good as I can see that he is very meticulous with his work. He worked till 8pm. The concrete guy was here to do prep work, digging up tree roots and grading the ground to put in curvy form for the concrete patio. It's been raining and really cold the last few days. Snowing in the mountains.
We left the hardwood guy home to work alone so we could go to the Marriott Center to attend the Homecoming Spectacular. Bryan was the principal violist in the Philharmonic Orchestra that performed and played for most of the night's other performances.
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| It's been awhile since I was able to sleep in. I can't believe I got SEVEN hours of sleep. Was going to help hubby demolish the chicken coop but ran on the TM instead since it was raining and windy outside again! Legs are pretty much recovered. Went to the Utah vs Arizona State game. Ate TOO MUCH at the Ubox...yummy turkey dinner with mashed potato, stuffing, rolls, salad and pumpkin pie. Must've drank a gallon of hot chocolate, popcorn, peanuts and chips. Then got home to change from red to blue on the way to the BYU vs San Jose State game. Again ate TOO MUCH at the suite...Toscano...yum... The hardwood guy worked all day today. He will probably finish the job on Monday. It is gonna be a nice floor for the exercise room! :)
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 10.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Temp was *can see your breath and frosty lawn* type of coldness. Ran easy with Karen, Wendy and Carolyn. Karen had to cut it short...her left knee still bothering her. :( When I got home the workers were already here. Hardwood guy, Larry, here to finish the last 12'x4' floor from fitness room to the french door. Reggie here to hang the 2 bathroom doors and double bedroom door. Doors are gonna be funky b/c hubby doesn't want the door covering up the beautiful cabinets. The doors will stay open most of the time so have to live with it. Reggie has to cut off bottom of the door frames so won't have this humongous gap between the doors and the floor.
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 5.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 1.00 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| Got all dressed for a cool morning run in tights and l/s top when the painter showed up at my door bright and early. Dang! So...did not get out for my run 'till hubby got home from work. It was nice, sunny, beautiful, perfect temp even in tights and l/s. Wish I had more time but had to hurry home to make dinner before hubby goes to his meetings and interviews. AP: 9:12. Splits: 10:12, 9:00, 9:03, 9:04, 9:05, 8:57, 9:02. Legs felt pretty good. Reggie and Cory made it here in time to get the last little bit of baseboard, door frame installed and cleared out all their equipments, tools and scraps while the painter prep'd and masked everything. Everything is primed and ceiling painted. The bathroom cabinets will need to be re-installed.
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 7.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Zero running today due to workers here early. Went shopping after dinner. I have not gone grocery shopping forever. We've been living on food storage! :)
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Baseboards, doors and door frames painted. Reggie and Cory graded the ground in prep for cement patio, fixed the sprinkler pipe they broke, buried a 2" PVC pipe the length of the new addition for the two down-sprouts on the east side which will be under the patio cement. Reggie put in new exterior lights (garage, front door, back door and new french door). Closet shelves and organizers ordered. Carpet was ordered on Mon. Shower glass was ordered last Thu.
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| A quick run with Wendy and Carolyn. Beautiful weather. We're planning to run on the Lehi JRP on Sat. at 6. We heard the north portion is now opened crossing 2100 North, we're excited to check it out. Y'all welcome to join us. *******
Painting is DONE!!!! After the painter and his helper girl left at 3:30pm, I started cleaning till 10 at night. I vacuumed and cleaned all the floors, the bathroom, the kitchen, the family room (where no bedroom furniture is parked), the bedrooms. Baby Jett and her mommy are coming on Friday. I heard he's crawling now, so I've got to make sure the floor is clean for him! :)
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 7.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| Zero running. Was so excited about my grand baby coming from Houston that I didn't sleep a wink. Workers came early again. Spent the day cleaning and getting downstair room and bathroom ready for daughter and grandbaby.
I signed up to run the Pony Express 50 miles today!!! I am very excited and nervous at the same time. I've never run that far before. I hope I can finish under 11 hours. :) :) :)
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Cabinets re-installed. Some electrical stuff, fans and closet lights installed....but still need to figure out some bugs with wiring so nothing is turned on yet. Carpet to be installed next week. Granite guy came to template the counter top.
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John and Wendy picked me up at 7am since the others bailed and there was no need to go at 6. It was still dark illuminated by a waning semi-full moon. We ran on the Lehi JRP from the old bridge northward. The trail under the 2100 North bridge is newly paved with landscaping on the east side and fence on the west...very nice! :) There's a portion of the trail eroded by the river and is not paved. We veered right (east) at the wooden bridge to explore the dirt trail along the railroad and canal till it dead end at a gravel processing plant. We saw a group of scouts camping by a pond. We saw many deer along the way. It was a beautiful Fall morning. The only negative part was my legs were lead. Felt better when my feet were back on pavement. Hope the legs revive by Fri. I think they have forgotten how to run on dirt trail. :)
Busy day attending a wedding and spending time with my family especially my daughter and grandbaby from Houston. They are only here for the weekend. :(
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 10.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| I turned 56 today! :) :) :) :) My daughter was here for a weekend visit from Houston to attend her childhood friend's wedding. She made me a special breakfast of waffles with vanilla ice cream and sliced strawberries that Wendy brought me....YUM!!! She left right after partaking of the Sacrament so hubby could drive her to the airport for her flight home. I hate goodbyes. I don't know when I'll see her and Baby Jett again. :(
My Primary class was extra good today. Kelsy baked me a batch of brownies...such a sweet sweet girl. :) It was wonderful to talk to Eric as well. My sister called and had a nice visit. She is my angel. I am the luckiest girl to have such a loving sister. :)
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| Jog/walk with Karen. I feel like a tub of lard lately. I am very nervous about the PE50 in 4 days! ***** Carpet laid. Shower glass installed. Wish we could move in. Still waiting for the electrical, granite counter, bath fixtures, closet organizers, window sills, some baseboard to be done. |
| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 3.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| No running yet. Wendy and Carolyn came by to take me running! BUT, Reggie is coming to install the other ceiling fan in the family room and Abraham is coming to put on 3 pieces of baseboard tiles and finish caulking. So tired of house-sitting and cleaning up after workers. It's been 3 months since they first broke ground on July 19!?! In the meantime, I've run 5 marathons with a 50 miler coming up. Hubby is most patient...and I am NOT! But it will be so nice when it's all done...a beautiful gift for hubby's 60th birthday! :) To channel by nervous energy I made a packing list and schedule for the PE 50. But without all the *entry functions thingy* I can't post it here! What's up with that!?! |
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| Granite installers got the vanity top and bathroom window sill installed. They cracked the back splash on my side of the sink; but glued it back together and looks fine. Lots of cleaning up. Cement guy, Darrell, here to grade the ground and form the patio. Corry did some outside electrical stuff. Scrub the down stair bathroom window, shower/tub, floor, polish the vanity and hardware. Remove the linen from the guest bedroom. It is almost ready for Lowell.
Went shopping for the food and gear we'll need for the Pony Express 50 miler. Jeff came over in the evening to help us move the bedroom furnitures from the family/living room into the new addition. Lots of cleaning and back-breaking job. Got the essential clothes and toiletries to move upstairs.
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| Was going to run; but figured I'd better get the car cleaned. Vacuumed, cleaned and polished the interior; took it to the car wash and filled up the gas tank. Packed all the gear and non-perishable food items in the trunk.
Changed the linen for the guest bedroom and bathroom that we've occupied for the last 3 months. Corry here to fix the electrical outlet in the guest bedroom. Cooked dinner. Lowell arrived at 6:30. Had dinner. Hubby went to church meeting while Lowell and I went to Smith's market place to buy mole skin. I fried up the bacon he bought and he did the dishes. Quickly got race clothes and bag ready before going to bed at 10:30pm. So exhausted!
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Pony Express Trail 50 miler (50 Miles) 11:47:46, Place overall: 26 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 50.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 50.00 |
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Pony Express Trail 50 miles History: 6 years ago as a newbie to running, I read from one of Davy's early adventurous running blogs about his solo 100 mile runs on the Pony Express Trail. I found it fascinating and thought what a wonderful thing it is to run 100 miles out on the Utah west desert on a historical trail. Two years ago Davy fine-tuned that into an ultra event. So on Oct 16, 2009, with the support of my best friend, Wendy, I ran 54K on the inaugural PE50/100 to celebrate my 54th birthday. Our neighbor, Beth, also ran her *substitute* St. George Marathon there with us that day. My time was just under 7 hours, not bad for having run a SGM course PR 2 weeks prior. The last 5K of that 54K was painfully slow though. I was envious of those running the 50/100 miles. Since then, it has become my goal to run the PET 50 miles. That goal finally became reality this year! :)
Preparation: I've been battling with patella tendonitis all year. It hurts at times but didn't stop me from running Boston, Ogden, UVM, Sogonapmit, Park City, Pocatello, TOU and finally SGM on Oct 1. I've been extremely busy with my master bathroom remodeling and new bedroom addition that my training was limited to recovery and taper runs. I felt that I might not have adequate preparation/training to run 50 miles. I hesitated to ask any friends and family to give up their Fall break to crew me but did challenge my friend Lowell Hawkes to join me. He and I ran the Sogonapmit with a 4-1 run/walk pace and I finished that marathon feeling like I could've run more and literally no soreness. We figured we'd use the same pacing plan for our first 50 miler. He signed up on Thu. and I did the following day, one week before race day. I was excited, anxious, nervous, apprehensive!!! My best friend, Wendy, once again agreed to crew me. Who but your best friend would give up a full day (leaving her husband and children during Fall break) to drive, support, cheer, feed, take care of two old fart/fartette?!!! :) :) :) :) THANK YOU A MILLION TIMES OVER, Wendy (if you ever read this)! YOU ARE THE BESTEST FRIEND one can ever have! I am the luckiest girl. I LOVE YOU and OWE YOU BIG TIME!!!! :) :) :) :)
I made a packing list of food and essentials and a schedule for Thu. and race morning so that I wouldn't forget anything. Went shopping on Wed. night. Washed and cleaned the car Thu. morning. Pack the car with the non-perishable food and gear Thu. afternoon prior to Lowell's arrival. Did all this in between moving into my new addition, cleaning the down stair guest room and bathroom that hubby and I occupied the last 3 months so Lowell would have clean and comfortable lodging. He accused me of tricking him into doing this crazy 50 miler. Plus he had to work half day Thu before making the 3 hrs drive from Pocatello! What a GREAT WONDERFUL friend and running buddy Lowell is!!! :) :)
I made dinner (ham fried rice, pepper-tomato-steak, snowpea-carrot-chicken-cashew stir fry and lots of white rice, calcium fortified OJ) so that we could eat as soon as Lowell arrived at 6:30. We made a last min run to the store to get some mole skin. Lowell did the dishes while I fried up the bacon he bought (but I forgot to pack the bacon the next morning). We turned out the light at 10:30pm instead of the intended 8pm bed time! :)
Race morning: Didn't sleep a wink. Got up at 3am. While Lowell showered, I packed the coolers and we were out the door by 3:45. We couldn't find the McDonald's at Saratoga Springs so grabbed breakfast at Betos. Ate a ham/egg/hash brown breakfast burrito and drank a strawberry banana smoothie while the FINEST, KINDEST, MOST ATTENTIVE Wendy drove us 50 miles from Lehi to Faust. We missed the turn off to Faust Rd at Five-mile Pass and back tracked for a mile or so. There were rabbits darting across the road, thankfully NO deer.
The start: We got to Lookout Pass at 5:20 am. Walked down to the campground where sweet Maurine checked us in and were greeted by my idol/hero/race director, Davy! :) Lowell picked up the satellite phone he rented. Used the tent potty then went back to the car to gear up. It was cold and dark. While Lowell was still putting on his gear, I saw runners with headlamps and glow sticks ran off into the dark yonder. Silly us...we missed starting with the 6am runners!!! What's the hurry! Lowell showed Wendy how to use one of his three super duper cameras, snapped a couple of pictures in pitch darkness and instructed her to take copious notes. FINALLY, we were off! Wendy later said she could hear someone calling out: "Smooth, Smooth, where are you?" :) :) :)
First 5 miles: Within the first mile we passed a lady runner, Meg. The morning was cool and dark, illuminated by stars and a crescent moon. Lowell commented that it's a good thing we started the run in the dark or we might've been discouraged by what we'd see. I was counting on Lowell's headlamp light while running in the dark. All was well until mile 3.75 a ghost or ghastly embedded rock grabbed my right foot causing me to take a tumble, a nose-dive if weren't for the gloved hands. Thanks to my gloves, caprice pants, and long sleeve shirt, only small pieces of my skin on my left knee and right elbow were left on the gravel dirt road. In return received several lovely bruises on my left extremities. My left knee was quite painful and I was concerned that I might've chipped the left patella since I have missed two dosage of Fosamax (I have osteoporosis). But Lowell would have none of that. So off we went to chase after Wendy who did not witness my embarrassing biff. :/ Lowell's head looked like a gigant light bulb! :) I had a pink flashing flash light.
With a big burrito breakfast and smoothie at 5am, we only needed to drink water every 2 miles for the first 6 miles. Ate a gu at mile 6.8.
What a beautiful sunrise behind us.
Time to take off the glow necklace, headlamp and flash light. We didn't plan this, but both wore our Boston 2011 outfits...we're twinners! :)
 Wendy sacrificing her day...hadn't even had a chance to eat breakfast or put in her contacts to crew us. She attended to our every need with loving care!!!! :) Met Kyle whom we would leap frog and run with for the rest of the day. His dad was his crew support. They were wonderful company.  We saw some wild horses around 8:22am. What a beautiful, calm cool morning! Stop to take pictures (having 4 cameras with us, no reason to not stop and take copious amount of pictures!). Ate 1/3 banana and drank gatorade. The first place 100miler, Jay Aldous passed us at around mile 13 just before 9am running fast and shirtless. We were doing the 4/1 with the running pace in the 9s. Lowell was concerned about the poop-a-loo. I had bought a Luggable loo but didn't need to use it afterall. One of my favorite part of running this trail is *you cannot get lost*. Lowell commented that *you can't be found either*! :) I absolutely love the surrounding mountains and barren desert. 
Mile 16.4 ~ Heading to the Simpson Springs parking lot/bathroom (had only a small trickle; and that was the last time I pee'd 'till the finish). Ate a mini muffin and rest of the banana then head down to check in at the corral. According to the result page, my time was 3:16:41 and I was in 30th place. Phil Lowry passed us at Simpson Springs.
Lost Lowell for a mile or so when he stopped to chat and thank Russ, the satellite phone lender. I ran with Kyle and commented that I seem to loose Lowell at mile 17/18 at every marathon we started together. Lowell needs to quit running in circles! :)  After reuniting with Lowell, the goofy party resumed! He is SO FUN!!! :) 
The hunters with their SUVs, trailers & ATVs were now in drove causing humongous dust clouds. To add insult to injury we had a westerly head wind blowing the dust straight into our lungs! Lovely! I used the bandana I got from the race packet until it got too warm when I shed the l/s top and caprice pants. Here's a runner struggling with an injured mcl and dust storm!   One of the best part of the day was when jun (Craig) passed us. He stopped to chat with us a bit. He was running smooth, fast, strong and looking GREAT! :) Wish we were fast enough to snap a picture.
Another high light of the day was running a little bit with Davy as he passed us. THANKS Davy for slowing down to visit with us. Davy's in his yellow Bear100 shirt. 3rd highlight of the day ~ Somewhere along this straight 18 mile stretch, Scott passed us pacing his friend. SO NICE of Scott to stop and visit a bit.  Wendy recorded that I ate some pretzels and gatorade after the Simpson Spring stop. By mile 24 Lowel and I each ate 1/2 peanut butter sandwich, a cheese stick. I was drinking gatorade and on my 3rd bottle of water. By noon we had eaten couple potato wedges with salt, drank a smoothie. The sun was beating down on us with clear blue sky. Gotta hydrate well and take in enough sodium.  Mile 25, HALF WAY, Lowell holding up 2 fingers, me 5...feeling GREAT!  Mile 27: Lowell hit a low point. He was feeling tired and started to have doubt about running 22 more miles. He suggested that I ran ahead and he'd find another runner to share crew with. We've been running with Kyle Quist, leap frogging with the Fleming brothers, Sean and Matt whose wives and children were terrific cheer leaders. We also met a runner with his dog, Duke who had kept us company for a few miles. Duke was AMAZING!!! So there would've been no problem with him finding support crew. But I would have NONE of that! I told him we would continue on with our 4/1 plan and stopped to eat and drink at every mile 'till we get to Dugway Topaz Well around mile 33.5 (where I finished my 54K two yrs ago) a distance that Lowell has run before in one of his moonlight training runs. I instructed Wendy that we would stop there and to have the camp chair ready for Lowell and I would doctor my blister. My plan was for Lowell to sit/rest for 10-15 min. That stop lasted 36 min. No, Lowell didn't sit that long. It's here that Kelli ran up to us and visited and even ran some with us. We also had to wait for a long line of vehicles to pass so that we could take a picture of us standing in the same spot of my 54K finish 2 yrs ago at Dugway Topaz Well. We just had to visit with the last driver of the parade of vehicles.  After packing up and ready to leave, a gigantic truck hauling some huge machinery bearing down from Dugway Pass formed a huge dust storm about choked me off of O2. I took my inhaler in preparation for the lung searing run up Dugway Pass. Three BYU students passed me heading up to the climb. The boy in #6 started his 50 miler at 8am and his shirtless buddies paced him. Later, on the other side of Dugway Pass, we found them being pampered by numerous crew members under a canopy. Was that necessary?!!! :)  Me a huffing up Dugway Pass. You can see the switch back turn to the left with vehicles going up up up in a low gear, a *you gotta be kidding* sight! Wendy must've waited forever to snap these pix of us going up the gigantic hill.    Half way up the Pass to see where we've run from!!!  Almost to the top. A camping trailer look like a toy car. To the east horizon, one can see a cloud of trailing dust created by hunting vehicles heading south. At the top of Dugway Pass (Mile 37.5), the result shows my time at 8:51:20 and in 28th place. Here I'm mooching off some pineapple from Kelli's car. Kyle started to have tummy issues.  Kelli waiting with worries for Scott; but later was happy to see Scott ran all the way up
One of Davy's many great volunteers with clip board in hand by the *shoulder drop off*
The other side of Dugway Pass was a scary sight for my wobbly knees. My left ITB and right patella tendon were burning with pain with every foot fall. I walked down the steepest part with Kyle, fearing that one misplaced step on a rock would send me tumbling. I wish I had the trekking poles with me. I got them out later when Wendy drove past. Here Kyle's dad pointing to where he would stop the car next. Once we got to his car, he gave me and Kyle some ibuprofen.  I really enjoyed the last 10 miles of the run. The trail after Dugway Geode Beds was mostly soft dirt/sand. We caught up with this guy that had passed us early at mile 30. I dubbed him *speedo*. Lowell accused me of ...  I think this is Dorsimus and his pacer friends looking AWESOME! 
Kelli drove up to us while I stopped to change socks for the last time. I've changed socks 3 times. It was so GREAT to see Kelli, wish we could've run more together.  I took a gu (my second one) with 5 miles to go. It must've had caffeine 'cause it kicked in 15 min later. We hit a shady spot around Sweeping turn to north and I felt a surge of energy and took off like *horse smelling the barn* as Wendy put it. She said she would tell Lowell that I'd keep running and she'd meet me at the finish. So I took off with a bottle of water running at high 9 paces. We had to run .75 mile out after passing the finish at Blackrock Station. It was fun to run past the finishers heading to their cars. Although I did not enjoy the cars heading our way creating more dust cloud. I was mentally prepared for the 1.5 miles out-n-back and concentrated on passing couple runners on the .75 mile stretch. I saw and met Jim Kern on his return from pacing Davy. It was cool to see the 100 milers kept going while the 50 milers touched the turn-around sign.
That green dot in the distance is me chasing down the runners ahead on the out-n-back. Me kicking dust on the return with 0.25 to go.  Finished my FIRST 50 mile trail run/race with a nice medal that matches my shirt! :)  Ran back out to meet and run Lowell in.   We did it, finished our FIRST 50 miler happy. We made some friends along the way.  We could have NEVER EVER done it without the loving care and support of our AWESOME Wendy.  At Blackrock station. I think Dorsimus is the one in green bending over by the monument while his buddies (in red) congratulating him. :)
A beautiful sunset to end a fun fun day. We ran from sunrise to sunset, enjoyed every swiftly passing minute of the day at the Pony Express 50 miler run! :)
We stayed for about an hour at the finish. Ate the hamburgers the volunteers cooked, used the tent-potty, called home and RAD on the satellite phone. Just as we were ready to leave, we saw Scott run in. It was so fun to see Scott and Kelli kissed. Then as we were getting in the car, jun (Craig) ran thru looking strong, like he'd hardly ran, but had run 68 miles! WOW!!!! He was close to catching Phil Lowry and eventually took 3rd.
It was a long drive home in the dark but neat to pass the first 100 mile winner. Wendy expertly drove the entire day of nearly 200 miles round trip leaving from and arriving at civilization in the dark. We were waved down by a fellow pacer whose vehicle got two flat tires. He commented how lucky for him to get two flats and then find someone with a satellite phone to call home. We stopped at Simpson Springs to use the bathroom while Lowell walked down to the corral to return the satellite phone. It was so dark that I wondered if the 100 miles finisher would be able to see the turn down to the corral.
Post-run thoughts: I loved every single second of my first ultra experience. The fall at mile 3.75 and the wobbly knees descending Dugway Pass were not that bad. We had wonderful weather despite dealing with dusty headwind at times. The commaraderie was AWESOME. The Pony Express 50/100 has the potential to be the fastest, friendliest, greatest ultra trail event in the country. I am now believer of the run/walk method along with proper eating and hydrating. I feel that it was a successful 50 miler. I slept like a log that night and am feeling fine since. The only pain comes from the bruises which will heal up quickly. May loose a few toe nails. I did not gain or loose any weight. I ate well and had no down moment.
What a FUN FUN FUN day!!! :) I am forever grateful for wonderful friendship of Wendy and Lowell. :) THANK YOU BOTH SO SO SO SO MUCH!!! :) :) :)
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 10.00 | Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 40.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Got home way past 11pm last night. Put some of the perishable food away. Took a shower, hit the sack around midnight and promptly fell asleep. Woke up a bit tired but not sore. Felt good to sleep in till 7:30. Hubby went to the temple at 6am and returned to cook a nice breakfast of pancake, eggs, with fresh fruits and orange juice for Lowell and I. Lowell downloaded the 300 pictures from his camera for me before leaving. He drove home at around 1:30pm. I unpacked. Hubby and I cleaned the dirt/dust filled car then went out to dinner.
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Had to wait for workers to come. Cement guy, Darrell here to pour cement with the help of Reggie. Did laundry in between downloading pix and posting the PET 50 miles report. Other than the bruises and scrapes and swollen black toe nails, there are no soreness to speak of.
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| Ran EZ with Wendy. Could've run more if I didn't have to rush home for the workers. Corry here all day to connect the phone/lines/jacks. Thus I did not have phone/internet service for most of the day.
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 4.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.25 |
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5 EZ with Carolyn on a cold windy morning. Knees a little tiny tight but no soreness. Darrell here to put cement plaster to the foundation on the west side.
Cabinet installer here to put on hardwares. Went to pick up/buy the shower heads, trims, faucets and accessories.
Went visiting teaching.
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 5.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.25 |
| Whipple guy here to fix the vent pipe of the furnace. Quick 5 with Wendy. Got home just in time for the plumber here to install the shower heads and trims, faucets in the new master bath; fix the uptake valves of the two up stair bathroom toilets and install new drains to the two bath tubs. Lots of cleaning up after workers left. Went to Power of the Purse Gala, an annual even to the Women Philanthropy Network.
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 5.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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No running today. Window sill guy here bright and early to install the cultured marble window sills in the bedroom windows. Then soon after, the shutter guys here to install the re-cut and re-framed bathroom window shutter and one bedroom shutter. Went outside to talk to Darrell who was cement plastering the north side of foundation and the basement stairwell stairs. Plumber here to install the drop el to the four functions shower head and fix/center the faucets. Glass/mirror guy here to measure the vanity mirror and help me choose the frame. I washed the inside and outside of the windows...standing on top of the ladder is not my thing!
Stayed home to watch BYU got beat by TCU. bleh!
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
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What a beautiful Fall day!!! So nice to sleep in! Ran 8 solo miles with 1 on the graded dirt trail along the canal. There's a pedestrian tunnel at 1200 W where they are working on paving the connector from 1200W to Timp Hwy. They are also grading an equestrian trail. Some landscaping is in place. I am so excited to see this trail system to be completed. It is so close to home!!! :) :) :)
Really enjoyed this Fall weather, clear blue sky, cool and calm. The only negative part was the smoky air from some weed/field burning nearby.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN everyone!!! Looks like a perfect night for trick-a-treating! :) :) :) Thinking about registering for the Mesquite Marathon!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 8.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Didn't make it out today. Reggie came early to install the dining room light, all the bathroom accessories, TV wall mount. While cleaning the windows on Sat. I noticed a scratch on one pane and a hair-line crack on another. The Jeld-Wen window rep. came and was very nice. They will replace both panes. Spent the day cleaning the shutters and the north window, clearing all the construction left-overs out of the exercise room. Registered up for the Ogden Marathon. Heard it will fill up by end of the day. Not sure about the Grand Slam and Utah Valley; need to wait on that.
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| Ran 8 easy with Carolyn on the canal trail. Saw Bro. Miner who is over the canal trail project. He said they can't pave the trail now as the weather is getting colder. They have already put in the pedestrian tunnels and paved those sections. He is ahead of schedule of the guys doing the piping of the canal.
We ran on the entire trail from the back of Smith Market Place west to frontage of I-15 interchange/Timp Hwy. then south on rail trail and east on 3200N. It was so nice to run on graded soft trail. Beautiful blue sky, calm and cool day. Cory and Reggie here to build the small deck and stairs to the French door. Spent the day cleaning the new closet organizers and moved the rest of my clothes in. Washed the outside of the north window.
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 8.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
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I'm loving this weather. Temp 29. Slight ESE breeze. Sunny blue sky. Wore l/s top, light Boston jacket, tights, head band, gloves. Ran 8 easy solo on the same route as yesterday. I really like running on the graded dirt trail, very spongy. At the Pheasant Pointe Condo, a dog came out of nowhere and started running with me. When I said hi to her, she started to jump on me; thankfully she was obedient when I said: "Down! down!" But she wouldn't obey when I said: "Go Home." When I ran past Fox Hollow Elementary, I decided to go in to use the bathroom. When I came out, she was gone! City inspector came to do final inspection. We are given the okay to move in...even though we already did 2 weeks ago! Hehe! Cory and Reggie still working on deck and steps. It is looking very nice. Plumber will come back to fix/reverse the shower valves. JeldWen will come to replace the window panes in two weeks. Vanity mirror is the only thing left to be installed. YAY!!!
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 8.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.50 |
| 6.5 with Carolyn down on 3rd west to rail trail and back up thru 3200N. We really miss running with Wendy and Karen. But it was a beautiful morning, the wind didn't pick up until heading east on the uphill...icky headwind...stink! Literally stink as we ran past the mink farm...couldn't even walk because the stench made us gag! :) |
| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 6.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 13.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
| Almost chickened out...almost! Woke up to an inch of snow on the lawn, the wind was a howling at 25 mph, ice on the patio! After staying in bed for two hours (hubby already left for the temple at 5:15am), finally called RAD and talked her into delaying the run for 90 min. Hubby got home from the temple and said I'd be crazy to go out; some flying object would surely hit us on our heads! What flying objects? I noticed the birds couldn't even stay in flight. Got down to the JRP and the wind has subsided to 15mph and the snow/rain has stopped, the sun was even peeking out thru the fast moving clouds. But brrrr was it cold!!! with the windchill it was in the 20s. I think I overdressed though. RAD was perfectly dressed and ready to charge up the trail, hills, headwind and all...nothing stops that girl! Aside from some comical mud stomping, crawling under fence rails, my wardrobe malfunctioning, biting headwind...it was a perfect perfect beautiful happy run! To top it off, we went to Zupas for some yummy warm soup, delicious salad and sandwitch afterward! What more can a girl ask for? THANKS RAD for a perfect mid-morning, early afternoon fun fun fun time!!!! You're the BEST!!! Lowell called before and during his Just Cuz half marathon! So funny! Wendy texted me after her Snow Canyon half where she PR'd! YAY!!! They made me proud and happy! Hubby did a great job with his talk at the adult session of Stake Conference! A WONDERFUL DAY indeed! :) :) :)
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| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 13.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| Wanted 8 but only did 4. Karen has taken couple weeks off from running due to post-SGM knee pain and was hoping to get back. No such luck! Her knee was fine the first mile just like the previous times she attempted. We ran a mile on pavement to access the canal dirt trail which was better. But, by mile 3 she called it quit. Dang knee pain! So we cut the run short and just visited in front of her house. Then I had to hurry home for the duct cleaning guy. |
| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 4.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| Ran with Wendy nice and easy with the middle miles on the canal dirt trail which is gentler on our legs. So proud of Wendy's 5 min. PR at Snow Canyon. Other than the unhappy quads when going downhill or downstairs, she's recovering beautifully! :) *********
Spent the entire evening yesterday trying to book a room at Mesquite for the marathon. Can't believe there is NO availability in Mesquite! :( Finally gave up and got a room in St. George thru Priceline. So will pick up race packet in Mesquite and stay in St. George Fri. night. Will have hubby drop me off at the start race morning. Should be interesting.
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 7.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.25 |
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Nice easy run with Wendy on the canal trail and bench loop. Saw a big hawk overhead. Gerber construction back-filling the dirt around the pedestrian tunnel. More landscaping, hydro-seeding done around the trail and frontage road.
**** Got an email from the Mesquite Marathon RD. She said the host hotel just opened up the rooms! WHAT?!!! Stink!!! I already paid for the room in St. George! O well, hubby doesn't mind driving. Then the RD asked me what runners like to eat and how often we stop to drink. I guess she has experience putting on cycling events and this is their first running event, along with the Valley of Fire the next day. She is a bit nervous! The Mesquite Tri-State has changed hands over the years. I wonder why Mammoth only ran it for two years. I don't expect it to be a great event. The course is changed this year. The RD moved the start line further up in Utah to eliminate the *junk* miles in Mesquite. Glad it is USATF certified. Should be interesting!
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 8.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 18.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 18.20 |
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A very special day!!! Got to plan some fun stuff with the kids in the morning. Went to the Draper Temple with 8 friends. We've been friends for over 30 years and going to the temple/luncheon monthly for 20 years. Had our annual Christmas luncheon at KathieS's house after the temple. We stayed and visited and visited. Precious times! 
Got home to quickly throw some exercise clothes in a duffle and drove to Teena's for her birthday celebration triathlon. She sure knows how to host a party/race! :) :) :) She gave us *race packet* with all sorts wonderful goodies race stuff. The race participants were: the birthday girl (Teena), her daughter (Rylee), her sister-in-law (Annie), Fonz and me. I was shooting for 4th overall and 3rd woman and I succeeded easily! :)
Teena set the rule on the way to Gold's Gym...no cheating! :) She kicked my trash on the first event which was stationary biking for 40K!!! I've never seen anyone peddling SO SO SO SO FAST on the stationary bike..and she was smiling the whole time like it was nothing!!!! Every time I tried to peddle faster, my feet would fall off! Why don't they make bikes that strap your shoes/feet in?!!! I would've fallen off a road bike within 100 yards! :) My sitting bones was KILLING me within 10 min.!!! After peddling pathetically at the easiest level for 14.8 miles, I switched to the recumbent bike for the remaining 10 miles. The recumbent was even slower...it was so boring that I started to flip channels on the TV monitor and watched Harry Potter. I bumped my already banged up knee on the console! OUCH!!!
The second event was run 10K on the treadmill! (Finally! no need to adjust the seats which must've cost me at least 2 minutes, not to mention time spent wiping down the machines afterward). BUT, I had to find a treadmill that doesn't sound like a train was coming thru. After running 4 miles, I asked Rylee (who was DONE with the Sprint distance) where Teena and Annie were. She told me they went inside a room that I kept seeing people go in and out of. So I went in there. Wow! it's a theater and it was DARK!!! The first TM I tried was completely broken! The 2nd one said *clock calibration*. Finally got on one, fumbled with buttons in the dark, I resumed my run at 7.4mph for 2.5 more miles while Teena was about ready to leave for her swim! Dang!! It took stepping on 5 TMs to run a measly 10K! YICK!!!! The third event was swim 1500m. Since I don't know how to swim, Teena said the equivalent of that is 4 miles on the elliptical. Took me at least 5 min. to take off my shoes/socks to check on the hot spots (a blister has ripped), get a drink, find an elliptical that didn't make me feel like I was straddling over a gulley, and again fumble with buttons in the dark. It was a good thing I was elliptickling in the dark in the very back of the theater because it was so hot that I had to take off my shirt. Everyone in there was watching the movie and hardly working out?!! My quads were burning! I was hot, thirsty and exhausted!!! The distance readout was on a scrolling system. So I had to wait for a gazillion numbers to scroll thru to find out how far I had gone. Nothing worse than watching the stupid scrolling numbers (which I had no clue what they represented) while your quads were screaming!!!! ARRRGH!!!! FINALLY 42min. later, the number 4.01 showed up, HALLELUJAH! I jumped off that stupid machine, ran out of the dark theater to look at the clock to see the time...10:40pm. Teena said we started the *triathlon* at 7:30pm.!!! To be honest, 3 hrs 10 min. on those stupid machines is just plain GROSS, TORTURE, INSANE!!! Found Teena, Annie and Fonz relaxing in the hot-tub. Geesh! how long have they been finished?!!! We then went to Teena's house for some yummy pizza that Ry bought and delicious red velvet cake that Annie made. FUN time visiting and lots of laughing!!! My legs were so so so so sore and I was so so so so so tired driving home. BUT, I had fun watching my SSF celebrate her birthday...she was beaming from ear to ear!!! 
THANKS SSF for having a birthday triathlon and letting me be a part of it even though I was so pathetic on those machines!!!! :)
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 18.20 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 11.11 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.11 |
| I didn't get home until almost 1am this morning. Woke up with sore tired legs. Wasn't sure if I could run at all. Texted Wendy and Carolyn to see if they're up for run. Wendy, my best friend, was the patient and willing one. We left the house around 9:15 (had to wait for the contractor) with no plan of where or even how far. I did want to run at least 11K on this special 11.11.11 day. We headed east as usual and got on the canal trail. My quads were pretty tight from last night crazy Olympic distance bike-run-elliptical-thon! Surprisingly at the west end of the trail (about mile 4.5) legs felt warm up and ready to run some more. We decided to run back on the trail then around the bench to make it 11.11 miles. We stopped a few times so Wendy could put up her feet where the neuroma were bothering her. Each time we stopped, my knees would lock up. We explored the tunnel just over the 1200E gulley where the trail would eventually go east...however not much trail was graded at the moment. On the way back we didn't even think to find out what time it was. With a mile to go, we saw some construction worker and asked one guy if he had the time. He said: 11:16...oh, darn,,,we missed it!!! When the Garmin beeped at mile 11, I got all excited. I picked up the pace and luckily Wendy looked down at her Garmin and said, it's 11.11 and I looked at mine and it also said 11.11! Whew! We stopped our Garmins instantly and the clock read 11:22am. We laughed, hugged and walked the short little way home feeling pretty cool that we ran 11.11 miles and just 11 min shy of finishing it at 11:11 on 11.11.11 Later in the afternoon, hubby and I went looking at spas, ellipticals and treadmills. We went on a hot date with dinner and movie and relaxed under a full-moon lit sky in our new suite 11:11pm! HAPPY VETERAN'S DAY!!!!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 11.11 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| Ran 8 easy on the TM in our new addition watching Monk while sweet hubby slaved in the yard. Went to R.S. Super Sat. It's freezing cold!
Wonder how RAD was doing in Richmond! :)
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 8.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| Got Dexascanned and phlebotomized! Didn't run 'till mid-morning. Beautiful calm, sunny cool day! Quads still tight. Got a dime size owie (raw skin) near my tail bone, probably from the stationary bike at last Thursday's *tri*. :(
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 7.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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NO running today. Busy busy busy day going to the doctor, getting stuff ready for my son's Jr. Recital. He did awesome. His professor was so very kind and complimentary. There were about 100 people in attendance (so happy David drove home from AZ in time to come to the concert and help me set up the refreshements.) He got a standing ovation! He's been really blessed. His gifts and talents were magnified. He loves his music. He loves the Lord. He is a good boy, a great son and wonderful friend. Here's the program (for my reference): Suite No. 5 for Soloo Violoncello in C Minor, BWV 1011. Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Transcribed for Viola by Simon Rowland-Jones. Prelude Allemande Courante Sarabande Gavotee I & II Gigue Suite for Viola and Piano (1919). Composed by Ernest Bloch (1880-1959). Assisted by Sarah Mano on the piano. Lento-Allegro Allegro Ironico Lento Molto Vivo Passacaglia in G Minor on a Theme by George Frideric Handel (1897) for violin and viola. Composed by Johan Halvorsen 1864-1935. Assited by Rachel Ostler on the violin. ************* Went to the doc. for my annual physical (took over 2 hrs.) All my blood work came back perfect; even my dexa scan improved enough that the doc. said I can be off Fosamax for a year. Hooray!!!! :) :) :)
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.50 |
| Ran with Wendy and Carolyn with the middle miles on the canal trail. Very nice morning, calm, blue sky, temp in the high 30s. Here's a shout out for my sweet hubby's 60th birthday today! :) :) :) |
| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 6.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| 4 easy miles with Wendy that did not feel easy. My quads have been tight ever since the modified Tri last week. I've been running on mostly dirt trail and hoping it'd help the legs recover. Been so busy that I have not taken the time to stretch and roll out the tight muscles. Spent the rest of the morning with Wendy to pick up the wrecked car. Then met RAD for a quick lunch. It was so so so nice of her to give me a present that will help me on the crazy marathon on Sat. The afternoon was at the bank for hubby's open house. Many many of his colleagues, friends from business and community came as well as his mother, sister, and our two sons. What a special event with such wonderful people to come and extend their well wishes.
Barely made it down to the Y for the Philharmonic Orchestra concert that Bryan performed in. It was a very nice performance; but I was so tired I almost dosed off.
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 4.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| So so so tired from yesterday's full activities that both hubby and I slept in. Checked the weather forecast for St. George and Mesquite and threw a bunch of running clothes in the bag. I felt so unprepared for this marathon. The RD's latest email gave the impression that those registered after Oct 20 may not get the T-shirt or medal at the race. Left the house at 11:30pm for the drive down to St. George. During the drive, hubby kept asking me why I'm running this marathon! "You are not running this with anybody you know?" "You may not get a shirt or medal?" "You are not riding the bus?" "They're not gonna have GU or Gatorade for the runners?" "This is not a very popular race?" "The race director not sure what she's doing?" "The race registration fee was $80+?" "We are staying in a hotel not at the start or finish of the marathon?" "It may be stormy?" "Why are you running this?" "You don't seem to be in race mode or mood!" I'm running this marathon just cuz it's there and it's the only marathon close enough to drive to...is that good enough reason???? :) My SSF text me and she gave me the best answer: "You are running this because you can and it makes you feel alive when you're running!!!! :) " GOOD ENOUGH answer so Mesquite here I come! :) Checked in the hotel around 4. Hubby drove us to packet pick up at the Casa Blanca in Mesquite via the marathon route. We had to guesstimate where the start line is. Hubby was good at figuring out the time and mileage. We saw a truck delivering port-a-potties and the mile markers starting with mile 25 and counting backward towards to the finish. Got to Casa Blanca and had dinner at the buffet before going to packet pick up. Hubby loved the seafood. I ate too much. Spoke to Deb, the RD, about the start line. She said there'll be 4 port-a-potties at the start, with 200 runners, that's one per 50 runners, plenty enough! Seriously, she said port-a-potties are EXPENSIVE. They are $60 a piece! OMH!!! She asked if my hubby could volunteer. NO THANKS!
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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Mesquite Tri-States Marathon (26.2 Miles) 04:13:23, Place in age division: 1 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 15.32 | 11.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 26.32 |
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Despite going to bed early, only got 4 hours sleep. Got up at 5:30, showered, dressed, packed up, went to breakfast. Ate an English muffin w/ peanut butter, cornflakes w/ skim milk, 2 cups of OJ. Left the hotel at 6:45, got to the start (in the middle of Old Hwy 91 in southwest corner of Utah) at 7:30 (Utah time, half hour before the 7am Neveda start time). There were exactly 4 p-o-p, one U-haul, one table with small cups water, some mini muffins and a LONG p-o-p line. A few runners headed for the bushes. Walked towards the back of the pop line when a cute petite familiar-looking girl said a cheerful *Hi* to me. Did not expect to see anyone I know except for hubby's co-worker, Jerri, who's in my AG. The cute girl asked if I was Smooth! To my joy and delight, she's MarcieJ, AmberG's friend!!! :) :) :) I immediately knew she'd win this marathon!!! :) SO NICE of her to say hello. I was so bummed about the lack of pop and my own non-readiness that I wasn't myself and not being very friendly! Shame on me! :( With 15 min to go, I decided to head back towards the car and find a bush. There were barbed wire fences along the road and cows on the north side. Luckily I found two giant dirt/rock mounts right close to my car! :) With one minute before start, I took off my jackets, put on the fuel belt RAD gave me and walked towards the start. Hubby followed me with camera in hands. Got up to the front to give Marcie a good luck hug and then walked back to the middle of the pack! :) Walking to the start line 
Waiting for the count down.
The announcer did a 10 sec. count down and we were off! (It's such a small race with less than 200 runners that it's by gun time). The first 6 miles are all downhill in the beautiful Utah's high desert hills. Everyone went out fast. Could not believe how choppy and clunky my strides were. Legs were heavy. Feet were numb. My sitting bones still had the *bike butt* soreness. I feared that all these aches and pains would give me trouble later on in the race. Just before the first bend, I ran up to a gal in my AG, said hello and talked to her a bit. We ran together for about 1/2 mile then I dropped her for good (she was very quiet). Saw some interesting cave openings. So strange to be running without Lowell, RAD or any of my friends. Tried to concentrate on good downhill form but my quads were already complaining!!! O man, hope I can finish this thing in one piece! :( Do those runners look as worried?
Mile 1-6 Splits: 8:35, 8:30, 8:17, 8:29, 8:37, 8:34. Temp was in the high 40s, very pleasant, calm, cloudy. The sun peeked out around mile 3, I handed my gloves and headband to hubby who drove along and waited at the first aid station where only water in tiny 4 oz cups were offered. Around mile 4ish I ran into couple of girls, Kim and Linda, who were talking about their previous marathons. I ran with them chatting 'till the first major hill right after the half. We had to run facing traffic and sometimes single-file. There were only a few spots where drivers could pull over so I never knew when I'd see hubby. The next 7 miles were gentle downgrade, flat, straight desert road in the middle of nowhere in Arizona with huge power poles interrupting the beautiful mountain vista to the north. l to r : 66 yo Mark, Kim, Linda, me. I kept seeing that same lady in black hoodie and leggings at every aid station handing water to me. Turned out she's the mother of two young runners and was there to cheer them but would stop to volunteer ad lib.
Mile 7-13 Splits: 8:13, 8:24, 8:37, 8:57, 9:29, 9:21, 9:00. The half was at the little town of Littlefield. We encountered the first major uphill leaving town. I had taken one of the GU I carried and drank water and heed which was only offered every other aid station in tiny 4 oz cups. Fearing that I would cramp up after all that quads punishing downhill, I asked hubby to give me some electrolyte caps as he drove past. He has never had to *crew* me on the fly. He handed me the electrolyte package and the Gatorade Prime [courtesy of Teena's *birthday tri race packet*]. NO, I can't swallow the salt cap w/o water. NO, I can't drink the cough-syrup-like-Prime. I kept running, holding the salt cap for another mile. We had to cross some cattle guards that scared me to death...one misplaced step...my foot/leg would be caught between those big iron grids!!! Finally saw some parked cars ahead, I gestured over and over that I needed a drink. Hubby said I looked so funny doing that when he was actually driving a little ways behind me watching my gesturing to no one in particular up ahead! :) Mile 14-20 Splits: 10:03, 10:59 (took inhaler), 9:44, 9:33, 9:07 10:22, 11:36 (Asked hubby for some BioFreeze [courtesy of Teena's birthday race packet] to spray on my legs and then returned the bottle to hubby while he was driving past. Don't think it worked...it just made my legs very cold...not helping as it was already cold with wind chill, silly me! :)
From mile 16 to the finish, we encountered some strong headwind in the hilly winding part of Arizona. Kim and Linda started to pull further away. I was leap frogging with a 66 yo gentleman that I pretend was Lowell. He was a strong runner. He would soon pass me for good. At around mile 16 I passed Kurt who was wearing the same green Boston shirt as me. He had passed me earlier and I tried to talk to him but he had ear buds on and did not respond. This time when I passed him, he started to talk to me. We ran together the remainder of the race except for the last 5K. He seemed to be struggling. He had pulled a calf muscle the week after SGM where he ran 3:29. It was really neat to talk and encourage him along. He is a member of the Marathon Maniac. He would apologize for taking a walk break and I actually welcomed it. All that 4/1 pacing I did with Lowell must've got'n in my system because I'd start running after a min of walking without thinking and Kurt would follow. We stayed together 'till the last 5K when he bid me a good run and wanted to just walk. Kurt and me. 
Mile 21 ~ 11:48 Lots of walk breaks with Kurt and a gnarly uphill with nasty headwind. 22 ~ 10:25 The legs had nothing left to take advantage of the backside of the hill. Saw a guy laying on the weed/dirt, he's done? 23 ~ 11:35 One last hill. Kurt walked. I tried with all my might to run. The lungs were willing but the legs were hurting BIG time!) 24 ~ 10:18 Figured I could finish under 4:15 if I kept the pace under 11mm. Quads would scream with each touch down and calves had nothing left to push off! :( 25 ~ 10:44 Bonking big time! Took a drink at what I thought was the last aid station. The senior volunteers were offering little cups (Sacrament cups) of Gu. They were arguing about whether Heed had carb or just electrolytes. I thanked them anyway! I really was running the entire time even though the splits did not show it. Passed one guy and soon was passed by two other guys. :( Legs were screaming for me to stop. Looked at my Garmin and realized if I kept a 10mm I could BQ (4:10 for 2013, but I don't need it...so not motivated!)... just couldn't go any faster! STINK!!! :(
26 ~ 10:37 This mile was icky! Not knowing where the turns were and watching for traffic. Although it was very nice to have volunteers stopping traffic at the crossings! My Garmin read 4:00:00 when I reached mile 26. O man! why couldn't a marathon be 26 miles! Oh, they had an aid station and a p-o-p with 1/2 mile to go, WHY??!! I took a drink anyway just to thank the poor volunteers who had no takers!
0.32 ~ 10:18 Had to hop over two curbs and turn to run inside the convention center to the finish with my Garmin registering 26.32 and the clock at 4:13:23, good enough for a win among 12 in my AG.
Crossing the finish inside a giant tent/convention center. Other than family members and volunteers there were no spectators or anyone cheering along the course or finish.
I was so cold that the heated convention center felt nice. Turned to watch Kurt run in. Walked around looking for recovery drinks and food. They had an offering of beer, coffee, water, donuts, bagels and muffins. I took a bottle of warm water and one muffin and went to congratulate Linda, Kim and Mike and waited for Jerri to come in. Waited for the award ceremony, took my cowbell and hurried back to the hotel in SG so I could shower and head home. Jerri and me.  The legs hurt pretty bad on the drive home. Will need to do some
serious recovery which I have ignored all year. Am feeling very
grateful to finish the year with 9 marathons, a 50 miler, a
half-marathon PR without any serious injury. Wondering what 2012 has in
store for me! :)
All this for a cowbell?!!! :)
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 26.32 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 4.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 4.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| Lead legs. Super sore quads! |
| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 3.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| Legs still sore! Took forever and barely made it home before bladder explodes! :) |
| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 4.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.25 |
| Quads were tight. Wendy was so kind to run with me while her hubby and their dog, ran ahead. NICE weather! :) |
| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 5.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.65 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.65 |
| Legs in no shape to race any Turkey Trot. Promised Olga we'd meet her and run with her. Olga is a young mother from Mexico. She just started running. This is the longest distance she's gone. I think our chatting was more beneficial than the running. :) So so so so so much to be thankful for! Yesterday was hubby's last day of work. We are starting a new chapter of our life. How did I ever get so lucky to be married to such a wonderful wonderful terrific great kind considerate selfless man!!! ♥♥♥ This year's the first time we had Thanksgiving feast and celebration in a church. The young folks like it because they can play in the cultural hall and I didn't have to worry about cleaning up the house before or after. But I do miss the coziness.
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 3.65 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.50 |
| So so so so so nice to sleep in! So looking forward to the Dekker Sisters Sale on the Lehi JRP. Wendy and I got there shortly after 10am. Kelli had already run 3 miles before our arrival. :) SO GREAT to see RAD, QP, allie, Kelli, Steam8, Chad, Annette, Catherine and her husband, Faceless Ghost and their darling baby. Temp was in the low 40s (I think), calm, cloudy with intermittent sun...PERFECT running weather! Not sure how far or fast I'd go since the legs were still pretty tight and sore. Started out with Chad, QP and Wendy. Stopped at the pop in Willow Park where RAD, QP and Chad waited for me. Wendy turned around at her 4.5; so ran after her to give her the car key then turned and chased after the others. At mile 5.25, Steam8 and allie turned around so I turned around with them. SO NICE of allie and Steam8 to run easy and slow with me! :) They are such GREAT runners!!! The miles just flew by...before we knew it, we're back at the car. THANKS for the company and GREAT chat!!!
RAD and QP brought us hot chocolate, donuts, mandarin oranges and orange/mango juice! YUM!!! THANKS for organizing this run, Rachel! I'm gonna miss QP after she flies home! The Dekker Sisters Sale is the BEST!!!! :) :) :) :) :) I hope we get to do this again! :)
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 10.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 14.15 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 14.15 |
| Went to the temple with David, hubby, John and Wendy. So nice to be in the temple with those you love!!! :) Picked up some grocery after lunch to send David on his way for the long drive back to AZ. Seeing that temp has warmed up from the 20s to the 40s in the afternoon, told hubby that I'm going for a solo run. Felt bad leaving him home with a swollen sore ankle. The same injury he sustained skiing last year but this time from playing basketball on Thanksgiving. Tucked him in front of the TV with all the necessities close by. Planned on running the canal trail and bench loop with a quick stop to check on him, grab a drink and head back for a second loop in reverse direction.
Ran the first loop 6.5 miles in 59 min. feeling pretty good. Ran in the house to check on hubby who's watching a movie. Drank 12 oz gatorade and back out for the second loop 7.5 miles in 79 min. eek! At around mile 10, the tummy started to growl with hunger. Dang! Should've taken a gu. Bonked bad the last couple miles, like at the end of bad marathon, STINK! All I could think of was what to eat the second I get in the house! :) So so so so relieved to reach home. Immediately devoured a banana, 1 glass of OJ, a peanut butter brownie bar washed down with 2 glasses of chocolate milk followed by a nice LONG hot shower!!! Ahhh, life is GOOD!!!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 14.15 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 15.35 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.35 |
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AM: 6.25 easy with Wendy and Karen. So good to see Karen running again. :) 3 circuits CSE.
PM: Sprint Tri with cute glidergirl, Rylee and my sweet SSF. Recumbent bike (L4) 12.4 miles in 59:10 watching Harry Potter in the theatre w/ hubby next to me! :) 5K run in 24:00. Doggie paddle (w/noodle) 7 laps in 18 min. FHE dinner date at Zuppas with hubs afterward. FUN TIME!!! :) :) :)
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 9.35 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.25 |
| 6.25 easy with Carolyn, Wendy and Karen (Sky). Beautiful blue sky, calm...just us and the road and trail and birds! :) Trying to decide what races to sign up for before Boston. Some possibilities are:
Jan 7 ~ Running from an Angel Marathon, NV Jan 21 ~ St. George Half Feb 4 ~ Death Valley Marathon, CA or
Feb 11 ~ Orphan Hope Marathon, TX Mar 3 ~ Lake to Lake Relay Mar 17 ~ Spectrum 10K Mar 24 ~ Buffalo Run Mar 31 ~ Riverton Half
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 6.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| AM: Karen invited me and Wendy to join her in water aerobics. At first I put on an xs floatation belt. As soon as I got to the deeper part of the pool, I panicked. Karen had me put on a med. floatation belt which gave me more buoyancy. I really need to learn how to swim to save my life. Got a good workout for the arms and abs! :)
PM: Too much distraction but managed 8 miles in the afternoon. New shoes! :)
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| Elixir (ski Patrol) Miles: 8.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
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9 TM miles watching Monk to avoid the wind which wasn't anywhere near as bad as that in Davis County. Anyone knows anything about repair of the acetabular labral tear?
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| Elixir (ski Patrol) Miles: 9.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.25 |
| Ran with Wendy and Carolyn to Highland for a change of scenery. Nice sunny run. Ran into EmilyH. It was nice to run with Emily a little. Found out she and her hubby, Brian, Wendy & MattC are doing the Grand Slam next year. :) Went to the Ocean Market w/ hubby, cleaned house, cooked a nice dinner for some old friends whom we haven't seen for a long time. They stayed and visited 'till 10. Good day! :)
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 7.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 14.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 14.50 |
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Ate a bowl of cereal while cleaning up the kitchen and boiling a pot of potatoes, then dashed out for a cold morning run. First 7.5 mi. on canal trail route. Slow warm up. Nice and toasty in 3 layers of clothes. :) Second 7 mi on bench loop route. Shed the middle fleece layer. Ate a pkg Shot blocs. Ran progressively faster...had to hurry home before heading to the Stake Center for a baptism (where Elder Cook presided and spoke) of 5 beautiful children! :) Barely had time to finish making the cheesy potato after the baptism and rushed off to the Celebration of Christmas Concert at the Y. Barely had time to rush back for the Ward Christmas party. So glad I was able to get everything done today! :) My eating has been really bad these days. I'm a big tub of lard!
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| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 14.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.00 |
| 6.5 with Wendy, 4.5 by myself. Brrrr!!! especially w/ the headwind from the north!!! The sun was nice though. 2 circuits CSE.
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 6.50 | Elixir (ski Patrol) Miles: 4.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| Temp was in the high teens!!! Ran with Carolyn, Wendy and Karen. *Hearts warm when friends meet*!!! :) :) :) 2 pairs of socks and ski mittens kept my digits happy! :) NO wind! NICE conversations!!! Can't ask for more! :) :) :) |
| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 7.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 1.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.50 |
| It was a stinky run! Not the run itself, but the SMELLS!!!! The first encounter was at the crossing on 600 E where a Timpanogos Sewage Treatment truck passed me. Then a mile down the road that truck was working on a manhole pumping up who-knows-what. That stench made me gag!!! The second encounter was at the bottom of Dry Creek. I ran to the light east of Smith Market Place and saw a graded trail paralell to SR92. Was curious how far it would lead, so I ran down the trail to the border of Highland/Lehi to the bottom of Dry Creek. They had constructed a bridge over the creek where a most disgusting smelly steam was billowing out of a culvert under that bridge. PeeeUUU!!! I turned around to run back up only to come face to face with a big backhoe which was followed by a huge dump truck bearing down. yikes! I jumped out of the way and expected to be yelled at by the workers. But, they were very kind. The trail crews are such nice men, unlike the road crews. Over the last few weeks, I have run on the canal dirt trail where the workers were doing a lot of back filling, earth moving and grading and they have said hi to me or waited for me to pass. I need to go tell Bro. Miner (who's in charge of the project) how nice his crews are. It's been fun to watch the progress of the trail. Ran west all the way to the end of the trail. Couple of guys were putting up a road sign and they said hello to me and commented how nice it was to see me run by everyday! :) Turned south and saw my hawks, Faith and Hope, perched on two lone trees in the fields by the rail road. I have not seen them in the fields closer to my home due to all that road constructions and clearing off of trees and filling of the canal. Faith and Hope have gotten quite big! It was neat to see one of them spread her wings and soared high.
Third encounter of the stink was at the top of the hill on 3200N. There's a mink farm that emitted the most disgusting stench which made my *having huffed up the hill* deflating! :) However it made me speed up to get home sweet home where hubby promptly said: "You smell like a runner!" How nice of him to not say: I STINK! :)
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| Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 8.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.25 |
| Ran with Carolyn, Wendy, Karen (Sky) on a nice semi sunny morning. Temp was a balmy 23F and calm!!! :) Feet and ankles are not liking the cold start...darn arthritis! We ran thru the tunnel on the not yet finished trail by 1200W and heard a *hey! what are you guys doing?!!!* from above the tunnel. It was Bro. Miner! :) :) :) He was teasing us! :)
I'm going to sign up for a bunch of races before the end of the year. I'm going to be BROKE!!! :)
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 6.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| Wendy, Karen (Sky) and I went trail exploring. We ran beyond the bridge where I turned around due to the stench on Wednesday; but today there was no stinky steam. :) We got off the trail and turned south on the first road in Highland, then west on Mtn Ridge JrH road. We saw another trail on the north side and decided to explore that. A black lab. came out of nowhere and wanted to play with Sky. We kept yelling for her to go home. We threw rocks at her and Karen even kicked her. But she was very disobedient. Wendy lead her a little ways back but she soon came running after us again. We hiked down a ravine, crossed over the dry creek dam and back on the trail all the while trying to shoo that dog away. Got back on the south portion of dry creek trail and up on 3200N where the traffic seemed extra heavy. It was hazardous to have a loose dog darting around us. She followed us all the way home. She was so playful and happy once we stopped running. She parked herself on my front porch until another dog walker (also a black lab) came along. Now she's roaming around my neighborhood. We'll have to drive her back near where she found us and hopefully she could find her way home. She has a collar with an electronic box on, probably a device to keep her in a fenceless yard. Her owner would miss her! The run was great other than that dumb dog getting in the way. Anyone one up for a long run tomorrow? I need 16 but my weekday running friends aren't going that far.
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 7.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 13.00 | 3.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.25 |
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Ran on the JRP with Karen and Wendy. Starting temp was 14F, calm and amazingly NO bad smell :). We headed north so I could have their company for 8 miles and run the remaining solo miles on the south portion which may have other runners later. The river is a frozen glass of green. Just north of the 2100N bridge, the trail was broken up into heaps of giant mud clods. I think they're in the process of moving the trail about 100' to the east off the river as the edge had started to slough off. Wish they would at least grade it. We had to walk/hike up the frozen mud clods.
We stopped to eat and drink at the 4 mile turnaround. Instead of hiked down the frozen uneven giant mud clods we went thru the vinyl fence to run on the pathway and reconnect back to where the broken trail/mud clods were not as steep. About 0.5 mile to the car, we heard a man hollering "excuse me!" from behind which startled us because we had not seen anyone on the trail other than couple of hunters heading opposite direction at the beginning. I was pleasantly surprised to find out it was CHAD!!!! He was running around the park as we ran past and now heading home.
Wendy and Karen were glad that I now had someone to run with and so was I. They didn't want me to be out there alone. It was so fun to run with Chad for 3.5 miles and got a call from RAD! :) Bid Chad goodbye after visiting with him a little at the gate. It was a little scary to run alone so I picked up the pace. Encountered a stray dog which came onto the trail minding his own business. The silence of the trail was interrupted by flocks of migrating geese. Ran the last 3.25 miles at mp. Ate 6 Powerbar chews; drank 8 oz. water and 21 oz gatorade. Feel good to have the weekly mileage back in the 50s again. Hope to stay there then taper for the week before and after Christmas and hopefully ready for the first marathon of 2012.
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 16.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| Ran west to meet Karen on a cloudy hazy morning, 25F. We ran down on 3rd West, up on rail trail and east on canal trail.
Coach Jay's 12 Build a Better myrtle exercises. 3 circuits of Pfitzinger's 6 core strengthening exercises.
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 8.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
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25F snowing. Had to wipe the snow off my sunglasses the first 4 miles. Love running on fresh fallen snow...so soft and peaceful! A closer look at my footprints show that my right foot points outward slightly compare to the left foot which points straight. Ran east to Smith's then west to Center. Saw Karen driving by on her way to the temple. Got on dirt canal trail which was a whiteout so had to be careful with footings. Got on paved trail connect to rail trail. There was one set of footprints for about a mile. Saw one of the hawks. She took off as I got close.
As soon as I got off the rail trail onto 3rd west, a guy with a small plow came to clear the trail...talk about timing.! :) Running up 3rd west was awesome! I haven't run up that for awhile. I need to do that more often during this training cycle. Picked up the pace on the last mile, thankfully very little traffic as I had to dodge puddles and slushy snow. Air quality was horrible. Felt a little light headed and some coughing when I got in the house. Took a nice LONG hot shower...ahhhh! Myrtle.
Yoga. Biceps and triceps.
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 10.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 8.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 8.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 1.50 | 0.00 | 2.50 | 14.00 |
| 7.25 with Karen on a new route. Ran down Center > trail south of the Woods > 900N > 1200E > 1100N > Center > back on trail > 2100N > 300W to Karen's. Foggy, cloudy, light snow, 30F. A few slippery spots where we'd walk it. Pleasant easy run, nice chats! :)
6.75 by myself in 56:45 AP: 8:23. My weight is up. My fitness is down. Winter training is tough with two As (asthma, arthritis). But am grateful I can still run! :) Myrtle. Planks.
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 7.25 | Elixir (ski Patrol) Miles: 6.75 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 8.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 8.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.80 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.80 |
| 19F. icky air. But very fortunate to have the company of Wendy and Karen.
Plan for Sat. is 18 miles on the JRP where Karen and Wendy will run 10 with me. Y'all are welcome to join us! :)
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 7.80 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
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Went to bed very late last night...a wonderful MoTab OTS Christmas Concert! :) The air quality was noticeable worse in Salt Lake vs Utah County. Almost didn't go running. Karen and I convinced Wendy that it's not that cold (25F) and quite peaceful (misty snowy w/ a skiff of snow on the road). So glad she gave into peer pressure! :) :) :) Ran nice and easy, great inspiring conversations! :)
Myrtle. 4 circuits of CSE.
We're running the Lehi JRP at 8am tomorrow. We'd love your company! :) :) :)
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| Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 6.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 14.00 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 18.00 |
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I was all bummed last night thinking I'd have to run 8 of my 18 miler alone this morning. Thought about canceling the JRP plan and just run around the hood. I was reading some scriptures and talks (in preparing for my Sunday's talk) at bed time. The inspiring words gave me comfort and reassurance that I am NEVER alone! At 7:50am I drove myself down to the JRP as planned while Karen (Sky) and Wendy drove in separate car. To my joy and delight, Maynard and Chad were there!!! SO SO SO SO HAPPY to see them especially Maynard whom I haven't seen forever. I was VERY excited to find out Chad's plan was to run 14! YaHOOO!!! Temp was 19F, a whopping 5 degrees warmer than last Sat. Seriously it felt much warmer to me; perhaps it was the company of 4 great running friends...never underestimate the power of friends! :) I did not look at the watch once until we stopped to say goodbye to Chad's neighbor (who had joined us on his last 3 of a 10 miler). That's when I realized I hadn't started my watch. It was so much fun running and chatting that the miles just flew by. Chad and I turned around at mile 5.3 while the rest of the group turned back at mile 5. They waited for us and we ran the remaining 5 back to the car together. Thanks all for making the run so fun!!! :)
After bidding Karen, Wendy and Maynard goodbye, Chad and I headed north for 4 more. It was hard to get going after stopping plus we had a bit of uphill. Those 4 miles just flew by like the migrating geese overhead. There were a lot of hunters out today. We saw two shot ducks on the side of the trail. I saw a hunter walking from the river with a fat duck in his hand and a rifle in the other. And heard many many gunshots.
THANKS Chad for running with me! Bid him good bye, ate a gu and headed back south for 4 more. Re-set the Garmin as suggested by Chad so I didn't need to do any math since I forgot to restart the thing earlier. Didn't look at the watch until it beeped at mile 2 right in front of the pop at Willow Park. Stopped to use the pop before running back to the car. I was surprised how good my legs felt on the heel of a 63+ mile week that had one tempo and 3 hilly runs in it. The only negative part was the air pollution. My airway is definitely irritated. Didn't look at the pace until I got home. I'm surprised to see that the first 14 miles (9.5 of data) was run at 9:36 AP and the last 4 at 9:10 AP. My last mile was 8:50 which felt easy. I didn't want to push it because of the icky air. Have a question: If the air outside is bad, wouldn't the air indoor bad too? Granted that it is recirculated indoor air, but over time it's still outside air that's being recirculated, right? The last time I check, my furnace only filters dust and dirt, not the micro gunk that the EPA people warn us of. What's an asthmatic runner to do? Wish we'd get a nice storm to blow away this smog!!!
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 18.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
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AM: Ran to Karen's then to Becca's. Nice conversational run down 3rd west to rail trail to canal trail. THANKS Bec for the nice run! :) PM: My SSF got me tested and assessed..worked on my quads good...and prescribed some exercises to strengthen what my hubby calls "TB"! :) Hopefully we'll have my tibia tuberosity happy again! THANKS SSF!!! :) :) :) Christmas Eve Morning Party & Group Run!!! We are considering 3 location options to meet and have post-run party at: Lehi JRP, Smooth's house in northeast Lehi (2 miles east of I-15) or Kelly's house in Herriman. Please give us your input or suggestion, THANKS!!!! :) :) :)
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 10.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
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6.25 with Wendy and Karen. Snowing lightly. We had to avoid patches where tires have made it slippery. 6.75 by myself with 3 at tempo AP 8:34. Myrtle. Crab walk 24' left & right 3X. David is driving home from AZ today...I'm so excited!!! Time to go shopping! :)
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| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 6.25 | Elixir (ski Patrol) Miles: 6.75 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
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FINALLY we have blue sky and good air...BUT the darn stinkin' WIND!!!! Between the wind chill and the slipperies I wimp out and got on the TM with two episodes of Monk! ✻ ❃ ❄ Christmas Eve Morning Run! ❄ ❃ ✻ Where: Lehi JRP at 1500N bridge parking lot Time: 8:30 Distance: Most are running 13 miles. Feel free to run more or less as you please. What: We will have hot chocolate and muffins!!! You may want to bring blankies, extra warm clothes, favorite treats, friends, etc. for the post-run fun!!!! :) :) :)
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| Elixir (ski Patrol) Miles: 10.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| Ran with Wendy under beautiful sunny blue sky, calm, 19F. We ran on the paved trail next to SR 92 from 1200 E to Center then onto the unpaved trail to 1300W to paved trail south of Cabela's then turned south on rail trail and back up east on 3200N. Saw my hawk on the same tree by rail trail. She soar off when we got real close! :) Shopping in the afternoon. Pizza/movie/game party at Wendy's home. FUN TIME!!! :) Registered for 1 marathon today and 2 more before New Year's Eve. :} |
| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 7.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 3.00 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| Temp was 12F when I got to the Lehi JRP at 8:30. My excitement of a Christmas Eve run was crushed when I saw RAD hobbled out of her car wearing crocs. Her right foot was clearly swollen. Bless her sweet big heart...she braved the cold and a painful foot to bring us hot cocoa. We (Karen, Maynard, Becca, David, Chad and his s-i-l Rachelle) felt so badly for her! :( She was only 13 miles shy of 2011 miles for her 2011 goal and would've done that this Christmas Eve morning if it weren't for the unfortunate injured foot! It was so fun to run with such cool friends that the cold didn't bother me and the miles flew by. Since we started the run a little late and I had to be at the 11am movie with the family, I decided to turn around at mile 5. Took advantage of the good air quality and picked up the pace the second half. Splits: 9:25, 9:03, 9:07, 9:19, 9:30, 8:40, 8:36, 8:49, 8:43, 8:24 AP: 8:55. Made it home in time to change into dry clothes and head to the movie, Mission Impossible. Lunch at In-n-Out burger (don't know why my boys like that place so much). Then Bryan, hubby and I spent the afternoon putting together the elliptical and delivered Christmas to the neighbors. A nice traditional Chinese hot-pot dinner at home. Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!!! :) :) :) |
| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 10.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| A WONDERFUL Christmas day! I LOVE that Christmas falls on a Sunday. I was a little nervous about Sacrament Mtg. since my bishop asked me to be in charge of the program. So so so grateful that everything fell into place. It was not about me nor of one particular person nor song. It's all about worshiping God and centering out thoughts on Christ. We sang two songs and used the narration of the Christmas Cantata, Come to Bethlehem. I substituted the Vocal Solo with a Primary song, "When Joseph Went to Bethlehem" sung by the Primary Children, Instrumental Solos still still still with "Away in a Manger" with David on the cello; the lullaby with Young Women singing "Little One" and added "With Wondering Awe" by the Young Men. The choir finished with the last verse of O Come All Ye Faithful and the bishop addressed us before closing hymn of Silent Night. The Spirit was there. The Choir sounded so wonderful! There were extra people visiting in the congregation among whom are some non-members and less active members of the Church. After sacrament we came home and my family helped me make the fixings that go with the turkey and ham already in the oven. We finished eating around 1:30 and got on webcam to google+ with all the children and grandchildren who are in TX and OH. While we were in the middle of web-cam chatting, Elder Steven Lew called from Taiwan. It was as if we were all under the same roof visiting and talking about Christmas, about missionary work. My heart was full. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.25 |
| Went skiing bright and early. We got to the ski resort half hour before the lifts open. There was no crowd, bad sign! The snow was adequate. It got pretty warm in the afternoon. We need a snow storm badly. We left the resort early since we've had enough runs (I was able to do 21 green runs). Had dinner early at Maple Garden. Got home and took a 3 hr. nap! Watched Jimmer played his first NBA game Sacrament Kings vs. L.A. Lakers. Then hopped on the Treadmill to run easy 10.25. Perfect run to loosen up the legs! |
| Elixir (ski Patrol) Miles: 10.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.50 |
| The family decided not to go skiing today because the snow condition was less than ideal. Slept in and was so glad to get a text from Karen. Ran a mile to meet her then we ran up to Highland crossing SR92. We ran inside the Highland Cemetery where we stopped at the Veteran's memorial and looked at the stature: "Help for the Future" by Dennis Smith. The story behind that stature is so AWESOME. So glad Karen told me about it because there's no plague or description for it. We then ran on the trail parallel SR92 and back to her home. Perfect T with a little of sun and gentle breeze. NICE run and chat about our Christmases. I sent in the registration for UVM. |
| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 10.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 8.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 8.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| Slept in while the family went skiing. I am very picky about my snow! :) Met up with Wendy to run to Karen's. Karen's sister, Jill, a marathoner visiting from Calif. and Karen's 21 yo son, a college athlete joined us. We ran down 3rd west and Karen's daughter, Erin drove by and decided to join us. We ran up on the rail trail and east on 3200N. So fun to run with the young adults! :) :) :) A scuffy man with a mustache in a red car drove past us 3 times. Later on we found out he was following/stalking Erin and Jill who got the guy's license and reported to the police. It appears the police has had dealings w/ him before. The police is patrolling the area. Tried out the new elliptical for 2 miles. Myrtle. 3 circuits CSE. |
| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 8.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 8.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 8.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 2.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.50 |
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Ran 4.75 with Karen, her sister and bil up Bull River then down rail trail and back up 3200N to her home. Then ran 5.25 by myself around the bench. PERFECT running weather, 35F, calm, cloudy w/ a little bit of sun, rain w/ a little bit of hail. BEST part is the CLEAN air!!! Hubby called me mid-run and reported that it's snowing at the resort! Hallelujah! I will have better snow to ski tomorrow! :) :) :) Just checked my year mileage, may be able to make 2400 which is just right for me even though it's 370 miles less than last year. 2011 has been a good year! :)
Going to registered for Orphan Hope Marathon.
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| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 10.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
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ski all day with the family and extended family and friends. Annual family NYE party at Asia Buffet. This year's party theme was *funny trauma and re-runs*. we did the count down at 8pm. there were over 60 of us, some coming as far as D.C.
Ran 7 miles on the TM at 9:30 watching the last part of Narnia and evening news. Had MAJOR lephantitis legs! seriously they were so swollen from 5 hrs of skiing, 6 hrs of sitting, eating and partying. I did it so that I would only need to run 10 miles in the morning before heading to a family wedding luncheon. |
| Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 7.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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went to bed around midnight only to be startled by a gaganteous hurricane howling wind storm! It was disturbingly LOUD. Didn't help that my knees were really sore! Slept fretfully for a few hours. Waited till 7:45 to text Karen hoping the wind would die down. Luckily, she agreed to brave the wind.
Ran 6.25 with Karen, her son and brother-in-law; 3.75 by myself. Temp was probably in the low 30s but the wind chill made it feel like 20s. Barely made it home in time to shower and go to the wedding luncheon.
Lots of family celebration, food and more food. Said goodbye to David. :( Picked up Jenn and Jeff from the airport and then to dinner at Tio...again more yummy food!
HAPPY NEW YEAR to y'all!!! :) |
| Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 10.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 1990.29 | 334.26 | 64.45 | 11.00 | 2400.00 |
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| Inspire 5 (4) Miles: 249.50 | Mizuno Nexus2 Miles: 29.00 | Inspire 5 (2) Miles: 13.50 | Inspire 5 Purple (3) Miles: 75.35 | Inspire 5 (5) Miles: 390.50 | Mizuno Ascend 5 Miles: 5.25 | Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 559.81 | Inspire 6 (green) Miles: 536.64 | Elixir 5 (charcoal 2) Miles: 324.56 | Elixir (ski Patrol) Miles: 55.25 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 1231.00 | Nap Time: 2.00 | Total Sleep Time: 1233.00 | Weight: 0.00 | |
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