Each Day Is a Gift

Ran with Wendy.  4 miles at marathon pace, 1 mile hill run. 

Splits: 10:02, 10:02, 8:57, 9:02, 8:42, 8:37, 10:00.   0.25 mile at 8:12

7.25 miles average pace 9:18

Didn't go to bed 'till midnight helping hubby with painting the ceiling.  Got  to the poll before it opened.  Man, the line was already long at 6:40 am.  I've never had to wait for 90 min. to vote.  It started to rain when I went home.  The carpet installer was on his way.  So I had to run on the treadmill intead.  I turned the fan up high and the incline at 2%.

1 mile warm up, 2 miles at tempo pace, 1.75 mi at sub-tempo.

Splits: 10:05, 8:34, 8:20, 8:00, 8:00.  0.5 mi cool down at 10:00.

5.25 miles in 44:19.  Average pace: 8:50

WINTER is upon us.  Look at the SNOW out there.  I remember the joy of running on fresh fallen snow in Jan this year.  However, this morning the snow plow hasn't come yet and there are so much early morning traffic.  So, it's onto the treadmill I ran AGAIN.  Decide to do a stamina workout.

9 miles steady-state run in 1:19:40.  Average pace: 8:50

Splits: 10:00, 9:22, 8:57, the next 6 miles in 8:34. 

Feels pretty good throughout the run, never winded, can't wait to run a long one outside on Sat. 

More remodeling work today...repair, sand, tape before hubby gets home.  May be yoga tonight...if the boss and I get the painting and clean up done.

Today is EZ day.  Temp. was cccca-old.  I put on my trusty CW-X insulator tights and UA sub-zero top, gloves, sunglasses and headed out to a beautiful blue sky, calm, quiet winter morning run.  LOVE IT.  If I had the right mask, I would look like Spiderman (er woman).  With that, even tho' it's EZ day, I'd better find some stunt work to do...hmm.

After 0.5 mi warm up, I "attacked" the hills for 2 miles, then coast the rest home.  Didn't even look at the watch once.

Splits: 9:44, 9:32, 9:43, 10:15, 9:29, 9:16

Today was supposed to be a rest/core workout day.  Well, the furniture guys delivered the bedroom sets early this morning which gives me a couple of hours to run.  I won't have much time to run long tomorrow in Midway because I have to be back by 10 am so we can go to the BYU game with our friends.  Thus I decided to do a medium long run today.  Mary who just signed up to run her very first marathon at Ogden 09 called.  I decided to run with her.  The longest she has run was 6 miles.  So, I ran to her house to add the extra mileage. 

We talked the whole way.  My legs were very tired especially on the uphills.  It helped to have someone to run with.  Didn't drink anything until I got home.  It was a beautiful day with a run I didn't plan on.  I will rest tomorrow. 

12.25 miles with hills.  Average pace 9:55

Zermatt is quite a lovely place to stay and play.  This is the 3rd year we've stayed there.  In years past I have run up that canyon passing beautiful golf courses, mountain cottages and saw lotsa deer.  This year I did not have the leisure for a long run.  I had run 12 yesterday so I decided to workout at the fitness center.

The Zermatt fitness center is awesome.  There are 6-8 treadmills, 6 ellipticals, 4 stationary bikes and a whole line of weight machines for all the muscle groups situated in front of a bank of windows facing the mountains/valleys, plus a separate room with free weights, balls, mats and other things I don't know what they're for.

I warmed up on the elliptical for 0.5 mi, ran 3 mi on the treadmill at 9:15 pace.  Then I did 30 reps at 25 lbs on all the machines.  Finished the workout with Around the World Abs.  The whole thing took me an hour.  It was just right.  We beat the game traffic both ways.  Cougars dominated the game.  What a fun day!