find each others light

Rest (from running, still cleaning galore) before my 16 miler. Have to rearrange the schedule for this week cause I'm going away for some R & R!!!

Time 2:36:54 AP 9:48

Left @ 5am and met Betsy and her dog Diesel. We ran almost 3 around home before we met up with Deb and her dog Hobbes and ran 8 with her. Went up Newcastle to the La Caille. That trail was my slowest mile cause it was pretty slick in spots. turned left on Wasatch for about .75 and turned left to go down Danish to Creek and up Highland. ran Deb home and stopped by my house to drop off my hat and headlight. sydney and Lizzie hadn't left for choir so I hurried and did Sydney's hair, sent Lizzie and Sydney off to choir, said goodbye to Jane, refilled my water bottle. Went back out with Betsy (who had gone home to drop her dog and change shirts) for 5(+ a little)  more. Legs were very tired at the end but today's run was so much nicer than Saturday's! Weather was great except for a headwind here and there. So grateful for clear streets on this long run. My feet were still sore in spots from Sat. run so I was a little worried but made it through okay today.

Need a nap today but still need to finish cleaning for our trip and have to host the 8 and 9 yr old girl scouts today. Yipee!

St. George run. Beautiful!

St. George run. Sunny!

Time 53:49 AP 8:58 (I think)

Treadmill run-Yasso 800s

 .50 Warm-up

Ran 800 meters (.50) in 4 minutes (7.3 on TM)

Recovered for .50

5 reps - last .50 was between 7.0-8.0

Slow treadmill run

1:19:50 AP Just under 10

Farthest I've ever run on the treadmill. Watched "Brewster's' Millions" on demand.

It's my daughter's 9th birthday today! Party!

Cross training day

Jillian Michaels-Banish Fat/Boost Metabolism-45 minutes

Brayn Kest Power Yoga 1-50 minutes

Time 43:48 AP 8:46 Splits: 9:10,9:14,8:58,8:14,8:12:)

6:15am outside. It was nice to start with daylight and no headlamp! NICE WEATHER!

Jackie Warner Upper body and ab workout- 30 minutes

Rest day. I just have to say that I got two new pairs of running shoes yesterday! Woo hoo!

Time: 2:32:38 AP 9:32

Splits 9:49,10:03,10:07,9:25,9:53,10:22,8:53,9:17,9:34,9:36,9:10,9:54,8:44,9:16,9:39,8:56!

Left @ 7am and went ALL BY MYSELF! Weather was great! I could have gone at 6am with Jill and Deb but didn't want to go that early and kind of wanted to go alone. My husband and I made a plan that I would run to the school in Draper where Lizzie had soccer practice this morning and he would drive me home. So...I ran around here for a 1.5 and then went up, took the road north of Newcastle and went all the way up and around down and turned left and went over to 94th. Went up Eastdell and turned left just south of the school (this is the route Lysa and I would run last year). Went up to the where the rooster crows and I start seeing lots of horses. Ran up to the top of Dimple Dell trail head and turned down dimple dell road. took it all the way around. Saw more horses and a REINDEER (fenced in). I had to stop, it was so cool. Ran all the way over east of the cemetery and to Lone peak elementary and over to Wasatch. Went down wasatch to 17th and turned right. Up a hill and all the way back to 106th. Turned left and went down to Carnation(10 east) and ran down to 123rd. Her soccer practice was a Sprucewood. Jeff and Lizzie passed me and honked and I still had a little under a mile to go when I got to the school so I ran down 123rd and turned right before 7th onto a side road where I finished. FUN FUN! Jeff drove me home. We stopped at Maverik for a chocolate milk. Now I'm going to eat some yummy oranges that came straight from the trees in CA yesterday! They are scrump!

Goodbye Asics Gel Nimbus, RIP (except for maybe a few more TM runs).

Time: 49:28 Interval training

TM run-HILLS

10 incline 8 times for appr.1 minute

Watched "Uncle Buck." Ha! Free movie on demand. 

Bryan Kest Power Yoga 1-50 minutes

Love the new shoes!

Time 1:05:55 AP 9:25

5:30am. Just me and the birds...in the dark. Wore my headlamp. Ya I heard the birds today cause I left my music at home. Quite a few hills in this run. More than usual on an "easy" Tuesday run. Might be taking the Mizuno's back cause my right foot is annoyed. I think the midsection/arch is too narrow for my feet. Someday I'll find a shoe I like and can stick with. Maybe.

Cross training

Jillian's Banish Fat/Boost Metabolism (kickboxing, plyo, strength training) -50 minutes

Bryan Kest Power Yoga 2- 50 minutes (harder than usual, fell out of revolving lunge pose early on the left side cause my qaud was tired from previous workout. probly should do yoga first next time.)

Time 52:08 AP 8:41

I was expecting rain or snow but the weather was great at 6:15am.

Yasso 800's - 5 reps I think I'm supposed to be doing these on a track but I did em anyway.

WU 1 mile in 9:05 

.50 in 8:29 (my goal was .50 in 4 min. I was running up hill the first two speed laps so I was a little over 4)

.50 in 9:31 (recover)

.50 in 8:48 (still uphill)

.50 in 9:21

.50 in 7:58 (down and flat)

.50 in 8:55

.50 in 8:00

.50 in 8:48 (recover :))

.50 in 8:02

.50 in 8:16 (just finishing up fast)

Rest tomorrow. Spectrum 10k race in sunny St. George on Sat!

BK Power Yoga 1- 52 minutes. Because "there's nothing more important than this!" Now I can get up and take on the rest of the day:)

Garmin time is 49:51 with AP 8:00. Official time was 49:49 with AP 8:01 so not sure why it says 8:02 but whatever.

PR! Splits-7:36,7:44,7:58, 8:04, 8:19,8:32, (ha ha, slower and slower) 7.11 for .23 (sprinting to the finish)

It was fun to run a race "with" my husband and we're both excited we'll be running the St. George marathon for the first time this year!!

It was a beautiful drive to Ivins with the sun rising and the big red mountain rocks at Snow Canyon. Weather was cooler than I thought it would be up the canyon. There were rain clouds and some wind at the start line, but it never rained. 

I guess we should have started more toward the front cause I spent the first 1.5 or so miles trying to pass people.

At mile 3 I noticed a cute, little, older lady in front of me that I was hoping to pass. I just couldn't seem to catch her. I sped up coming down that last stretch before we turned to the finish. I sped up more and started gaining on her. Then I sprinted to pass her. I did beat her by about 2 seconds. Kind of sad that I can barely beat a lady 20 yrs older than me. She was amazing!

It was a fun race. I'm too tired to write more details. Jeff had a great race and I'm proud of him! Oh, I think I saw RAD and Teena (teeny) Marie after the race but they have no idea who I am so I didn't say anything. Just admired from afar.

Jeff drove back to the trailer at Temple View Resort and I ran back. Had to run 17 miles today. It was a nice run but I took it way easy. The last 3 miles were tough! Time for the 10.8 was 1:53:23 AP 10:30. Fun to run on a paved path for most of it. Wish we had more of those here.

Time 58:45 AP 9:47

Treadmill run on very tired legs. No speed work today. Although I did speed up to a 7.0 on the last mile.

Much needed Bryan Kest Power Yoga 1- 52 minutes

Time 1:17:23 AP 9:40

8 easy, slow miles. Legs still tired. 5:55am and cold again. Just me, some falling snow and  singing birds.  I wore my new Brooks thermal running pants I got at Wasatch on clearance. Glad to finally have warm pants to run in. No more freezing butt! Going to trade my Mizuno's for a pair of Brooks Launch @ shoe store today.

Cross training

Carried 8 40lb bags of salt from the car to the basement and poured in softener container.

Jackie Warner Total Body Circuit Training-40 minutes

Jogged on stair stepper while watching Biggest Loser-40 minutes

Time 1:12:21 AP 9:03

Left @ 6am. Was going to do speedwork/yasso 800's but there was too much wind. With some hills, the wind, snow flurries in my face, and soreness from yesterday's x training, just tried to push through it all and run fast. Love the Brooks Launch. Least expensive shoe I've bought. It's a lightweight shoe and it felt great to run in. I love the color. BLUE!

BK Power Yoga 1- 52 minutes

 GO COUGARS!

Time 1:55:49 AP 9:39

Left @ 6:30am and met Jill and Deb. Ran lots of hills. Guess it's good for me. Would someday like to run the JRP where it's nice and flat. Jeff would do that with me but not these ladies I don't think.

Chocolate milk and now a nice hot shower! Thinking of those running the 50 miler today. So amazing to me. Hope they're doing well. Excited to read race reports.

Time 44:40 AP 8:56

I actually ran farther cause I stopped my garmin to fix my ipod. Ran for about 4 min w/o it and fast too. I hate that. I went later today because my 13 yr old doesn't have school. There was a little blue sky and sun at the beginning of the run but it quickly disappeared. Hills were on the schedule for today.

Ran Falcon hill twice for a total of 3 1/2 min. Ran over to Flat Iron and ran those hills 3 times total of 3 min. Then ran up 17th which took appr. 1 1/2 min. So TUT (total uphill time) 8 minutes. Tried to run the whole run as fast as I could but it got harder at the end and the cold  wind didn't help. Got home just before it started rain/snowing.

Came home and couldn't find my weight lifting dvd. I started doing Jillian's 30 day shred (8-10 min) until my 18 month old pulled my weights dvd out of the VCR (why do we still have one of those?) that sits right under the dvd player. Apparently one of my other kids took my weights dvd out and just set it on top of the player so she grabbed it and stuck it in the VCR. I watched her pull a Monster's Inc dvd out of there and decided to check for the one I was looking for and voila!

So...Jackie Warner Upper body and abs cause after spending way too much time searching for it I didn't have time to do the whole thing. 30 min

Time 1:06:06 AP 9:27

"Easy" 7 @ 6am. I really didn't want to get up and go. Sometimes I wonder why I'm doing this. Why am I training for another marathon? Am I crazy for trying to run two in one year? I think I am. But I'm still gonna do it. I'm glad I got up and went this morning. Beautiful sunrise and clipped thumbnail shaped moon. I didn't even check the temp (thank goodness I dressed warm) but it was COLD!

BK Power Yoga 1- 52 minutes

cross training

JM Banish Fat/Boost Metabolism-50 minutes

Time 53:25 AP 8:54

6:15am and WARM outside! Woo hoo! Tried to do speed work but then pooped out because of stomach issues and then super tired legs. What's up with that? Maybe the plyo yesterday. Can't decide if I should do yoga later or take a nap. Feel a cold coming on.