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10 miles, AP 8:55

Nice day on the JRP. A bit windy at times but sunny. :)

I felt ish (not great but not horrible). Breathing was fine but still feel like I haven't a lot of energy. My pace seems to be about 45 seconds off per mile of where I was before I got sick. It'll be interesting to see how long it takes to come back. :)

5 miles, AP 9:40

30 minutes upright bike

10 miles, AP 8:14

YES! I felt pretty decent today!!! In fact, there were miles where I actually felt rather strong!!! So so so happy about it. :) :) :) My energy is still lacking somewhat though. I stopped at mile 7 to eat a pack of Prof's favorite fruit snacks. :)

Btw, did I tell all of you that as of this past Monday I no longer have to have any carseats/booster seats in my vehicle???? INSANE!!!!

20 minutes upright bike

Perfect day for a run. Absolutely ideal conditions this afternoon! :)

15 miles (14 by myself on the JRP, AP 8:31 -- I would run easy 1200 meters and then pick it up for 400 meters. Felt surprisingly good. Started feeling fatigued at mile 11, which came later than I thought it would, so very happy. Then 1 mile with Sophia and Oliver once I got home.)

Had to get my long run in today since the twins are getting baptized in the morning. :)

Have a great weekend everyone. :)

5 mile recovery run -- no watch, nice and slow

20 minutes upright bike

** BEAUTIFUL day today. The twins got baptized this morning and were so stinkin' cute. It is days like these that make me realize how good life really is.

2 cute stories:

Friday night (just shy of midnight) Ry and I realized that all of Oliver's underwears are colored. Seeing he needed white ones for the baptism Ry took off to Walmart. In the morning we gave Oliver his new undies and explained to him why he needed white ones. He looked at us like we were insane!!! "What? That makes no sense," he says, "... everything doesn't have to be white!!" He got this genius look on his face, smiled and continued: "Look at me ... I'm not WHITE!!!!" :) :) :)

He is such a SMART boy!!! I am so lucky to be his mom!

Later (after the baptism before the confirmation): Livvy and I were out of the dressing rooms and in the chapel way before the boys! As we were sitting there I thought I'd take the opportunity to review what was going to happen next. I say, "Livvy, pay close attention to what your heart feels like when Dad confirms you." I continue, "You remember why he is going to give you a blessing, right?" She responds, "Of course, Mom. He is giving me the Priesthood!!!!!!" :) :) :) Dang, she is cute! Needless to say, we had a quick refresher course.

I LOVED today! :) :) :)

am

10 miles, AP 8:48

pm

Around the World Core (reps of 17)

hip abductors and lateral rotators strength training (green theraband, blue resistance cord, stability disc)

Didn't want to be left out of Matt's and Brooke's Tempo Tuesdays, so decided to jump on the bandwagon.

2 warmup, 6 w/AP of 7:33, 2 cooldown

morning

45 minutes elliptical

4.5 recovery miles

late afternoon

1.5 miles with Sophia  (AP 9:19, she is running so well). :)

I am so dog tired! :)

Beautiful but WINDY afternoon. JRP with Vuyk hill and Puke hill extentsions. Started out too fast running into the wind. My energy was zapped but I had put so much effort into the first half that I refused to give up on the second half. (Was happy to stop twice to talk to people I saw on the trail for a minute.)

1 mile warmup, 9 miles at 7:53 (logged all at MP although the miles into the wind were slower and vice-versa). I was SO looking forward to a nice slow cooldown mile (10ish pace) with Sophia. She had something else in mind and forced us to run an 8:55. She is so stinkin' fun! :) :) :)

I am literally beat. Why does the wind take so much out of me?

I need to do hip abduction and lateral rotators strength training, but I am going to put it off until this evening. Hopefully I can will myself to doing it then.

4 recovery miles (1.5 with Sophia, Oliver and Livvy :))

30 minutes upright bike

*Fun day with the 4 youngest who were out of school today. We went and saw Tangled (again). Then the 3 youngest decided to run 1.5 miles with me. The goal was to run sub 10:30 pace (Livvy and Oliver have not gone on a run for quite some time). It rang in at a 10:27 pace. :) :) :) I'm especially excited that Sophia has taken the initiative to run 3 days in a row!

GREAT day for running!

Met Matt, Smooth, Kathie, Karen and LuzyLew at the JRP this morning! Weather was FANTASTIC!!!

18.5 with mostly Matt and Kathie. It was absolutely wonderful having such great company, wonderful conversation and fun pace. Someplace around 17.5 miles Matt said that we were at a 9:01 AP. Game time. Matt and I took off to see how much we could bring the pace down in the last little bit (he says that is cheating, but I don't agree). Ended up with an 8:55 AP for the total 18.5. He pushed me HARD that last mile!!!! Stayed with him for about 1/3 of a mile, then he surgered and I couldn't match it. Caught up to him, we slowed down for a bit and then I decided to take off to the finish. I thought I was on my own when I heard him right behind me. We jostled for the first position, in the last moment he out did me!!!! STINK!!!!! It was a good matchup though! :)

Got home and ran 3 more with Ry and Sophia (who joined us for the first mile)! It was heavenly! AP 8:44. I feel incredible! :) :) :)

Side note: Kathie ran so so so well!!! She has been worried about Boston -- she shouldn't be! She ran about 30 seconds per mile faster than she thought she would and looked great at the end! I also was able to see Smooth, Karen, and Luzylew run in. They all looked INCREDIBLE!!!!! I am very worried about Smooth's cold though. REALLY REALLY REALLY. I have never met a tougher woman. How she ran today is beyond me!

8 miles

20 minutes elliptical

11 miles

10 by myself on the JRP right before the kids got home, AP 8:09. Not sure what my deal was, but this felt quite a bit harder than I expected. Just no zip in my legs (and I was even wearing new shoes). The zip better come back before Saturday!

1 mile with Rylee, Sophia, Oliver and Livvy (Payton did not want to come). We started out together but then Oliver slowed down a bit while the girls took off like bandits. We saw the girls at the turnaround, Sophers asked me to run with her so she could have a more accurate idea of her pace (since I was the only one with a watch). She ran an 8:45 pace with me, but she was slowing down at this time. I'm guessing she averaged about an 8:35 or so.

Side note:

Spring break can't come soon enough! Does anyone know how to construct truth tables for digital circuits and/or construct an AND gate using only NAND gates? How in the heck is this physics??? It is NOT in my physics text, yet is on my lab homework that is due tomorrow. I asked my Physics Teacher Assistant and he said he didn't know how to do them and has no idea why our lab is requiring us to. So lame!!!! Anyone? Help!!! * A special thanks to Fonz for helping me! Luckily, he is very patient!!!

8.25 miles

1.5 mile warm up, 8 x 800 meters with 400 meters jog in between, 1 mile cool down 

(3:29, 3:29, 3:27, 3:27, 3:25, 3:25, 3:23, 3:17)

Felt much better than expected. :)

20 minutes upright bike

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Has anyone heard from Dale (DonGardinero)? I even texted him but got no response. I hope everything is okay.

7.6 easy miles, AP 9:03, to my parents and back. Legs felt a bit heavy and I just felt plain blah. Wonder if it has anything to do with the huge lunch I had and the 1/2 pound of plain M&Ms. 

25 minutes upright bike

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Not happy, not sad, not thrilled, not mad, just kind of ...ish. :)

I have not run a 10K since the D-News 10K in 2009. It showed. I never could find my rhythm and at times pushed too hard and at other times didn't push hard enough. Although this is my 10K PR I am not satisfied and hence will have to run another one at some time. Hands down the funnest part of this race was running back to get Ry and then run with him to his finish. He told me in the beginning that he was not going to race it but just enjoy himself. It was so nice having him there with me. :)

Absolutely wonderful fun day which included running extra miles with Rachel, 9 holes of golf with Ry and then dinner with Brooke, James, Matt, KristyAnn, and Ry.:)

**Thanks Rachel for being my rabbit (couldn't catch you though), Matt for the piece of humble pie and Brooke for being so dang cute and cool! You all did AWESOME!!!

10 miles, AP 9:07 on the TM in the fitness room. It is rainy w/winds of 29 mph outside in what is suppose to be beautiful sunny SG (this definitely throws a wrench in our golfing plans this week).

Tight right soleus and anterior tibialis, loosened up after a few miles. Threw in one faster mile at the very end, felt fine.

Here's to a wonderful week! :)

SO SO SO FUN!!!! :)

10.85 miles on the Bear Claw Poppy Trail (w/a few very cool detours) :) :) :)

Just under 6 miles with Ry and then another 5 on my own. Absolutely perfect conditions at a very fun pace. Fly, if you are reading this, you would have absolutely LOVED today's run!

Off to soak in the hot tub w/my boy! :)

(I am LOVING Spring Break.)

10.45 miles

5.45 by myself on the pavement including Beast of a Hill, AP 8:02

5 with Ry on the Bear Claw Poppy Trail, AP 9:17. Ran a different portion of the trail, got slightly muddy and a little scraped up. SO FUN! I think the best part of Spring Break has been all of the running with Ry. Sadly, he hurt his hand during our first 9 holes of golf on Saturday. However, with golf no longer an option he has wanted to run with me. AWESOME! :)

Around the World Core (reps of 17).

10.55 miles

4.55 by myself and 6 with Ry. :)

Sadly we had to say goodbye to our new found love, The Bear Claw Poppy Trail, this morning (at least for a while). We ran a different part of the trail and ended up running the True Grit Epic mountain bike course. Way fun, but I did twist my ankle a couple of times. Seems to be fine though, hallelujah.

Headed back to good 'ol West Jordan, Utah. So excited to see the kids, but I will miss this one on one time I have had with Ry.

16.3 miles at the Olympic Oval (59 lap on the 442 m track = 26,078 m = 16.3 miles)

Total Time: 2:15:37, AP 8:19

I am very pleased with how this run turned out considering the higher mileage (for me --  not to some of you) I have been putting in this week. Kept a comfortably hard pace and was able to finish strong.

Was able to run a little bit with Dawes at the beginning (less than a mile), but he was finishing as I was starting. Other than that I was on my own. Slightly boring, but needed to be done since tomorrow is crazy busy. Still hoping to fit in some miles in the morning, but don't know how many.

morning:

10.5 recovery miles with Matt Hansen (the PT the tortures me with myofascial release, stripping muscles, etc.), Bish, and Stevie. Matt is training for his first half marathon next month. He is a big guy (6' 6" and 255 - which is down from his normal weight). Today's run was his longest ever. He did AWESOME!!!! :)

evening:

2 miles on the treadmill

Yoga core workout with Bob Harper. Good stuff.

** This is the first time ever that I have hit 70 miles in one week. I am quite happy about it. It was so wonderful to have Spring Break and plenty of time to get in my runs without having to rush. I just keep thinking about Kelli though and how she ran 50 miles in one day and kicked MAJOR trash doing it! I am in awe!!!

am

6 easy miles

pm

4 easy miles

lowerbody strength training: concentrated on hip abductors, hamstrings, and glutes.

** Toying with the idea of finishing this training cycle using Pftiz's 70/18 plan (starting with week 7). Can't decide, it seems like it might be a little much for me but thought I'd give it a shot for a couple of weeks. Am I playing with fire? I really don't know. It might be beneficial for me to follow a strict program because it will be an incentive to run the right paces at the right times (intead of too much or too little, which is often my m.o.). Hmmmm ... I just don't know.

** A bit later: Yeah, the more I think about it the more I think that schedule would be too much for me. Sigh. Perhaps I will follow it's guidelines but reduce the mileage by about 10-15%. One 70 mile week and I let my bloated ego get the best of me. Oh well ... at least I have come to my senses before I did any damage. :)

10.3 miles

8.3 miles by myself on the JRP, AP 7:39. Felt strong. It helped that a high school cross country team was on the parkway. I was inspired by how relaxed, fast, and smooth so many of them ran. Watching them put me in a good place.

2 miles with Sophia and Rylee, AP 9:40. Rylee left Sophia and me with about 3/4ths of a mile to go. She took off and soon disappeared. It was fun watching her long legs turn over rapidly as she opened up her stride and hit a higher gear. :)

Feeling good. :)

8 mile recovery run

Upperbody strength training: Tried to isolate several different upperbody muscles/groups of muscles and come up with some new exercises that I could add to my good 'ol standbyes.Was a lot of fun. Used medicine ball, blue resistance cord and dumbells. I think the most challenging was the handstand dips against the wall. Obviously I did not make this exercise up, but I had not done it before. I am no where near being able to come all the way to getting my arms to bend at a 90 degree angle before coming back up. I'll work on it! (Definitely going to be a bit sore tomorrow) :) 

afternoon:

12 miles, AP 8:09 on the JRP. It was so so so beautiful. Who would have guessed that I would have gotten a sunburn. SERIOUSLY!!! Oh, and Murray has their drinking fountains on!!! HIP HIP HOORAY!!! Let the good times roll! :) :) :)

1 mile with Sophia, AP 9:01. I timed my 12 miles so that I could get home at the exact same time as my kids did from school. I was tired but Sophers was throwing on some running shorts and ready to go! :)

early evening:

2.2 miles with Ry, AP 8:57.