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Location:

Saint George,UT,USA

Member Since:

Dec 23, 2009

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

Mount Charleston Marathon 2016 - 3:17:51

Snow Canyon Half 2012 - 1:33:30

Spectrum 10K 2012 - 43:41 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Run a destination marathon. 

Complete a half Ironman.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Know when to hold 'em

Know when to fold 'em

Know when to walk away

Know when to run....

Personal:

Surrounded by the people I love. Life is good.

Passionate about my family, the University of Utah -- GO UTES, almond M&Ms, mountain biking, comfy t-shirts, Survivor, friends, and (of course) running.

Physical therapist at The Health and Performance Center at Dixie Regional Medical Center. I LOVE what I do. Seriously, living the dream!

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
1396.10260.4074.7531.0072.331834.58
Sketchers Trail 3 Miles: 22.50Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 320.00Brooks PureFlow 3 Miles: 55.50Sketchers Go Run 2: Blue/gray Miles: 42.50Brooks Pure Connect 4: Orange Miles: 225.75Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 197.90Brooks Pure Connect 4 Sun Orange Miles: 172.20
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.200.000.000.000.006.20

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
7.500.000.000.000.007.50

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.003.000.000.000.006.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
9.000.000.000.000.009.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Inc 4 X 800

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.000.000.000.000.006.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.000.000.000.000.008.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
11.000.000.000.000.0011.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.004.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.000.000.000.000.006.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
13.000.000.000.000.0013.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.000.000.000.000.006.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
10.000.000.000.000.0010.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.500.000.000.000.006.50

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.000.000.000.000.006.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
13.000.000.000.000.0013.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
2.500.000.000.000.002.50

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
7.000.000.000.000.007.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.005.000.000.000.005.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
7.000.000.000.000.007.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
17.000.000.000.000.0017.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
7.000.000.000.000.007.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.003.000.006.00

Inc 6 X 800

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
12.000.000.000.000.0012.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.000.000.000.000.008.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.002.000.000.000.006.00

Inc 6 X hill

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.008.000.000.000.008.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
18.000.000.000.000.0018.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
10.000.000.000.000.0010.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.003.000.000.000.007.00

Inc 7 x hill

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
10.000.000.000.000.0010.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
20.000.000.000.000.0020.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.000.000.000.000.006.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
2.005.000.000.000.007.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.000.000.000.000.006.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
12.000.000.000.000.0012.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
10.000.000.000.000.0010.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.500.000.004.000.007.50

Inc 8 X 800

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
10.000.000.000.000.0010.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
20.000.000.000.000.0020.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.000.000.000.000.008.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.002.000.000.000.006.00

Inc 6 X hill

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
12.000.000.000.000.0012.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.000.000.000.000.006.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
1.000.004.000.000.005.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.000.000.000.000.008.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.500.001.000.000.004.50

Inc. 4 X 400

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
2.000.000.000.000.002.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.500.000.000.003.50

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
2.000.000.000.000.002.00

Race: Boston Marathon (26.2 Miles) 03:42:16
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.0026.200.000.000.0026.20

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.500.000.000.000.004.50

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.500.000.000.000.005.50

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.000.000.000.000.006.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

I've noticed a giagantic difference between my consistency in workouts when I am blogging versus when I am not. So here's another attempt at putting my best foot forward (or at least a better foot forward). I'm still trying to get used to balancing working full time with all else (including the kiddo's schedules which seem to be getting busier and busier). You would think that since it has now been over a year that it would be old hat. Nope. But I'm trying. :-)

3.0 trail miles (up, up, up then down, down, down) with Ry and Smo (behind D-hills).

Did I happen to mention as part of my Mother's Day Ry committed to one more marathon. :-) :-) :-)

Sketchers Trail 3 Miles: 3.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.500.000.000.000.005.50

5.5 miles

Band walks (both positions)

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 5.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.004.004.00

upright bike: 7 miles, hills, L7-15 (3 minutes out of the saddle)

swim: 800 meters

Yoga

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

3 miles

Planks: side/standard/with and without alternating hip extension/abduction

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 3.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.004.004.00

upright bike: 8 miles, random L8

swim: 800 meters

Yoga

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.000.000.000.000.006.00

6 miles

Rows -> B sh ER

Dynamic hug

Pushup plus

Arm wrestled Sherm

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 6.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.000.000.000.000.008.00

8 miles: 6.5 with Ry then 1.5 with Smo, Sherm and Livvy

TRX: plank/hip abduction/bicycle/alt obliques

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 8.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.004.504.50

85 minutes mountain biking with Ry

SO FUN!

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.501.500.000.002.007.00

5 miles

800 meter swim

SLS on inverted BOSU B: 1 minute each with UE movement

3 way lunge x 25

SL bridge x 30 B

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 5.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

4 miles

B sh ER

mid rows -> ER

high rows

push up plus

corner stretch

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 4.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.005.335.33

bike: 7 miles, 4:3 intervals 8/4

swim: 800 meters

Joke that one of my patient's told me today went something like this:

Q: What do you do if you cross a half parrot half shark specimen?

A: Who cares. But if it says, "Polly wants a cracker you better well give the *#@! thing a *#@! cracker!"

(And he used the explicitives without shame and then proceeded to laugh straight from his belly. I kid you not! It totally cracked me up!)

I LOVE it when people laugh so whole-heartedly!!!!

Comments
From Matt Schreiber on Thu, May 28, 2015 at 22:23:07 from 66.17.112.31

Awesome joke! Good to see you back on the blog! :)

From DaleG on Thu, May 28, 2015 at 22:28:23 from 66.135.12.187

It's good to know there are still some people with a good sense of humor!

From Rob Murphy on Thu, May 28, 2015 at 22:49:47 from 24.10.247.181

Wow! It's good to have you back. I know you're busy and all, but try to find 2 minutes a day for the FRB.

OK?

From Teena Marie on Fri, May 29, 2015 at 21:45:58 from 67.2.17.194

Thanks, Matt, Dale and Rob! :-)

Nice to hear from all of you. I freely admit that I thought I had umph enough in my soul to keep my workouts consistent without the use of a blog. Unfortunately, it became way to easy to skip workouts on account of my pitiful excuses. :-)

I'm not looking for anything crazy, just enough exercise and push to make me feel like me sans the excuses. :-)

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.501.500.000.000.005.00

5 miles 3-way B SL squats B SL hops, s < > s & a < > p mountain climbers neck series stretches ********* Ry has herniated a disc. He could have come up with an easier way to get out of running with me. Poor guy. :-(

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 5.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.000.000.00

Nothing for me today. Got back from Provo not too long ago where Smo competed in her first USATF sanctioned event this year. She has amazed me with the way she has juggled 3 basketball teams and track. She has not been able to compete this year much secondary to ball tournaments. Since next weekend is the USATF Utah State Championship she really wanted to compete to gauge her level of readiness. She did AWESOME!!

Here are her results:

Sophia (13), 13-14 division

1500 meters - 5:26.xx, 1st place

* A new personal record by a fraction of a second. She finished with far too much gas in the tank, running her first two laps much slower than she likely should have. I wish they would have run the younger division with them since Tate Beasely is in the younger division and ran a 5:24.xx. They could have pushed each other and gone for broke! :-)

800 meters - 2:33.xx, 1st place

* This was a break through race for Smo! A personal best by 7 seconds. Regretting having too much left in the tank on her 1500 she decided to give it everything. They ran the boys with the girls for this event. Smo decided to try and stay close to to the leading guys which proved very effective. Her last 150 meters were AMAZING!! She finished neck and neck with the third leading guy and within a handful of seconds of the number one and two (official results show Smo actually beating the 3rd place guy by 1/100th of a second). It was AWESOME! And because I have zero shame when it comes to bragging up my kiddos here is the footage. She is in the bright yellow singlet. :-)

http://youtu.be/DWX-27BxSeA

Hope that link works (since I am doing this on an ipad you will likely have to copy and paste it if you'd like to take a look).

For all of you who ran or raced today, I hope you loved it!!! :-)

Comments
From Rhett on Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 09:12:11 from 199.117.154.54

Congratlulations to Smo! That is incredible. She must have gotten it all from her mom. :)

Are you training for a triathlon? It looks like you had a real solid week of training last week.

From Teena Marie on Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 22:54:02 from 24.49.99.147

Rhett,

She definitely didn't get it from me. I have never been that fast!!!

Not training for anything specifically right now. I just love how I feel when I make the extra effort to get in the pool. I will never be a fast swimmer because I enjoy the whole sensation of feeling like I am gliding and stretching out my entire body in a smooth and weightless (or so it seems) environment. It's like riding the perfect wave. The problem is that sometimes it seems so inconvenient to get to the pool. Yet I am always glad when I do. You know?

From Rhett on Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 10:33:45 from 24.121.249.174

I know what you mean about swimming. I'm only good about doing it when I'm training for a tri, but I can totally feel the benefits when I do it. It's just hard to find the time.

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.001.000.000.002.5011.50

9 running miles

* 6 by myself, 1 with the twins and 2 with Smo. Smo and I ran what we have dubbed "The Critter Valley Loop." On our short two miles we saw 3 deer, 3 bunnies, 1 chipmunk (we think that is what it was), 2 squirrels, 5 lizards and lots of colorful birds. It was AWESOME!

1000 meter swim

box jumps

bird dogs with claps

plank spins: forward plank, to push up with clap, to side plank with hip abduction, to dip, to side plank with hip abduction then repetitions

B SL stance with eyes closed

Still in awe of Smo's performances yesterday. Her 2:33 800 really got her fired up.

http://youtu.be/DWX-27BxSeA

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 9.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

4 easy miles

B SL flutter kicks

Quadruped B SL hip ER

Click series heel raises

CMJ

Brooks PureFlow 3 Miles: 4.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.750.000.000.750.005.50

5.5 miles, including hills x 3

Mostly on the trails just off of River and Brigham Road.

Hill (steep hill headed south on River Road): .25 miles (5K effort), jog back down x 3

It's always seems so crazy to me how an 11:15 mile on a rocky uphill trail can work you like no other and yet feel so invigorating.

Squat ball tosses

B SL ball tosses

Eccentric HS B SL bridge slides

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 5.50
Comments
From Rhett on Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 10:27:37 from 24.121.249.174

I agree. I've been doing a lot of trail running the past few months and I have re-fallen into love with running because of it. I don't go as fast, but like you said, I feel so invigorated afterwards and feel like I get a great workout from it.

From Teena Marie on Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 22:44:36 from 24.49.99.147

Plus trail running, hiking, etc. is a GREAT way to fight osteoporosis. So many different angles of force to stimulate bone hardening. Or so I have heard! ;-) Funny the things you think about once you hit your 40s!

How is your calf?

From Rhett on Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 09:54:08 from 199.117.154.54

My calf finally turned the corner this week. I've run the last 3 days with no issues at all. I am still concerned how it will do for a full 26.2 though.

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.500.000.000.000.003.50

3.5 miles

SL squats

Band walks w/ GTB: lateral, forward, backward w/ knees bent and knees straight

Eccentric heel raises: knees bent and knees straight

Hip flexor stretches

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 3.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
1.000.004.000.001.506.50

5 miles (4 HM pace)

5 miles biking

Sh ER

Rows -> ER

H. Abd

pec minor stretches

lat stretches

LH bicep stretches

* One of the great things about my work setting is that although I am at an outpatient orthopedic clinic I also get to see other types of patients. The reason for this is that many individuals do not want to take the extra half an hour to travel to St. George, especially when they need to be treated two or three times a week. One such patient is seeing me for cardiac rehab. This particular patient is hilarious (at least I think so). Since we are not a cardiac rehab clinic, don't have an EKG, etc., I have to take extra percautions for his safety and monitor his vitals closely during exercise. Well, today when he was during a more strenous part of his session he grabbed his heart and let out a huge gasp. Of course, within a fraction of a fraction of a second I had literally leaped to his side (likely faster than I have ever moved before). Immediately he began laughing hysterically. "Gotcha" he kept saying. Dang him! Probably the highest my heart rate has been in years!!!!

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 5.00
Comments
From Rhett on Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 09:58:34 from 199.117.154.54

Dang, you are being so good with all your extra exercises. It makes me feel guilty for not doing mine more.

Since you brought up work. What do you no about ASTYM? I think that is how you spell it. I had a PT who is my patient yesterday telling me I should do it on my calf since it has become a chronic on and off again problem.

From Teena Marie on Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 20:09:42 from 166.137.246.87

Rhett,

I'm a big fan of instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization in the right hands. There are two techniques that are above the rest in my opinion: ASTYM and Graston. Both require certifications and so when you go to someone who is certified you should be getting a clinician who knows what they are doing. I happen to be Graston certified, but that is because that is the courses, certification and tools that Intermountain Healthcare was willing to pay for me to obtain. Although most clinicians will argue that whatever certification they have is better than the other I happen to believe that both techniques are incredible and that more important is that you have a clinician that knows their stuff. In short, if your patient is a good PT then absolutely, without hesitation.

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
2.000.000.000.000.002.00

2 measly miles:

Woke up late and had to pack before work. Ry and the kids left yesterday for SLC. I suppose 2 is better than 0, but not by much, only by about 2.

Brooks PureFlow 3 Miles: 2.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.000.000.00

Nothing for me but a whole lotta something for Smo and Sherm!!

Today was the USATF Junior State Championship in Provo, Utah. Both Smo and Sherm raced, and both Smo and Sherm placed. In fact, they both took 1st in both of their races. The stars were aligned in there favor.

Sherm's (12) results:

100 meters: 14.23 s, 1st place.

* This race was a shocker since this is actually one of Sherm's slowest times. He fiddled around with the blocks for a bit and didn't feel like they were sticking right. He got frustrated and pushed them back and decided to run without them. His start was crazy slow. Somehow he pulled it out in the end though by .21 seconds.

200 meters: 28.86 s, 1st place.

* This was closer to Sherm's speed, but he still doesn't have it to where it was last year when he trained. In fact, it wasn't until this past week that Sherm decided to run track again. Basketball had ended and he was laying around the house FAR too much. So with a little encouragement he decided to give track another go. :-)

Sophia's (13) results:

800 meters: 2:35.7, 1st place.

* Roughly two seconds from her best time. The 2nd place girl came in at 2:41.48 and so she didn't have anyone to challenge her for the spot. Perhaps that would have gotten her another couple of seconds. But still a fantastic effort and spectacular race.

1500 meters: 5:18.78, 1st place.

* HUGE PR for Smo on this race. Her previous best was last week at a 5:26.xx. She looked CRAZY strong. 2nd place ame in at 5:32.24, so once again not sure if she really got into that deep place where you pull everything out. No worries though, I'm sure that will happen in a few weeks at Region (Utah, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming).

Great day!!!!!

Comments
From Rhett on Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 20:05:03 from 199.117.154.54

Sherm don't need no practice! He's a natural. If I'm calculating in my head right. Smo is running 1500m at a faster pace than 800m. Am I wrong? She must have some crazy endurance gene…wouldn't surprise me, knowing her mother.

From Teena Marie on Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 20:14:43 from 24.49.99.147

I think you are calculating it wrong, right? 2:35 x 2 would be a 5:10 mile, where her 5:18 1500 meter would be more like a 5:40 mile. :-)

Either way, she is crazy fast!

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
9.001.000.000.000.0010.00

10 miles in Midvale, Utah. Was fun running in my old stomping ground but I was shocked at how much more labored my breathing was. BOO!!! But one of those miles was crazy fun as Smo, Sherm and Livvy came along. :-)

Through my run I couldn't help but smile (even though I felt the miles were much more difficult than usual). I'm sure this was because I was thinking about Smo and Sherm's incredible performances yesterday (see June 6th entry). Seriously, my kiddos amaze me. I admire the way that Sophia puts so much into her dreams. I feel like I have a front row seat watching her take bite after bite into each one. I love it!

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 10.00
Comments
From Matt Schreiber on Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 20:56:55 from 66.17.112.31

1st place, 1st place, 1st place...... Awesome! I'd be smiling mid-run, too. :)

Good to see that your kids are still out running with you!

From Rhett on Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 09:55:19 from 24.121.249.174

That change in altitude gets you. That is one of the many reasons I am worried about UVM this Saturday.

From Teena Marie on Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 22:16:02 from 24.49.99.147

Matt,

It was a pretty good day for the kiddos! Extremely fun as a parent! :-)

Rhett,

You are going to rock UVM! Can't wait to read all about it!

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

4 miles

Butterfly bridges

SL bridges with hip abduction

Bent knee fall outs with TrA

SL hops: F/B, S/S

Heel walking

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 4.00
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3.002.000.000.000.005.00

5 miles: -> Brigham Exit

SLS (e.o./e.c.)

G/S stretches

G/S eccentrics

Half kneeling lean backs

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 5.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

4 easy miles

I know I did some THEX as well, but I cannot for the life of me recall what ones. I need to enter this stuff closer to the time I do it! :-)

Brooks PureFlow 3 Miles: 4.00
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1.502.002.000.000.005.50

5.5 miles including 30 minutes tempo up towards Washington Fields.

I have been doing THEX everyday but cannot recall what I did when. Oops.

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 5.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.500.000.000.000.004.50

1 mile by myself and 3.5 with Melanie. It was wonderful to have her company! She has a daughter that runs in the same track club as Smo and Sherm. Ironically we grew up together when we were young (although she is a handful of years younger than I am). In fact, she even dated one of my brothers a time or two.

Nice and easy pace with great conversation. :-)

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 4.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.005.000.000.000.0011.00

11 miles by my lonesome. I really do need to make the effort to run with the running groups for my long runs. It would make these runs so much more enjoyable. Also, I can't wait for Ry to get better to join me!

I tried to talk Smo into some extra miles with me but between her three basketball teams and track she really is pretty exhausted. I'm excited to see how both her and Sherm do in Regionals. :-)

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 11.00
Comments
From Rhett on Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 19:51:50 from 199.117.154.54

What happened to Ryan? I'm sure you can fix him. :)

From Rob Murphy on Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 22:18:33 from 24.10.247.181

Congrats to your kids!

I did 20 by my lonesome today. Including 14 circling the Highland High track.

I'm simple minded.

From Teena Marie on Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 19:01:53 from 24.49.99.147

Rhett,

Ry herniated a disc. We are finally getting to the point where he can run a bit. Nothing crazy, but better than nothing. About a month or so ago (give or take ... it's all a blur now) Ry became a bit fanatic about exercise and went Weekend Warrior to the umpteenth degree on me. Oh yeah, it was Memorial weekend. It's all coming back. Anyway, at the end of the day (after running and mountain biking) he decided to play 2 on 2 with a few of the kids out front. Went for a block and came down hard and in a crazy position. No good!!! Herniated a disc. Luckily I know several of the docs here (and a pretty decent PT ;-)) so we were able to treat it agressively rather quickly. He's not back to normal, but getting closer and closer each day. :-)

Rob,

I LOVE watching my kids do their thing. Now about your 14 laps at the HS track ... WHAT IN THE H?!?!? Please tell me you were changing directions periodically!! ;-) And 20 on your own ... to me that is crazy tough. You must have will and determination out of the wazoo!!!

From Rob Murphy on Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 19:06:10 from 24.10.247.181

No, 14 miles. That's 56 laps.

Why? Because the track is squishy and felt good on my 50 year old legs.

From Teena Marie on Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 20:22:55 from 166.137.8.34

WHAT?!?!? Did I read that right??? You are insane Mister Murphy!!!! INSANE!!!!!

Thumbs up for squishy!

From Rhett on Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 21:34:41 from 199.117.154.54

Wow, Ryan was in full beast mode that weekend. Too bad it ended in such a painful fashion. I hope he is 100% soon. You need your running buddy back.

And Rob, I've done a lot of insane things running, but 56 laps going round and round and not getting anywhere...that's crazy!

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4.500.000.000.000.004.50

4.5 easy miles

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6 miles (3 with Ry). Bull Loop x 2

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 6.00
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4 miles

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5.5 miles including 4 x 800

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 5.50
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2.006.000.000.000.008.00

8 miles with 6 at MP effort. Hoping my MP will actually be a little faster than what I ran. It was a little over 80 degrees and I felt a bit sluggish. Not horrible, but nothing to write home about either.

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 8.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.000.000.000.000.006.00

6 trail miles with Ry behind D-Hills. Up to the water tower and around to the Little Valley Park area and back. HOT but great company. :-)

Sketchers Trail 3 Miles: 6.00
Comments
From Rhett on Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:21:33 from 24.121.249.174

Oh good, he is back running!

From Teena Marie on Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 21:53:45 from 166.137.8.34

Amen to that! 😊

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

5 miles with Melanie. Great conversation. Easy pace. Loved every minute.

Brooks PureFlow 3 Miles: 5.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.000.000.000.000.006.00

6 miles

SLS

prone hip ext

hip ext / ER 

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 6.00
Comments
From Tom Slick on Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 08:18:59 from 168.179.158.193

Is it hot enough for you all down there in St Geo? What's your next conquest?

From Teena Marie on Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 16:33:44 from 74.211.17.37

It's definitely HOT!!! But it sounds like it is not as hot as it is for Rhett. So I am grateful for that!

SGM is next. You?

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4.500.000.000.000.004.50

4.5 easy miles

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4.5 miles, including 4 x hill

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 4.50
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6.5 miles, inc. 6 MP: Summit Loop

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No running for me but Smo and Sherm had the USATF Region Junior Olympics (Utah, Montana, Snake River, and Wyoming.) This year it was at UVU (making traveling a little bit better), but man alive was it hot! Sophia was not happy with her times but considering she had played literally 20 basketball games on the high school Freshman and Sophomore teams (10 each) the week before (and she is only 13, but it was at the Dixie Camp and so they asked her to participate: her first true love is basketball, second is track) I thought she did AMAZING! She knew before hand that if she chose to participate in the camp, let alone on two teams, that it would affect region. She weighed the pros and cons and made her decision. There was no right or wrong decision. She gave up a basketball camp to compete at State and so this time she decided to attend the camp and be okay with how it would affect her times. Although she insisted that she would be okay if she did not run her best times when making the decision, I believe it was harder than she thought it would be when the girls who beat her were the same girls she beat at State. Great learning experience for sure! :-) And, like I said, I still think she did FANTASTIC!! As for Sherm, well let's just say that he was ecstatic. That boy has so much natural ability that it is crazy. For only training for one month what he pulled off was much more than we had all expected.

Sophia:

800 meters, 3rd place with a 2:38.05 (ran a 2:33.xx at State this year)

1500 meters, 4th place with a 5:23.64 (ran a 5:18.xx at State this year)

Sherm:

100 meters, 2nd place with a 13.38 sec (1st place was also a 13.38)

Not sure how they determined who was actual first unless they looked at a photo finish or something. Of course, as Sherm's mom, I am certain that his chest crossed the finish line first! ;-))

200 meters, 3rd place with a personal best of 27.20 sec.

GREAT day!!! :-)

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9.002.002.000.000.0013.00

13 miles, 9 of which were with Ry! :-)

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 13.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.500.000.000.000.003.50

3.5 easy miles

Brooks PureFlow 3 Miles: 3.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
7.000.000.000.000.007.00

7 miles, bull loop x 2 with Ry joining me for the second loop. :-)

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 7.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

5 miles with Ry up to the new Sycamore development and back. :-)

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 5.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
1.000.004.000.000.005.00

5 miles with 4 at HM pace

Excited for a little family vacation starting early tomorrow! :-)

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 5.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.000.000.00

Driving and then all day at Huntington Beach and then ...

HOLY CRAP!!! The townhome we rented (that looked quite nice on the internet) is a DIVE!!! NOT GOOD!!!

It was late at night when we arrived. We couldn't see everything but when we approached the front door it reaked of cat poop with stray cats everywhere! It was late and not much we could do. Decided to try and fall asleep quickly and then re-evaluate in the morning.

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
17.000.000.000.000.0017.00

Woke up this morning and the saga continued. The icky condo and the smell (and fur) of the stray cats outside had sent my allergies and (Rylee's and my asthma) in an uproar. We absolutely could not stay there! With a lot of scrambling we managed to make other arrangements. We had to split it up into two different places because everywhere was booked but we made it happen!! Hallelujah!! We are all laughing our heads off now but trust me, it was NASTY!!!

17 miles in the Sunset Beach area (8.5 on my own and then 8.5 with Ry). Felt pretty dang good! Nice and easy and wonderful.

Then about another 5 hours at the beach boogie boarding and chillin' with the fam! It was absolutely fantastic once we got out of the cat prison.

Hope everyone has had an incredible 4th! :-)

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 17.00
Comments
From Tom Slick on Sun, Jul 05, 2015 at 15:22:22 from 50.8.100.37

running in the sunset beach area, fun. Allergies, no good at any time. Happy 4th to you and yours....

From Rob Murphy on Sun, Jul 05, 2015 at 16:42:27 from 24.10.247.181

Sorry! Sounds like you're making the best of things though.

From Rhett on Sun, Jul 05, 2015 at 16:59:02 from 199.117.154.54

I'm glad you can laugh at such a bad situation. Good job getting in so many miles of on vacation.

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.003.000.000.000.007.00

7 beautiful miles on the PCH. Nice ... when did the blog start letting you post pictures using the iPhone?

(Or maybe not.)

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 7.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

3 easy miles and lots of waves!!! 

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 3.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

5 miles in the Disneyland neighborhood. No one wants to go home! :-( 

 

 

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 5.00
Comments
From DaleG on Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 19:57:09 from 152.216.15.5

Sounds like a fun vacation. It's always hard coming back to reality.

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.002.500.005.50

5.5 miles, inc. 5 x 800 m

 

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 5.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
1.005.000.000.000.006.00

6 miles, inc. 5 MP: tougher than normal since I did 800s yesterday. But I want to run my shorter/longish run tomorrow on tired legs.

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 6.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
10.000.000.000.000.0010.00

10 miles, 7 of which were with Ry (modified bull loop with bunny central). Legs were heavy and tired (as planned). Plus slept in and ran in the heat (stayed up late watching "The Whispers" with Ry and the older kiddos). Interesting article on the BBC.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150525-whats-the-prime-of-your-life    

Happy Weekend, All. 😊

Brooks PureFlow 3 Miles: 10.00
Comments
From Tom Slick on Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 09:17:37 from 50.8.100.37

so how did your shorter/longish run go on tired legs.

From Teena Marie on Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 09:55:54 from 74.211.17.37

That was my shortish/longish run!!! 😂 It was just as it should be, I guess. Tired legs which were glad to be done with when it was over. 😀

From Rhett on Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 18:18:32 from 66.87.127.208

Interesting article. Guess I better start moving towards ultras. I'm definitely going to keep exercising though so I can enjoy the 5 more years later in life referred to near the end of the article. :)

Sounds like you guys had a fun family vacation.

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7.000.000.000.000.007.00

7 easy miles. Bull loop with add on x 2.

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 7.00
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3.500.000.000.000.003.50

3.5 easy miles with Ry

Sketchers Go Run 2: Blue/gray Miles: 3.50
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4.750.000.001.250.006.00

6 miles, inc. 5 x hill. All miles with Ry sans hills.

Sketchers Go Run 2: Blue/gray Miles: 6.00
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2.750.000.000.250.003.00

3 miles with Ry

Sketchers Go Run 2: Blue/gray Miles: 3.00
Comments
From Matt Schreiber on Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 20:54:04 from 66.17.112.31

Nice runnin' Teena.

From Rhett on Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 10:47:05 from 24.121.249.174

Looks like you've had a nice week of running. Are you running SGM this year?

From Teena Marie on Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:26:37 from 74.211.17.37

Thanks Matt and Rhett!!

Yep, running SGM (and so is Ry)!!!!

You?

From Rhett on Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:54:11 from 199.117.154.54

No I'm not. I was just thinking that now that you live there so don't have to enter the lottery, I hoped you were doing it. I this Ryan's 2nd marathon?

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.006.000.000.000.006.00

6 MP miles, inc. 3 with Smo!!!!! I LOVE HER!!!!

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 6.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
16.000.000.000.000.0016.00

16 miles, inc. 12 with Ry!! :-)

Up and around Staheli Farms and then big bull loop. I LOVE running my long runs with Ry!

Sketchers Go Run 2: Blue/gray Miles: 16.00
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3.000.000.000.000.003.00

3 miles with Smo: Big Bull Loop

Sketchers Go Run 2: Blue/gray Miles: 3.00
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1.000.004.000.000.005.00

5 miles by my lonesome, 4 at HM pace

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 5.00
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4.000.000.000.000.004.00

4 miles with Ry. Too muddy for Big Bull Loop, so up towards the fields.

Sketchers Go Run 2: Blue/gray Miles: 4.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.001.001.000.000.008.00

8 miles. 6 miles with Ry (including airport hill) and 2 miles with Smo (easy to tell which miles were ran with her, that girl shows me no mercy some days).

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 8.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.002.001.000.000.008.00

8 miles (3 with Ry: Big Bull Loop; 3 with Smo: Church Square plus extension; then 2 on my own: Sunrise Loop)

Nice having the day off of work! Woot woot!!!

Brooks Pure Connect 4: Orange Miles: 8.00
Comments
From Burt on Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 18:51:07 from 184.101.113.133

Teena Marie! How are you?

From Teena Marie on Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 18:56:45 from 74.211.28.166

Hey there, Burt!! Doing well. You??

From Burt on Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 19:52:15 from 184.101.113.133

I'm fine. Thank you for asking. Well, see ya later.

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
14.003.000.000.000.0017.00

Super fun run this morning with awesome company: Ry, Shelbey and Smo. Shelbey amazes me. She is my PTA and played collegiate soccer at Utah State. The most she has run over the past year is 5 miles in a row. Today she ran nearly 12 and hardly broke a sweat!! She may be a little sore tomorrow but dang it was fun having her with us (Smo ran us hard in the final 2). Seriously LOVED this morning!!! 

Brooks Pure Connect 4: Orange Miles: 17.00
Comments
From Rhett on Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 14:53:21 from 199.117.154.54

It's fun to run with a group like that. It sounds like Shelbey may have some natural running talent. It's a soccer thing. :)

From Teena Marie on Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 08:49:44 from 24.49.101.42

Rhett,

It totallyl is a soccer thing! She is AWESOME! :-)

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3.000.000.000.000.003.00

3 easy miles with Smo and Shelbey on the Virgin River Trail. Loved it!

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 3.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.750.000.003.750.007.50

7.5 miles, inc. 6 x 800s and 3 x 400s

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 7.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

4 miles with Ry: Big Bull Loop with extension

Sketchers Go Run 2: Blue/gray Miles: 4.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.001.000.000.000.006.00

6 miles: Harmons and back.

Brooks Pure Connect 4: Orange Miles: 6.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
2.001.001.000.000.004.00

5 miles: 3 by myself (Big Bull Loop) and 2 with Smo (Pickle Ball Loop). The faster miles are almost always with Smo. That girl!

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 5.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.0010.003.000.000.0013.00

13 miles (AP 7:37) with Becky on the last half of the SGM course.

I have done practically no downhill running since Boston. It was evident today. Only a few miles into it and I started having gut issues. It wasn't horrible, but bad enough that it didn't feel good. I had Mexican food with Shelby at Coyote Charros the day before (as well as had downed a bunch of dark chocolate covered mangos that I bought from Costco). I was definitely feeling it all. BOO! Fortunately Becky's company helped me through and we found an outhouse type facility around the Snow Canyon area for a quick pit stop. Now today (Sunday) my calf muscles are letting me know that I absolutely need to get some downhill work in. A definite wake up call! (I have done occasional hill work but I'm always pushing hard up and jogging back down.)

So happy to have had Becky to push me. :-)

Brooks Pure Connect 4: Orange Miles: 13.00
Comments
From Rob Murphy on Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 09:40:13 from 24.10.247.181

Excellent training diet!

You should have come up and run Jupiter Peak yesterday. Plenty of downhill running to go along with the mountain climbing.

From Teena Marie on Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 09:56:36 from 24.49.101.42

Rob!

Ha!!! I keep saying I am going to *really* start eating better. Yet, I keep saying it!!!! Over and over and over again!!!

I ran Jupiter Peak a couple of years ago and LOVED everything about it (except for the fact that I got lost for a bit). Seriously, you ran it? Headed over to your blog now. :-)

From Rhett on Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 10:20:11 from 24.121.249.174

Good job pushing through it Teena. That is so cool that you can now train on the marathon course. You are going to be so ready come race day.

From Teena Marie on Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 22:17:46 from 24.49.101.42

Rhett, I absolutely LOVE St. George! I should probably run the course more often but it is just more convenient to walk out my door and start running! Ha! :-)

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

3 easy miles

Yoga

Sketchers Go Run 2: Blue/gray Miles: 3.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.503.500.000.000.009.00

Morning:

6.5 miles: 4 by my lonesome (Big Bull Loop plus extension) and 2.5 with Smo (Sunrise Rustic Loop)

Evening:

2.5 miles with Shelbey on the Virgin River Trail. We went out at 7:30 p.m. and ran MP in 100 degrees (which felt significantly harder than MP). Lots of mosquitos by the river. I don't like mosquitos!!! Lemonade afterwards. :-)

Brooks Pure Connect 4: Orange Miles: 9.00
Comments
From Rhett on Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 14:42:14 from 24.121.249.174

Uh...yeah, mp is going to feel way harder in 100 degree weather. I'm surprised you guys have a mosquito issue there when it is so hot. That is one of the great things about Havasu...no mosquitos.

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

4 miles with Ry: Big Bull Loop and extension

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 4.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
7.000.000.000.000.007.00

7 miles with Ry: Up towards Staheli's farm and back

Brooks Pure Connect 4: Orange Miles: 7.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.003.500.000.000.007.50

7.5 miles: 4 by my lonesome (Long Sunrise Loop) and 3.5 with Smo (Medium Sunrise Loop and Rustic backway)

Brooks Pure Connect 4: Orange Miles: 7.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
17.002.000.000.000.0019.00

19 miles

First 15 miles with Ry finding uncharted territory to explore, ha! Actually, we just ran up past Staheli's farms and found this uphill winding dirt road. We followed it until we could follow it no longer when it ended at some sort of cement factory on one side and a Desert Habitat Reserve on the other. Pretty fun, truthfully. Then back down to the Virgin River Trail -> Maverick -> Little Valley Sunrise Loop. Dropped off Ry and headed out for another one mile while he woke up Smo for me whom accompanied me for another 3 miles running our medium Sunrise Loop. Fun run!

Looking back, had I known that I was 1/2 mile away from 50 miles for the week I would have likely added that 1/2 mile on. Oh well! Another day! :-)

Btw, I love sticky mango rice! YUM!!!!

Brooks Pure Connect 4: Orange Miles: 19.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

40 minute nice and easy run with Shelbey and Smo on the Red Hills trails. Absolutely beautiful. No one out this morning so we had the whole mountain to ourselves. We all had so much fun! Absolutely fantastic on so many levels! :-)

Sketchers Trail 3 Miles: 4.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
1.002.002.000.000.005.00

5 miles: 3 by my lonesome (Big Bull Loop) and then 2 with Smo (Church Square)

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 5.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
9.001.000.000.000.0010.00

morning:

8 miles with Ry up to Staheli Farms (and a little bit beyond) and back. So nice having Ry to run with so much this training season. LOVE IT!

evening:

2 miles with Shelbey, Rylee and Smo: Church Square. SO MUCH FUN!!!!

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 10.00
Comments
From Rhett on Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 15:52:58 from 24.121.249.174

You're racking up the miles this month. Are you feeling nice and strong and healthy?

From Teena Marie on Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 11:23:40 from 166.137.8.30

Rhett,

Hmmm ... that's a loaded question. So subjective.

Definitely not as strong as I was in 2012, but stronger than some other years. I have no idea what kind of time I should expect. I have been doing the vast majority of my miles pretty dang slow. With that said, I have zero niggles (knock on wood).

How is the HR training going for you?

From Tom Slick on Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 11:55:25 from 50.8.100.37

01MONTHS17DAYS18HOURS48MINUTES24SECONDS

Just a few short days till the SGM? Hey Ms. Teena, you seem to be pretty much ready, all thats left is to decide how you want to attack and defeat the course. Good luck and great racing.....

From Rhett on Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 10:12:25 from 66.87.67.226

I've been doing 100% of my running slow. It definitely keeps me healthy. Only time will tell if it is a successful training strategy for me but I plan on sticking with it at least until my 50 mile race in January.

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.001.000.000.000.005.00

5 miles: 4 miles with Ry (Large Sunrise Loop in reverse).

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 5.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.003.501.000.500.0010.00

10 miles

- First 4 miles on my own, blah, but ran MP

- Next 4 miles with Ry (bits of Big Bull Loop and Sunrise Loop)

- Final 2 with Smo who gave me false hope of a nice comfortable pace for the 1st 1/2 mile, then turned it up a notch for a mile running me at HMP, then proceeded to go even faster ensuring my demise. Tried to keep up with her but fell short and watched her make it home about 200 meters ahead of me. :-)

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 10.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
20.000.000.000.000.0020.00

20 miles in the blasted heat! Ha! Actually it wasn't too horrible since we got out early and we had great company!

Miles 1-4: Ry and I (Home -> Maverick on Mall Drive)

Miles 5-7: Ry, Courtney (one of the PTs that works with me, SGM will be his first marathon) and I (Maverick -> up Foremaster hill, great training for Veyo -> Shelbey's).

Miles 8-13: Ry, Courtney, Shelbey and I (Shelbey's -> Dixie HS -> Bluff -> back to Shelbey's)

Miles 14-16: Ry, Courtney and I (Shelbey's -> Dixie State -> Shelbey's)

Miles 17-20: (Shelbey's -> my house)

Hallelujah!

Side note: Courtney ran in a Spider Man shirt! Hilarious! He wears Spider Man socks at work. He got a lot of honks!

Brooks Pure Connect 4: Orange Miles: 20.00
Comments
From Matt Schreiber on Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 21:12:21 from 66.17.112.31

30 miles in two days! Looks like you had fun on this one. You ran with all sorts of people. :)

From Smooth on Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 21:15:19 from 75.162.108.241

Your posts always put a smile on my face! NICE runs and happy training there Teena!

Miss you!

From Rhett on Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 22:32:28 from 66.87.65.125

Man! You have a whole posse running with you Teena. If you want hot come run here with me. 117 today.

From Teena Marie on Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 17:03:41 from 166.137.246.23

Matt, Smooth and Rhett,

It was tons of fun! Both Courtney and Shelbey work with me. Courtney is another physical therapist and Shelbey is my assistant. And you all know that Ry is my favorite man in the whole wide world!!! :-)

Let the good times roll!

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.004.008.00

4 easy trail miles with Shelbey behind DHHS. HOT HOT HOT!!! (We both slept in and didn't get out until about 9:30ish)

Followed by 65 minutes of mountain biking (Ryan, Shelbey and I) at Bear Claw Poppy Trail.

SO FUN!!!!

Sketchers Trail 3 Miles: 4.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
2.004.000.000.000.006.00

SCARY SCARY SCARY run! My heart was beating out of my chest!!!

Miles 1-2 with Smo: Small Sunrise Loop. Just enjoying my time with my girl!

Miles 3-6 by my lonesome. Sun was just coming up. I had just passed my turn around point a little past George Washington Charter School. Headed south on 3000 East towards home. Suddenly I see a coyote walk out of the foliage. We were less than 50 feet away from each other on the same side of the road. He (or she) sees me at about the same time I see him. We both stop dead in our tracks and don't move. I can see a truck coming up the road. I think to myself (in a matter of milliseconds) that if I didn't move that the noise of the truck would scare the coyote away. (Side note: at this time I didn't know it was a coyote. From the limited experience I have had with animals of the wild I assumed that it was a wolf, don't ask me why.) Unfortunately the truck stopped about 100 yards before approaching us. I saw a man just sitting in the driver's seat. I thought perhaps he saw the wolf/coyote and was contemplating what to do. When he didn't immediately get out I started very slowly waving my arms at him to indicate that I needed help. Neither the man nor the coyote moved. I took a deep breath and began to cross the street and then slowly proceeded towards the truck. The coyote did not move. In a matter of seconds (which seemed like forever) I arrived at the truck. The man states, "Were you being attacked by bees?" I said, "NO! There's a wolf right there!!!!!!" He stated, "I saw you swerving your arms all over and I thought you were being attacked by bees!" By this time I am safe behind the man's truck. The man then proceeds to tell me that it is a coyote and not a wolf. My heart was still beating far too fast but a sense of relief flooded over me. I proceeded to finish my run home. By the time I got to my door my fear of the coyote was transferred to anger at the man! My thoughts, "What??? He thought I was being attacked by bees and he just sat in his truck watching!!!" Seriously, what is that all about?

Anyway ... that was my run this morning!

Brooks Pure Connect 4: Orange Miles: 6.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.000.000.000.000.006.00

6 fun miles with Ry.

Ran south on Little Valley road until we noticed some new trails that we had not run on before. Tried to look it up on a map. We think it may be some trail system in the Fort Pierce Wash but are not sure!

No coyotes!

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 6.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.500.000.003.504.0012.00

morning:

6.5 miles inc. 7 x 800s. Unfortunately I did this on a treadmill because I was worried that it was going to be too dark on the HS track.

evening:

60 minutes mountain biking on one of the Bear Claw Poppy Trails with Ry and Shelbey. SO SO SO FUN!!!! Then 1.5 with the twins and Shelby when we got home. The twins each needed to run a mile as part of an assignment for school. Sherm wanted to shoot for a 7:30. However, after a 2 hour football practice there was absolutely no way. He gave great effort but fell far short. He is definitely a sprinter!!!! Livvy was just happy to finish. Shelbey started with Livvy and I started with Sherm. Once Sherm was finished I ran back to run the final quarter of mile with the girls.

Loved today! Even work was more enjoyable than usual. I LOVE LOVE LOVE having Shelbey as my PTA. She is wonderful!

Brooks Pure Connect 4: Orange Miles: 8.50
Comments
From Rhett on Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 10:45:27 from 199.117.154.54

Sounds like you had an amazing day. I hope you have many more.

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
2.004.000.000.000.006.00

6 miles: 3 with Smo and 3 by my lonesome.

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 6.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
12.000.000.000.000.0012.00

12 super-duper fun miles with Ry and Lowell! It was great to have Lowell in town. Ran on the Virgin River Trail and the hills behind DHHS. Great conversation. Miles just flew by! :-)

Brooks Pure Connect 4: Orange Miles: 12.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.0015.0015.00

4 hours and 15 minutes mountain biking in Brian Head!!! Crazy fun the first couple of hours and then kind of scary the remaining 2.25 hours. Ry and I got lost somewhere between the Lowland Pools/Dark Hollow area. We thought we heard moose but ended up be surrounded by about 30 black angus who wouldn't let us pass. As we tried to find a new route we got crazy lost. Ended up having to find our way to the highway and then ride 6 crazy uphill miles back to our car. We had run out of fluids, had no sunscreen on, and were plain ill-prepared. But at least I was with my love celebrating 19 years!! Shelbey was so great and insisted that she stay with our kiddos so that we could get a quick getaway. Spontaneous moments sometimes make the best memories!! Here's to Brain Head, Angus cows, and getting lost with my love! :-) Oh yea, and crazy heavy quads and bizarre sunburn lines the day after!!! :-)

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

5 fantastic miles on the Virgin River Trail with Shelby!! Crazy how Shelby and I spend 40+ hours together at work each week and then enjoy running and hanging out at the house in the wee morning hours and/or late in the evenings! I would have never guessed that my PTA would end up being one of my closest friends. I have had a hard time really connecting on a deep friendship level with anyone in SG until Shelby. Lots of people I consider friends here, but no one that I could really share my deepest thoughts, fears, etc. with without fear of judgement. This is likely because when I'm not at work I want to hang with Ry and the kiddos. I thought I'd become close with some fellow runners, but it just didn't happen as easily as I thought it would. Our whole family LOVES Shelby!! I feel crazy lucky to have her around! :-)

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 5.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.000.001.000.000.009.00

9 miles with Ry (Smo joined us for 3 of them). Lots of loops! (3 x 3 different loops ... quite fun.)

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 9.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.002.000.007.00

7 miles, including 7 x "almost home" hill with Smo keeping me honest!

First 4 hill repeats I kept up with Smo and found myself quite pleased with my performance foolishly believing that I must be in awesome shape because we were sprinting up and up side by side.

Little did I know she was playing with me!!!

Hill repeats 5 and 6 increasingly stole little pieces of my ego bit by bit.

When repeat number 7 presented itself I told myself that come h or high water I was going to stay with Smo. But h and high water came and although I desperately tried to keep up with that girl I fell further and further behind! She destroyed me. It wasn't even close. Seriously. It's the weirdest feeling to feel self defeat and yet so proud simultaneously. It was actually pretty amazing!! I LOVED IT SO MUCH!!!!!

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
2.501.005.500.000.009.00

9 miles

4 miles by my lonesome and 5 with Ry. He was cruising there at the end. Little Valley into Fort Pierce wash.

Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 9.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
19.751.000.000.000.0020.75

20.75 miles

Ry and I were missing our running partners today. We only had each other to entertain ourselves for this long and hot run!! Well each other and 1 coyote, 13 bunnies, a handful of dogs and one psychotic cat!!!

Home -> Virgin River Trail -> Bloomington Trails -> Little Valley -> Fort Pierce wash -> Crimson Development -> Sunrise -> Big Bull Loop -> Home (and a jig a jig jig) :-)

 

Brooks Pure Connect 4: Orange Miles: 20.75
Comments
From Rhett on Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:19:46 from 24.121.249.174

I can't believe you counted all the bunnies! Great job. You're on the home stretch to SGM.

From Smooth on Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 19:44:26 from 97.126.129.90

What an awesome week of running! EXCELLENT JOB!!! So happy for you that you found a great friend in Shelby! Super happy you've had Smo to train with and be proud of! :) :) :)

I thought Lowell texted that he ran some with you and Ry or Sat. or was that on Sun.? Love and miss you!

From Teena Marie on Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 22:32:20 from 199.79.53.13

Rhett~

It will be interesting to see how SGM goes. The majority of my runs have been significantly slower than any other training cycle. With that said, my occasional speedwork does not appear to be suffering. I am hitting the paces that I want to hit, so who knows! It'll be interesting to say the least. With that said, I have absolutely no pain in any part of my body right now. Knock on wood! :-)

Smooth~

Yes, we ran with Lowell two Saturdays ago (not this past Saturday but the one before). It should be on my blog. Hoping to run again with him fairly soon, maybe even tomorrow! Sounds like you two are ready for Poky! :-) You will LOVE Shelbey when you meet her. She is one of those people that draw people in with zero effort. And I know that she will LOVE you!!! :-)

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

5 wonderful miles with my Smo!

SO MUCH FUN this morning with Smo! We went exploring and found some new trails off of the Red Hills Trail system. The contrast of the red rock and dirt (on which we were running) above the super green golf course (which we were looking down at) was absolutely breath taking! Smo and I LOVED the combination of running on packed dirt, slick rock and boulder scrambling that we did. We really did have a lot of fun! :-)

Sketchers Trail 3 Miles: 5.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
2.002.001.000.000.005.00

5 miles this morning, 3 of which were with Smo: Church square with Rustic extension, then part of Big Bull Loop. (Smo inevitably runs negative splits. Something about being a mile within home that turns her burners on! Crazy girl! :-))

Brooks Pure Connect 4: Orange Miles: 5.00
Comments
From DaleG on Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 00:07:12 from 152.216.15.5

Sounds like you have a lot of cool places to run down there. Keep up the good work!

From Smooth on Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 12:04:26 from 97.126.129.90

LOVE LOVE LOVE that you and Smo are running happily and exploring trails together! :)

From Rhett on Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 12:46:39 from 199.117.154.54

Can you still keep up with Smo when she "turns her burners on?"

From Teena Marie on Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 16:30:25 from 199.79.53.13

Thanks, Dale! We do love it here. Lots of good running!!!

Smooth, me too!!! Smo and I have both decided that generally speaking, neither of us want to lead, neither of us want to follow, be both want to explore! It's been crazy fun!

Rhett, as per your question. There is only one way to truthfully answer, "HECK NO!!!" (Not even close!) :-)

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.500.000.000.000.005.50

5.5 with Ry and Lowell. Always great conversation when Lowell is there. :-) Unfortunately he had a bad cough. Nice and easy cruising around the local neighborhoods. :-)

Brooks PureFlow 3 Miles: 5.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.500.000.000.000.008.50

8.5 miles with Ry up to Staheli Farms and then south on Washington Fields road then back home.

It is a cut back week and the schedule I am loosely following has the majority of runs this week at 5 and 6 miles. However, my legs really wanted to run further and so I added on a few with Ry.

I have been running the vast majority of my runs much slower than I have over the past several training cycles. I have no idea what to expect come marathon time. It sure has been nice running with zero aches, pains, niggles, etc. though. And the best part, enjoying so many miles with Ry. :-)

Brooks PureFlow 3 Miles: 8.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.500.002.000.000.005.50

5.5 miles

3.5 miles with Ry and 2 miles with Smo! Surely you can't tell which miles were with that crazy girl of mine! I am still in awe how a 13 year old girl can run consecutive mid 7s to mid 6s in a row and when I ask her what effort it required she responds, "Meh, maybe a 7/10." I obviously did not keep up with her the last quarter of a mile when she took off and in 400 meters spread the gap between me and her to over 15 seconds when I was running at full capacity. DANG!

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 5.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
14.000.000.000.000.0014.00

14 miles with Ry at Little Black Mountain

A neighbor of mine who runs HS track and cross country (and is CRAZY fast) was telling me how the cross country coach has the kids do the majority of their miles on trail/dirt roads. He then proceeded to tell me about Little Black Mountain. Ry and I have tried a couple of times to find it and finally did today. Pretty dang cool considering that you run right up to over 800 petroglyphs. We took a short break to look at some of them. I was in awe as I was trying to wrap my mind around the history involved there. I wish I could read petroglyphs. What stories those rocks tell!!!

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 14.00
Comments
From Rob Murphy on Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 18:01:11 from 199.30.71.58

That's a good coach right there.

From Teena Marie on Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 14:21:21 from 199.79.53.13

Agreed! I'm guessing that great coaches think alike!!! ;-)

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.500.000.000.000.005.50

5.5 easy miles

2 miles with Livvy, nice and easy. Livvy has Beta Thalassemia Intermedia which makes it hard for her to get enough oxygen sometimes (since one of the polypeptides on hemoglobin is missing she does not have as much of a capacity to attach oxygen to her red blood cells). Today seemed to be a harder day for her. With that said, Livvy is probably the least fit in our family (also secondary to her lack of energy sometimes) so it may have had more to do with that than anything. It's kind of a rough cycle for her. She often doesn't have enough energy to exercise, which then leads to her being less fit, making exercise even harder. I may take her to a blood specialist to see if there is anything we can do other than the supplements they advised us to give her when she was an infant. She is so freaking cute though! She is also really liking cheerleading but gets crazy tired when they do conditioning. There has got to be something else that we can do. :-)

After running with Livvy I ran an additional 3.5 miles on the trails up above Greystone. Short rocky trails, but still fun.

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 5.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.000.000.004.504.0014.50

10.5 miles which included 8 x 800s and 2 x 400s then a cool down 1.25 with Livvy, Sherm, Smo and Ry. Smo ran the 1.25 while dribbling her basketball. She is a riot! My kiddos have made my life the best dang life I could ever imagine! :-)

Then ...

60 minutes mountain biking with Ry up in the Bear Claw Poppy Trail, specifically the Stucki Loop.

Happy Labor Day, All! Hope you are having a wonderful day! :-)

Brooks Pure Connect 4: Orange Miles: 10.50
Comments
From Rhett on Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 15:15:56 from 66.87.64.112

Great miles and great family time to start off your Labor Day. That is interesting about Livy. I hope they can find something to help her. I agree she is a very cute girl. Your whole family is darling. Happy Labor Day.

From Teena Marie on Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 15:34:06 from 199.79.53.13

Happy Labor Day to you and yours as well! :-)

From Tom Slick on Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 09:50:35 from 168.179.158.193

TM - Thanks for the Labor Day wishes, I wish the same for you and yours! Hey, what is your running schedule looking like, got anything coming up? Are you doing the SGM? You do know that since you live there you get guaranteed entry!

From Teena Marie on Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 21:19:54 from 199.79.53.13

Slick, the only thing I really have planned is SGM. Although Shelbey and I are toying with the idea of a half ironman 2 weeks before Boston, then Boston, then another half ironman 2 weeks after Boston. Just not sure I am capable of something like that.

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
7.000.000.000.000.007.00

7 miles: Ry joined me for 5 and Smo for 2

There was only a sliver of moon out. Seemed darker than usual. I sprained my ankle on Monday and was worried that it would bother me this morning, but it didn't hurt one bit. Yahoo!

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 7.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
12.000.000.000.000.0012.00

morning:

9.25 miles with Ry this morning. You could really see the fire in Pine Valley in the pitch dark. Scary.

evening:

2.75 miles by my lonesome with my thoughts on the dark roads. I'm used to the dark roads in the morning, not in the evening. Much more traffic and so I had to be a bit more careful.

My legs felt a bit tired and heavy tonight. This should be my highest mileage week of this training cycle if I get in the miles I am supposed to on Friday and Saturday. Tomorrow is my rest day. :-)

So far this training cycle absolutely zero niggles, pains or aches. I am sure that has to do with all of the slower miles I have been running. Still have no idea how it will play out come race day. Trying to set a race goal but I have no idea what to expect. I don't want too shoot to high and be disappointed, and yet I don't want to shoot too low and self myself short. Go figure. :-)

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 12.00
Comments
From DaleG on Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 21:37:58 from 152.216.15.5

You may surprise yourself on race day. Nice mileage so far this week.

From Teena Marie on Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 23:14:18 from 199.79.53.13

Dale,

Only time (and weather) will tell!! :-)

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.157.000.000.000.0010.15

10.15 miles

Miles 1-7: I don't know if I should really count these first 7 miles as marathon pace (even though they were marathon pace) because they were on a treadmill while Shelbey and I were at the gym waiting for the temps to go down outside. I tried to simulate the first 7 miles of SGM on the TM with elevation and pace changes.

Miles 8-10.15: Up and down 1450 South with Shelbey with our matching flashing arm bands that Lowell bought us. Thank goodness we had them because it was basically pitch black by the time we started around 9:40ish p.m. Had a couple near falls but all was well and lots of fun! This was done at a nice easy pace just enjoying our conversation.

Usually my rest day is Thursday. But for someone reason tonight I just decided to run the 10 miles that I had planned for tomorrow morning. I think I will just run a few easy with Smo before work in the morning and call it good. If all goes well and I can muster up 3 miles tomorrow and 22 on Saturday then I will hit my goal of 70 running miles this week for the peak of my training season with absolutely zero pain, zero ibuprofen, zero niggles, etc. Knock on wood!! :-)

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 10.15
Comments
From Rhett on Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 09:50:48 from 24.121.249.174

I'm knocking on wood for you too. You have trained very smartly this time around. Great job getting in a night run. Those can be tough at the end of a long day.

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

3 easy miles with Smo. I made her swear to me that she would go whatever pace I wanted to and not take off bating me to follow!!! :-)

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 3.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
21.000.501.000.000.0022.50

22.5 miles

Today I got my weekly mileage slightly above where I was hoping!! This may sound silly but I am super happy. It has been difficult for me to muster the motivation and dedication to hit the higher miles since working full time. I know lots of people do it all the time but it has been an adjustment for me. So this was a breakthru in a sense. Granted the miles were not all that fast. But they were miles! :-)

First 20 with Ry (with Shelbey running 15-20 with us). Not sure 100% positive, but pretty certain, that having Shelby there helped Ryan to run each mile progressively faster making his last five miles the fastest of the whole 20! Shelbey is only 24 and I am pretty sure that there is something mesmorizing about a fit woman in her 20s with a pony tail swinging back and forth right in front of a man that makes them go faster! I'm certain it's the power of the young ponytail!!! I have heard numerous men talk about it! It cracks me up!!!! Needless to say, it was AWESOME seeing Ryan push faster and faster at the end of a long run!

Mile 21 by my lonesome while Livvy hurried up and got her running clothes on waiting for me to finish that mile.

Mile 22 and 22.5 with Livvy. Nice and easy as we studied her vocabulary words and talked about how her and her friend rescued some stranded little froggy yesterday! So stinkin' cute! LOVED EVERY SECOND!!!!

Happy day! :-)

Brooks Pure Connect 4: Orange Miles: 22.50
Comments
From Smooth on Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 23:12:39 from 75.162.79.168

AWESOME 70 miles week! So funny about Ry's "chasing tails"! :) :) :)

Hope you find solutions to Livvy's anemic condition. You have the most darling family on earth! Love and miss you!

From Kam on Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 14:42:26 from 68.66.163.179

Power in the ponytail, absolutely.

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.003.008.00

5 super fun easy miles this morning.

A little bit of all the girls and Ry today!!! Rylee, Smo, Livvy and even Iggy (our little dog) came to join the party! One of the miles were done playing a game where we were running and there was one basketball. The rules were that you could dribble twice but then you had to make a good pass. If you dribble more than twice or made a crappy pass you were out!! Fortunately they gave me a few extra lives!!! ;-) SO FUN and actually quite a workout!

Then ...

85 minutes mountain biking with Ry, Rylee and Smo on the Bear Claw Poppy Trail!! SO SO SO MUCH FUN!!!

I LOVED EVERY MOMENT OF TODAY!

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 5.00
Comments
From Smooth on Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 23:10:30 from 75.162.79.168

What a fantastic Sunday with your family. LOVE the games you guys play.

You got a new dog? Do you still have Sugar? I miss you and your cute family like crazy!

From Rhett on Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 11:41:05 from 24.121.249.174

Great family time. That was nice of them to give their Mom some extra lives in the basketball game.

From DaleG on Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 17:26:02 from 152.216.15.5

Very cool. I hope you had a good week!

From Rhett on Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 16:56:01 from 24.121.249.174

12 more days! Enjoy tapering.

From Rob Murphy on Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 01:31:30 from 24.10.247.181

:-) X 100

From Teena Marie on Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 02:46:40 from 199.79.53.13

Thanks Smooth, Rhett, Dale and Rob!!!

Nothing beats family!!! Man I love them!!!!!!!

From Rob Murphy on Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 02:50:59 from 24.10.247.181

Ann and I were just talking about how we miss you guys even though we didn't get together nearly often enough. Something about just knowing people are around…you know what I mean?

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.000.000.000.000.006.00

6 easy miles

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 8.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.002.000.000.000.008.00

2 miles by my lonesome and 6 with Ry. It was pouring rain!!! First time I've run in a downpour for what seems like forever. We had to pull a Rhett and begin our run at 4:30 in the morning since I had to be at work crazy early. The combination of the rain and early hours led to us not seeing one other single runner or biker this morning. Very unusual in SG a few weeks before the marathon.

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 8.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.500.000.001.500.007.00

7 miles, including 6 x hill (solid effort). No Smo to push me today. :-(

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 7.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.004.000.000.000.004.00

4 MP miles by myself (needed to be alone with my thoughts). Felt way too hard. I don't know who will read this but the last couple of days (and presently, writing as if I were writing the day of this entry) have been really hard for me. If you are familiar with southern Utah you may know that Hurricane, Utah (where I work) is in close proximity to Hilldale and Colorado City, where the recent flooding resulted in the death of 3 women and 9 children in the FLDS community. I'm sure everyone has their own opinions regarding that community. Although I do not agree with their religious beliefs I do love many of the women in that community with whom I have formed strong bonds. The clinic I am at is one of the closest medical facilities to that community and I have "polygamous" patients daily. My heart hurts so badly right now. I was certainly dehydrated when I ran this morning, but also, my heart just wasn't in it.

Brooks Pure Connect 4: Orange Miles: 4.00
Comments
From DaleG on Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 15:39:54 from 66.135.12.187

Hey Teena, it was very tragic what happened to all the men, women and children down in that area.

From Teena Marie on Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 18:41:56 from 166.170.5.82

It has been a tough several days for many around here.

From Rhett on Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 20:33:46 from 24.121.249.174

Teena, if anyone can help them lift their spirits, I'm it is you. The compassion you have for them is wonderful. I hope their are many like you in the area that are willing to reach out and lend a hand during this time of tragedy.

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
12.000.000.000.000.0012.00

12 miles on the Virgin River and Bloomington trails. Still struggling with this week's events. Sure glad I had Ry and Shelby (she ran 7) with me today. I love them both!!!!

Brooks Pure Connect 4: Orange Miles: 12.00
Comments
From Rhett on Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 02:41:01 from 66.87.64.116

How's the taper going?

From Teena Marie on Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 22:02:29 from 199.79.53.13

Pretty good, Rhett! Just been way behind on my blog but all is well! How are things with you and yours? :-)

From Rhett on Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 10:59:25 from 24.121.249.174

Life is good in Havau, but still crazy hot! We're still getting close to 110 every day. Way weird. I had a fun 5k last Saturday, and this Friday I'm running from the south rim of the Grand Canyon to the north rim. I'm super excited about that. Have fun at SGM!

From Smooth on Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 12:50:37 from 75.162.79.168

Can't wait to see you Fri.!

From Rhett on Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 17:49:29 from 199.117.154.54

I just looked up your time…3:30!!! Well done. And I saw Ryan did well also. Congrats. You are still very speedy.

From Kam on Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 12:08:27 from 68.66.163.179

race report?

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

4 miles

Brooks Pure Connect 4: Orange Miles: 4.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.000.000.000.000.006.00

6 miles

Brooks Pure Connect 4: Orange Miles: 6.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

4 miles

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
2.001.001.000.000.004.00

4 miles

Brooks Pure Connect 4: Orange Miles: 4.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

4 miles

Brooks Pure Connect 4: Orange Miles: 4.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.000.000.000.000.008.00

8 miles with Ry and Shelbey

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

3 miles with Ry, Smo and Livvy

Brooks Pure Connect 4 Sun Orange Miles: 3.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.001.000.004.00

4 miles with 4 x 400 with Smo

Brooks Pure Connect 4 Sun Orange Miles: 4.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

4 miles with Ry

Brooks Pure Connect 4 Sun Orange Miles: 4.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

3 miles

Brooks Pure Connect 4 Sun Orange Miles: 3.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
2.000.000.000.000.002.00

2 miles with Ry

Brooks Pure Connect 4 Sun Orange Miles: 2.00
Race: St. George Marathon (26.2 Miles) 03:30:04
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.0026.200.000.000.0026.20

So this race report is a long time coming. :-)

I had no idea what to expect going into this race. I definitely had the training miles in but ... I rarely rarely rarely pushed the pace. This training season was all about enjoying myself and relishing in all of the miles with Ry, Smo and Shelbey. I had SO much fun this training season. The most fun I have had running in a long time. Running rarely (if ever) felt like a chore as I had such great company and was NEVER in pain. Not one single niggle!!!!

Since I became a full time physical therapist (18 months ago) I watched my marathon times get slower slower and slower. I absolutely LOVE my job but I am no where near mastering the whole full time job while being a mom and running to my potential thing. I know many of you do it, and do it well, but I am still learning! :-) Hence I went from consistently running in the 3:20s to:

Boston 2014 3:38:03

SGM 2014 3:31:08

Boston 2015 3:42:16

And don't get me wrong, it's not like I wasn't trying during those marathons, things were just not falling in line.

So needless to say, even though I was secretly hoping for a sub 3:25 this year at SGM (crossing my fingers that since I had zero pain that maybe just maybe I would sneak it in there) I can in no way be disappointed with a 3:30:04. Albeit I really wished I would have pushed 5 seconds harder at some point! ;-)

It's my best time in two years (SGM 2013 was a 3:25:42) and I had SO MUCH FUN training for it!

Side thought:

I think if I really want to hit one more marathon PR in my lifetime (my marathon PR is 3:23:50) that I am going to have to talk myself into running some 5Ks, 10Ks, and halfs. I have not done any of those distances in two years which may be one of the other reasons for those slower marathon times above. As well as my age, of course. ;-)

Also, and is the norm for me: Started too fast but loved running with Becky! Paid for it the last 10 miles, as previously mentioned that is my usual mode of operation! HA! :-)

Time to make some goals. Going back and forth on another XTERRA!

Peace out!

Brooks Pure Connect 4 Sun Orange Miles: 26.20
Comments
From Rhett on Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 12:29:29 from 24.121.249.174

Finally your SGM report. You did amazing! I don't think you need to do much speed work to run a fast marathon and you're nice and healthy! That is the best part. Enjoy the XTERRA.

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

3 easy miles

Brooks Pure Connect 4 Sun Orange Miles: 33.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.001.000.000.003.004.00

1 mile

45 minutes upright bike: hills

Strength training

Brooks Pure Connect 4 Sun Orange Miles: 1.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

4 miles

Brooks Pure Connect 4 Sun Orange Miles: 4.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.003.500.000.002.005.50

3.5 miles

30 minutes upright bike: hills

strength training

Brooks Pure Connect 4 Sun Orange Miles: 3.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.000.000.00

In Reno just enjoying watching Rylee spend time with her fella and hanging out at Lake Tahoe with Ry, Rylee and Gabe. :-)

Go Wolf Pack!

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.000.001.000.000.007.00

7 miles with Ry on some trail in Reno! :-)

Brooks Pure Connect 4 Sun Orange Miles: 7.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

4 miles, 2 with Smo :-)

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 4.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.004.000.001.505.50

4 miles

20 minutes upright bike: hills

Strength Training

Brooks Pure Connect 4 Sun Orange Miles: 4.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

4 easy neighborhood miles

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 4.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.004.000.001.505.50

4 miles

20 minutes upright bike: hills

Strength training

(The gym has so many fun people to watch!)

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 4.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
7.000.000.000.000.007.00

7 miles with Ry and Shelbey on the Bloomington Trail

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 7.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
2.000.001.000.000.003.00

3 miles

Mile 1: super easy with Ry, Smo, Livvy and Iggy (roughly 10 minute pace)

Miles 2-3 got progressively faster with the last mile ringing in at a 7:27. This wouldn't be a big deal except for the fact that Smo dribbled a basketball the whole three miles. How does someone do that even when running in the 7s? That girl is some sort of freak of nature and I love everything about her!

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 3.00
Comments
From Rhett on Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 14:29:40 from 24.121.249.174

What's up Teena Marie? Are you running the trails up there in St. George? Family doing well?

From Rhett on Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 09:35:06 from 24.121.249.174

Teena's goals for 2016 as directed by Rhett:

1. Start blogging again because she is greatly missed.

2. Repeat #1 all year

From Teena Marie on Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 21:23:53 from 166.170.5.86

Totally cracking up! I have had good intentions to update my blog but have totally dropped the ball on my follow through!! I'm hoping to get it all updated on Thursday!!! Ha!!!!!

Hope you and yours had a wonderful Christmas! :-)

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.004.250.001.505.75

4.25 miles

20 minutes upright bike: Random L6-20

Strength training: Legs

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 4.25
Comments
From Rhett on Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:41:25 from 24.121.249.174

Long time, no blog. How's life treating you and your cute family?

From DaleG on Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 22:14:07 from 152.216.15.5

How's it going?

From Teena Marie on Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:59:27 from 166.170.14.49

Hey guys! Still kickin just way behind on my blog!!! :-)

Thank you for checking in with me. I've got all my workouts written down, just need to enter them.

Wish there was an app for this blog! I'm so lazy!!!

How are you Rhett and Dale?

From Burt on Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:12:41 from 97.117.254.186

They're good. Thanks for asking.

From Rhett on Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:41:55 from 24.121.249.174

Teena, glad to hear you're still kickin. I hope you guys have a great Thanksgiving. Burt is right, I am doing well. Just doing a lot of slow running now that my half IM is over.

From Rhett on Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 18:35:38 from 199.192.103.24

Happy Thanksgiving Teena. I hope it your family has a wonderful day.

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.004.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.004.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.000.000.000.000.006.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.004.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.005.000.000.000.005.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.004.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.502.000.000.003.005.50

2.5 mile run

1500 meters row

750 feet Jacobs Ladder

50 floor stair climber

ST: shoulders and core

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.003.003.000.000.006.00

6 Summit TM miles

ST: legs

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.500.004.50

4.5 miles

Yoga

Brooks Pure Connect 4 Sun Orange Miles: 4.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
10.000.000.000.000.0010.00

10 miles, 7 with Ry

ST: ankles

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 10.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.006.006.00

90 minutes mountain biking with Ry

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.005.000.000.005.00

5 VASA TM miles (VASA's TM is so much harder than Summit's)

Brooks Pure Connect 4 Sun Orange Miles: 5.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.500.000.000.000.005.50

5.5 miles with Shelbey and Lowell on the Bloomington Trail

Brooks Pure Connect 4 Sun Orange Miles: 5.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
7.000.000.000.000.007.00

7 miles with Ry and Lowell with Smo joining us for 4 of them. Happy Thanksgiving! :-)

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 7.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
11.000.000.000.000.0011.00

11 miles with Ry and Lowell

Brooks Pure Connect 4 Sun Orange Miles: 11.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.004.500.000.000.004.50

4.5 TM (Summit) miles

ST: legs

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 4.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 4.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 4.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

Brooks Pure Connect 4 Sun Orange Miles: 5.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.000.000.000.000.008.00

8 miles with Ry towards Washington Fields

Brooks Pure Connect 4 Sun Orange Miles: 8.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.005.000.000.000.005.00

5 TM miles (Summit)

ST: glutes

Brooks Pure Connect 4 Sun Orange Miles: 5.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

Brooks Pure Connect 4 Sun Orange Miles: 5.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.004.000.000.004.00

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 4.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.004.000.000.004.00

4 miles in Las Vegas before Smo's games

Brooks Pure Connect 4 Sun Orange Miles: 4.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.000.000.000.000.008.00

8 miles with Ry up to the new airport and climbing to the top of the crags for the view! Beautiful!

Brooks Pure Connect 4 Sun Orange Miles: 8.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.004.500.000.000.004.50

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 4.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.003.002.000.000.005.00

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 5.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.500.000.000.000.008.50

8.5 miles with Shelbey after work. It was COLD!!!!

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 8.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 5.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 4.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.007.000.000.000.007.00

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 7.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 4.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
9.001.000.000.000.0010.00

10 miles with Shelbey (Ry and Smo joined us for the last 3)

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
2.500.000.000.000.002.50

SO SO SO SO SO SO SO MUCH FUN!!!

Our first lighted Christmas Eve run courtesy of Lowell!!!! The entire family (Ry, Rylee, Payton, Sophia, Sherm and Liv and I) went to Lowell's house at 6:15 a.m. Lowell dressed us all up in a minimum of 3 strings of battery operated Christmas lights, blinking flashing lights for our hats, lighted up wristbands and shoe clips, etc. It was CRAZY!!! It took us 45 minutes to get lit up! Then, while it was still dark we ran outside and sang and giggled!!! Afterwards we went to Crackel Barrel for breakfast. One of the funniest Christmas Eve mornings ever!!!! My kids are still talking about it one week later!

Thank you, Lowell! And Merry Christmas to all! :-)

Brooks Pure Connect 4 Sun Orange Miles: 2.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.0010.000.000.000.0010.00

10 I want to poke my eyes out TM miles at VASA!!!! Smo wanted to shoot hoops at the gym so I tagged along! The reward I got for persevering through those dreadful miles was watching her hoop it up afterwards. Totally worth it! :-)

Brooks Pure Connect 4 Sun Orange Miles: 10.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.004.500.000.000.004.50

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 4.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.001.500.000.000.004.50

Including 6 x 400

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 4.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.000.000.000.000.006.00

6 miles with Shelbey (Smo joined us for 2 of them dribbling her basketball the whole way and Ry joined us for 4).

Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 6.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

4 miles with Ry. Found some back hills where it feels like you are running on beach sand. Weird.

15 minutes of XTREME hip hop with Phil via YouTube. Ha!! That stuff is awesome! :-)

Hope everyone had a fantastic 2015!!! Here's to another year full of health, love, family and friends! :-)

A quick look at my decline!!!! Ha! ;-)

Year / Running Miles / Cross training miles

2010 / 2,112.59 / 740.09

2011 / 1,800.00 / 914.80

2012 / 2,068.07 / 882.55

2013 / 1,934.09 / 376.33

2014 / 1,722.37 / 42

2015 / 1,762.25 / 72.33

Brooks Pure Connect 4 Sun Orange Miles: 4.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
1396.10260.4074.7531.0072.331834.58
Sketchers Trail 3 Miles: 22.50Brooks PureConnect 4 Miles: 320.00Brooks PureFlow 3 Miles: 55.50Sketchers Go Run 2: Blue/gray Miles: 42.50Brooks Pure Connect 4: Orange Miles: 225.75Brooks PureConnect 4: Black And Pink Miles: 197.90Brooks Pure Connect 4 Sun Orange Miles: 172.20
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