Create.

6 miles (4 super easy, 2 MP)

Hope I am doing this tapering thing right. :) 

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One of my friends posted this today. I thought it worth sharing.

An elderly Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life… He said to them, “A fight is going on inside me, it is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One wolf is evil—he is fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, competition, superiority, and ego. The other is good—he is joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith. This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too.” They thought about it for a minute, and then one child asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win, Grandfather?” The Elder simply replied, “The one you feed.” 

30 minutes bike (random/8/7.25 miles)

8 TM miles (1.5 warm-up at 8:57, 5 at a few seconds faster than MP pace, 1.5 cool-down at 8:34)

Weird how I notice little nags as I am cutting down mileage that didn't seem to be there in the preceding higher mileage weeks (not while I am running, but throughout the day). Silly taper madness. 

6 easy miles 

Was supposed to run with Annie this morning but had a text this morning saying that she was not feeling well. Huge bummer!! :(

On the bright side I was able to talk Sophers and Livvy into running one mile with me early this morning! LOVED IT!!! :)

Happy Wednesday, All!!! :) :) :)

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Okay, this is so funny that I had to post it. So the story goes like this: Earlier this evening I noticed a copy made from our printer of our consequence sheet (you know -- the kind of sheets that say stuff like "disrespecting parents = 1 day grounding with extra chores" and so forth). Anyway, I notice that one of the rules has been whited out (it happens to be the "no sucking your thumb or fingers rule," we have a child who still struggles with that at times). I thought that was kind of funny (thinking that this particular child was trying to pull one over on us). NOPE, come to find out that was not the case at all. True story is this: One of this particular child's friend's mother commented to her on how well behaved she was and asked her how she got that way. Well, I guess they began having a discussion which led to the consequence chart as well as the daily chore lists we have. The end result was the mother offered to pay this particular child $2.00 for a copy of each of these charts!!!! AND ... she sold them to her!!!! She is quite pleased with her entrepreneur skills and had made extra copies with the intention to sell them as well (not going to happen)!!!! Oh man ... now the whole neighborhood is going to know way too much about what meanies Ry and I are!!!! That child!!! Far too cute and ingenious to be upset about though.(Especially funny how she did not want them to know about the thumb sucking.) :)

20 minutes upright bike 

8.25 miles

** Last hard workout before Boston!!! HALLELUJAH!!!

2 warm up miles, 6 x 800 meters with 400 meters jog in between each 800, then 2 cool down miles. All 800s at 3:25 except last one which was 3:09 (that was a dig deep push). 

I am sure that there are many flaws in my training. Nonetheless, I have been relatively smart this time around. PT school may be paying off!! Now it's time to see what happens. :) :) :) 

7 mile progressive run. Started out really nice and slow and ended at marathon pace. 

Happy Friday! :) 

12.2 miles, AP 8:39 with JohnnyV and Dave on a different portion of the JRP. (We ended up on 200 South in Salt Lake before turning around. It was fun to be on a different part of the trail.)

This run seemed to fly by. Nice and easy pace with great conversation. Wore my Brooks Flow. I really wish that I would have tried these shoes on a 20 miler. I am kicking myself for not doing that. They just feel really nice to run in. Would it be completely crazy to run Boston in them when I have never run more than 14 miles at once in them? I had planned on wearing my "go to" Adidas Supernovas, but now I am wondering if I should shake it up. 

Breakfast with Ry, Annie and Nic after. WAY FUN! Now I really want to go out and run some more. But I am in taper. What to do? 

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3.26 miles, AP 9:25 with Ry and Sophers :) :) :) That is actually Sophia's 5K PR and it didn't even seem like she was exerting herself!! Running today has been AWESOME! :)