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3 miles with Sophia, AP 8:47

Yassos by my lonesome: 6 x 800 with 400 meter jog between then .75 cool down. (3:20, 3:20, 3:20, 3:20, 3:20, 3:10)

800 meter jog with Sherm and Livvy

Plyo with Sherm and Sophers. Sherm wanted to do more with the box today so the majority was done using it with the goal of 75 jumps total.

Depth jumps for vertical distance

Depth jumps for horizontal distance

Single leg push offs, bilateral

Lateral box jumps, bilateral

Front barrier jumps

Tuck jumps

Alternating Bounding

3 miles with Ry, Sophers, Christine, Ben, Marina and Kilia. Nice and easy: We told the girls that they had to hold a conversation the whole time and if they couldn't they were going too fast. I think we were running about 9:30s.

6 miles by my lonesome (5 with AP 7:56 and then 1 cool down)

Watched/oversaw the twins' workout (no way I felt like sprinting ... too weaksauce this morning).

Around the World Core with all my kiddos (Rylee, Payton, Sophers, Livvy and Sherm). :)

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Good times!!! :) :) :)

7.1 miles with Ry, AP 8:23

3.65 miles with Sophers, AP 9:29

I am super lucky to have such awesome running partners.

Slight pain, maybe a 2/10, in my R calf. I think it is from the plyo workouts. I'm not worried about it but will keep it in mind and do some STM on it today. :)

Happy Wednesday, All.

* The last couple of days have been really fun. Rylee is playing in a basketball tournament locally (which is nice since her last couple of tournaments have been in Oregon and Vegas). They are 3-0 so far. Woot woot! :)

Fun morning! :)

Ry, Sophers and I met up with Christine, Ben, Marina and Kilia at the JRP. Kilia and Sophers wanted to run a couple of fast miles and an 800. We decided on our target paces before hand.

800 meter warm-up

1 mile @ 7:30

few minutes standing rest

1 mile @ 7:29

400 meter jog

800 meter (My time was 3:27 -- We were shooting for 3:30 but Sophers took off with 100 meters to go. Needless to say I couldn't keep up with her final kick. I should have started faster and made her catch me at the end. :))

400 meter cool down

** I can't believe how fast those young girls are!! This was a great workout for them. :)

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1.25 mile home by my lonesome, nice and easy

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1 mile with the twins, AP 9:44 (Sophers joined us for 800 meters)

Plyo (I only did about half of what Sophers, Sherm and Livvy did because I am worried that the Jupiter Peak Steeplechase this Saturday -- which Ry and I are doing for fun -- will chew me up). :)

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4-way ankle and stretches on my own

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Sophers cracks me up. She insisted that we go to Sports Authority this morning to buy her a "Quick Ladder" (a 15' long rung ladder used for agility training). She said she would pay for it with her own money. We decided to split the cost and she could ask her siblings to pitch in a few bucks each to offset some of her out-of-pocket expense. She is a riot!

3 nice and easy miles with Sophers on the JRP, AP 9:32

I was super happy to be able to slip on my trail shoes this morning ... it has been far too long! :)

This race was AWESOME! Absolutely beautiful. Also, I had a first - I truly got lost! But I will get to that. :)

Miles 1-3, solid climb. I was shocked when my hubby slapped my buttocks around mile 2. He was doing incredible!

Mile 4 - absolutely AMAZING! I think this was my favorite mile of the race. Surrounded by trees and running on dirt. AND my hubby was by my side for the first bit of it. I felt so good that I decided to take off.

Don't remember much about mile 5 but mile 6 was brutal. Climbing to Jupiter's Peak was grueling. Still had fun though! And very worth the view at top.

Mile 7 was another summit ... this is where things went awry. I have no idea how I missed the turn. I got to the summit no problems, even passed several runners, but then I somehow missed the sharp turn I was supposed to take. I was trying to catch up to this guy who missed the turn as well. STUPID of me!! I remember thinking, "This is crazy that they are having us run this area" - I actually fell and scooted part way down on my butt. I then hit a parking lot full of people that said they had not seen very many runners at all. CRAP!! Anyway, this mistake ended up costing me somewhere between 8-11 minutes I think. STINK. The wind kind of came out of my sails at that point. But luckily it returned when I caught up to my hubby and friend, Kiki. :)

The rest of the race was FUN as I was trying to pass as many people as possible (which since I took the wrong turn made this easier). At mile 12 I started to see some of the same people I saw earlier in the race. At mile 14 I saw two women whom I passed cresting the summits. I gave the last half of mile or so everything I had and it felt great. :)

It was wonderful to chat with Fritz before and after the race as well as to meet Amy. It was NOT wonderful to see that Fritz' ankle was all wrapped up and being iced. How he still took 2nd place after injuring it around mile 12 is CRAZY!!! That guy is NOT human!!! It was quite the sight to see him hop to the podium! :)

I would highly recommed this race!! But watch for that turn after cresting the second summit! :) :) :)

*** One other thing, my hubby rocked it!!! He finished in 3:05 which is 50 minutes faster than he ran Wahsatch!!! Amazing what just a little bit of consistent training can do. :)