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morning:

7 miles, AP 7:51

evening:

2.5 easy miles with Smo, AP 9:14

The semester has officially begun. Classes seem good!! Not thrilled with the 7 a.m. start 4 out of 5 days a week though. Boo!!! :)

Happy Monday, All. :)

Morning:

I was crazy impressed when Sophia was up and ready to run at 5:30 this morning. Since I have to be to school on most days at 7:00 Sophia has decided to alternate running with me in the mornings on somedays but running during the evening on others, esp. when she doesn't get to bed on time. :)

Anyway, today she was up and ready to go at 5:30. That girl is constantly amazing me!

3 miles with Smo (Sizzler Loop +), AP 8:42

2 additional MP miles by my lonesome.

Evening:

800 meter swim (Boy my swimming fitness has declined!)

Morning:

10 miles, AP 8:16

Crazy how much I missed my Smo Run this morning (it's her evening run day).

Happy Wednesday, All! :)

Evening:

3 miles with Ry and Smo, AP 8:39 -- couldn't resist (but wow was it warm outside)

morning:

5 miles, AP 8:47

Okay ... Smo is officially nutty!!! She had planned on running with me this morning at 5:30 a.m. HOWEVER, she came up to my room at 5:27 saying she wasn't going. Weird, because she was all dressed in her running clothes. I asked why. She responded, "I woke up a little before 5 and couldn't fall back asleep and so I ran on the treadmill already." WHAT???? Needless to say her older sister was not happy to be awaken by the sound of treadmill running that early. SO FUNNY!!! Sadly, however, she was all pumped up after running that she couldn't fall back asleep when she was done and still had two and a half hours before school. My guess is that she will be falling asleep by 7 tonight. :)

5 TM miles, AP 8:42

Would have liked to have run more but I am running dangerously close to my point allotment for the week and I want to do a 20 miler on Saturday. Plus ... it is definitely easier to run only 5 miles before heading to class! I actually have time to shower and not show up stinky!!! :)

Sophia plans on running this afternoon on the treadmill.

20 miles, AP 8:16

Awesome morning!! Ran with Ry and Smo. (Ry ran 18, Smo ran 4, I ran 20).

I was BEYOND IMPRESSED with Smo this morning. We met when Ry and I had already run 14 miles. We could see her sitting on the driveway waiting for us (7:00 a.m.) as we were running home and at the end of the street. Why does that melt my heart so much? Anyway, Smo wants to run the Spanish Fork 5K again and crush her last year's time. If no wrenches are thrown in her direction that she not be a problem. Her last year's time was 25:39, AP 8:15 on that course (see http://sophia.fastrunningblog.com/blog-09-08-2012.html ). Her 5K PR 24:39, AP 7:57 at Snow Canyon (where she holds the course record for her age group. Well, actually her age group last year. This year she will be in a much tougher age group as she is now 11). She wanted to push herself hard today so that she could make a race goal for herself. She KILLED it!!! We ran 1/2 mile warm-up and then PUSHED! Her first 1.5 miles seemed comfortably hard, the next half of mile seemed hard, and the last mile she really had to dig deep. That girl is a fighter!! Her total time for the 3 miles was 22:31. Her splits were (7:39, 7:31, 7:20 and then one extra second, I must not have stopped my watch exactly at the right time). She AMAZES me more than I can explain. It was a fight for myself to keep up with her with that many miles under my belt this morning. GREAT RUN!!! I then proceeded to run another 2 miles (high 7s) by my lonesome.

Felt GREAT to be done by 8:00 a.m.!! WOOT WOOT!!!

Happy Weekend All!!! :)

(Was shooting for 165-175 points, ended up with 181. A little too high. Was not anticipating Sophia's push. It's 8+ hours since the run ended, R medial calf seems okay. Wish I could say that it was pain free but it is no worse than it was prior the run. I am pleased with this. We will see how it feels tomorrow morning and then adjust weekly points accordingly.)