I Can Do Hard Things

46:45 minutes

Oh it is so hard to get up on Monday mornings.  I drag all day long...then it snowed.  Kinda depressing.

I felt really great on my run today...even though it was slow.  I am always slow on the TM.  Oh well.  No ankle or knee aches.  Life is good!

54:14 minutes

I slept in this morning and it was heavenly!  Headed to the gym when my hubby got home.  They had "We are Marshall" in the cardio cinema and enjoyed a good movie for 54 minutes.  I LOVE football movies.  They are so motivating.

I biked for 15 minutes after....I suck at biking.  I had some dental work done today, so every time I would take a drink of my COLD water, my nerves in my mouth would go crazy.  

56:20 minutes

Have you ever been so dog-tired that you can hardly drive home from the gym?  That is me today! I had to get up even earlier (4:45am), so I could get my 6 miles in before hubby had to leave for work.

The back to back workouts WEAR ME OUT!  So it was a slow go on the TM.  I watched some dumb show on the cooking channel (it was like an amazing race).  I stopped every 2 miles to stretch.  My right shins started bugging me today. 

I didn't get much of a nap after the gym (the kids woke up really early because it was "backwards" day at school and they were excited).  Then I had to go on a preschool field trip to Cabelas.  I could hardly stay awake.

30 minutes of yoga, icing and ankle exercises.....NOW I am going to take a nap.  A BIG BIG BIG nap.

40 minutes

My goal was to go as slow as I could.  My body felt so "rickety" all day.  Weird things ached...places that have never hurt before.  My right glute/lower back was on FIRE.  I may have slept on it weird.  I don't know how you all run a gazillion miles a week.  I feel like I am falling apart!

But my slow slow slow run was just what I needed.  Most of the achiness went away.  Plus the weather was beautiful.....a shorts and t-shirt kind of a day. 

Lots of stretching throughout the day and ice after the run.

Rest day tomorrow...Rex Lee 10K on Saturday.  The first race of the year.  My goal is just to finish.  I need to have a starting point for racing goals.

AP (8:26)

I took my two big girls to see Little Women last night at the Salt Lake Children's Theater.  It was a great distraction from thinking about the race. 

I've been kinda nervous about this 10K...but I don't know why.  I know I'm starting "all over" having taken a year off from my stress fracture and  I've really only been training since the end of December, but I think I have magical powers that make me race like a speedster.  I know it is going to take me a lot longer than 3 months to get faster!

This was my hubby's first 10K and I was really excited for him.  There weren't a lot of runners, but enough to feel like a race. I warmed up 1 mile.

1-8:55 Lots of trying to get around people and find my groove

2-9:07 LONG, slow uphill.  I passed a lot of people, but it was definitely a hard mile. A long mile.

3-7:53 Start of the long downhill.  My lower back started to hurt....not sure if this was because of the downhill.  But I thought to myself, go fast while the fast is going.  I had some older guy come from behind me.  We stayed together for a lot of this mile.  He was my "go-to" guy.  He would pull ahead and I would follow.  Thanks guy!

4-8:03 Still down hill and feeling good, but lower back still sore.

5-8:23 The course started to flatten out here.  It is hard when you've been flying down hill and then it takes "effort" to keep up the speed.  I was starting to get to that "puke" zone.  I chilled out a tad and was hoping it would go away.  Kinda.

6-8:26 I just kept saying to myself, "Just don't puke! Just don't puke! Just don't puke".  Once I got onto the track, I saw some of our friends and family, gave them the pump fist and finished strong.  The stinky part of the end of the race was NO WATER - you had to walk to the other end of the track.  I wanted to run Tim in, but I just saw him enter the track. So I cheered obnoxiously for him.  He did a fantastic job (54 minutes).  This is his first 10K and he's only run a few 6 mile runs.  Hooray for him.

.2-1:13

I cooled down 1.5 miles.  Perfect weather for the race...shorts and t-shirt.  Lots of people had on tights, hats, gloves....I was just sweating looking at them!

So overall, I feel like I ran a "decent" race.  An 8:26 average is about the fastest that I've done on a long run....so that seems right.  But I'm ready to be faster. I'm ready for a nap!

**I just saw the posted results - HAH! I got 3rd in my age group!  Hot dog!