I run therefore, I am!

I ran 7 miles tonight at 8 pm and it was still blistering!  I ate rice with chicken, a salad and beets! I love Beets. Ok I felt good for the first 2 miles and then I felt my din din come up to my throat.  I lasted 7  miles without throwing up and I really wanted to do 10 but something I ate was burning my stomach to my throat and my mouth started swelling so I stopped and took a benedryl when I got home.  My throat is itchy, my stomach hurts and my lips are swollen! Ah isnt running the best!?

I ran 10 miles at 8 pm on the parkway trail and found that they are ripping it up to fix some pieces of it.  I ran a sluggish first 5 miles and felt better on the way back.   

I did a speed workout on the Riverton High track this morning.  I warmed up with a 2 mile run and then did 2x400's, 1x800, 1x1200, 1,1600. A quick cool down and then rushed home to take a japanese foreign exchange student that is living with us to her activity in which she is going to moab for a couple of days.  She is a riot! She doesnt speak english very good and she looks like ugly betty. Im not kidding, she has dark hair down to her eyes with those ugly betty glasses.  She is a doll!  You wouldnt even know she was living with us, she is so darn quiet.  

I ran 10 miles this morning up to Daybreak and around a 5 mile loop then down 9800 s. to the canal over to 104th and back up to my house.  I ran a 1:13 which was a 7:20 mile.  I was very tired at the start my legs were tight with a give a damn is busted attitude. But I cured them there legs and showed em whats up!  My best mile was 6:44 with a gentle downhill.  

Ok I woke up this morning with a headache and ran at 5:45 am up to daybreak and met my friend Trick for an 8 mile run.  As I was running up the hill she came down so I had to go back down the hill and come up it another time.  Im worn out and my legs are so tired. I think Ill rest this morning and then go get my packet for the Provo river half.

Ok I woke up at 4:15 am this morning and drove to the bus pick up. It was slow getting on but made it up there. Grouped up with Fast running blog/St. George running team and the weather was nice. This was my first time on this coarse and it always makes me nervous as I didnt look at a map at all on this race. The start was blistering fast. Jeff shot out like a cannonball! Didnt see him after the 2nd or 3rd mile. My first mile was a 5:13 which I actually thought would be faster. I was around 8th or 9th place. 2nd mile was a 5:21 still downhill and still in 8th place. 3rd mile was still some downhill and hit a 5:24. 4th mile was 5.12, 5th was 5.33 and then the hill came and I dropped two spots to 6th overall right behind Adam and Chad. 6th was a 5.49 due to the incline and 7th was 5.10. We were off the highway at this point back on the trail and I noticed one of the three in the first group had dropped off a little and Adam and Chad and I worked hard to catch him but didnt have enough trail in the end. It ended up being Sasha who I was surprised to see running after a brutal Des news race recently. (At least it is for me Sasha, that is a hard race) So my 8th mile was 5.33 and 9th was 5.37. I was fading a bit and feeling fatigued. 10th was a 5.40 and I felt good at this point so I tried to make a push and only made it about 100 yards when my gut started acting up. Due to the lack of Porta jons on the coarse and at the finish I didnt want to make my finish in poor taste if you know what I mean! So I figured Id just hang on to 6th and if I could maybe do 1 mile push to catch Chad. 11th was a 5.38 and 12th mile was a 5.49. As I got back on the river trail I took a right turn and went the wrong way for a 100 feet before a lady told me I was going the wrong way. I turned around and went the other direction but lost sight of Chad and I had wondered if I was going the right way or not!? I kept going and then finally saw an arrow and when I looked at my watch it said 13.1 miles on it so I knew I was close. I sprinted the last leg and my finish time from my watch was 1:13:23. My 13th mile was 6 even from messing up and my last sprint on my watch was .26 with a 1;13 which is faster than my speed workout quarters. The Bloggers did a 1-6th place sweep! I told Sasha I had the most pressure on my shoulders because I had to keep everyone else behind me! lol Ok Not a bad day to PR!