Run with my Heart

Started the day early by myself and ran to Melody's house (2.5) then we continued to the mouth of the canyon to pick up some of her friends and ran up passed bridal veil falls and turned.  Picked up the pace down to mid 7 range.  Then dropped the girls off at the mouth and continued down the path to center and back to Melody's and finish up on my own.  Felt good on the run except for feeling the sciatic on the left side which I feel every long run.

2:29:29/8:12 

I pulled a Paul this morning, set the alarm for 5 am and didn't want to get up but really didn't go back to sleep.  My husband was going to leave at 6:15 but needed some papers printed off so I go up and did that and then went out and did laps around the block until my son woke up (5.2 at a 8:07 pace) and then took him in the jogger and my dog for the last part.

57:55/8:16 

Did a tempo run today, met Melody and Julie at vintange and warmed up 2 miles up the jogging path.   Started the tempo 2 miles up  the canyon and 2 miles down, I quickly fell behind but could still see them but my watch was saying I was only running an 8 min pace.  I felt pathetic, finish up the the up hill with my watch saying I was only going 7:48, 7:39 and 7:30, 7:00 on the way down but I don't think my watch was picking up satilite properly because both the girls watch said over a min per mile faster and I wasn't over a min slower then them.   In fact on the was down it took my watch over a half mile to get under an 8 min pace.  This did make me feel a little bit better.  They avg. 6:40's going up and 6:08's going down so I figure I was no more than 30 seconds behind them so about 7:18, 7:09 going up and 7:00, 6:30 coming down.  Maybe even faster, those dang trees where making it hard on my garmin for some reason.

1:00:33/7:40 

Iced in the river.

30 mins on the bike, abs/back  

Met at Melody's for an easy run, she had a friend as well.  Felt decent a little stiffness from the speed yesterday.  Ran about  5 with them and added on the rest by myself.

1:00:28/8:24 

Met at Julie's house and went and ran trails.  Legs were just a burning on the steep, steep uphill section but did fair.  Dropped everyone off at 7 and ran 3 more.  

1:26:11/8:37 avg pace 

abs/back weights upper 

Went out around 10:15 and it was still nice and cool.  Just ran an easy 5, went to the post office to drop some letters and looped back home.  Left leg was a little sore from getting scraped last night and felt a little sluggish the first mile but felt good after that.

45:02/8:31 

20 mins on the elliptical 

Met up with a great group for this mornings group, which included Melody, McKenzie, Aurbry, Kent, and Shawn.  We carpooled up to the 3 mile mark of Hobble creek half and warmed up 3 miles to the start (25:48), then took a small drink/potty break and ran the half course with every other mile hard starting with an easy one.  I had a great run, here are my splits.

1-7:16 had to remind the girls that this was an easy mile

2-6:32

3-7:11

4-6:23

5-7:23 

6-6:38 took a drink break towards the end of this mile because we had water stashed.

7-7:13

8-6:44 starting to feel it

9-7:30

10-7:02

11-7:55

12-7:31 didn't really kick it into gear on this on I was deep in conversation with Kent.

13-7:49

total time 1:33:05/7:15 with ending up with 12.9 for the distance most of my easy miles I would lap because everyone elses garmin would beep before mine.  Any way good run and gives me some confidence that I didn't have before.  Left leg was bothersome at the end but not bad. 

Got up and ran the cc loop by myself.  Felt pretty good after the first couple of miles.  Fall is in the air the temps were nice and cool:)

1:01:45/8:33 

plan for the week is to get 59 miles of running plus some crosstraining. 

Met with Melody and Julie at vintange.  We warmed up 4 miles up the canyon and turned and did a 4 mile tempo at about 1/2 marathon pace.  I felt all right, could still feel saturday's workout in my legs but not bad.  Goal was to say under 7's.

1-6:47

2-6:54

3-6:57 Julie and Melody stopped at this mile, I went on and they decided that after a little break they could keep up with me.  

4-6:50

27:36/6:52  Was happy about this, still have a lot of work to do but it is a good start. 

cooled down 2 miles and got in the river.  Got new shoes and they felt so good:)

Abs/back 

Got up and met with Melody and Susie, had a nice easy run with them.  Was going to be done at 5.5 came home and decided just to make it 7.  If I plan out a week I have a hard time cutting it short.

1:00:18/8:31

bike and elliptical both for 20 mins. 

Got up even know I was really tired and meet the girls for trails.  We did the pipeline trail which was a good change.  Was tired and left hammy was hurting, body is having a hard time with the higher mileage.

1:22:02/8:17

Son's 5th birthday today, busy day:) 

Went out around 9 a.m. and ran an easy 4 miles, was hot.  Then did 20 mins on the elliptical.

Got home form a youth conference late last night so getting up was hard.  I started at from my house and ran to Melody's to meet up with her and Julie.  Melody ran 4 with us and turned back, me and Julie went further up the canyon.  The weather was nice and cool which I was so glad because we got a late start.  First couple of mile I was dragging and wondering if I was going to make it 15.  But started feeling better after 4 miles and was able to hold a 7:15-7:30 pace for 7 of the miles and felt pretty good.  Was going to do a full 20 miler but body was feeling not to bad so I was done, I don't want to aggrivate the sciatic and was starting to feel it some.  Good run

2:32:11/7:57 

Recovery week

Ran an easy 7 miles, was mostly sluggish.

1:02:12/8:35 

Met Julie at vintage and ran up the canyon turned and did some MP miles, was able to chat the whole time through, avg. 7:24 pace.  Then just easy stuff.  Then sat in the river.

1:04:27/8:03 

Easy run with the girls.  Felt good after warming up the first mile.

52:23/8:23 

my daughter started Jr. High today.  aaaaaaahhhhhhh, i am not old enough for this?!? 

MV 

Husband had to leave really early so I just slept in and did the elliptical for 42 mins.

abs 

5 miles early this morning real easy, no watch.

Well I don't know what to say because of course I would have liked to be faster but in reality I think I ran good for the lack of training I have had this year.  So I think I can be happy with my time.  The race started 30 mins late and it was warm which was an issue for me at the end.  I ran well until about 10 miles and then it was a gradual body shut down.  

splits

1-6:37

2-6:34

3-6:33

4-6:20

5-6:45

6-6:47

7-6:53

8-6:49

9-7:15

10-7:01

11-7:40

12-7:31

13-7:45

.1-:44 

Finished just pooped, the last 3 were extreamly hard for me, it was hot, legs didn't want to go and mentally I was done.   

PM-Was feeling somewhat frustrated, just because I gave up at the end so I got on my bike for 30 mins.  I figured I needed a cool down, I didn't do one after the race.  Worked things out in my head, yes I am still frustrated but I really had nothing in my legs in the end.  I only have 5 good week of training behind me.   Only 6 weeks till SGM I don't know about this?

Today started early and slow, leg and back are sore from the race but running wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.  First couple miles where slow but then got into a good groove.

8:40 avg pace 

20 mins on the elliptical and abs/back 

Got up and met Melody and Rebecca at vintange.  We didn't really feel up to a tempo so we went and did some major steep uphills instead, um what where we thinking.  Leg where tired and burning on the uphill but did well on them compared to the last I ran this hill.  Started and finished on my own and still didn't get in as long as I wanted so I came home and did the elliptical for 20 mins after I got my daughter off to school.

1:09:51/8:40 

Weights upper and abs 

Got up early and ran by myself.  Was tired at first but felt decent the further i went.  Did the temple loop which means some good uphills.

1:16:14/8:20 

Got up and ran easy with the girls 4.5.  Came home and got my kids off to school, first day of kindergarten for my son, and took my dog up in the mountains.   Felt good to be in the mountains with my dog.  Sat in the river after oh it felt soooooo good:)  Legs really needed it.

Easy 5 miles after my son went to school.  8:25 pace

abs/back and weights arms 

Met Mckenzie and Aubry at the salem church and ran to Kent's to get him and Shawn.  Very quickly Shawn and Mc took off and I stayed back with Kent.  We ran harrys hill and that about killed my legs and that was only at mile 8, we still had a long ways to go.  At about 11 miles I took off with Aubry and we ran most of the rest together, except at the end I was lagging behind.  Had a pretty good run, had 8 miles that were in the low to mid 7's.

2:59:13/8:00 

Went out after the kids went to school, out and back to the provo trail.  Felt surprisingly good considering how dead I was after saturday.  Came home and did 20 mins on the bike and 10 on the elliptical.

8:10 avg. pace