Run with my Heart

I made it 20, wow this is harder than I remember! I seem to loose it around 15 miles, just super tired esp. in the diaphragm.  I met Michelle at the crazy 4 way stop going up 4th south to hobble creek canyon, I had already done 3 miles.  We headed up hobble creek canyon and followed the left fork up.  I felt good going up but once I hit 15 I was getting tired and it was getting hot.  Took a gu at 9 and probably should have taken another.  I definitely could have used more water.  Michelle was only doing 15 so I had 2 more to do when we got back,  I was just going to be done but got a drink and did a loop that ended up being 2.  The last mile was coming up 4th south and was all uphill, really uphill.  Anyways got it done and my hip feels better than it did last week:)  I guess I shouldn't feel to bad seeing half this run was uphill and really good uphill not just provo canyon grade.

2:50:16/8:31   

Happy 4th of July 

Got up early and went for an easy run, was very tired until about the last mile.  Got home and took the kids to the parade and such.... fun times:)

warmed up at Marie's for a mile before she came out then we ran to get Julie and then headed up the canyon.  Stayed with them until julie announced she was going to start going faster about 1 mile before we turned so I just tried my best.  Going down was easier but I still couldn't stay with them.  But it made me do a tempo 1-7:18  2-7:14  3-7:15 ending uphill at the end.  then we still held a 7:40 pace for the cool down.

8:05 avg. pace 

P.M. pilates legs and stretching. 

Slept in a little and just went from my house on my own for an easy recovery run.

1:01:58/8:37 

Met Marie and Rebecca down at apx and ran easy loop.  ice after in the canal.

8:13 

pilates legs

I wasn't sure what to think of this race.  I had had a sever stomach ache the night before and still had pain in my upper left quadrant (think my gallbladder is going bad).  And I really had not thought about this race and wasn't in the mood to race.  But I just thought I would go for marathon pace training run.  Woke up at 4 to feed the baby and get to the busses at 5.  Rode up with Mckenzie, Frank, Michelle, and Aubery.  We warmed up 3 miles up and down the canyon.  The race started 34 mins late due to broken down buses, thats what you get for using busses from the 70's.  But we started none the less.  This coarse is up the left side of Hobble Creek and not as fast as the other side, it is rolling down.  But I like it.

1- 6:31 a little fast but didn't feel that way

2-6:56 start with the rollers

3-6:58 feeling good and relaxed

4-7:05

5-6:48

6-7:00

7-7:04

8-7:21  start on the path which is a killer, I didn't like the transition onto the path you had to go on this dirt path and go down this super steep down.  I like the road better through here.  I was  running by myself in most of this race.  no one in front of me and no one behind me, well I didn't really check but I couldn't hear anyone.

9-7:18  Didn't fall apart as much as I usually do through 9 and 10.  I was prepared for this cause me and Michelle talked about the fall apart at 9.

10-7:12

11-7:11 out of the canyon and just using people ahead of me to keep me going.   Pulling them closer and able to pass.

12-7:21  Feeling tired and hot and I know that last mile is going to be hard, but I still am passing a bunch of guys that are in front of me

13-8:05  I was tired, hot, and falling apart.  I stopped at the water stop, which i never do and lost my sub-8 pace and just couldn't get it back.   But the guys that I pass don't pass me back 

.1 6:34 pace 

Only cooled down bout a half mile.  Was tired.  Emailed the race directors to try to get a spot for SG marathon, we will see in a week.

pilates legs

Marie and Rebecca came to my house.  We ran down into Provo and about 3.6 miles into the run Marie says i lost my key.  So we turned around and went back the way we came and found it about 3 miles later so not to far from my house.  stretching.

57:23/8:06

a little sore from the race but not bad. 

Speed work, went well.   Met the Orem girls at TV high warmed up a mile and did mile repeats.  My plan was not to run them all out, just about half marathon pace.  I still don't dare run all out.  Julie stayed with me on all of them and we chatted through the 1st 2 of them and not on the last.  TV mile was the 1st did that in 6:37 then .6 mile and started the next this one was more flat than the last did that in 6:54 and then went to the MTC mile which is all down hill and very fast.  Did that in 6:15, felt good with effort and out come.  I am a little sore on in my right SI, which is the opposite side that has bothered me all these year.  But it will do that sometimes.  Came home and stretch and iced.

7:50 avg. pace 

*signed up for Pocatello marathon* 

pilates legs 

Easy recovery run by myself.  Stretching, still a little sore in the right si

8:50 avg. pace 

got up early to feed my baby before my run and he wouldn't go back to sleep so I brought him with.  Met Marie and Amber down at apx and did a loop.  It was tiring pushing the jogger, Marie took it at the end of the run and it felt like I was on a moving sidewalk.

8:20 avg pace

Stretching, pilates legs and ab ripper x 

Got up early and meet Rebecca and Amber down at vintage, Mckenzie and Aubrey came after 2 miles.  We ran 7 miles before the RHPC half fun run and then ran that run up and down the canyon.  Ran pretty easy up about 8:20-8:30 pace then turned and ran 7:30's on the way down.  Felt a lot better on this 20 miler than the last, beside a side ache for a while and the end but just stuck it out.  Ice in the river with Michelle after.

2:43:24/8:08 

Met Rebecca at her house and ran an easy loop around Orem.

8:30 

Met the Girls down at Vintage and ran easy up the canyon and turned and did a 3.5 mile tempo, went well and got faster every mile.  7:07, 7:01, 6:50 got in the river after.

55:02/7:52 

Baby woke me up at 5:15 and I was going to sleep in and go at 6 got up and fed him but he didn't want to go back to sleep.  Melody had canceled due to stomach issues so I took the baby out for a super easy run.  Ended up running into Melody and was able to run with her for a couple of miles, she even pushed the jogger for a bit.

9:03 avg. pace

stretching 

Pilates legs

Woke up at 4:30 to meet Rebecca and Melody for out long run.  Rebecca's hubby drove us to the top of south fork and we ran down the canyon to 8th south and then back to her house.  Didn't feel the greatest, woke up with a clogged milk duct and it was quite painful esp. with a super tight sports bra on.  I wanted 18 but had no more time to run so I hurried home.

1:56:11/7:44 

Got up early and went to SF ran a bit before meeting Mckenzie and Michelle (charishing the time I have left with her)  We ran easy around the river bottoms we were all tired so no one pushed the pace.  I was happy about that.

1:34:27/8:24 

Met Marie and Rebecca, ran a 6 mile loop with Marie and then me and Rebecca added on.  Was tired in the beginning but then felt good at the end.

1:17:36/8:19

stretching and leg pilates 

Met Rebecca and Amber up at timpview to do mile repeats on the road.  warmed up about 1.6 miles and then started with the tv mile did that in 6:27, .38 in between and started another 6:33 then .46 then mtc mile 6:11 then .75 back to the start of mtc mile but went back to TV drive did that in 6:35.  Cooled down some.

8:11 

Met at Melody's house and ran a little before and then we did a loop from her house that brought you up some killer uphills and over to the temple.  I was tired but so was she so the pace was easy.

8:50

stretching

Off to girls camp until friday, and my daughter turns 15 today.  CRAZY!! 

pilates legs up at camp

 I really didn't know what to expect this morning, I had been up at girls camp the past couple days and was tired plus my foot is bothering me and the drive back and forth really irritated it.  When my alarm went off at 4 i really didn't want to get up, but I paid for this race so I rolled out of bed and got ready quickly and was out the door.  I decided to take some fish oils for my foot for the inflamation, I don't like to take IB to run on but that probably would have been better.  The oils made me sick durning the race, plus just being overly tired I had a horrible race.  I wanted to be done at 9, my legs were shot from the steep down hill (I have decided I don't like these super steep down hill starts they trash your legs and make you feel like crap for the finish).  I wouldn't let myself completely give up and had some help in the end.  1st I saw my friend Amanda and she ran with me for a mile, that helped me forget how awful I felt.  Then somewhere around 11 I passed Smooth and she said some words of in encouragement, I couldn't show her I wanted to quite so I smiled and ran on.  Then somewhere in the last half mile Jonathan C came along with his 1:35 sign and passed me.  I really didn't want that so I speed up and out sprinted him at the finish.  I felt mad and defeated when I finished, I know we all have these kind of races and am OK with it.  But just wish I would have felt better so I could have gotten a better time.

1-6:59 

2-6:50

3-6:49

4-6:50

5-6:30

6-6:37

7-6:49

8-7:06

9-7:59

10-7:53

11-7:44

12-8:13

13-7:51

.1-5:41 pace

cooled down 3 miles with Amber, my foot was sore and I could feel my sciatic so i decided to be done.  I wanted 20 but felt like this was a good move.