Well, blah. Have you ever had one of those days that it seems like your body just doesn't want to do it? I feel like I haven't been running in a month. It was all I could do to finish this morning. Oh well. Sometimes this happens. I made it the planned distance, no where near the speed I should be running. :-(
Dang, had I known I was .03 from .5, I would have gone in a couple circles to make it nice and even.
Ran from the house towards Provo canyon, then did a couple miles around the cemetery track.
Feel a little better today, but still some YUCK in me. My right achilies is acting up again, well, I should say it feels like my whole right leg is acting up. Need to be better about stretching, espcially the ITB.
Ran with Scott and Kelli. Went up Provo canyon. The route was from Wills Pit Stop on Univ Ave in Provo to two miles up South Fork. Can I just say, Kelli and Scott are so dang STRONG. Scott ran like 22 or 23 miles to my 20, Kelli has planter fasciitis, and she stuck right there with Scott and I the whole way. I wish I was good as either of them!
Good run, overall pleased with the time. I forgot to get GU or anything so I was running on just water. LUCKLY my Kelly was out on her bike and came to my rescue. She hooked me up with some gels and that got me to about mile 18. I would have died if I didn't have that. The last two miles were just gut check time. I slowed. :-( Really I guess I slowed the last 3 miles. (8:00, 7:58, 8:01) The 6 miles prior I averaged 7:40 pace. (7:16, 8:07, 7:46. 7:50, 7:37, 7:24)
Time:2:45:26
Avg Pace:8:24 min/mi
Hope everyone got some good runs in! Thanks Scott and Kelly for running with me! And thanks to my Kelly for rescuing me!
Payson Onion Days (6.2 Miles) 00:47:04, Place overall: 22, Place in age division: 3
Running Miles
Swimming Yards
Bike Miles
10.71
0.00
0.00
Race went ok. I was really feeling my legs about mile 3/4. Then I was feeling my knees for about 4/5. That was just hangover from Sat. I hope. Not sure if this is better or worse than last year. But this much is true, I took 2nd last year in my AG and today 3rd. :-(
Saw a ton of people from the blog there. Great race everyone.
Last "race" until SGM!
Have a great Day!
:-)
Cool, just looked and I did get a course PR. Yeah.
Some days I just don't want to get out of bed. This was one. Then the head wind heading UP the canyon seemed to push me backwards. Ughh! Overall, the run was good though. Darn head wind. :-)
Felt good for most of the run. I didn't have a route planned out. I was not wanting to run up the canyon, I felt like I needed some change of scenery. So I thought I would to two out and backs. A 3+ mile then a 2 mile. I had the
math wrong in my head. :-( I thought I was .7 away from home and really
I was 1.7 away. The last mile was HARD. I had an ok time, but mentally
I was having to push myself. Oh well.
I think this is mile 31 for the
week. One of my hardest weeks leading up to St George. (and this seems wimpy compared to all you serious runners out there. Someday, someday I just may become a real runner.)
Had to switch my "long run" to today, Kelly and I are off to Logan, Kelly is riding LOTOJA tomorrow.
I had to cut the run short by 1.2 miles. I'll live with it though. While running I ran into an old friend and his buddy. His buddy said that there is NO way I should run a long, 20 miler, next weekend. Said it was way to close to SGM. Hummmmm. Made me wonder. Am I being stupid and running a long run to close to the marathon?
Don't have the data on today's, but AP was 7:55, and fastest was 7:10.
She took 9th in her category! 206 miles in just over 12 hours. That is a LONG time sitting on one of those seats! Her average pace was 17.5 mph. OHHHH, and what I think was an awesome deal is she took 3rd on the Queen of the Mountain. She held back with her teammate until they could see the top and then she took off. I think she could have won that part, but she is a team player and what goes around comes around and she knew she would need her teammate later in the day.
Kelly had an awesome race! I was very happy to be able to support her and see her throughout the race.
Got a late start on the day. Run felt good, which I was surprised with. My right knee has been hurting all weekend. I was scared that I had done something to it. I stretched my ITB a couple times over the weekend, and this morning prior to running today. Knee felt good, no noticeable pain.
Time: 1:03:30
AP 7:44 (mile 5 at 7:10, mile 8 at 7:14, one or two at 7:30/7:40)
Ran from my house up Provo canyon and back to my house. Going up there was a pretty hard head wind, I have such a mental hard time with that. I feel like its harder to breathe. I know I should look at it as if I am just getting air rammed into my lungs, but I don't. Its harder to breathe. Oh well.
Made the turn around at mile 5 in 39 min. Then had a 2 min negative split going back. Mile 6 and 7 were 6:51 and 6:56. Mile 8 is mostly uphill so I tried to have some good effort, not as much effort as miles 6 and 7, but ok effort, that one turned in at 7:53, then the last two were mostly flat getting to the house. Miles 9 and 10 were 7:10 and 7:36 pace. Felt good, was tired at the end.
Went up and ran in Kelly's neck of the woods. About mile 4 I saw Smooth running her friends hard. Your such a strong runner Smooth.
I was going to run a route my friend Troy told me about last week, but as I got out there I realized he said that it would be 10 miles from where we were at the time, not from Kelly's house. So part way I bagged the route he said and just looped back to Kelly's via the "Alpine Highway." Thats a busy street.
Anyway, I don't have my time but if I remember correctly the total time was 1:16:55 which puts me at a 7:42 pace.
Weill, this was planned to be a 20 miler. Got a late start, then got interrupted with kid problems. Then had to hustle to a kids football game, then running around all over town getting kids stuff taken care of. SHAME on me for not getting out of bed!
It was hot when I was running and I had little energy. Kind of a yucky day. I hope I can finish the marathon in two weeks!
NO ENERGY. Couldn't go in the AM, I had an early meeting at work. So went for a short run at night. I was thinking of going for more miles, but my energy was just so low. I felt like I was well below zero.
Well I am pretty sure I have some sort of yuck in me. I can feel stuff in my throat trying to get out, when I'm out running my nose runs faster than I do. Oh well. POWER through, and hopefully it is gone by this time next week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was meaning to post my heart rate info the other day, but have been forgetting. Soooo, I will today. One thing I noticed on here is mile 4 my AHR was 164 and on mile 5 it was 162. 5 was less than 4, but 5 was almost 30 seconds faster. Reasons I can think of is terrain - 4 was more of a slight uphill and 5 was the same hill for the most part, just going the other direction. Also, maybe the speed/hr is misleading in 4 because I thought I was further than I was and walked while I was turning around, then noticed my distance and knew I needed to be further down the road. So turned and started back running. Then I noticed my time was YUCK so I picked up the pace to make up for the walking bit.......anywho. Here are the #'s.
Ran 3 miles, then took my son to football, then ran almost 6 more.
I'm glad I got in with a group of guys to run SG with so they can help me keep a controlled pace at the beginning. The first 3 miles I felt good and didn't control my pace, next thing I know I'm pulling in home with MP miles. Was supposed to be slow.
Splits:
First 3: (7:35, 7:19, 7:33) AP 7:29
Last 5.85 (8:00, 7:44, 7:35, 7:45, 7:40, 7:51) AP 7:46
