To keep in balance you must keep moving

I went to the rec. center because I slept in again!   I only had 45 min. left till the daycare closed so I ran 3 miles fast on the treadmill, then ran stairs for 10 min. and did some weights for my legs (to see if I can fix this painful knee).  I wish I was running outside!   I did 10 on Sat. and my knee was bugging me.

Ran with the group today, watch alarm did not go off so I only made it for 3/4 of the workout.  We ran a sick hill relay then a nice long cool down.  I could never run like that alone so I am always so thankful for the group, only did 5 miles!  I did my first road bike ride in a couple months today, felt so good except for the hurricane force winds.  We did 18 miles, can't wait for spring!

Rest day, bouldered 2 hrs. at gym.

Slept through alarm again, I was so mad!  I was even going to go at 5:15 and get the extra miles in.  Not only did I sleep in but I woke up to snow!  I ran around a bit till I found the group then did a 2 mile tempo run with them, felt so hard!  Then we did a mile or so cool down and I stayed after for another couple miles to get a full 7.  My left ankle and knee are still bugging me from the Moab race.  Makes me wonder if I really want to do a 50k trail?? 

Rest day (from running) -Rode my road bike on my trainer for 45 min. guessing around 16 miles?  

I really wanted to do the 20 mile run with the BBK's but my husband failed to inform me he was going snowmobiling at 6:30 a.m!  So I decided to go skiing with my boys and run later.

I wanted to do a trail run so I left the boys with my brother after skiing and did a run in the canyon.  It was suppose to be a long trail but after 20 min. I started to see Mnt. Lion (or very large dog) tracks in the snow and got super scared!!   There were no other human footprints and no one else in the area so....  I turned around and ran back to car as fast as I could carrying a very large rock in one hand and my car key (as a weapon) in the other.   I then drove back to the city and ran another 6 miles on the canal roads (I figured I was pretty safe from animal attacks there).   It was a great run but not as long or hard as I hoped for.  

just ran 5 boring miles on the tredmill, I hate that thing!   I really tried to go fast as possible to get it over with.  I don't know how you guys run 10 miles on that awful thing!

skied instead, yahooo!

I missed the running group yesterday so I made myself run alone, in the dark today!  It's so hard to get up when my body knows it's really 5 not 6 a.m.    I felt terrible today too!  I did not sleep well,  and I have not been drinking enough water at all lately and I hope that's why I felt so bad.  I made it about 7 miles then went home and tried to go back to bed, no such luck in our house!   I did run into Peggy out on the road and another friend so that was kind of fun.  

Met the group and ran some hills, lots of hills.  I like hills but I had had enough by the end.  I was late agin so I did 5 with the group and 3 extra after.  My 3 after were pretty slow with some more hills thrown in.  I read some 50k training plans yesterday and they said to get really used to hills, even walking hills so that's what I did.  I need to do some long runs back to back as well, soo fun!  I hate training, I only like racing but I guess it's the price we have to pay right?

Rest day, climbed 2 hrs.

I was going to do the long run with the BBK's but decided to ski one last day instead.  We went backcountry for 6 hrs!  I am worked!   We hikes superior and skied the backside into upper days 3 times then took a run down flagstaff.  The snow was fluffy and deep, best day of the year!   I can't believe what a workout that is, I really thought I was in pretty good shape but it felt super hard!  I've given myself 10 miles.

I don't know why I feel so bad on Mon. mornings but i always do!  Is it all the junk I eat on Sunday?  I took it easy, did 5 miles in 45 min.  around my neighborhood course.   My legs feel a little heavy from Sat. but not sore.   I'm going to take it easy this week and bike alot because of Moab on Sat.

I finally made it to running group on time!  I just need to get there at 5:15 for extra miles now!  We did 6 miles of hills, sprints, fartleks and other fun stuff.   I felt much better then yesterday but still dehydrated.   I have to make myself drink more somehow.   I came home and even had time to stretch and do some sit-ups and pushups before the kids woke up, yea!  

rest day, climbed 2 hrs at the gym

I slept in today and rode with a cycle club tonight-20 miles, they said it was an easy ride but they were not taking it easy!!  We did 20 in an hr. I was pooped!  not smart to do right before Moab when i'm trying to take it easy but i was the only girl on the ride and couldn't let them drop me!  Adding my biking miles is really going to mess up my running total milage- any ideas?

I need to do an easy run tomorrow now to get my legs running again.   I'm nervous about Moab.  I want to get a good time but I don't know if I'm in fast mode right now.   I should juts take it easy and run with my brother but I know I won't be able to do that mentally.   Oh well here it goes.

Do you know how bad I wanted to do my little easy 3 mile run today?   My baby woke up at 6:30 am.m so i missed my running time.  I waited till the other 2 were awake and made them go on a bike ride while I ran along side.   We ran around and around horseshoe cir. till i made 3 miles.  They were tired and getting bored so I'd have to push them and pull them and race them and anything I could do to keep them going.  It was kind of pathetic but it's so nice to be outside and felt so good to do an easy run.  Off to Moab.

Well the Moab half is over and it wasn't pretty.   I was hoping to get under 1:40 but that wasn't in the cards.   I was one min. faster then last Moab but 10 min. slower then my last half.  I'm not sure what happened but my legs were like lead!  I just had no umph!     I usually feel great on this race and try to sprint through the finish but this time i almost crawled through.  I did not take it easy enough the week leading up to the race.  i did not over run but i backcountry skiied and biked really hard which was really dumb.  I was so thirsty the whole race too, I could not get enough water.  I am o.k. with my time which was 1:44:37 I am just upset with hoe bad i felt, I was mentally gone too, I wanted to quite and just walk so bad which i haven't felt in a while.   I went out really fast (for me)  my first 4-5 miles were around 7 min. miles and my last couple were 9 min. miles- not good!   My husband says I'm taking this way too serious but it bothers how bad I felt.  Seems like a lot of work to have a bad day.  Oh well, I have another race next Sat. so I'll try again.  Any advice would be greatly appreciated and advice on what to do this week to try to recover and get ready for next sat. too.  I did see Kelli which was nice but she took off and I could not catch her.   My brother who weighs 250 did his first half in 2:45 I was very proud of him. Running along with him to his finish really made me remember what running is all about and why I love it so much.  It's really about just pushing our own limits whatever they may be and over coming them, right.  

Rest day.  I got myself  a little post race massage, wow!  I should do that more then once a year or two it felt great!

I went to running group today but i should have probably just run a couple miles alone.  Luckily Kelli and Walter were taking it easy too so I was not completely alone.   I still feel a little sore and tired from Sat.  

rest day, climbed 2 hrs. at the gym

Darn this snow!  I love snow but once you've had spring it really stinks!  I just went to the climbing gym and ran 6 miles on the tredmill and did a yoga class.  I'm trying to take it easy for this race on Sat.

rest day, skied at snowbird!

I was too tired and lazy to blog yesterday so here's my report.  The day was perfect!!!  The weather was perfect, shorts and tank top weather finally!  I had a good friend to run with, the course was awesome (2nd favorite race, ever!).  If you have not run on the island you have to!  The trails were so nice, singletrack, a little sandy, a little muddy, a little steep just what you look for in a trail race right!   I felt great too, way better then last weekend in Moab- not sure why.  I slept better the night before, I rested better the week prior, I ate better the morning of the race and I think I just love trail running!  If I was not in the potty when the gun went off I think I could done even better (my only complaint about that race, only 2 porta potties, ouch!).  There was also only one aid station which turned out to be just fine, I carried water and gu and it was all I needed.   So I started the race in the back of the pack -due to the potty stop and had to do a lot of passing.  The first mile or so was uphill and there was not much room to pass.   I also decided after Moab to take the first 1/2 easy and last 1/2 fast.    I ran with my friend and we chatted and it was so nice, the scenery was beautiful and we actually did see a whole herd of buffalo.   I tried to keep it slow but it was very hard, I hate getting passed.  I remembered every one was passed me to see if I could pass them later.  Around mile 7 or 8 there was a huge  hill, lots of switch backs, it felt great though, I don't mind the hills (thanks to peggy and cheryl!)  I decided at the top of that hill I would take off and see what I could do the last half.   I finally caught and passed everyone that passed me and then about 8 more women and 2 more the last mile.   I felt great and wished I'd gone faster at the start (but mabye i would not have felt so good at the end, who knows!)  I looked at my watch a couple times the last few miles and I was under 7 or a little above.   I don't know the rest of the splits because I'm not that high tec. and there were no milage signs to go off of.   I ended up 9 women overall and 4th in my age group, I think the results are not up yet.  I'm not sure how many were racing either.  It was overall an excellent day, I will do that race for sure next year, mabye even the 50k if I'm feeling really tough.  It is just two laps of the course i did.  Today I cannot imagine doing that course twice unless I walked a lot, all the hills for sure!  I'm just happy I felt good and am getting scared for my 50k in May. (the race was 16.1 miles and we did an easy 4 to make it 20 after the race).

I rode my bike on the trainer this morning 30 min. i'm guessing 10 miles i really have no idea.  i read that a nice slow paced non impact workout the day following a race is the best way to recover, we'll see.  P.S.  Good job to all of you who ran Riverton, you are all so dang fast, I'm proud to run with you all.

Can you actually catch a sickness through the blog? Because I woke up this morning with a terrible sore throat and just know it's strep again.  RAD gave it to me, somehow!  I'll blame her anyway-just kidding.  I do feel sick though so I decided at 5a.m. to sleep instead of run and i did till 8 am!  I must be sick, yuck!  I will hopefully be back Thurs..