To keep in balance you must keep moving

I felt sick again this morning so I did not run outside (plus it was a total blizzard!).  I got into the gym to run on the tredmill in the afternoon.   I ran 2 easy then got bored and anxious and did 2 more fast.  Felt great, legs are feeling recovered and ready to go.   Still just a sore throat in the a.m. 's.  Don't know what that is?  Then I climbed for 1 1/2 hrs. till it was time to get the kids.  I'm praying for SUN! 

Woke up to go to running group and felt really sick.  I ended up in the E.R. later in the day with some issues.  The nurse did some tests and said "are you a runner?"  I thought wow, you noticed, thank you"!  It kind of made my day that at least by my heart rate and blood pressure she could tell I was a runner.  Even if i haven't felt like it this week!  It does sure make me feel good to know all this running is doing my body good.  Just thought I'd share that.  I think the diagnosis was not strep throat like I thought, but yes to akindney stone and some other things all at once,  not a fun day!  

I was going to run 10 today but the weather was crappy!  I woke up to snow (again) and was still feeling the effects of my cold.  I forced myself to go out anyway but only went 6 miles.  I ran nice and slow and despite the weather it was good to be out.  I want it to be spring so bad!  I have no more motivation to run in cold and snow.  Knowing Utah it will be 80 next week and I'll be complaining about the heat!  I have to kick it up for the next three weeks and start getting some 40 plus mile weeks.  

I was going to run today but got a call from a friend who wanted to do a road bike ride and I couldn't resist.  We rode 20 miles,  kind of a mellow ride just so nice to be out in the sun, yea!!!    Now if it would last more then 1 day.  Think I may ski tomorrow instead of running group- have fun everyone, I feel like I have not seen you all forever!

I was going to ski but due to avy danger we ran instead.  We ran up signal mnt. it ended up being a 6 mile run but took 1hr. and 30 min.   It was muddy and snowy and steeep but so fun.  I really need to increase my milage though or I'm going to be in trouble!

Made it running group but not to the early miles (maybe next week).  We did 2 5k's ran the first one  semi easy-had a nice chat with eric.  We did 24 min.  The next one i ran hard and chatted with Michelle, we did it in 23 min.  Then I did 2 extra to get to 8 miles.  I went skiing the rest of the day and am now very worked!  Hope to get in 12 at least on Sat. then bump up the milage next week.

I ran with a group of BBK's today.  It was a great run, great weather, great company-made it go by fast.   We were also going really fast!  We finished in 1:30 and I think our avg. pace was 8-8:15.  I was excited to keep up since the last time I ran with them I did not!

The weather was so nice to day I had to take advantage of biking weather-it looks bad the rest of the week.  I only had 45 min. so I rode hard and did lots of hills.  Made it 13 miles before I had to come home.  I don't know why biking feels so much harder then running, my legs felt tired and heavy.  

I finally made it to the early miles today and was able to get 9 total.  I'm trying to get high miles this week since I'm 5 weeks from my 50k.  I'm doing a 24 miles run on SAt. though so I don't know how hard to push it.  I felt terrible today, stomach ache and just yucky!  Luckily we ran pretty slow and mellow today.  I think it's the antibiotics I'm on right now.  

Did 6 with group, not hard, not easy, felt much better then Tues.  Decided to only do 6 b/c of the long run this weekend.  I'm excited but scared!

Ran the West Rim trail in Zion with Mindy. We decided due to snow and mountain lions to start from the park and run 13 out to Lava Point trail head and 13 back. It was steeeeep, long, snowy, muddy and hard! It was also beautiful and very fun. I did not eat enough in the a.m. and felt low on energy all day. I carried a camel back which hurt my shoulders and bugged me all day-can't decide the best way to carry water. We stopped at 13 and ate a clif bar which really helped, I needed some real food. I ate a yogurt and banana in the a.m. and it was not enough. I also had aome power gel and some jelly beans which were fun to eat and kept my mind off the tired legs. It was to much uphill walk-running and not enough just running. The downhill was so great but from Angels Landing down it was so steep and my legs were done! I think Sapper joe will feel nice and level after this run.

ran 4 miles after taking the whole week off, felt slooow today.   It's so hard to take time off to recover, I feel so weak when i start up again.

Long-semi slow, sunny bike ride we did 20 in an hour and 30 min.  Riding with friends who like to visit while they ride, what?

Felt terrible this morning but wanted to be outside running again.  First mile was so bad, I actually had to stop and walk for a min. I think I'm getting strep again, I feel sick!  The run got better and better, my avg. pace was 9:00 so I felt o.k.  By the end I felt great, funny how that works.  I have a sore throat now (the air was cold today) but feel o.k.  I need to do another high milage week, for me that's still only about 35-40 miles.

I'm still feeling really tired so I decided to sleep in and run later in the day.  Luckily my Mom was around to babysit!  I ran 6 miles on the BST up behind the capital.  It was a beautiful day, so green up there!  The hills are steeep though.  I forgot how much I like running in the sun instead of the dark!  i took it easy because my heart is still skipping beats and i felt great.

Met the BBK's ( only a small, lonely group of us) at Daybreak.   We did a mile tempo and 2 2 miles tempos and i stayed after for some miles.  I'm still to tired to go early.   I felt good, our pace was pretty fast, 8 and under every time I looked.   A beautiful morning, perfect temps and Daybreak is a great place to run- nice hills, no traffic and cute little houses to look at.   Off to Moab to do another long trail run this weekend.