Moving Forward

Ran the parkway... then when I got to the top I continuted up the dirt path... not as far as I did last week. I felt a bit drained today, don't really know what's up, I tried to pick up the pace at about the 6.5 mile mark... tried to keep the pace at about 8mm but I think I failed miserably.

We are going to Park City tomorrow thur Monday for a long 4th of July weekend. They will probably have a 5K on Saturday I will try to run. I will be taking it easy today and Friday.

8.01 miles - 1:13:22

laps: 8:42, 8:46, 9:00, 10:54 Trails, 9:55 trails, 8:40, 8:33 tried to pick up the pace, 8:48.

We are having lovely rain!!! I went to the gym though... first it's the only way to get my dear hubby to work out and second even though I love the rain I was not really in the mood to run in it. I did get my dear hubby to do about 1.5 on the treadmill next to me. :) 

Pretty nice day... I won't have access to a computer so, I will post the rest of my runs later. I hope everyone has a safe and happy 4th.

7 miles - 1:04:22

Ran in the morning before we took off for our weekend at Park City. Didn't feel great, but not horrible either. 

6 miles: 56:56 

average pace: 9:29

This was just a fun run... Tons of people though, there were 560 women. I placed 6th in my age group out of 51. If this had been a 5K I think it might have been a PR for me!!Ran another mile total to and from the race. I had plans to run again while I was up there but that was not the case :( But my family went on a nice bike ride on the rails to trails paths so I guess I was not a total slug. Had a wonderful time!! eat way too much! 

I'm off this week... my work has such down for the entire week, but I didn't run yesterday so it looks like a low mileage week for me. I often think about doing a fall marathon, but it get so difficult to train during the summer. My family always has other plans and don't think that all our vacations should revolve around my running... What's the deal with that? So it seems like I tend to slow down a bit in the summer.
Anyway my run this morning felt good, I need to get new shoes though. No real plan to the run, just started from my house and ran around the hood for a bit. :)

6.08 miles 53:59

Today was MISERABLE!! First I got up later then I had planned, this is not totally bad... I think sleep is good. Then I have been needing new shoes for a while. I looked at the bottom of them yesterday after my run and I have now worn through the harder black bottom layer and I'm starting to wear off the softer white cushy stuff on places on the bottom of my shoes. My goal today is to get some new shoes!! So I pulled out a pair of older shoes that I still had in my closet... I looked at the bottom and they seemed to still have a bit of running left on them. Big mistake not looking inside them before I put them on!!About 3 miles into my run I could feel a pinching feeling on my heel... by mile four it felt like a white hot poker on my heal!! I don't know why I kept these shoes... they were the ones that gave me a huge blister... and now I have another one :( Took off my shoes about a block from my house and ran stocking footed the rest of the way...I should have done this earlier, it felt so much better then the shoes LOL. Garmin was acting up this morning so the mileage is a guestimate, and I'm clueless of the pace... It was painful so I'm sure it was terribly slow. To top off this lovely run about 1/4 a mile to the house I starting with tummy trouble. I was lucky though, there was some construction on the road I was on and they had a port-a-John. I'm blessed/cursed to have no sence of smell so they don't bother me :) The curse of no sence of smell... my garden is blooming so pretty... wish I could smell the lillies I cut and put on my table. 

So I'm chalking this run as done... and moving on and tomorrow will be better! Now I'm going to go weed the gardens, and feel the grass between my toes!

Today was slightly better run then yesterday, but still was not feeling my best. Got up pretty early but it took me a while to feel like I wanted to even try to run. I did get new shoes yesterday... had to go to two stores to find some asics in my size, they only had the more expensive ones so I was disappointed, but I knew that I had better get some because my heel was really starting to hurt. I'll ice it today also. I ran a longer loop from my house, when I got to about 4 miles my tummy started to bug. I knew there was a park at the bottom of the long hill I was on, when I got there it was locked so I chased the guy on the lawn mower around til he saw me and could unlock the door. He was soooo painfully slow walking back to the restroom, I don't think he felt the urgency I was needing him to feel. When I was about 1/2 a mile from my house there was a runner on the road coming the other direction. At first I thought it was a lady but as they approched I realized it was a guy.... Fabio LOL he looked just like him. He was wearing tight short shorts, tight tank top, almost like a unitard LOL and a long blond pony tail going half way down his back. It was a sight right out of a romance novel... if you are into that look LOL!! Anyway made me laugh to myself a bit. 

8 miles- 1:14:57

Average pace 9:15

Same route as yesterday but minus the tummy trouble and Fabio. Still not feeling 100% though. Legs were very heavy and just felt lots of fatigue. Well I'm off today to mow the lawn, clean house and if all goes well clean out the camping trailer for out annual Bear Lake trip withe the family next weekend :)

Got a very late start to my day... but the extra sleep was heaven!! My run felt a bit better then yesterday, but still had very tired legs and lots of pain in them. I made an appointment to get into a doc in a couple of weeks. Slow miles today didn't really have a plan but was hoping to get at least 9 miles, so that's a small victory!!

Have a great weekend bloggers!

9.31 miles - 1:25:09

Ran 5:28 in the morning before work... a skunk ran across the road in front of me I slowed down a bit so I didn't get too close, it was still a bit dark and at first I thought I was a cat. Then every time a saw a cat I had to double look to make sure it wasn't a skunk. 

Then ran 3 more miles at the gym, did the last 1/2 barefoot. I can't say that I really liked this, was a bit weird, and I got a blister on the ball of my foot. 

Got invited to go climbing tomorrow after work at the climbing gym in Ogden... It's been a long time, hope I can manage.

Got up and ran before work again today. I think 5 1/2 is the most miles I can get in before work unless I can get up earlier. That is unlikely though, today was difficult, I stood on my porch for a few seconds really wanting to turn around and go back to bed, but I figured I had made it out the door I might as well run LOL. No skunks today, or cats. But there was a horse that was hanging he head over the fence at one point, I thought he might try to get me as I went past, but he just look at me like I was crazy. Got invited to go climbing tonight after work, with a few ladies from work. I think I will try to get hubby to come down to the climbing gym too. So I probably won't get any more miles in today. I tomorrow morning is not as difficult as today was.

5.50 miles - 49:23

Average pace: 8:59 

Not much happened with this run, it was difficult to get through it. Had a bit of tummy trouble and had to stop a few times. Kept it pretty slow.

7.2 miles average pace 9:30

Up early to run before work, I was hoping to get a few more in after work, but as I was leaving home my hubby asked if I was coming home early... we are going to Bear Lake this weekend and have tons of packing to do. He wanted me to get off work early but I told him that was not going to be possible. I'm hoping to get in a few miles in the morning before we take off. But I will not be back to the blog until Tuesday.

As far as my run today... it was pretty basic. Not much happened...

5:54 miles 49:39

laps: 9:28, 8:59, 8:35, 9:16, 8:41, last .54 8:34

I was able to get a pretty good run in before I had to help pack for our trip to Bear Lake.

I got up pretty early and ran, up into Lake Town. Then a bit into round valley. Tons of bunnies hopping around, a couple of chipmunks and just as I was getting to the turn around point two deer. It was a lovely run... I would have liked to go longer, but I was afraid I would get back to late to fix breakfast. I had to change days for my meal to cook, with one of my sisters, and I knew that hubby would not be happy with my if I was too late and he had to do it all himself. But it was a very nice run!

I was hoping to get up and run before we had to pack to leave. But I stayed up way to late eating smores around the campfire with all the family... so fun! My oldest daughter doesn't let her kids eat anything with high fuitose corn surup. So she had homemade marshmellows and gramcrackers... YUMMY! Yes I raised a funny hippy girl :)

Today felt pretty good, considering I eat way too much junk while on our vacation to Bear Lake. I thought I had gotten used to the hot weather, but lately after work it has been in the high 90s. I need to make sure I get up before work tomorrow. I ended up running today on the treadmill, kept it at about a 9.15 mm.

I was planning on doing 7 miles but had some tummy issues. My 19 year old son was up all night on a upchuck-a-thon. I'm really hoping I'm not catching it. Kept it at about a 9.5mm pace. 

Well I didn't get up before work AGAIN... and the temp thing in my car read 102 when I got out of work. So it was another treadmill day :(... I really need to get myself up before work. I was able to zone out pretty good on this run, it was only about the last half mile that I really just wanted to stop. I kept the pace at about a 9mm.

I'm off work today, so I slept in a bit. I usually get my run finished before my hubby has to go to work, but today I took off for my run as he was taking off to head to work. The temp thing at the city building I passed said 77 degrees, I should have started earlier. My left heal had hurt for about the first half mile... then it felt fine so I thought it was going to be a nice run... warm but good. Then it all feel apart at the 2.41 mile mark. I thought at first I just had a stuffy nose, but the I realized I was having a bloody nose. AUGHHH! I stopped at a house that still had their sprinklers on and tried to wash my hands and shirt and get it to stop. After about 5 minutes of trying I could tell it was just getting worse. I wadded up my RHPC shirt to my nose and started my walk back home. I looked like something out of a slasher movie by the time I got home. Hand and arms covered, face and shirt. I never expose my tummy when I'm out running, it was humiliating having my marshmellow white, jiggley tummy exposed while I was walking home... I finally got it stopped, but I don't think I will go out and try to get any more miles in.

Tomorrow is my annual birthday run with my running friend. We both have July birthdays! So we run the trails up by snowbasin ski resort and then have breakfast at the Oaks in the canyon. It is a great tradition! We were not able to run it last year due to Sue's injury so we are both really looking forward to it. This will be the first year I've had my garmin so I will know just how far this run is. I estimated it to be about 10 miles before. I guess will see. I'm off to get a massage and get me a new sewing machine for my birthday, it's Sunday. My old sewing machine broke about two years ago, and when I went to get it repaired they said for the cost to repair it, it was better to buy a new one. Oh I think my average pace for the pathetic miles I put in today was 9.09mm

Have a good day blogger!

So today was my birthday run with Sue. This has been our tradition since we met and became running friends, about 7 years ago. Last year due to her injury we were not able to do it. So it was even better and sweeter doing it this year! You can check out the pictures from our run on my blog. It was tons of fun! We were a bit slow but it's a long climb up, then when you are running down you think it great because you are going down hill... but after a few miles my legs were just plan tired. My left heel really started to bug, so I have been icing it a bit this weekend. 

I think we average about 12:00 mm

Have a great weeked bloggers!!

Got up before work today YAHOOOO and got in a few miles. The plan is to go to the gym and get a few more after work, also do a bit of weights (Blah)

So this morning was a pretty good run. Are the days already getting shorter? It seemed much darker this morning then it has in a while. Maybe I was out a bit earlier or many there just wasn't any moon this morning. My headlight got broke the other day so I will need to buy a new one soon. Because it was so dark I loop the neighborhood a bit til I felt more comfortable. As I got to the top of the hill, and headed down another street, I looked up just in time to see a shooting star... so cool. It was just before it was too light to see any stars. I ran part of the 5K course I ran a few weeks ago, then did 3 hill repeats by the round-a-bout. This is the hill I normally do hill work on (Not that I do it that often) but instead of just turning around at the top and running down, I went around the round-a-bout that is by it. I think I like doing it this way... it gives me a bit of a break to catch my breath. I don't know if that is how you should do hill work though. I would have gotten about 1/2 a miles more but as I was coming down the hill back to my house my tummy really started to bug, so I just went straight home.

*Went to the gym after work and got three more miles in on the treadmill. Then did upper body weights and core work. 

I don't even remember turning off the alarm this morning! So by the time I woke on my own, there was not way I was going to get a run in :( In fact it was lucky that I made it to work on time. Don't really know what's up with me, but I have been miss placing things and forgetful alot for the past few days. I hope I can pull myself together soon. 

So I ended up at the gym again....I ran miles 3 and 5 at a 8mm pace. Miles 2, 4 and 6 and a 8.5 mm pace, then the others at between 9 and 9.5. I guess this is a temp run of sorts. It felt pretty good. Towards the end of the fastest miles my breathing was getting harder, not too bad though. I hope that I can get myself up tomorrow for a morning run!

I had a battle with my inner 2 year old this morning. It was not pretty... I got up and walked around the house a bit, did the potty thing, and got dressed to run... then undressed and back in bed.... then got up and got dressed again!! My arguments "It's too dark and I dont' have a head light that works" ..."You don't want to run on the treadmill again so get dressed"... "My heel is hurting a bit maybe running on the treadmill would be better"...."Doing all you miles on the treadmill is not good for your body or your mind" ... This went on until I finally put on my big girl panties and got myself out the door! It was crazy!! So needless to say I only got a bit over four miles in. I will probably get a few more in at the gym after work. The run felt pretty good first two miles were slower then the last two. I averaged a 8:50mm for the run.

** After work ran a slow (9:30mm) three miles on the treadmill. Zoning out and contenplating the past few heated conversations I have been having with my 19 year old son. He seems to think he needs a motorcycle. I on the other hand feel that there is no way while he is living under my roof he will have one. His goal job, when he grows up, will be building and fixing motorcycles so his arrgument to me is that eventually this will happen and he will own and ride them. I have told him I'm fine with this career choice and that it will be when he has moved out. Needless to say he feels I'm unresonable. A couple of days ago a co-workers 19 year old son borrowed a friends motorcycle and crashed coming down Ogden canyon without a helmet. I now listen as he is telling me they are hoping he will wake-up. All the dreams they have had for this young man, have changed. Now you are just hoping he will regain some of what we consider a normal life. All the questions... will he walk? Will he be the same? What kind of life/functioning will he have. When my son talks with me about this motorcycle as if nothing could ever happen to him... even when I told him about this other kid. He looks at me and says that will never happen to him... Oh to be 19 and bullet proof... in some ways I do envy that mindset. But for now all that talk just confirms to me that he is no where near mature enough to have a motorcycle.

Another run at the gym... I'm getting a little better at mornings, but not as good as I need to be. Sometimes zoning out on the treadmill is not too bad. I guess that's what tonight was... It's a bit like moving meditation. Took the scissors to my hair last night, again probably not the best thing to do but my hair was really bugging me. LOL No one at work or home commented so it either looks so bad they didn't want to say anything or I didn't change it to bad. Oh and I got a new headlight...if I get up in time tomorrow I will try it out. 

So I could not sleep last night... first my youngest daughter was out with some friends. I have a very hard time falling asleep when my kids are not home. I'm getting better when it comes to my youngest son, but for some reason it has not clicked yet with my daughter. After about 40 minutes of trying to sleep I got up and went to my doll room/studio and worked on a pair of hands for a new doll that I have been working on. Then I made my biggest mistake... I got on the computer to see what time the movie she went to was going to get out, and I got draw in to the time suck of the internet...all the wonderful info on so many things right at your finger tips. Sometimes it is just too enticing! So even after I made my way back to my bed, it took me a while to shut down my brain from all the things I was looking at. To most people pretty borning doll stuff LOL to me it's like heroin! Needless to say when the alarm went off for a morning run I turned it off and went back to sleep. I will be double fisting the diet Dr. Pepper to keep me going at work.

Also on a somewhat related note... I have been so forgetful lately. Misplacing my purse, my braces and then this morning I packed my gym bag for my run after work and when I got to work I realized it is still back home somewhere. Probably by the door waiting for me to pick it up! Let's hope this is a passing phase that will pass me by soon. I hate the feeling that I'm loosing it.

** Update after work:

4 slow/easy miles... called my running friend and she wants to do 12-13 tomorrow. We are planning to do TOU 1/2 in a few weeks... maybe I should be planning better for it??