Patience, the NEW Endurance Sport!

10:45 ave  Laps- 10:02, 10:22, 10:27, 10:56, 10:51, 10:58, 10:43, 11:35, 11:09, 10:55, 11:37, 10:42, 9:46, 1:14(.18)

At mile 4 my chest started to hurt.  Somewhere around mile 9 my knee went ballistic and hurt enough to significantly change my form.  My neuroma hurt from 6 on. At mile nine my chest pain went significantly up.  Did I mention that it rained, hailed AND snowed?  I didn't realize that my hands were frozen until at mile 9 I went to get two little Tylenol out of my tights pocket and it took me FOREVER.  My hands had no dexterity.  If this report sounds a bit whiney, it's because it is.  I am finally warm, 2 hours after the finish and a HOT bath (all the water heater), soaked until the water heater reheated then took a shower until there was not more hot water again.

This is a 2 minute PR for me, but I was really wanting to see those teens.  It should have been a significantly faster race for me.  Well, it is what it is and there is nothing I can do about it now.

My clothes are SOAKED.  I am tired but need to keep moving for at least an hour before I take a nap and turn into a lump of lactic acid.

KimR- thanks for running the first three miles with me :)  You are such a WONDERFUL friend.  You did a GREAT job on such a TERRIBLE race day :p  We are such fair weather runners :)

Thanks for the cheers, Luz and Alice.  It was SO great to see happy faces and HOT chocolate :) xoxoxo

Thanks Michelle for bringing me in :).  It was SO great to pick off Rainbow coat, cat in the hat dude, green shirt girls, and orange skirt lady.  You saved my last mile :)  You are the BEST!!  Congrats on an AWESOME time :)  Way to kick a minute off your projected time!

Post race injury report ;)

The chest is great :)  I had Anna rub me down good after the race.  I am thinking that this is the source of the chest conspiracy.  I also think that the chest problems yesterday were partially due to the rain.  I have been wearing only one sports bra lately. This has been fine, but when when bra gets wet, all of it's support is lost.  I think that some of the pain/discomfort was exacerbated by lack of adequate restraint ;)

Now for the knee.  Yesterday there was some latent, residual pain.  Today the ITB and surrounding knee is TICKED OFF!!  I am icing it.  I'll roll and scrape later.

And for the fun random weird thing.  I woke up this morning with my face all swollen.  FUN!  I have been itching like crazy and I guess I am allergic to something.  I thought it was this med the doc gave me, but I have been off of it for 3 days.  Who knows.  I look totally stupid!

Two slow miles.  All the parts complained here and there.  I just focused on running "normally" and relaxing.  Nothing really hurt, just squawking ;)  When I got home I did 65 minutes of yoga, sort of an Ashtanga/Vinyasa flow.  Very slow and restorative.  It felt REALLY good.

I went to the doc for my rash.  He has a few theories.  For now he is treating my severe discomfort with prednisone.  He gave me a shot in the office and then a prescription for the next 12 days.  The assumption is that I am having a really good allergic reaction to something.  I pretty much want to scratch my face and ears off, along with parts of my chest and legs.  He wants to see me in 3-4 weeks and run some more tests.  I'm not sure I want to.  We shall see :)  He said the shot would take the itch away in 60 minutes.  It has been 5 hours and I am still ITCHY!  He said I could double up on the Zyrtec.  I am going to do that right now :)

3 slow miles on the treadmill. 65 minutes yoga.  I am itching considerably less today :)  The rashes are even looking better.  The two Zyrtec I took last night, knocked me out pretty good :)  I like that.  The Prednisone gave me a bit of energy in the house cleaning arena this morning :)  Whoo hoo!!

ps- There was a lot less complaining of body parts on the run today :)  It would have felt really good, if I had not been on the treadmill ;D

4 miles with KimR.  10:38mm ave.  It was so nice to run outside with Kim :)

65 min Kundalini Yoga.  Focus: Energize, Create & Inspire, Self Empowerment, Ailment Specific, Metabolism & Digestion, Stress Relief, Full Body, Twists, Chakras

It was a weird class, but it made me feel great :)

I am going to be taking the next 8 weeks really slow and easy.  I am in some kind of immune system frenzie and need to relax a bit and give my body a chance to calm down.  I am really looking forward to it!

10:35 ave.

Nice run with KimR :)  A bit breezy, but beautiful.

65-70 minutes yoga in a bit :)

slow miles alone.  I didn't get into St. George :(  Neither did my SIL.

six slow miles. 1:06.  The weather was perfect!  The whole run would have been PERFECT, except I wore a new running skirt and BOY WAS THERE SOME CHAFING :(:::::::  Live and learn ;)

I'll do some yoga in a bit.  I should go out and weed, but I am feeling lazy ;)  I wish I had remembered to buy some pita chips at Costco.  I am feeling the need for hummus and pita chips....although, I'd just eat WAY too much!

I am about 97% sure that I am going to run TOU.  Anybody else???

10:24 ave.  I ran 2.7 then met Michelle at my house to pass along some books.  Then ran out for the remaining .3.  Way to get it in, Baby!

 I am sold on TOU.  I am VERY excited!! :D

11:15 ave

Four slow miles outside.

I don't think this was 2.6 miles.  I think my garmen was on something.  I ran out of time for running today.  Some stray dogs MURDERED our pet bunny this morning while I was running.  The rest of the family is so upset and I am just SO MAD!  We called the police and if they can find the dogs, they will cite the owners.  Poor Thumps.  He was such a GOOD bunny.

I am SO tired of itching that I can't stand it anymore.  My eyes look so bad that I am glad for my glasses to hide them from view!

Nice little run with KimR.  Kim is running Ogden in the morning.  It should be a perfect day for a marathon.  Good luck to everyone! xoxoxo

Adventure run, in honor of KimR's AWESOME marathon!  I went out for six and decided I'd better do more to honor her 45 minute PR!  YES, a FORTY FIVE minute PR!  She is a ROCK STAR!!  Anyway, I headed out onto the canal trail at the end of Payson and into Springlake.  Well, about half way to Springlake, there was suddenly a guy with a chain saw in the trees off of the trail.  I didn't see him, but I could hear him and I calmly freaked out.  I was going to do an out and back on the trail and stick with 7, but I high tailed it to Springlake and decided to run out to the highway and home with TONS of cars and people as to avoid a possible chain saw massacre!   The guy, or girl for that matter, was probably just cutting wood or something normal, but I have a vivid imagination and a chicken heart!  So, on my way home on the highway for EVERYONE to see me, I needed a potty break..... BAD!  No where for a VPB, so I had to walk for a bit less than a 1/2 mile.  I ran again when it was "safe."  So FINALLY I get to my friend, Jennifer's house to find no one home.  I tried the door.... OPEN!!  :)  I go in to see they have a new HUGE black lab.  Fortunately, he was friendly and let me use the very PRIVATE, well stocked bathroom with a sink and hand towels :)  I made it home .1 mile short of 8 so I ran up the street a bit to get an even 8.

10:46 ave

Nice run in the HEAT!!! 77 degrees.  Man oh man!! ;)

11:00 ave.  nice run before the rain!

nice easy run.  The first half felt really strong.  There was about a 1/2 mile of tired and then a strong last mile finish.  The weather is SO perfect outside.  I ran to my daughters toons.  Fun mix ;)

5 easy miles :)

2 fast miles.  I had to head off to pick up the balloons for Kindergarten Graduation.  Attend kindergarten graduation.  Have a picnic with Michelle, JJ & my boys for kindergarten graduation at Salem Pond :)  JJ caught his first fish!  What a man.  He graduates from kindergarten and catches a fish!

Now I am reading Eclipse and trying to figure out how to spend date night.  I want to go on a bike ride and David wants to dig out the garden.  We'd both like to EAT and go to a movie and EAT!  I really wish I could eat whatever I want and look how I'd like to look.  Man, life is not fair!

11:27 ave.  Slow run.  I ran 5 as soon as it stopped raining.  It was cold and I felt REALLY tired. :p  The next three I ran with KimR.  I got the scoop on her marathon last week.  We were quite a bit faster on the last three.  

My right ankle was a but sore last week after my run and today it has a bit of a niggle in it.

I'm tired.  I'll shower then finish off Eclipse.

11:07 ave.  Nice slow run while the family got ice cream cones at Macey's.

I stepped on a rusty nail :(  no run.  I did drive myself to the Dr office for a tetanus shot :(

Hoped for a run this morning but after discovering that walking is not too desirable, I nixed the run.  Anna is graduating today and I have too much to do to be hobbling around :(

ps- how do you tell your sentimental senior that she may be sad today, but once she gets going in college, high school will fad pretty quickly into the past....

The foot is feeling better today.  I am staying off of it as much as possible today.  Here is hoping that the two miles I've got planned tomorrow feel OK ;)  STUPID rusty nail!!!

I headed out to see how the heel would feel.  It was at the very last edge of uncomfortable.  I wouldn't say "painful".  (David might say painful ;)  Anyway, I could have run 5 miles on it, but I was worried that if I did, I'd not be able to run at all tomorrow.  I guessed that if I saved the heel for one more day that it would be even more healed in the morning.  AND if the running the 10k hurt it, I could live with the pain over the weekend :)  so I came back home and tried to finish Breaking Dawn.  I may have to just hunker down and no let my CHILDREN distract me ;)

I am pretty happy about this race.  This is a 6 and 1/2 minute PR for me :)  I really want to see that 59:59 this year.  I have 2 more 10k's planned, so there is a possibility :)  The nailed foot was fine for the whole race and still is :)  I guess I had the perfect amount of time to heal.  Life is GOOD!!  

Now about the race... The first three miles were fine.  I felt strong and right on target for under a 10:30 pace.  My garmin died right before start time, so I had to ask another runner who I was passing what pace she was running.  I felt pretty good until the mile 4 marker.  I REALLY wanted this to be mile 5. I an not sure where I thought there was another mile in there, but I was pretty dejected at the sight of mile 4.  This mile was slower.  In mile 5, I got a bit of a second wind and started passing the people I wanted to pass.  In mile 6, they passed me back :(  All of my energy was spent by mile 6.  My legs were lead and not too happy to continue to run.  I did anyway.  I saw Michelle and the other speedies in the last 1/2 mile.  Michelle gave me the GREAT news that she WON!! :D

I ran 3+ miles on the river trail afterwords.

BEAUTIFUL morning!  I got up and ran with my FIL, Mac.  It was a GREAT recovery run.  I sure wish he could convince his son to run with me....

We are off to find ourselves an adventure ;)