Patience, the NEW Endurance Sport!

Goals for the week-

#1    Eat good stuff!!!  (good FOR me, that is :)

#2   25 miles this week.  That's all!  Must stick to the plan! (last week I went over plan by 3.5- this overzealousness is what injurs me)

#3   Yoga class 2 x's.  Mini yoga sessions everyday.

#4   Run by 6 am every day.  5:30 am on Saturday. (even if Kim R cries)

#5   Run faster than I want to on shorter runs.

#6   Take water- I panic if I even get a little thirsty.

I took a nice 3.5 mile walk with hubby this evening.  It was really nice out and we found a little path up Payson Canyon to explore.  We will be sure to bring the kids up there.  It would be great to see where it ends up.

Had to work this morning, so I am late posting :)

Alright, I am back and feel fine!  Great run this morning!  Woo HOOO!!!  My calves tried to whine, but I "relaxed" them, and they DID! 

30:43 min,  12:17/mi  total average,  7:25/mi  best pace, Laps; 12:08  (.38mi), 11:59   (.43 mi), 10:47  (.45 mi), 9:19    (.6 mi), 11:18   401.6 feet ;)

Alright, so I am a little OCD with the lap button, but hey- I find the information very informative :)

Time: 56:19, average pace 12:34, Best Pace:  7:16 (this all includes walking warm-up/cool-down and a potty break ;)  <if I use the stop start button I never remember to press start again >

Laps--- 11:22 for .91m,  12:14 for .55m, 9:59 for .56m, 9:04 for .61m, 10:28 for .36m, 9:43 for .16m, 8:16 for .19m, 10:09 for .2m

Great run.  I sounded like a steam engine, but hey, we (me and Kim R) were smokin' (in our world ;)  I am really glad we did it.  It is amazing how slow 11 or even 10 m/m feel when you've been running faster.  It was great today.  

I am hoping to do a fast run each week.  We both want to be faster.  We are so well matched that it gets hard to push past the norm.  It has been so great to have a running buddy though, when one is down the other is up and keeps the other going.  And NO MATTER WHAT KIM R SAYS< she likes running at 6am with me ;)

Time-53:54, Ave pace-12:34, Best pace-6:53

Laps-  11:08(.95m), 11:05(.45m), 7:53(.29), 9:44(.89m), 10:03(.13m)

I started today with about 20 min of very low intensity yoga.  Boy my hamstrings were tight and not ready to wake up.   It felt really good after about the third sun salutation.  Yoga is such a miracle ;)  Anyway- day three of 6 am runs.  I really like having my running all finished and being ready for the day so early.

Now about the run- it was hard :)  This goal of mine to run faster than I have to, is a little rough, but it feels SO good to record the times and see that I have been able to go faster than I thought I could.  Running 10:55 at the  Provo Riverwoods 10 miler, really has done a trick on my mind.  If I can average that for 10 miles, I can go faster, or atleast that fast on shorter runs, right?  Anyway, we are making major progress, in my books, and I am very excited!!

Yesterday I ate very well!  Lots of fruit and veggies, fresh sugar snap peas and raspberries :).  I also made apple cinnamon bran muffins.  Yum!  I went over my POINTS budget for the day by a touch, but I was hungry and the scale showed a loss this morning.  I am really trying to make better food choices to keep my energy up for running.  I would really like to actually place in my age group sometime in the next year.  I don't have to be first, just a single digit would be GREAT!!!!  Dreams dreams!! ;)

(-1.8 lbs from last wed)

time-31:43, av pace 12:35, best pace 7:47,  Laps- 12:48(1.13), 9:44 (.82)

Alright- KimR is the speedy one. I could not move it at all for the first half.  I was sluggish and pokey.  KimR had to stay home cause she wasn't feeling well this morning :(  The first half was pretty slow and tar like.  The second half was a bunch better.  The only hard part about running the shorter distances, is that I start to feel better, just as it's time to stop.

Hey I saw Kim and Tom running down the canyon this morning.  I recognized the St. Geo t-shirt on Tom before I recognized Kim.  I almost yelled "hel-ooooo, fastrunning blogger,"  until I realized I could actually greet them by name.  Cool to see fellow fastrunningbloggers.  Although, I sort of feel like the token slow guy on the blog.  Kind of like affirmative action for running blogs.

Tomorrow KimR and I are going to do our long run down the canyon.  Nothing fancy, super slow and cooler and DOWNHILL :)

-1.6 lbs from last week

Is a lazy run the same as an easy run?  If so- we had an easy run day ;)

Kim R & I had a great run down Payson Canyon and around town.  The official "Payson Canyon FOX Club" has begun downhill training.  If you don't know what "fox" is referring to, see Tom's blog yesterday ;)  Let's just say, we are Hot to Trot! (and we smell like fox's when we get home)

The down hill was great.  My husband dropped us off at the hairpin turn just above Maple Dell (exactly 6 miles from my house).  We took Toms BRILLIANT advice, and ran with small, shuffle strides at a controlled, slow pace- no show boating.  After we got to the mouth of the canyon we ran the roads along the hill (above the canal trail) and then on the canal trail for a bit and then back the same way to the mouth of the canyon and back to my house.  We sat for a minute and soaked our feet in the creek in my yard, checked out our splits and drank some Gatorade.

Life is good.  If we are not too sore, we will repeat this again next week but with a bit more speed on the down hill.  We'll have to see how it goes.

I am planning on swimming laps and water running this afternoon at my brothers cool pool.

Time 1:59:15, ave pace 13:10, best pace 5:40, Laps (the running ones :)10:32,10:56,11:05,12:05,????,11:31,8:58,10:10,10:40 (there was a really pitiful, lovely, walking lap before the 11:31) [these are not true splits- many are more than a mile and some are less- the 8:58 is only .6, the 10:32 is 3 miles, etc) We had a couple funky stops- some idiot left a fire at beer can flats and an adventuresome potty break in the woods.  I need to press stop, these side trips ruin our ave pace.

-3.6 lbs from last friday! woo hoo!  I was wondering when my FAT was going to surrender!!! (oops I said the "F" word... sorry ;)

Time 32:14, ave. pace 11:52, best pace 8:00, Laps-10:56,9:33 (solid real miles ;)

Beautiful short run today.  Wasn't too hot at all.  We left at 7:30, so Kim got to sleep in a bit.  I got up and did an hour of yoga this morning.  It was a great mellow class by Necia on YogaToday.com.  I just love that site.

Now, as for my goals- I broke #1.  I did do a fair bit of walking, so maybe I really didn't break them too badly.  Oh well, life to too short to beat myself up and I am feeling pretty good. 

NO SORENESS TODAY!  ( I am such a KimLee wanna-be)  I swam for about 6 hours yesterday afternoon with my kids and brother, Dans family.  We had a GREAT time!!

Have a GREAT weekend everyone!!!

-.4 lbs from last Sat