Patience, the NEW Endurance Sport!

FRB Labor Day Potluck Breakfast at my house after the Onion Day's 5k & 10 K tomorrow morning.  I am providing the pancakes (banana chocolate chip) and waffles (whole wheat belgian).  If you would like to bring something, please bring some fruit :)  We've got the paper products, juice, strawberries and pineapple coming.  We are meeting at my house between 6 and 6:15 and then walking over to the race start.  Feel free to meet us at the start or at the end of the race too and walk back with us :)  I'll have the famous FRB sign again, or my husband, David will.  There is a parade at 10 if anyone enjoys that type of torture!  Funny how we'll run for days, but make us watch a parade and we would rather run for days :D  Everyone is welcome- especially your families.  Our house isn't big or fancy, but we've got a lot of grass and love to have company.  We even have a creek to soak your race weary legs ;)

Party....don't let your mama know!  Party....or she won't let you go!!

We had a GREAT time today with all of our FRB's!  Let's see who came; Sarah, Sasha & Crew, Kelli & Scott, Jon A, Kellie & Tyler, Michelle, Paul & the men and my David and off spring.  It was so much fun to see everyone out in force.  I am sure there were more bloggers out there that I did not know :(  Next year, we want everyone to come for sure!!

Now for my race report-  Thanks to Julia and Sasha I made it in under 31 minutes.  Julia was my pacer for the race.  She lost me for mile two, but at the beginning of mile three she was walking and so we hooked up again.  She was fantastic.  We started out way too fast, but it's hard to hold back the sweet pacer, ah youth!  I paid for it in mile 2.  Sasha saved the day at 2.5 miles.  I was pretty pooped and he coaxed me along and I did it!  I was feeling pretty bummed that I am so slow, but I looked up my results from my last OFFICIAL 5k (onion days) and I have improved.  Last time I placed 99th and 13th in my division with a time of 37:18.  So I really did a TON better!  I am going to keep this whole running thing up and see what happens next year ;)

Oh, and for the icing on the cake, I got to ride my bike while Michelle and Sasha ran 4 more miles.  I kept up, but barely.  They can sure haul.  My breaks are horrible on my bike, so, I was a bit afraid on the down hill. 

Great day!  Great fun!

ave pace 10:00, best 6:19, Laps- 9:15, 10:48, 10:07

Yummy Pancake Syrup, just for TylerS :D

1 Cup butter, 2 Cup sugar, 2 Tablespoons Karo Syrup, bring to a boil, then add; 1 Cup buttermilk or cream.  Boil 4 minutes, then add; 3 tsp vanilla, 2 tsp baking soda, whisk together well.  Use a LARGE pan.

My calves were pretty tight at .5 miles and so I stopped and stretched for a bit. That helped a ton. I really like the calf stretches that Dr Brady gave me.  They really relieve the tension!  The run felt really great and at about 2.25, I considered adding a few extra miles. I am really glad I didn't, because at mile 2.75 my quads decided they had had enough. They turned to lead. I forced them on, because I had to get home :) They loosened up at about 3.25 and didn't say much after that. I stretched at home and had a beautiful crookneck tomato scramble with a smidge of sour cream and peach salsa.  Oh, and for a special treat I had a piece of homemade whole wheat toast with the super YUMMY peach jam that Michelle made!  Holy SMOKES, was that a tasty treat!!!  Michelle is quite the domestic goddess!!   Oh, and I found 11 cents today! I am rich! Tonight I will bike per Sasha's instructions.

54:54, ave ~12:10, best 8:50, Laps-12:56, 12:35, 12:08, 10:58

My legs were solid lead today.  The first mile was ok, but after that it was not so hot.  I had planned on 4 miles today, but I turned it around at 1.5 because I just plain thought I should.  Nothing really hurt, I just figured I should let the legs off of the hook since they did not get a day of rest after the race on monday.  The paces were really slow today.  The last split would have been REALLY slow, except I picked up the pace considerably for the last .4 mi :D  I thought if I my legs were going to be lead anyway- I may as well make them go faster :D   I should take an ice bath, but I am so stinkin' cold I just cannot bare it!

I found 2 pennies :) and I was almost killed :(  Seriously- I had to get off the road and he still came with in inches of taking me out.  I am still pretty freaked out about the whole thing.  There had to be a legion of angels keeping me safe today, truly.  My mantra of "Live to run another day," has a whole new meaning now.

Have a great day!

42:25, ave 13:08, best 8:55, Laps- 12:19, 13:21, 12:19

Nice run today.  KimR came along :)  It is fun to run with a friend :D  The legs were better than yesterday, but still not fresh.  I am wondering if they will ever be fresh?  Maybe I am too old for freshness ;D  Anyway- we left pretty late and that is WONDERFUL!  The weather is so nice.  We got lost running a route backwards so our 4.3 miler turned into 5 miles :)  As soon as I am done blogging I am going to go for a bike ride.  I am going to shoot for 90 minutes of running/biking per day.  So I will be riding for 32 minutes today.  David got my jogger stroller all cleaned up and filled with air, so I will be taking the boys with me too.  I need to figure out how to hook it up to the bike.  I hope I have all of the parts to do it still  :)  For those of you have been blessed to see my carport, you know that a little wheel attachment could be LOST FOREVER!!!

Have a WONDERFUL day!  I love the fall!!! :D

5.01 miles, 58:45, ave 11:44, best 8:24, Laps- 12:39, 11:32, 11:50, 11:09, 10:45

40 min bike riding with the jogger/bike trailer thing attached and a 2 and a 4 year old in tow :D  I think that counts as 3 miles of running, right?  12 min of biking for one mile of running, so 3.3 miles-ish?

60 min of Kundalini yoga - I hate the breath of fire!  I LOVE yoga.  Not my favorite class, but good for me anyway :)  Did I say that I LOVE yoga already!

WARNING--- Introspective post today. What do I really want? I want to see what I can make my body do, after so many years of neglect and abuse. I want to see what kind of shape I can get into, or out of, depending on how you look at it J I have always wanted to be a runner, ever since I can remember. It is only recently that I have been able to find the willingness to put the work in to get there. I realize that I am a marginal runner, by comparison to the many other runners we all know, I just have this nagging feeling inside that I can be better, stronger, faster… yeah, I used to watch the Million Dollar Man :)  But seriously, am I willing to put in the work to take it to the next level? I am committed to running 6 days a week and increasing my mileage. Sasha was saying monday, that I need to increase my mileage as it feels right, as my body dictates. Well, here is the problem, I have ignored my body for so long, that it is really hard to hear it. It says, go faster, it says, sleep in, it says, run more miles, it says never run again. I am sure that as time goes, I will get better at listening and telling the difference between my body and my ego. I already have in many respects. As for my diet- it has improved 100% over what it had been for the previous 18-20 years. But as I have gotten into better shape, I see many more ways that it needs to improve. It feels a bit overwhelming and discouraging, so I will do what I have learned to do thus far- focus on ALL of the really good changes I have made, and build on them. I know now that I can do hard things. I can run, all be it slow. I can make good choices. I can make good choices more often. I can do this! I can take charge of my fitness and see where it leads me! I love the improvements I have already seen. I want to see more. I don’t know what will happen…I guess we’ll see :D

Today was a very nice run with KimR.  We were only going to go 3.6, but then Kim remembered a football game tomorrow, so we upped the miles today so we could fit a shorter run in before she has to go at 7am tomorrow :)  All's well that ends well! :D  The run was tiring (how do you spell that?)  I think the yoga and biking may be aiding my poop-ed-ness!  Oh well, as Michelle says, I must set my Amazon Goddess free ;) LOL!!!  I ate pretty well yesterday.  I may have overdone it on the watermelon!  It is so tasty right now, I just can't help it!  I have noticed that the more fruit I eat, the less I crave garbage.  My weight is almost recovered from my Labor Day Weekend CRAP binge.  I will SO never do that again! (probably ;)

6.23 REAL miles, time 1:15:22, ave 12:06, best 8:52, Laps- 11:53, 11:36, 11:56, 12:00, 11:33, 10:40

62 minutes of Yoga :D  I LOVE yoga!!

I'll add the biking when we get back :)  They boys are loving the trailer :)  YEAH!!!!  My two year-old calls the "wagon."

20 min of biking, converts to 1.66 running miles.  My legs felt like over cooked spaghetti!  My fat was screaming as it was being DEVOURED by my muscles!! :D

What a beautiful day in the neighborhood!  I woke up and did 30 min of yoga :D  Then David drove Kim R and me up the canyon to the Maple Dell and we ran down.  We kept the pace very relaxed and conversational.  We saw 4 deer and a bunch of cows.  My legs feel great.  I am going to get in 30 min of biking after breakfast.  I am starved!  Last night I was inspired by Michelle's lasagna, and so I made spaghetti.  I have been CRAVING beef, so I threw some extra extra lean beef into the yummy sauce.  I also took an iron supplement to ward of anemia.  I need to be sure to get my supplements in to ward of any deficiencies I might be creating with the increased activity.

MAJOR BREAK THROUGH!!  We went to Stan's in Provo last night with our girls after the temple.  I have not been to Stan's since college.  They make the best shakes in the WHOLE world!  Anyway, I ordered a peanutbutter hot fudge shake.  YUMM!!  Drum roll please, I only ate half!  I have NEVER eaten just half.  I know some of you really good eaters are thinking I was going to say I passed, but...no, I ate only half and that is GREAT for me.  Next time, my girls and I decided that we would just split one between us.  I am so excited I did that :)

5.67 running miles- 1:01:14, ave 10:48, best 7:47, Laps-10:18, 10:58, 11:05, 10:45, 10:24, 9:41(.5)

30 min biking = 2.5 running miles :)