BACK TO WORK

AM - chad and I did the VR loop from the bank.  It was okay, but I am still trying to overcome fatigue.  My heel is hurting pretty bad at this point.  I am going to take tomorrow off again and see if I can recover.  I am feeling tired right now.

AM-ran the GW out and back.  Met chad by GW and talked for a bit.  i felt better today, but I looked forward to taking a full day off on Friday.

I took Kire up to SLC last night, so he could run in a meet at East high.  He did okay but wasn't prepared for the 1500 because it was the first race.  The 800 went better.  He ran 2:54, but wasn't pushed much.  I would like to see him get down around 2:45, so he needs to condition a little better.  He is at 1:19 for the 1st lap, but blew up the 3rd 200m.  oh well, he will get it.

Anyway, my run was good.  A real confidence booster, and I think I am recovered completely from the 14 that I did on Saturday in Provo.  I did that too fast even though I didn't feel bad at the time.  I went 8 around virgin river loop from home today at around 7:15 a mile.  Laur pedaled with me for the run, so that was really nice.  I felt really good at the end of it, so I think I am ready to go after a week to let my foot heal a little.

1st xc practice w/ the kids and logan.  ran w/ logan and then darian the last mile out to spectrum. 

XC practice.  ran with kyler brinkerhoff.  he and lex and kat decided to run a little w/ the team after graduation.

dress rehearsal out and back w/ chad on the virgin river north.  We were at 7:13 for the 4.  I am ready to go!

hiked w/ the kids, sis and her kids, and dusk and his kids to upper emerald pools.  I carried cienna most of the way up and down. I dont know how smart that was, but we took it easy the whole way, so I don't think I will feel the effects of it at the race on saturday.

I made it! I made it! I had to get old to do it, but I qualified for Boston! The ever elusive 3:15 still slipped away while I crashed into the runner's stupor the last mile and a half.

I didn't feel stressed at all about my time leading up to the race, so that was nice. Chad and I got to the start line an hour early. I was freezing and shaking, so I used my clothes bag as a toke before the race. I am sure everyone thought I was an idiot, but at least I wasn't losing heat out the noggin! We saw Heather as we were shedding the sweats, so she joined with us to the start. This turned out to be such a good move for both Heather and me.

I didn't keep my mile splits like a dummy, but I had my race band, so this is how the race went for me.We got out a little slow on the 1st mile, then we picked up #2,#3, #4. We lost chad here, because he planned to stay with the 3:20 pace group, but the 3:20 pacer was way too fast and blew up all of his group by #15. In fact, later we saw him hustling past us without his sign! What?! That's no way to make friends!

We were right on with my race band at #4. We got a little fast mile #5 through #7, so we were 51:50 here which is not quite 2 minutes ahead of my band. My right calf was tight here, but by #11 I was feeling pretty good. We went across #13 at 1:36:28 (almost exactly 2 minutes ahead of pace)  

#13 through #18 eat me up on this course because I think I can go 7:15 per mile here, but with the rollers I was happy at 7:25 or so.  We gave back time, but we were still ahead of schedule by 40 seconds at #21.  I felt decent at #22, and heather was struggling a bit.  I just told her I needed her and we started coaching each other here.  We sounded like we were talking to our track kids, but for me it was mostly just positive self-talk.  

I was fading at #24 and Heather pulled her phone out and called her sister at the finish line.  Who does that?! I thought if she is strong enough to be making calls and yapping on the speaker phone, I have to stay with her.  We were right at 3:00 at 24.2.  I knew I didn't have sub-3:15 here, but I thought I may still be able to go 3:15.  Heather went on at #24.5.  I grabbed a water, tried to surge and had nothing.  It was auto-pilot from there.  I crossed the finish line, and Heather was waiting there.  If we weren't married to two different people and didn't stink, I may have kissed her on the mouth.  She really pulled me the last 3 miles.  She is a great gal!

Big props to my track kids for giving me a great base.  Bigger props to Chad for running the long runs with me all spring.  Massive props to Heather for taking me to a big PR!

It is R&R for me now.  I think I will be taking the bike to XC practice next week!        

Rest Day! Slept in until around 7.30 and then went down to xc practice. Calves are tight, but the plantar fasc. has mostly gone away.  Very weird, but I will take it. 

AM-Spectrum run with xc.  I felt pretty worn by the last 1/2 mile, and my right calf is all tied up.

swam 600M at wccc.  I am going to do some x-training to give my legs a little break.

I was still really tied up in my calves, so laur asked mbeth to come over and give massages to her and me.  It was quite nice.  Lets see if it makes the legs a little less tight for tomorrow's run?