BACK TO WORK

AM darien, brennan, riley and mark showed for morning 800s.  They took turns pacing me for 8 of them btween 2:55 and 3:05, except the last where brennan amped it up to 2:50 for me.  I did 400 recoveries in between.

I got home and decided to take ruby on the sunday mile before I had to go to school.

PM needed to talk with Logan about the logistics of the footlocker, so i ran out to the flying j trailhead with him and the team, so i could pin down the plan for the travel, etc.  Should be a fun one.  Kire and I are going to run the supporter race before the meet, so that way I can legitimately get him out of school on friday.  Should be fun.

Chad and I did the mayors loop this morning.  Went without gloves, but I needed them.  I do like this weather much better than the 85 degrees at 5.30 AM though. 

AM 6 mile tempo on mayors loop with chad and a cool down. Felt great.  but I can tell mondays speed work has built up a little in my quads and calves.

1-7.59

2-7.22

3-7.27

4-7.26

5-7.10

6-+/- 8.20

PM-Massage.  I wasn't really tight, but I wanted to catch it before i was too tight.  Plus I wanted a good loosen up before butch cassidy.  Brady has thrown down the gauntlet.  He said he is going 37.  I will feel really good to be sub-40 on that course.  We will see how it goes.

AM-Easy 2 around the neighborhood.  I woke up and couldn't sleep, so I thought I would just move the legs before work. 

AM a beautiful day to race.  Kire, Laura Dalton and I left at 6:30 so we could pick up our packets, etc.  We met mom, dad, and sisalee at the library and rode up together. 

Met Brady and Meg at start line.  We were there quite early as it turned out, but it was such a nice morning and the canyon was so pretty that I didn't mind at all. 

I wanted to go out with Brady, but he hit 5:20 1st mile, so that wasn't going to work for me.  I held my pace through the first 3 okay but the hill on mile 4 ate me up a little bit.  I just stayed relaxed up the hill and tried to keep the 1st place girl in my sights.  I hung on through the hilss in mile 5, and then ran quite well the last mile.  The 2nd place girl got me with 100 yards left, but I didn't have enought to hold here off.  I think if I would have held back just a bit on the 1st 2 miles, I may have a better time.  Overall-I was quite happy, because I wanted sub-40 and got it.  The course was quite tough and I think I would be around 38 flat on USG 10K course. 
Kire went 23:14 and won the 5K overall, but the race timers decided to give the trophy to the winning adult.  WHAT?!  Dummies! I will have to buy him a trophy now.  He did awesome. 

Laura won the 5k Girls race.  She is such a good kid.

Brady took 3rd overall and went just under 37:00.  He is getting better and better.

1-6:14

2-6:14

3-6:27

4-6:44

5-6:35

6-6:32

6.2-5:27

AM Ran with the team. Circuit training with Q.

PM got ready to run and the french bicycle family call to say they were here.  Laurie told me I was hosting and not running today.

AM went out with Logan and Darien this Morning.  I dropped them off after 3 and Logan and I ran another 2.5 up at hidden valley park.  I was kind of cold today, so winter is coming. 

AM Went 6 with chad around the mayors loop. 

PM went out to mill creek trailhead on the sand and did some xc stuff.  I took Ruby as well.  It was quite nice, but my legs are a little sore from the weight room.  Too many lunges and step ups.

PM WCRC for 6 before I picked up Saucy.

AM Ran 1st 3 with logan and the kids through b hills, then last 3 with logan on the hidden valley park loop.

PM took sauce, kire, laurie and mom and dad on a little mtn bike ride while I ran.  We went on the prospector trail.  It was a little too steep for them, so we loaded up the bikes and went down on the virgin river loop trail.  They liked the easy trail and so I could run out a little faster.  I was quite fun to ride while laur pedaled.  I didn't get as many miles in today as I wanted but it was quite fun just hanging out with the family.

AM hidden valley park w/ Q and then circuits X3 sets.

PM went for a nice small mtn bike ride with the fam out at bloomington bear poppy.

AM w/ chad on virgin river loop.

PM french family came back to stay over one last night before heading to LV.

AM easy 2.5 w/ the xcers and then circuits X3 w/ Q and Matt.

Kire was sick today, so I stayed home to watch him. I took the Frenchies to LV just in time to turn around and make it back to the track meeting @ 3PM.

I am quite excited that as many kids are showing interest in the upcoming track season. 

PM I did the big house/little valley loop tonight, and then went to check on the YSA volleyball games.  Picked sauce up at SUVA and then over to Suzy's year end v-ball banquet.  It was quite a nice banquet.  Jill did really good with the whole set up.

Rest day.

AM-got up late so I did the easy George Washington loop.

I have been dragging all week.  I am not sure if it is just the colder weather, but I can't get up and get going.  I even want to sleep in the afternoon. 

AM slept in, and then ate a big breakfast.  It was saucy's b-day yesterday, so she had a slumber party with the cousins on both sides.  Running wasn't part of the plan this morning!

PM went out and did the petroglyph loop on the 4wheeler trails.  It was windy and cold.  I really enjoyed the run though.  The clouds were dark and mean looking.  A little plane flew from behind me, and then just slowed down right over the top of me.  A little while later, it come back over the top of me from the front.  I was out in the middle of no where and he probably thought I was crazy! 

When I turned back toward the truck, I got the full gust in my face.  The crazy thing was, I could just hear my breathing increase but I didn't seem to get more tired.  That was the first time I have ever felt like that.  I had my earphones in and I was just easing along into the wind, but without feeling a drag.  It was something like an out-of-body experience.  The weirdest thing ever.  I guess this is why we get hooked on this insane sport.   

We got to Hatch Tuesday night.  The weather was terrible, so no run on wednesday.  I got up and took the kids on a sled ride with the rhino.  It was so cold the kids only lasted about an hour.  I decided to run up to the fish hatchery road.  It was 4 degrees so by the time I got back my hat and gloves were frosted.  In fact my eye lashes started to freeze when I was running through town.  It was so cold and with the altitude, the pace was ultra-slow.      

Played v-ball with the fam at HMS.  They were all home for turkey day.  It was good to see them. 

PM-Did the old sri/gw figure 8.  Went out easy then hit +/- 6:50 a mile for the middle 3.  Then backed off again.