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Thursday, April 21, 2011

My First 10K

On April 2nd I ran my first ever 10K. I mean, okay, once I ran that distance on my own, in the Islands, just to see. In 2009. But this was my first real race of this distance. So in theory, any time I got would be a PR, right? But what if my pace was slower than my half marathon pace, and even my marathon pace? Still a 10K PR? What do you think?

It was still a good saturday run. I ran a 5 mile warm-up to Freestone Park where the race was being held. It was just too hot, and we knew it. Cynthia was doing the race too, and we realized quickly that it was NOT a PR racing day. TOO HOT!!!

Everyone was hugging the shade. At one stretch we were running along side a tall fence and everyone was single filing, trying to catch that little bit of shade. The shade was priority for most. People couldve taken advantage of this stretch to pass up other racers, but most preferred to get as much shade as possible along the fence line.

They passed out water 3 times. I took a cup at each water stop and dumped it on my head. This offered a moment of relief.

Cynthia and I agree that we could run this another year and possibly get really great weather! April here is a little unpredictable. Really hot, and then a cold front...hard to tell what we will get.

Anyhow it was for a good cause. Funds were donated for Leukemia.

Still a good experience. But SOOO hard. We survived. And I have more respect for Badwater Survivors! Why anyone chooses to run in horrible heat, I still dont know.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Physical Therapy

I have allot to catch up on with the running blog. It will take me a few entries. Ever since Ragnar Ive been babying my left hamstring/glute. You all know it, because I cant stop obsessing over it- sorry all of you who have had to listen to my complaints. I broke down and paid for some visits to the Physical Therapist. They have helped and seem to be worth the money. He gave me some good stretches and strengthening exercises. Thankyou Dan Beaver for a good referral. If any of you are in need of a Physical Therapist, I will recommend Nate Snell. If money was no object I would continue to go every once in awhile. Who doesnt have a small issue that they wish would go away? Its nice to have an "expert" tell you that you can keep running! And that he can make you heal even while you run, if you follow his routine. Good Stuff. If I was as fast as Kara Goucher then I could justify having my own physical therapist, masseuse, coach, and mood therapist. But until Im doing sub- 6 minute miles, I guess Ill try to figure most of these things out on my own.

Friday, April 8, 2011

San Francisco Marathon/Half Marathon Group ID

Several of us are putting our names in the lottery to run the Nike Women’s Marathon or Half Marathon on October 16^th of this year in San Francisco. We can link our names together so that if we get picked all of us would be able to run it. If we don’t get picked, none of us would get in. So far I think the committed runners are: Cynthia, Lindy, Barb, Lisa and Karen. We are all bringing our husbands and making it a fun “couples” trip, no kids! I would love to have as many of you come as would like! I’ve heard it’s a fun race with a Tiffany Necklace as the prize. J I think so far everyone is running the Half Marathon but you can choose which race you want to do.

Here is some info from their website on the registration process. If you decide to register with us you MUST PUT THE GROUP ID in correctly!

From the website: http://inside.nike.com/blogs/nikerunning_events-en_US/2011/03/16/nwm-faqs

Registration for the 2011 Nike Women's Marathon will once again be held through a random drawing process. Runners can begin registering for the random drawing beginning Monday, April 11th at 9am PDT. Registration for the random drawing will close on Friday, April 22nd at 11:59pm PDT. You may register at any time during the registration period; registering early does not improve your change of being selected.

This year, if you are interested in registering as a group, you can obtain a Group ID prior to registering in the random drawing.

OUR GROUP ID IS: 21KV84

* All group members need to copy and paste the Group ID to reduce the chances of typos.

* Starting April 11th, every member of the group needs to input the Group ID in the appropriate box on their own random drawing application. Your Group ID must be entered correctly to be considered. If your group is selected and you mistyped your Group ID during registration, you will not be included in that group.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Here We Go Again . . .

St. George Marathon put out this video in honor of it's 35th year. Here's hoping we'll all be running it together! {The video is about 8 minutes.}

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWwKrjgSsrg&feature=player_embedded

Saturday, April 2, 2011

In Training

I haven't posted in a while so I thought I'd make a few notes on how my running is going. I ran 13 today and had to post a picture of what I wore. Shorts! YAY! It's been so cold here that I've been stuck wearing long pants {not to mention the hat & glove} but it finally warmed up enough to pull out the shorts. These are the Nike shorts that Lindy gave me for my birthday. I love them so much! Aren't we all lucky to have a friend like Lindy?

I registered for the Utah Grand Slam this year, which is a total of four marathons: Utah Valley, Park City, Top of Utah and St. George. It's a competition between 175 runners for overall and age-group awards based on total time of all four marathons. How fun does that sound?!? Anyway, I'm in training for the Utah Valley Marathon in June and I've got Boston on my mind. A training run doesn't happen without me thinking of BQing. I'm hoping the training program I'm following will help me get there. I'm now on week seven of the training schedule. Here's a look at how my week's four through six training went:

Week Four:

Monday: 5 miles at 7:53 pace (39:34)

Tuesday: 8 miles at 8:10 pace (1:05:22)

Wednesday: Rest
Thursday: 5 miles at 8:13 pace (41:05)

Friday: 4 miles at 8:46 pace (35:05)

Saturday 12 miles at 8:25 pace (1:41:10)

Week Five:

Monday: 5 miles at 7:53 pace (39:25)

Tuesday: 8 miles at 8:53 pace (1:11:03)

Wednesday: 6 miles at 7:56 pace (47:37)

Thursday: Rest

Friday: 4 miles at 8:50 pace (35:21)

Saturday: 15 miles at 8:24 pace (2:06)

Week Six:
Monday: 5 miles at 8:12 pace (41:02)
Tuesday: 9 miles at 8:50 pace (1:19:36)
Wednesday: Rest
Thursday: 5 miles at 7:48 pace (39:04)
Friday: 4 miles at 8:52 pace (35:30)
Saturday: 13 miles at 8:15 pace (1:47:20)

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Team BLING - Ragnar Champions!

I love this picture of us, although I am wondering why everyone is looking so powerful and I look like I'm "doing the twist." This was at the very end, and I think we just wanted to prove that we COULD still climb up on top of the van! It had been an exhausting, fabulous, exhilarating and crazy few days. We had soooo much fun, and we ARE Ragnar champions. (Thanks Laura, for declaring us as that!)

This is what Lindy referred to as "The Look at Me Girls." We LOVED it!

This is me on my last run, it was ridiculously hard. I had around 9 miles that leg I think and it was virtually all uphill. When Lisa emailed me this picture she labeled it as "pre-puking" because in the last mile I got totally sick and ended up gagging and throwing up for the last mile or so. I tried soooo hard and even though I ended up with a really slow average (SORRY) I know I gave it all I had!

My sweat sisters gave me an awesome tunnel! Stuff like this is so energizing!

This is Captain Underpants. He enjoyed his Ragnar persona immensely, certainly living out some unfulfilled fantasy. At the end of the race he still strolled around in this "outfit" for at least an hour, well beyond the moment when costumes may have been appropriate and entertaining.

Thanks ladies for another awesome year, next year we will reign again as RAGNAR Champions!