Waited around all day trying to decide whether I should run or not. My leg has never really hurt but it feels like it is going to sleep all the time. You know that painful prickly sensation. Around 4:00 I watched how to tape my leg with KT tape and put some on. Wow it felt so much better I headed out knowing I could do my tempo run for the day. Just .5 miles in I could feel the pain increasing I pushed on until I hit the mile mark and then turned around.
I have never been afraid that I couldn't finish a marathon until now. Only 7 weeks until Boston and I am not feeling ready at all. As I am writing this the pain in my leg has increased a lot. I am going to go cry!
Morning: Here is my plan. Walking is not as painful as running. I have just walked 3.3 miles and now I am icing my leg. In an hour I will walk until it hurts again and keep this up until I reach 8 miles or the pain is too intense. I feel than now that I have a plan it is helping me feel in control. If you feel this plan is not what it needs to be let me know!
Afternoon: 3.7 miles I wanted to go one more to get it over with but to tell the truth I pushed a little to hard to get the .7 now back to icing I will try to go for 3 more tonight, if it doesn't happen I am happy with 7 miles today.
Lake to Lake Relay (10.5 Miles) 01:30:00, Place in age division: 6
Easy Miles
Threshold Miles
Marathon Pace Miles
Track speed mileage
Hill mileage
Total
0.00
10.50
0.00
0.00
0.00
10.50
This is going to be really short, we had a blast I ran the best I could and we took sixth place. The head wind at the end was killer but other than that it was a great race. I will add more if I get time.
Not a good run today! I needed to do 6X800 meters at 7:30 1% incline. I did 4.5 of them and could not really go any further. I decreased the incline and would speed up to 7:30 for 100 - 200 meters and then walk for the last 1.5 repeats. I am not sure why I did so bad at this. Last time I did this work out it was hard but I did it.
They say that it is a woman's prerogative to change her mind and I must have changed mine a 100 time on my run today. I wanted to run 10 easy miles. I thought I would do a 5 mile loop around my house twice. That way I wouldn't have to carry water. At the turn around point I was afraid that if I got home I wouldn't go out again so I changed my mind and kept going. One mile past the turn around I wished I had some water. At 4.25 miles it started to rain, St. George 2008 rain. I then changed my mind again and started to head home. I was no longer thirsty, how can getting wet on the outside make you not feel thirsty on the inside? I was getting so wet hoped that a neighbor would see me and ask if I wanted a ride home. Unfortunately all my neighbors if they saw me would probably just think "there's crazy Kathie out running in the rain". I am warm and dry now and I think I will try and do the last 1.5 on the treadmill tonight although my night is pretty busy and it may not happen.
one mile warm up 6X .25 mile hill repeats. I forgot to change my laps to .25 miles so the splits really mean nothing. I felt like these were hard but not nearly as hard as the last time I did them.
splits: 8:56, 9:30, 9:44, 10:23, 17:34 (walk home with hubby)
Set out to run 9 miles I could feel that my legs were heavy from the hill repeats yesterday. When I got to the base of my last hill at 3.5 miles, my legs were already tired and I still had the return trip to go. I decided I was done with hills for the day, turned around and then did the last to on a nice flat treadmill. :)
Splits: 8:50, 8:48, 8:41, 9:19, 9:12, 8:42, 8:43, last two 9:13 0% incline!
Nine miles at marathon pace I tried to keep the splits as even as possible. I drove out to the Legacy Parkway so that I could avoid the hills. The goal time was 8:34
As you can see all the splits were under the goal time but they were still all over the place. I also felt drained by the end of the run. I am sure if I could find that perfect pace and keep with it I could feel better at the end. Really Andy you must be a human Garmin to keep such even splits.
Now of to watch BYU beat Florida!
Boy was that a great game or what! I think I need to add a few miles to my log I am sure I ran at least two cheering!
6 miles elliptical, my legs were heavy from the start. I started at 9% resistance for one mile then switched to 6% for 3 miles last two were at 7%. Finished in 47 minutes. This workout is really getting slower and harder as I bump up my Thursday miles. At first I was having a hard time with it until I told myself that this is a recovery day. Now I am ok with what ever I do as long at my Saturday run is not affected by what I do on Friday.
Lifted for legs, back and abs
Yoga - we really stretched our hips out it felt so good.
Best long run in a while! I felt strong at the end, like I could do more. I am sure there are several reasons for this. I will list just a few.
Running with Kimmy, Smooth and Maynard .
Smooth's funny stories make the miles fly by.
The course was much flatter.
I didn't kill myself in the gym yesterday.
Maynard gave me a doughnut at mile 14.5 (this is the one of the best reasons!)
Smooth was my pack horse and carried my Gatorade for the last 6 miles.
After the run we met Cougar and BeMO at Ihop for breakfast so much fun again! I am now more confident about how Boston is going to go. I hope my 20 miler next week goes as well but I am not sure how it can when I am running alone in hilly Bountiful!
Splits: 8:53, 10:15, 9:40, 9:25, 9:16, 9:56, 9:06, 8:52, 8:45, 8:50, 9:46, 9:07, 8:35, 8:50, 9:11, 8:36, 8:30, 8:25, 7:32 (Smooth and I were racing this mile I am not sure she knew that we were racing but she won anyway!)
I was bored with my old running route so I decided I would run/hike up to elephant rock today. round trip it would be 12 miles. The first mile is fairly flat and all went well with that mile. During the second mile my left calf started to scream at me. I wanted to push through, it didn't really feel injured. By mile three it was really screaming at me so I turned around. I think it was a good thing I did because I fell twice on the way down. I guess I didn't realize how hard going down would be. My calf is now on ice I really don't think I injured it but you can't be too cautions this close to Boston. Here are the splits I am sure they are really slow with how steep the climb was.
6 miles 3% decline 1 miles @ 9:13, 3 miles @ 9:05, 1 mile @ 8:57, .9 @ 8:34 .1 @ 6:40
My calf felt really good today but I didn't do any up hill running so I am not sure how it will do on my 10 mile run tomorrow. The 6:40 is starting to feel better I even think my form is better at this speed than when I am slower.
Lifted for legs
Spin - Sub, it was an easy class I am not sure if that is good or bad.
Tom slick on the other blog mentioned that it might be a good idea to start my runs at 10:30 since that is the time that I will start to run Boston. So today I started later. This was a mistake as the day went on the wind got really bad. I started off thinking I would go 3 miles out come back get a drink at 6 miles and then head out for 4 more miles round trip. I was running with the wind for the first few miles. As I kept running, the wind got really bad. I wish I knew how strong it was. I knew if I headed back at 3 I wouldn't want to go back so I kept going until 4 miles turned around and did the last two on the treadmill. I was really getting discouraged running into the wind, it was so hard, as you can see by the splits.
All day yesterday I could tell I was coming down with something. I was dreading this 20 miler anyway and now I was scared that I couldn't finish it. At 8:30 last night I took some Nyquil and went to bed. I woke up at seven this morning my head was in a fog and I couldn't breath out of my nose. I decided just to go for it I didn't have a fever I just didn't feel well. I kept saying if Smooth can run in a snow storm I can run with a cold. By mile 3 my head had cleared and I really didn't fell any effects of the cold.
This is how the course that I decided to run looks like with the splits:
.5 miles gradual down hill
.5 miles steep down hill - 9:15
3 miles gradual down hill - 9:00, 8:49, 9:00 - After this mile potty break, ate three power bar gels drank Gatorade
2 miles rolling hills mostly down hill - 9:03, 8:37
2.5 miles gradual down hill - 9:05, 8:49 After the 9:05 mile a water break and 3 gels
1 mile gradual up hill - 8:40
.5 steep up hill - 8:46 - three more gels Gatorade
turn around and every thing is reversed.
.5 steep down hill - 8:55
1 mile gradual down hill - 8:55
2.5 miles gradual up hill - 9:08, 9:02 - Water break 3 more gels I was going to buy some doughnuts in honor of Maynard but they just looked gross, I could force myself to do it.
2 miles rolling hills mostly up hill - 9:19, 8:42
3 miles gradual up hill - 8:56, 8:33, 8:16 - I am feeling really good at this point and I want to push these
three miles. I tell myself that I can take a break after each mile for
30 seconds. I am not sure if it would have been better to keep going
at the end of each mile at a slower pace but it really felt good to
push the miles. On the last mile I knew I couldn't match the 7:32 from last week because this mile is up hill and Smooth was not here to race, but I really wanted to push it. I kept saying run until you puke or get to the Texico sign, I didn't puke but I wanted to.
.5 steep up hill
.5 gradual up hill 9:47 - I walked a lot of this mile but pushed the last half mile more than most days.
Went to do my speed day. I still don't feel well but I am so far behind in my training as it is I went anyway. Warmed up with one mile at 9:13 then I did 800 meters at 7:30. My legs felt really good but I got light headed at the end. After the rest interval I still felt light headed. I did one more interval and knew it was not going to work. I really want to get better fast, but old grandmas like me must take a long time to heal. I will try and get in some easy miles tonight just to make my brain feel like I am not falling too far behind. I know they really wont help that much physically.
I got to the gym late, I had to heal a broken heart. Why do 16 year olds think they need to fall in love? I now need to go out and buy more tissue and chocolate!
3% decline 3 miles at 9:13, 1.3 miles at 8:34 and .2 miles at 6:40 (I thought I was going to die!)
Lifted for legs
Spin - Hard hill class but I felt like I could get some good speed even on the hills. I think it might be because of the rest I have had due to my illness.
