Just one race at a time

Rest day

First official day of St. George Marathon Training!!!!!

Today I started my new training schedule for the St. George marathon. My quads were a little tight I think I need to stretch more.  I did hill repeats.  They were much harder than I thought they would be and much slower.  I am glad I use this blog now so that I can see if they will get any faster.  I did 3 X .25 miles up hill with a mile warm up and cool down.  I did them outside (on 1800).  I am not sure how to set my gamin to know how fast I did each repeat.  I guess if I set the lap to .25 it would show me. Anyway here are my mile splits

splits 9:05, 9:45, 9:06, Last half mile in 4:30

4 ez miles I did them later so I could get used to running at night for Wasatch Back I am tired and am now going to bed...yes I know it is only 9:30

I ran 2 miles a 3% decline and marathon pace (8:49) then the last mile I ran at Wasatch back race pace (8:27) 

It is very hypocritical of my to have my mantra say "just one race at a time"  and be training for two.  I guess St. George is the main race I am training for and then just switching it up a bit for the Wasatch Back

These should have been 5 race pace miles followed by spin, but a comedy of errors happened at my house and I was lucky to get in the miles at all...it involved, my son, my daughter, my daughters best friend, my alarm clock, my Garmin, my ipod, a trip to Lagoon and my sanity!  Just happy that I ran at all today!

6 miles on the elliptical @ 11% resistance  in 41:35.  I can really tell when I did not spin on Thursday.  I am always much faster on Fridays.

Lifted for legs

Yoga 

Ok I loved this race but I do not want to talk too highly about it because then more people will race it and I will have more competition for prizes.

We all slept at my mom’s house Saturday night stayed up a little later than I wanted to playing taboo but it was really fun. We got up and ate breakfast. The last two races I have run I had stomach issues for at least a day after the race so I was very cautious about what I ate. I had ¼ cup of raw almonds and water. We got there in plenty of time but my stomach was already acting up I hit the POP and that helped so Kimmy and I started to warm up Right as I said I hope we see some of the forumittes we saw smooth in front of us (she is hard to miss) anyway we joined her for about a mile warm up. Then we lined up for the start of the race. I was not sure if I was going to hang with my mom or go for a pr so I lined up at the back with my mom, But as soon as the gun when off I knew I wanted a pr and I headed out. My first mile was so slow (8:21) because I really spent the whole mile trying to get around slower runner. Next year I will remember how competitive I am and line up closer to the front. When I came to the hill my only goal for the hill was to not get passed on the hill and I did this. Next mile I was starting to feel it but knew I could keep a steady pace and just hold on at about 1.5 I saw cute little smooth in front of me and made it a goal to catch her, but I lost her in the crowd soon after that but I just kept a steady pace. At the two mile mark (7:53) all of a sudden on my left there she was. I think I choked out “Oh hi smooth” but I couldn’t say anything else. She didn’t say anything to me so I knew she was hurting. I thought maybe I should stay with her but I knew I was close to a pr now and just wanted to get to the finish line. As I came to the track I wanted to sprint to the finish but I had nothing left I finished in 24:30 a 9 second pr with my last mile being my fastest at 7:44. Didn't eat anything after the race and I didn't have any stomach issues Yea!

I came in 7^th in my age group and was happy with my performance. McKenna (Kimmy's daughter) came in 5^th in her age group and my mom came in 1^st and won 100.00 can’t get much better than that!