I Run Like A Girl

Mike is out of town so my friend Nat went with me, she is only up for 5 mi, I was planning on getting up before hand and get some miles in prior but with day light savings I could not get up, so I am planning on going after work and getting some more in and some weights as well. Felt good today, no soreness or fatigue but then again we ran very slow today.

pm. ran 5.6 miles after work, worn tank and shorts, felt blahhh... stomach was a little crampy and both my toes next to my big toe always get blisters under the toenails after races with downhill and sometimes I can pop them but they are too far down and they were hurting on the run. (tomorrow I will have the dentist i work for take a little bur and drill through my toenail, he does it for me alot, it feels so good when that pressure gets released). Well at least i got my miles in!

Ran with my group this morning and then after work. I hate doing 2 a days but I was too tired to get up earlier and get miles before meeting the girls. The time change is hard to get used to. Anyways nothing exciting just glad to get out and get it done.

Ran with Mike and boy my legs were tired today! If you read his blog, the last 2 miles we kicked the pace down a little but I did not have the same splits as him, I stayed about 30 sec behind him. (I forgot to start to my gps at the turnaround point). Leg was starting to feel a little tightness and restraint. I need to really stretch it over the next few days. Kinda makes me nervous for the 10k this weekend.

Ran with my group an easy 5 miles. My calf is in a big knot, it doesnt hurt to run but I can feel the pressure back there and can feel my hamstring tightnening up. I really wanted to get more miles today but again I could not get myself out of bed to get it done before hand (hopefully next week will be easier). I dont think I will go out again this afternoon. My house needs desperate cleaning attention. I go see April on saturday again to get my leg worked on. I am kinda up in the air on Spectrum, I know I can run, in fact I still would try to get 10-15(slow) on sat but when it gets knotted its hard to get moving good on it, so we will see. I will decide tomorrow.

Took it real nice and slow, i can tell I am pretty tight but I am going to run Spectrum 10k tomorrow and just take in stride. Setting no goals but will try my best if my leg will cooperate. I am excited to see a few of the bloggers tomorrow.  I have an appointment with April immediately after the race (only time she could get me in , she will have to suffer with being post race stinky!) so I am going to run 5 miles before the race with my running group nice and slow (they arent running) and then hopefully if the race starts on time I can do 1-2 cool down miles after.

avg pace 8:05

So I cant believe that I almost did not run this race today! I started out by doing a easy 4mi run around my neighborhood. My leg felt pretty good, did a couple strides and then it started to get tight and heavy, so I was feeling a little worried. I even told my poor exhausted tax accountant husband not to come to the race because I wasnt going to being to pull off what I was hoping for.(he was very sad that he missed me coming in but came for the awards) Got changed into my race clothes and headed to the race.

Rode the bus up with Linda10k and then mingled with the other blogggers. We got up to the start line and I was scoping out my competition. At this point I knew if I could push hard that I could win it. My plan had been to run with Mike and Bill but at the gun I took off and suprisenly felt so good.  I knew I had to bank the miles on the downhill cause I knew there was some uphill coming towards the middle and end. Man I just felt so good today. I kept passing guy after guy and was loving it!  I have not felt like this for awhile and it just felt good to feel good and to feel like I had could keep pushing. I think doing 8-10 mi daily is helped because then 6 mi feels like nothing and I know I can push for 6 mi. At around mile 5 I had a spot where I could look behind me to see if there was any girls, I thought I saw one so I picked up the pace. (It ended not being a chick) The end was cool, all the guy bloggers were there cheering me on and helping me to push the last little bit. There also were alot of people I knew at the end that were yelling my name so that was kinda fun. My bishops wife was there to watch her son and daughter (her son was seconds behind me) but she got lots of  pictures of me coming in and getting to break the tape:) Thanks again Steve for donating and sponsoring this race and all the others!!!!!! and to Mike for being a great running partner!

Splits were: (and I cant remember what happened at each mile like alot of you, I just zone out) 5:36, 6:22, 6:06, 6:29, 6:34, 6:39 and last .2 was 6:35 (? I stopped my garmin 10 sec late). avg pace 6:17

So overall I was very happy with this race, a 3 min PR and my leg felt good it is now a little tight but not as bad as I thought it would be. April got sick so I see her on Tues night.