I Run Like A Girl

Ran 10 easy miles with Mike. Wish today would have been painters cuz my legs felt so good, granted our pace was a lot slower but my legs felt so fresh, no soreness at all and my hamstring had no tightness at all. Could not be happier about that. Weather was good, got really hot with too many layers.  Mike and I talked more about Ogden and what training we are going to do. Its nice to have someone to run with that has similar goals! Planning on going to the gym to lift some weights and will most likely add a few miles on the treadmill tonight after work. Its my hubby's birthday today so we will see though.

avg pace 7:54

Ran our reg 5 loop. Nice and easy . The last stretch has some pretty good incline, one of the girls decided we should push the end. So got one long stride in at the end. Ok so I wish the weather was like this all year long. It was around 40, probably would have been ok in shorts today. It was nice! Plan is to go back out after work and do another 6-8 mi.

Went out and did close to 3 miles, got out of work a little later than planned. Ended up working out that I didnt go further (GI issues hit). Going to try to take my easy days actually easy from here on out and my hard runs hard. I may have a some "in betweeners" as sasha would call them this week due to that this is going to be more of a recovery week for me (let my hamstring take it easy) and then next week start into some serious training for Ogden.

Avg pace8:20.  (for pm run) am no watch but guessing around an 8-8:15

Another great run with Mike. Found a good  fairly flat stretch with hardly any traffic to start do our tempos on.(will start those next wed) Didnt overdress today so that was nice to not get to overheated. Legs and body felt great today!Thanks for another great run Mike!

avg pace 7:44

Ran with friend Peg,  it was good run. Hamstring felt a little tight running to the corner to meet her. Did alot of stretching before we took off and did not feel it a bit during the run. I need to go to the chiro and make sure my hips are not out of whack (I think that may be contributing )

I hoping to make it to club tonight to run but I forgot I have Pack Meeting til this morning. So we will see how much I feel like rushing tonight to run, shower, and make it there in a short amount of time.

avg 8:29

update:just got back from my chiropractor ( I usually go about every 2-3 ms but have not been before the marathon) and I was extremely out of whack. My hip was really torked, so I think it should really help my hamstring. The first time I had trouble with my hips being torked a little (about 5 yrs ago) it pulled my quad really bad. So we will see how it feels!

PM So went with the club tonight, did the same usual route.Did a 1.25 mile warmup around the store. Ran with Ruth most of the first half.. Had a good discussion with Holt if I qualified for a handicap sticker for my car because of heighth. Thanks Holt j/k i actually thought it was pretty funny! Then we got to where you can turn and make it 7 or add on to do 10. Steve and Mike were going on so I though what the heck I will do ten (got out of pack meeting tonight, they didnt need my help tonight) and forgot about my warmup mile. So I ended up with plenty more miles than I anticipated today, oh well. It felt good to get them in. Had a great run with Mike and Steve.They were nice to let me tag along:)  The route had alot of uphill, which was good for me to do. Overall pace was 7:30 but had some low 7's, a couple 7:03, 7:04, 7:13, 7:08. Happy with that for a night run, and the uphill.  Thanks guys for a good run! My hamstring felt so good, I felt balanced running and both legs were getting equal movement, instead of a pull on my right leg! very happy about that, i dont know why I didnt go sooner!

Decided this morning that I needed to get some cross training in, so rather than go run outside and then have to change clothes and drive to the gym, I opted to do miles at the gym on the treadmill. Did 25 min on the elipitical and then hopped on the treadmill, set it to 7.5 (8 min mile) and went at it for 8 mi. Actually for a treadmill it wasnt too bad and the pace was pretty easy so I was pretty relaxed. Then did about 20 min of weights. Now for the fun stuff, I need to do some housecleaning and laundry!

Ran with the club down the marathon course, legs were definetely feeling this weeks miles today and my Bajios dinner did not sit to well this run (2 bathroom breaks). The faster guys went ahead and  I decided to just hang back and not try to kill myself today. The nice thing about the marathon course is after you get the dammeron hills over (or I refer to them as the 3B's) then its just on cruise control the rest of the way. I did keep my pace around 7:20s for the hills, had a lot of low 7's and 2-3 miles under 7.  It was beautiful morning and oh yah Mike wanted me to all let you know that when we started out at the top of Veyo hill there was like 8 in of snow that us southerners ran in! (wink wink).

Avg pace 7:09 1:48 on time, and my hamstring is stilling feeling pretty good.