I Run Like A Girl

Wow only 3 weeks left!  I have been eating really well lately, no refined sugar or anything processed. Except on sat nights I do treat myself to a frozen yogurt and last night I added in a small bag of capt. crunch cereal to snack on . I feel so much better when I eat good. But now til the marathon even my frozen yogurts are OUT. I am just bloggin this to my remind myself!!

Ran with the Bermuda Triangle. Really struggled to get out of bed this morning but so glad I did. Had a great run, felt good and it was the prefect temp. The end of our run we came down 300 s off of main street  and I pretended it was marathon day and pushed hard to the finish line.

avg pace 7:40

Easy 10 today, 4 on own and for with Peg and Heidi. We used to have a big group on tues and thurs but some have moved across town , out of town and one is pregnant. Today all of us are getting together for a baby shower lunch so I am super excited to see them all!

Ran with Bull and Jeff. Almost just stayed in bed today, so tired! But I finally made myself go after getting up, getting back in bed, finally getting dressed, sitting the garage for awhile deciding if I should just go crawl back in bed, driving to the rec center and almost driving away before anyone showed up. Needless to say I kinda wimped out on my speedwork. Was planning on running marathon pace from trail to trail (about 4 miles) ended up with only one and then just chatted easy with Jeff. He comes wanting to do speed and the weeks he does come, I am a wimp!. Today I am just glad I ran after the battle i had to get there.

avg pace 7:19

Ran with Peg and Heidi and then added one more on my own..Nothing too excited today, just cant believe its getting so close!

Ran with the Bermuda triangle today, gigantic workout #3 or 4, cant keep track these days. Just took it easy although Bull and Mike kept wanting to race each other the whole time. They are goofballs! Just kidding guys, thanks for a great run and waiting for me even though I told you DONT WAIT!!!! See ya tomorrow. garmin not charged, no avg pace.

Wow had an AWESOME run today! We started out by sleeping in and not meeting til 6am this did my body good, I woke up bright eyed about 5:15 and felt good and not the groggy oh my body hurts feeling like I do when I have to get up in the 4's.

Mikes wife drove us up from the finish line a little over 14 miles. (tom and kim lee came today, it was fun to see and chat with you two on the way up!) Warmed up the first 2 miles and then I wanted to hit under marathon pace knowing that when I get to this point in the marathon my body would already be feeling tired. What a run!I I felt amazing, I wish today would have been the marathon. The only thing that bothered me is I have worn custom orthotics for the past 6 ys and I just got a new pair for after the marathon but decided to try them today, they felt great except I rubbed a blister on the bottam on my foot just because they obvioulsey are not broken in. It helped my legs and hips though feel better. I dont think I will wear them for the marathon though, we will see if i cant bulid a calus there in 2 weeks. Here are my splits

1. Warmup with marissa 7:48

2. Warmup 7:04

 6:42  for .51 mi grabbed my gu and water , 5:50, 6:15, 6:05, 6:34, 6:28, 6:14, 6:17, 6:55 (bathroom break here), 6:24, 6;26, 6:28, 6:47 (dustin and bill here and they had slowed down so I kinda slowed a little too), 6:54 (for last .37 mi)

AVG PACE 6:32  I felt so good and I had energy at the end, my legs or any part of my body did not get the sore heavy tired feeling.  I felt like I could have kept going at that pace. I hope I feel like that in 2 weeks! I needed this run today to get the runners high and excitement back!

15 ice bath (BTW smiths carries 20 lb bags for 2.89, it is cheaper than buying 2 x10lb bags)