Boston or bust

Wowzers, this felt more like a recovery run than anything. This was a very hard run for me, my legs felt heavy and my breathing was off. Thank goodness for Jason and his encouragement through this run. We ran 10.1 miles through Mapleton, same route as Saturday with a little deviation.

Ran a slow 4.05 miles 8:29 AP, my legs felt nice and springy today yay! I then went to spin class.

Ran 2.25 fast miles 7:30 AP. My legs felt great and it felt good to run fast. Weights: worked quads, hamstrings, triceps, biceps, back, shoulders, chest, glutes and abs.

I don't know what my problem was today, maybe the weights yesterday. I just didn't feel like running. I dug deep and was able to pull out a slow 8 miles, 8:34 AP.

Fun, fun, fun run this morning. Jason, Paul, Scott, Melissa and I ran "Paul's" Mapleton route. Great run, fun chit chat and perfect running conditions. Ran 10.25 miles 8:30 AP.

Ran a fast 3.3 before heading to yoga. Yoga was perfect for me today, great stretching for my hips.

Nice easy 3.5 miles 8:14 AP before heading to spin class.

Ran 2 fast miles 7:15 AP. Weights: worked quads, hamstrings, glutes, biceps, triceps, shoulders, back, abs and obliques. Great workout, everything felt like Jello afterwards:)

A very slow 6.2 miles, probably close to a 9 minute average pace. I wasn't concerned with this though. I know it needed to be nice and easy as I prep for Saturday's race.

All I can say is wow, I loved this race!!! This was a very organized and well put together race. It started right on time, the goody bags were great, they even had gloves and a blanket for the colder start, the drop bag even had your name personalized on it which was a nice touch, there were about a zilllion port a potties at the start which made for vitually no wait, the ride up was in a coach bus, not a school bus, the aid stations were perfectly placed and well stocked, the finisher medals were huge and there was a large variety of food to choose from at the finish.

Jason and I met up with Jay and Melissa. We took the bus up and did the waiting game, it was so nice to have friends there to chat with. Like I said before the race started on time and we took off fast. This course is very aided, but no so much that I felt out of control. I need to download my splits from my watch, but our pace was around a 7:05 minute mile for about the first 9 or so miles. I felt myself starting to slow big time around mile 10. I told myself there was only a 5k left and pushed on. As I looked at my watch with a mile to go I realized that I could get in under 1:40, sadly I missed by 21 seconds. I wish the clock at the finish line had been working when I came in, maybe then I could have pushed strong to make it in. I'm completely happy with my time and know there are always more races. I finished with a time of 1:40:20, 7:40 AP.  I was just grateful to have my kiddos there watching me come through the finish line. It was fun to able to meet Tara from the blog as the 1:30 pacer. I got to chat with her for a minute, wish I could have stayed with her group:) A huge congrats to Melissa for taking 3rd place overall and to Jay for an unbelievable PR, I'm so proud of you guys. Jason and I got a massage and have agreed this needs to become an annual race.

3 nice and easy recovery miles. I feel exceptionally good after Saturday's race. I then went to yoga, the perfect start to the week.

I had planned on running about 8 miles today, but my legs felt heavy and I couldn't get my legs to turn over quickly, so after 3 slow miles I threw in the towel and headed to spin class.

Today was a bummer, I had planned on doing a nice long run, but the gym opened 30 minutes late. I ended up doing 7 fast miles 7:24 AP. This just hasn't been my week.

I was supposed to run 15 miles with my buddies this morning, but have come down with an awful cold. I decided to sleep in and do weights instead. Worked quads, hamstrings, inner and outer thigh, chest, back, shoulders, biceps, triceps, glutes, and abs. After weights I ran, but was only able to muster out a slow 5 miles 8:34 AP. Really low miles this week, hopefully next week will be better:)

3.5 mile progressive speed run before heading to yoga.

Ran 4 fast miles 7:30 AP, then went to spin class.

Ran 7 slow miles 8:19 AP. I felt no drive at all to run. I know there are days like this, but everthing just felt off. Weights: worked inner and outer thigh, calves, glutes, hamstrings. quads, biceps, triceps, shoulders, back, chest and abs. I isolated a bunch of the muscle groups, I'll feel this in the next few days. I love the feeling of sore muscles.

Ran 3.1 slow miles then ran 1 super fast mile just for fun. Headed to kickboxing class.

I had planned on running with a bunch of friends this morning, but decided I needed to throw some weights in for my upcoming vacation. I Ran 3.5 slow miles then picked up the pace and ran the remaining 8 miles faster. 11.5 total miles 7:45 AP. Fun chit chat with Kira and Elise made the time fly by. Weights: quads, hamstrings, inner and outer thigh, glutes, chest, delts, lats, shoulders, biceps, triceps, abs and obliques. This was a huge workout and I was wasted by the end, but it felt so good.