Running Blog

40 minutes with Mia. I was pretty proud of her for making it 5 miles in 40 minutes, because she didn't feel too great & hasn't been running regularly. It was fun to talk with her and stuff though. I felt fantastic, actually. We did Target run, and my watch actually matched the mileage we ran for that run in high school (1.5 at Arctic Circle, 2 at Starbucks, etc). I'm always surprised when that happens, ever since Sierra revealed to me the lie that is single double church run. So congrats, Coach. You didn't lie about this one.

Today was a relax-at-home-and-watch-movies day for my family, and Mia's and my run kinda followed that pattern. We went out to Chuckawalla and ran 10-ish average pace for 40 minutes with my dog. It felt good, mostly. My stomach kinda hurt, and Gabbie nearly killed me while I tried to restrain her from eating a small dog, but it was good overall. Now my dad is listening to "Mandy" by Barry Manilow or whatever and the memories are just flooding back-- freakin boys team.

Last run of the year- it was fantastic. 9x60 sec fartlek workout (we're supposed to have lower mileage this week). I warmed up 18 minutes to the desert-- it's all bulldozed! A trail that I ran on as recently as Thanksgiving break now just ends halfway to the reserve. It's all been flattened. It makes me so so sad. Anyway, I warmed up to the top of the baby hill on Middleton Powerline trail, then started my fartleks. I realized pretty quickly that the trail I was on was going to end (at the water tower) before I got enough fartleks in, so I turned on another trail that heads out in the direction of Middleton. As I was going, I was thinking: "this looks so familiar!" THEN I REALIZED. It was the same trail we ran on a few summers back on a Friday straight from the depths of heck. We started at Middleton Park and headed out into the desert and nearly died of heat exhaustion + boredom-- I had NO IDEA the Middleton Hell Trail connected to my desert. It was much more pleasant today than it was that day in the summer so long ago. I was originally only going to do 8 fartleks but I felt so good and my final one was pretty much all downhill, so I decided to do an extra for good measure. Cooled down 10 minutes to mi casa.

Also Mia and I went to Dutchman's and Mia is 120% sure we saw Coach Roberts' wife there because we watched her get into a minivan with a flower air freshener hanging from the mirror and evidently "that's totally them." Whatever.

First run of the year! ..pretty much sucked, actually. Al Bal & I went out to the desert and it was just a slow, cold, crappy run. We're not even sure of the time/distance because we both forgot to start our watches when Alli stopped to take off her jacket.

Today was a weird day and I ended up not getting a run in. I did a crossfit workout thing though, which involved a lot of squats, push ups, grasshoppers, and sit ups. Then I did 8/5 core. 

Today was a great run. I didn't expect it to be good at first, because Alli and I went to a class party for Sunday School (yes, I still go to my old Sunday School class when I'm at home. My teacher is the bomb. Exhibit A: we had a class party). Anyway, the party was at Durangos, and then we went to Cold Stone after, so we were stuffed. But we got out there with Gabbie and ran anyway. It took me a while to warm up to the run, and our first two miles were quite slow (9:10, 9:32, although in our defense, there's a big hill at the end of the second mile). Then Alli turned around and Gabbie and I extended to 25:00. My last four splits were as follows: 7:56, 8:17, 7:52, 7:22. I felt fantastic throughout the last four miles. And good news, my watch says I burned 720 calories, which is probably what I consumed at lunch alone. Bleh. I NEED to start eating better. Alli and I are going to do some core now.