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Nine weeks and five days until the St. George Marathon! I practiced taking a gel every four miles during our long run like I do in the marathon and focusing on hitting the paces for the goal of the run.
I ran 16 miles total, 2 x 4 miles at an average of 6:44. My legs were tired during this run, partly because we have switched training up greatly and partly because I’ve added biking back in (biking muscles have nothing to do with running muscles, I am finding).
Maybe we spend a little too much time together, we are eachother’s influencers ha. Hydrojugs for the win.
There was no time for an ice bath, and I legit felt the difference in not doing one! I learned my lesson.
Fast-forward to the evening, and I went to my friend’s house for pizza and a live band in her dreamy backyard. The kids ran around exploring the whole night.
And gelato! Took us back to Croatia…
We played night-games and went to bed way too late. Skye is a night-owl, just like Andrew, so she lives for late nights with friends. PS she uses my baby blanket these days.
Sunday morning we were out the door at 6:05 am to drive to Vernal for my niece’s homecoming. We even got Curly for the day.
My niece, who went on a mission, is home! We had the best time hearing about her experience in Spain and reminiscing about that beautiful country (I wish we could have gone for 18 months, too)!
My dad was able to make it. If there is a grandparent within a mile of Beck, he is ATTATCHED to them.
At all times!
Brooke is almost as tall as my ADULT niece, she exaggerated the picture a bit to predict what it will be like in a few years;)
We have summered as hard as we possibly can.
It might be time for me to clean their car seats;)
Let’s get back to recapping each week’s training again! I’m trying an entirely new method and I can’t wait to see how things go on October 6th!
Have I told you who I am working with? One of my friends has a friend (who was a former 3000m American Record holder and very competitive runner for BYU) who coaches and she invited me to join her for 5k training with her in June. Things went great with the 5k, we had a lot of fun, so here we are now.
I’ll start with a few days from the previous week, too because that is when training officially started:
Thursday (7/18): 6 miles @ 8:14 pace
Friday: 10 miles @ 7:04 with 5 miles in the middle @ 6:36 pace.
Saturday: 14 mile long run @ 7:21 average. 5 mile w/u and then 9 miles not hard, not easy… somewhere in the middle where we could still talk.
Monday: 4 miles w/u, 4 miles @ 7:15 pace. 8 miles total @ 7:44 average. 30 minute easy on bike/10 miles.
Tuesday: 8 miles @ 7:48 average. Experimenting with easy runs being faster than we used to run them.
Wednesday: 3.1 mile w/u, 3.5 mile c/d. 6.2 miles in 37:54 (6:06 average)–> Tempo effort for the first 5 miles and then pushed the last mile. It’s a downhill course. She didn’t have us race it because she didn’t want us to need a lot of time to recover before going into Friday/Saturday this week.
Thursday: 9 miles (4 on roads, 5 on trails) @ 8:56 average with 715 ft of climbing. 30 minute easy on bike/10 miles.
Friday: 3 mile w/u, 5 miles aerobic threshold (6:49 pace) for 8 miles @ 7:20 average pace.
Saturday: 16 miles @ 7:11 average. 4 warm-up miles, 4 miles @ 6:51 up the canyon (more AET miles), 2 miles easy, 4 @ 6:36 down the canyon, 2 cool-down.
Mileage for last week: 62!
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Any night owls? If not now, have you been in the past?
-College and when I was dating again the second time around (<– but that second one was probably classified more as not sleeping because of stress than a night owl).
Tell me any highlights from your weekend?
What Olympic events have you been watching?
Does anyone else have their baby blanket/stuffy still?
