Hello! How is your Tuesday going so far? I had one last run in St. George yesterday, and now we are back home!
Yesterday’s run included stops at gas stations to refill my bottle with ICE. I am really going to need St. George to cool down before the race in 33 days. If anyone has a way to make that happen, please let me know. Maybe I will be wearing the cooling headbands that the Olympians were wearing in the Paris Marathon….
Nine miles total with 4 miles @ aet (6:44 average). I didn’t realize until I finished that I was supposed to do 5 miles @ aet and my ‘Type A follow every detail my coach gives me’ self was not happy with that;). I really tried to get in more ups and downs than normal after experiencing the St. George course a few days before… No matter how many times I run that marathon, I always forget there isn’t a flat mile until mile 24. You are either going up or very down the entire way.
This week, we are switching out doubles for two bike sessions of 45 minutes. I got back from doing this and told Andrew we are going to sign up for a bike race together (a road biking race… I’m still scarred emotionally from going over my mountain bike handlebars).
We then went for donuts and I failed to remember Beck’s shoes.
Skye found her dream donut.
We then went to Grandpa’s Pond for a few hours with cousins. My kids were upset we weren’t going to spend ten hours there because it was that much fun.
Now for just a few tangents:
*Brooke doesn’t have a locker in middle school, and this feels strange to me. They do everything on their laptops so they don’t need lockers for textbooks. I have so many memories of decorating my locker and hanging at them that I feel like she is getting robbed from this pivotal 12-year-old experience;)
*For St. George, I get to run in their elite corral, and they sent over some questions. Umm, yes, I would be happy to go to Japan, but I’m going to have to run about 17 minutes faster than my goal marathon time to do so. 😉 The marathon winners (and winners of the masters category) go to Japan to race a half-marathon there! Sweet prize, right?!
*Opposites attract. Notice anything strange about Andrew’s Strava?
*It is my tradition that after every run in St. George during the months of April-October, I must end on the sidewalk.
*My cousins had bowls upon bowls of fruit and fruit dip for my kids on Sunday. It was beautiful.
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Did you see what was absolutely very wrong with Andrew’s Strava?
Did you have a locker? Was it a big deal for you to decorate it?
Give me a tangent!
Mountain biking your thing or pass?
-I really want to make it my thing but I am SO afraid going downhill.
