Running For Trevor

4 miles at the track with the pup.  Waited until 9:30am and it was a little hot but not too bad.

Woke up at 5am and wanted to go straight back to bed.  he he  Got up, got ready and off I went to pick up my packet.  I got a little confused about where I was suppose to go to pick up my packet but finally figured it out and was ready to go.  I met up with my friends Julia and Nikki.  We chatted about the race a bit, and I did a .75 mile warm-up.  I would to have done longer but time did not permit.

By the time I was done with my warm-up it was time to go.  My goal for this race was to run smart and not feel like I was going to die the entire time. (I have had a terrible tendency of going out to fast in the past.)  I knew the race was competitive and I knew I couldn't hang with the fast runners so I told myself to just run my own race and not start out too fast.  Ultimately I had a goal of finishing in 45 minutes.

Mile 1:  This mile was mostly uphill and I tried to focus on controlling my breathing and taking it easy. 7:20 pace

Mile 2:  Mostly downhill.  I tried to still stay controlled but probably went a little too fast.  I was feeling good and was enjoying the cool air.  6:54 pace

Mile 3:  Still felt good and kept repeating in my head "smooth, strong, fast".  I felt like I was running really smooth and I was happy with that.  7:06 pace.

Mile 4:  Pace slowed a little bit but I was still feeling okay.  I met up with Susan at about 3.4 and we ran together until the water station.  7:24 pace

Mile 5:  I stopped at the water station because I was feeling a bit dehyrated and never was able to pick up my pace as much as I would have liked too.  7:24 pace

Mile 6:  I was feeling sluggish and ready to be finished.  Luckily I saw my sister at 5.25 and she ran with me for a minute, took some pictures, and helped to encourage me.  7:35 pace

Mile 7 (.17):  Kicked it in for the final shoot and finished strong.  6:35 pace

I did not beat my previous PR of 44:01 but overall I felt really good and happy with the way I ran.  I am running another 10k on a flat course on August 6th and hoping I can take what I learned from this race and set a new PR.

Congrats to everyone that ran today!!  Lots of amazing talent out there.

Me and my sister ran a 1.25 mile cool down after the race.  It was a fun day and nice to have a short work week. :)

Time to prepare for the Timpanogoes Half Marathon this Saturday!!

25 minutes of upper body weights at the gym and then 9.5 miles on the treadmill.

Ran 8.5 miles outside around my house, 1:06.  I need to find a new place to run because I am pretty bored with Payson.

Did a 20 minute cooldown on the elliptical followed by 15 minutes of weights.

lifted weights and then ran 8 miles on the treadmill.  I should probably taper for the half Saturday.  oops!

6 miles around the orchards in Santaquin. 

Everything went wrong for me this morning.  Got up to the top of the mountain and my garmin wouldn't turn on......dejavu to UVM where my watch wouldn't work, awesome!  (anyone have garmin 205 and had this problem?  It is fully charged but will not turn on.)

Anyway as I paced around in a frenzy trying to figure out what to do I threw my drop bag into the bus and started to warm up.  When I got to the top I realized I had left all of my chomp blocks in my drop bag....awesome!

My friend Jorge had extra fuel and gave me a 2x caffiene Gu (never tried caffiene but hey everything was going wrong so couldn't hurt to just try out something new in a race right?)  The race started about 20 minutes late and I was pretty frustrated thinking there was no way I could possibly PR without knowing my splits.  Oh well I decided to just run and not think about it.

Miles 1-4 I felt like I was running fairly slow my breathing was controlled and I was still pissed about the lack of garmin.

5-7 Maybe I sped up?  I really don't know.  I ate the Gu around mile 6 and was feeling pretty good.  I wasn't getting passed, but I also wasn't passing anyone.

7-9  Still felt okay but definitely like I was running slower than I had at AF half.  I ran into someone at mile 8 and she said we were at 52 minutes.  I was like okay maybe I can do this.

9-11 Ate another GU and was crashing hard.  Got passed by the 1:30 pacer and thought about giving up.  I had no idea what my time was and felt like there was no way in hell I would beet my old PR.

11-13 Asked someone what the time was at mile 11 and he said 1:15.  He told me if I ran 7 minute miles I could still break 1:30.  This definitely motivated me and I picked it up as much as I could.  I felt like crap and did not believe him as the 1:30 pacer was at least 100 feet ahead of me.

13.1  It was a blind turn into the finish and had I known I was 15 seconds away from breaking 1:30 I may have picked it up a bit more.  There was no clock at the finish when I ran in so I waited around to see my official time.

1:30:15!  I was happy and come to find out the 1:30 pacer actually finished in 1:28.  I am bummed I don't have my splits but it was a fun race and may have actually helped me mentally to run without a watch.  Weird how our watches control us sometimes.  I was glad to prove to myself that I am capable of running good without it.

Lots of awesome runners out there today.  Congrats to everyone who ran!!

PM:  2 mile shake out.