Weak link

Well after reading everyone posts about how well they are doing and their distances I definitely feel like the weak like in this group. I was pretty proud of myself for getting at least 2 miles in 2 to 3 times a week but it looks and sounds like I better pick up the pace and encourage Danny to do the same thing. I sure hope we don't disappoint.

I was also wondering if anyone has started to look at what leg or what runner they want to be I have been looking over the map and think that I would like to be runner 7 if nobody else has a problem with that. I felt like with my lack of experience that I would be comfortable with those legs and it is feasible for me to be trained for those distances with out a problem at all. Just let me know what you think.

Another day

This morning I went to the Field House again to run my 5. Ran in 38:05 and then biked 5.5 miles, it felt great! I decided I should probably decrease my speed and start working on distance again on Saturdays. So next week I'll set the goal for 8.

So I finally got to do my Saturday run in the morning, though I did sleep in. I ran my 5 miles in 39:24. It felt really good and I just kept running faster. This was on the treadmill of course. I still don't dare run outside on my ankle. I'm like el Capitan Crusty, I sure enjoy running and wish I had started sooner.

Runnin like a champ

Well sort of like a champ anyway. So about a week before I came back down to Logan my knee started hurtin me so I decided to take it easy for the next little while, but it still hurt if I went over 2.5 miles. So since I don't want to risk anything any further I have been taking my running very slow and haven't done anything over 3 miles, but my knee is starting to get better, it only takes an hour or two after my run, and some ibuprofen, and then it feels great! So thats were I'm at right now and am getting better all the time. You guys are doing awesome and are really pushing me here. Sat runs have been put on a halt because of snowboarding, just fyi! :)

Still HEre

I thought I should post, since I hadn't for quite awhile. In my last post I explained my frustration with my knees and not being able to run. I took a week off from running and then ran another week and pushed too hard towards the end of the week and haven't run again this whole week. Next week I will take it slower. I am surprised by how much I enjoy running. I feel better all day (not physically, but emotionally). I wish I had started ruinning a long time ago.

New Goal

I have been getting lax in my running and started only running twice a week, once during the week then on Saturdays. I have now made a goal to increase my running to at least three times a week. Not a specific distance, just what my body feels like for that day since I will be running more frequent. Today I ran 3.5 miles and I'm planning on going Thursday and Saturday. I'm hoping posting this will also be a motivator to keep up this goal.

Slowly, but surely

So I have taken everyone's advice very literally and kept my running miles down very low, and my body seems to be handling things a lot better. I went back to the PT last week and she is ordering me some orthotics, so we'll see how that goes. I have also been working on my core strengthening and I think it will help a lot to get that stronger, so my running form is more correct. This week I have been able to run 2 1/2 mi. each time I run without a problem, so I plan to just increase slightly each week and take it easy. If it hurts too much, I quit, instead of just ignoring the pain. I'm thinking I might just walk on my days off so that I can get more miles in each week. 9 miles per week is pretty lame, when some of you are doing that in one day! :) You are all inspiring to me and I hope that someday I can keep up. As for the legs of the race, I call for one of the easy ones because I am a BIG pansy!

Guilt, what a motivator

So I sat down and read everybodies blogs posts and it motivated me to get off my lazy parts and run. I did nit run this morning because we were up until 1:30 visiting with my brother and his wife. In the morning we had to leave at 8:00 to go to my Aunts funeral down in Preston and we didn't get home until 6:00. I had talked myself out of running today but after I read every ones posts I decided to get my five miles done, so I did. Now I'm sitting here sweating but feel much better about myself. Thank you everybody for being so inspiring.

Love-hate relationship

Well I woke up this morning and came to the realization that running outside was not an option. With everyone still asleep I decided to head off to the field house and run on the dreadful treadmill. I usually hate the field house but it wasn't too crowed in the morning and was only a little stuffy. I pushed myself more than usual and was able to run my 5 miles in 38:18. Thats the best I've done in awhile. I'm slowly making my come back. With most of the team being new to running, I wonder if we should start assigning legs so we all have motivation and an idea what we need to be prepared for. When I had my own team last year I had everyone pick out 3 legs in order of preference and was able to assign them accordingly. I could help with this if you would like, but I don't want to overstep my bounds. Let me know. Keep running strong.

mental excercise

At 1.5 miles today my mind kept telling my body that I was done. I was able to convince myself to keep going, but at 4 miles, I had to walk for a bit. Then off running again, attempting to convince myself that I can make my goal of 6 miles. I did it! I was so happy with myself. 49:15 was my time. I think that's good.

Another Week Done

Hey Guys: Here is my running report for the week. I actually hope to get some more in tomorrow but I have 20 miles as of this morning so we'll see! I started the week with a pretty good 6 mile run on the treadmill. I tried to go a little faster than my slow 10:00 min/mile pace. Then on Wednesday I was going to get up early and run but ended up getting woken up too many times that night with a sick Brinci so I decided to sleep in. I've been trying to potty train this week as well so I had to wait until Gage took a nap to get on the treadmill. I had to stop 2.5 miles into my run to use the potty and was really nervous that I wasn't going to be able to make it as long as I wanted but I kept pushing on and lo and behold I did it!! I finished my 9 miles. It felt really good. Then that night I was watching a sad movie so I decided to walk on the treadmill through it so that I wouldn't cry as hard (I don't think that tactic worked) and ended up walking 5 more miles! I finished this morning with a 5 mile run at a 9:22 pace. I felt really good through the whole thing. So that being said, next week is going to be horrid. That seems to be how this running thing works. You do well one day, not so good the next. I liked how Jonathan said he is listening to his body. That's what we all need to do and just brush the bad runs off and keep going forward! Thank you all for your encouragement and great comments on here! I love to see what you all have been up to. Happy Running!!

Icon Clothes

Hey guys: Here's the update on the clothes. Katie and Nate met with Icon yesterday and picked out some things for us to wear. There is a bright green shirt for the ladies and a white with green on the side for men. There is a women's jacket and a men's jacket. The only shorts we decided on are the men's. The women's were just to short! So anyway I don't have individual prices but if you were to get all the thing it would total $50 for the men and $60 for the women. I think the women's jacket is a little more or something. Anyway, don't feel like you have to purchase any of this or purchase what you can. I would like to support the guy who has been working on this for a while so even if you can do a shirt, that would be great. For those who haven't run in a moisture wicking shirt yet, it might be beneficial to try it! It's amazing what a difference it makes. If you would like pictures of any of these, Nate sent them to me so let me know and I'll email them. Katie and Nate are the models so just ignore that part! Hope all is going well!

Too Early

So 5:00am was too early yesterday and I couldn't drag myself out of bed. That translated into running my 3 miles last night. The good part of that was I could watch a movie while running which I can't do in the morning or I might have some very upset locals to deal with, ie. Kimberli, Austin, and Kimball. (Jarett and Porter would likely sleep through any amount of noise) Running at 9:00 pm is not as easy as in the morning and makes it harder to go to sleep later, but we must push on, right? can't be a whimpy cry baby. SO, onward and upward!

I haven't been able to keep up my running like I've hoped. Between the crappy air quality here and it getting dark so early my only options have been a treadmill and I can't go distance on treadmills. I have done a couple of short runs on the treadmill but tonight was my first long run in a while. I went 4 miles and part of it was a pretty big hill. My mile of hill running was at a pace of 12 min miles then the rest of my run after that I made up for the time by averaging a 9.6 min mile pace in spite of the icy road conditions. It feels good to be running again I just hope the air quality stays somewhat good so I can keep it up.

Rough Day

Today was a hard run. I had to slow down and it took me almost as long to run 4 miles as it did to run 5 miles last Saturday. But I'm listening to my body better to prevent re-injury. I finally settled into a steady pace and started to loosen up about 3 miles in. I saw my physical therapist again yesterday because my ankle was feeling tight again so she loosened me up and gave me some exercises to strengthen my core which seems to be the source of all my trouble. Maybe if I had a little less "core" it wouldn't be so much trouble:)

Great Article

Hey Guys, This might be to late for some of you but here is a good article of how to build up your base so you can train right. That way you don't get injured!! Hope you enjoy it. I only read the first few paragraphs so hopefully it will be helpful.
http://www.active.com/running/Articles/A-Runner-s-Guide-to-Base-Building.htm?act=EMC-Active&Vehicle=Running&Date=01_19_10&Edition=1&Sections=Articles&Creative=A_Runner_s_Guide_to_Base_Building&TextName=A_Runner_s_Guide_to_Base_Building&ArtText=Txt&Placement=1&Dy=Tue

Looking Fabulous

Hey Guys, Icon has decided that since our teams are going to be on the spotlight a lot during the Wasatch Back they want us to look good. They have offered both the Wannabe and the Don't Really Wannabe teams running clothes at a discount. We are meeting with them on Thursday to discuss cost and styles. You are under no obligation to purchase these clothes, but be thinking about it. I'll let you know what the actual cost is when I find out. I think it's really cool that they are doing this. So many people want to help us in so many ways! Happy Running!

I did my 5 miles this morning in 41 minutes and 30 sec. I was a little trepidations about going that far but decided to anyway. The ankle started out feeling great, then got pretty sore about 1 mile in so I had to stop and stretch it a little and then finished feeling great. I think I'll stay at 15 miles per week for a couple of weeks before I start pushing things farther.

6 miles 51:30. I took it easy as this was a bad week apparently. Monday is holiday for government employees :) Unfortunately that means tuesday I get to do monday and tuesdays work :(

Cough Cough

Well, I don't like treadmills very much but the way things are looking I better start liking them. I haven't ran since Sat.'s 6.6. We need a storm or something to clean this Cache Valley Air.

Nothing big to report. I ran 3 miles in about 23 minutes this morning. Looking forward to my 5 miles this Saturday. GOOD TIMES!!!!

I ran 4 miles this morning in about 32 minutes. Again, my ankle hurt for the first 2 miles and then it loosened up but my I was really dogging it right to the end of the run. I'm looking forward to a 5 miler this weekend and see how my ankle holds up.

Keep on keeping on!!

Abs?

I ran 1.5 miles (yipee.) without walking on Mon. and I'm happy to say that my foot is doing awesome. Now, I just need to build up my lungs so I don't pass out from oxygen deprivation. My legs are lasting longer than my lungs are. Another thing I discovered is that I don't think I have any abs any more. I am wanting to strengthen them so it will help me run. I'm really not sure, but I tried to find them to work them out this morning, and I really could not locate them. I'm fairly certain that if I were doing my exercises correctly, my abs should feel some sort of ache or pain, but nothing. Hmmm. Guess I'll keep trying.

Discouraged

I have been experiencing knee pain the last couple of days. I think it is patellar tendonitis. I can't run for a while and that bugs me.

I was able to run 3 miles again this morning and felt even better than on Saturday. I'm so excited to get re-started! It felt good to run.

Here we go again!

I ran 3 miles on Saturday. My left ankle was pretty sore for the first 2 miles but then it seemed to loosen up. I am going to restart my marathon training schedule in the morning and hope and pray for the best!

Hey, it's MOM

I finally got someone to show me how to do this. I wanted to blow you all away with MY record. I broke the 23 min mile today--even got up to 3.5 in a sprint so I could get my mile and still make it to breakfast with the boys. It's a good thing I'm not "running" with you, but thank you for being such good examples to me and for my torture machine (my affectionate name). I'm actually losing weight, which is very nice.

improved time

5 miles 40:40. 4 minutes better than last 5 miler

Good News

Hey Team,
Ragnar got their website rebuilt and we are officially in. We should be team number 2 by the end of this or next week. By the way, do Chris and Chandra live within 10 miles of the race?

Feeling Lazy

So Monday I ran 1.5 miles before my ankle started hurting bad enough to make me stop, which isn't too bad because I have a low threshold for this ankle. I didn't run Tuesday and Kimball kept us up a bit that night so I slept in Wednesday. I decided to run in the evening on Wednesday and when I went to work I found out that my orthotics had arrived. So, Last night I ran on my new orthotics and was only able to run a mile before my ankle started hurting again, but this morning it feels pretty good. We'll see how it goes this weekend for a 3 mile run, I think?!?.

Nice Finish to the Year

First of all I want to ask the CRAZIES why they are going so fast? Is it just to see if you can or what? Please fill me in!!! I finished the year with 1118 miles! I was pretty proud of myself. Hopefully I'll be able to do 1000 again this year. I ran a 6 miler on the indoor track in Star Valley which was nice. It was awfully cold up there! Then I did a five miler on the treadmill. Thanx Mom for letting me stink up your place! I kinda wish that I would have ran 2 more miles to make it a more rounded number, oh well. We came home from Star Valley on Friday and I ran 3 on the treadmill. On Sat. I went for a 6 miler with Bruce. He runs WAY too fast and I'm running out of things to ask him so that he has to do all the talking! It's been really good for me though to get my mind off the pain.
Hopefully we will all continue to train smart and hard! Good Luck with all your new goals and Happy Running!

during the break

I was lazy and didn't run last week. Then I only ran 2.5 miles this morning. I had runner gut pretty bad, I'm blaming it on Fast Sunday. My one run in Bancroft resulted in 3.5 miles and I ran for approximately 1.5 minutes at a 12 on the treadmill. Holy cow I thought that 10 was bad. The first couple miles were heinous since the belt was loose on the Eliasons treadmill and I was sliding all over. I finally stopped and fixed it. Made the run much nicer then.

Happy New Year!

I want to officially welcome the Perry's to our team! Sorry it has taken me so long, but I believe I am once again on the mend. Jonathan talked me into going to the PT and she worked wonders on my foot. She found things that hurt that I never knew existed. My foot is healing very nicely and I have been able to run on it a little for the last week. Actually, Saturday, my lungs gave out before my foot did, so this week I'm expecting great things from myself (slowly, of course!) I am determined to run this race just because I am irritated at my body for making me feel like I'm old. I have a lot of physical goals for myself in this new year, and running this race is definitely one of them. Thanks to all of you for your support and encouragement. I never believed that I could run, and I definitely won't break any speed records, but simply to finish will be an amazing feat for me. Keep up the good work all of you, and I will try not to complain so much!

5 miles

It's 2 days late, but I finally got my 5 miler in!! Thanks to you all for pushing me!