What ever it takes!

Well, that was an un-expected time off from running, even with Christmas being in there.  I had grand plans of running 18 miles on Christmas Eve morning with some people I met at church up here in Wyoming but Thursday night I was up all night with with a sick kid throwing up every 1 - 2 hours.  At 5:00am I decided to try and go running at the Y, got up from the couch walked over to the front door, and just blacked out, yep passed out and hit the floor, woke up 20 minutes later having no idea where I was, went down stairs and told my wife to come check on the kids and then started throwing up all over.  Spent the next 3 days, including Christmas along with the rest of my kids and nephews and neices sick as a dog.  I somehow am the only adult that caught it.

Anyway, felt a little better this morning, even after getting up at 2:00 to tend to my 3 year olds (issues) went to the Y for an easy run before our 10 hours long car ride back home.

Tried out my new 405 Garmin I got for Christmas,  I'm not sure which I like better the 405 or 305.  I'm going to wear the 405 as an all the time watch and probably keep to the 305 for races and days where I need to wear gloves.

 

Distance	Time	Avg Pace	Incline	Max HR	Avg HR
1	7:08	7:08	0	169	142
2	6:54	6:54	0	140	136
3	6:39	6:39	0	145	143
4	6:31	6:31	0	152	149
5	6:21	6:21	0	153	152
6	6:15	6:15	0	158	155
7	5:52	5:52	0	163	160
Total	45:44	6:32	0	163	147

Back to the old Life Time.  Feeling just Blah!  this morning, not sure if it's from the long drive yesterday or still getting over sickness but I didn't really have much in me this morning.  Set the treadmill to 9.2 (6:30 pace) and didn't push another button until I was done, no incline, no speed nothing, I don't think I've ever done that before.  Good HR test.

I was to lazy to even go through a treadmill reset which is why I ended at 9 instead of just going 10.  Pretty lazy, went and sat in the hot tub and steam room for a while after.

 Also learned that I gained 4 lbs from Christmas cookies, I wasn't as upset about it as I thought I'd be.  I think I was actually thinking it was going to be worse.

I was planning on mapping out a route for Saturdays New Years day run.  Let me know if your interested,  called Ryan last night to see if he wanted to come with me and he agreed.  Woke up at 5:00, looked out the window and quickly re-evaluated.  Texted Ryan and canceled due to Blizzard like conditions.

Took Britt's 4 wheel drive to the gym, when I got there I noticed noone was in the pool and thought to myself "I haven't swam in a while" and once again changed my plans and swam 1600 M in about 40 minutes.   Came home and shoveled 8" of the yuckiest wettest snow ever.  That took me an hour.  40 minutes to swim, 60 minutes to shovel.  Humm, doesn't seem right.  I think the shoveling was the better workout too.

If I would have ran yesterday I think I would have just opted out today, but I really wanted to punish myself for being a slacker the last week.  So I set my alarm early knowing I would have to shovel a 2' snow drift just to get out of my driveway this morning, and off I went.

Nothing says torture more than a good sub 60 minute 10 miler, so that's what I set out to do, last time I tried it I started out to slow and spent the whole second half of my run making up for lost time, so I tried to get to the 10mph mark as quickly as possible.  It paid off cause at mile 8 my legs felt a little rubbery and I had to slow down for 1 mile.

Distance	Time	Avg Pace	Incline	Avg HR	Max HR
1	6:16	6:16	0	148	160
2	6:09	6:09	0	159	162
3	5:59	5:59	0	162	165
4	5:56	5:56	0	165	167
5	5:52	5:52	0	168	170
6	5:52	5:52	0	169	172
7	5:44	5:44	0	170	173
8	5:41	5:41	0	171	174
9	5:52	5:52	0	171	173
10	5:44	5:44	0	172	174
Total	59:11	5:55	0	165	174

Those of you who travel may understand, but those who don't would probably just think I'm a materialistic Jerk :)  But last night we stayed at the Ogden Marriott.  Why, because I was only one night away from getting Gold status with Marriott by the end of the year, so we aranged to visit some friends in Ogden last night and let the kids play in the Hotel Pool.

So this morning I ran on the hotel treadmill, I don't know why hotel treadmills are so much harder, maybe the stuffy little room, maybe the treadmill itself, but the effort sure seemed a lot harder than it should have.

Distance	Time	Avg Pace	Incline	Avg HR	Max HR
1	7:03	7:03	0
2	6:40	6:40	0
3	6:40	6:40	0
4	6:30	6:30	0
5	6:31	6:31	0
6	6:40	6:40	0
7	6:20	6:20	0
Total	46:26	6:41	0		162

Well, the first annual New Years Day FRB run was a huge success,  I set out early this morning to stash some Gatorade along the route and checked out running conditions on the trail and road.  Decided the road was was to slick to be safe and decided just running the river trail out and back was the safest option.  Went back to the park and ride to meet up with everyone at 8:00 am.  Allie showed up right on time, I found her easy by her Utah State Aggie license plate.  We waited around in the cold for 20 minutes for any last stragglers and then finally the whole group (Allie and I) headed off.  

It was about 5 degrees at the start but I had anticipated it being very cold and actually over dressed, I think I had at least 1 extra layer of everything on,  2 pairs of socks, running tights with running pants over them, 3 shirts and a jacket, 2 pairs of gloves and a hat over a headband.  I started out very comfortable and actually ended up stashing some clothes at the "aid station" ( my stashed cooler of gatorade)

It turned out being a beautiful morning for running, the trail was for the most part clear with about 1" of snow over it to cushion the run, there were a few spots along the route where we had to dredge through a foot of snow, but nothing terrible.  No wind and actually just a wonderful run.  The conversation mostly consisted of how awesome we were, and how bad everyone else must feel back in their comfy warm beds watching re-runs of the New York Ball droping on the morning news.  :)

We really should try and plan another group run, and hopefully get more than 2 people next time.

Distance	Time	Avg Pace	Incline	Avg HR	Max HR
1	7:44	7:44
2	8:00	8:00
3	8:37	8:37
4	7:27	7:27
5	7:27	7:27
6	7:30	7:30
7	7:22	7:22
8	7:15	7:15
9	7:15	7:15
10	7:13	7:13
11	7:28	7:28
12	7:37	7:37
13	9:08	9:08
14	7:56	7:56
14.86	7:11	8:21
Total	1:55:17	7:45

Those really slow miles 3, and 13 were due to a construction area with the foot of snow.