Ironman!!!

OK It is just an Ironman over a 2 week period! Oh MAN!! If I would have been on the ball I would have stayed at the gym and rode! ACK! It is the bike that is gonna get me!!

Started yesterday here we are
8/26.2 miles run
7/100 miles bike
1200/4000 yards (2.5 miles)swim

I am excited and nervous I have the run and swim plotted out but need to figure out this biking thing! EEK!

After Saturday I needed a new attitude! I decided I would hit the 3 5:30am classes this week, also swim and Ana's Circuit class. I wanted to do a ride with JaNae on Thursday but it doesn't work for her so I will try to get out on my own. I haven't swam for 2 weeks. It was hard at first but I easily fell back into the rhythm. It felt good. My flip turns weren't easy and I need to work on them. I was soo happy to see the leisure pool back opened so I can take the kids now and work on my flip turns while they play in the evening!

Spring is here!! I am so excited to be doing more outside!! I am craving an early morning run! just needs to lighten up a tad more another two weeks and it will happen!!

the birthday run that totally sucked....

ya the title sums it up. The end...

No just kidding. OK I might write about it later but first thing is first! Last August when I did two half's I qualified for what is called a Half Fanatic. I just never had the extra money to spring to be part of their club. Last week a friend posted that she qualified and got it. Well it was my birthday and I got some money so I signed up! yay! I am Half Fanatic #2068.
ok on to the birthday run. I decided to run the Shamrock Half. I tried to get a bunch of peeps to come out with me but only had a few which is fine. so We got up and I didn't really feel great but I felt ok. nothing that would worry me. So I got running and was really wishing I would have brought my fuel belt. I was so thirsty. Finally at mile 4ish they had water stop. Well by then I just felt I needed something more than water so I opted for the gatorade....not a good idea. I immediately started feeling sick and was pretty much nauseous the rest of the race. At mile 11ish I almost fell down when my leg cramped. I have NEVER cried at the end of a race but I bawled my eyes out on this one. I was so glad it was over. I finished in 2:17:36. which is easily 10 minutes slower than I would usually run. It was horrible and devastating but I NEED to remember that I am gonna have races like that. It doesn't matter how strong I feel one day I could be sick the next. I also need to remember even if I think the water stops are good I need to just take my own water. There, I am over it, I am gonna get over this one and look forward to my next run... which I am a pacer for and totally freaked out now!

20 miles...

So I changed up my training a tad bit. I was supposed to do 20 last week but with the L2L relay I decided to push it back a week. I decided last night to run part of it out to my parent house which is 8 miles. It made the run pretty easy going somewhere and coming back. I almost did the extra 4 before running out there and next time I will. I had given them a time frame to be out there and running the extra 4 would have put me way late because I ended up starting later than I planned, I was hoping it would warm up but it didn't. It was 28° when I left. My goal was to do it in under 4 hours. Which I accomplished. I need to get a recorded and tape some of my thoughts cuz I had a couple things I wanted to blog about but can't remember now. I felt so strong today. At 18 miles I was running a good 10 minute pace and felt so strong. I wish I knew my right pace but because I had stopped at my moms house my watch didn't show my moving time. So it is showing pretty much the same time as I was running my 20 milers last year but I think I could take almost 5 minutes off. I will be running 16 next week and 20 the following two weeks so my goal will be to have those two 20 milers under 3:45 and then under 3:40. I felt very strong and great today! It makes me excited for my marathon. crossing my fingers they get the permits in and approved!! EEK!!

Lake to Lake Relay

This past weekend we headed down to the sunshine of St George Utah for a quick 50 mile relay with Tom and JaNae. It was so beautiful, definitely a rave run. I didn't have my camera on either of my legs but did take some at the finish line.
We headed down on Friday grabbed a bite to eat then headed back to the condo via a road trip to Walmart. We got back about 11ish and went to bed, We had to be to the start by 7:45 and it was a 45 minute drive but we wanted to be early enough for pictures. which I don't have yet.
JaNae was leg one, Tom's friend Susan leg 2, Don was leg 3, I was 4 and Tom was 5. It went so quick I ran one of my best times the first leg and didn't have enough time to recover to do really good my second leg. I only had about 3 hours it seems to recover, and leg two was a difficult dirt road that was very hilly, It's name is The Dirty Hill Climber, It had about three really big hills. It is rewarded with a prize at the end. This year was a sweat towel, which I will post a picture when I get one :)

We finished by 3:30. Our team came in 41 out of 112 teams and 17 out of 51 in our CO-ED division. We did the 50 miles in 7 hours and 23 minutes!

We ended up having to get new tires and had dinner and were able to be home about 10:30pm! like I said, quick trip!

This was a fun run but I don't know if I would do it again.