I'm so so proud of these women and my husband Brady, this was Denise's very first half marathon and she did amazing, and everyone else PR'd on a very challenging course. Such an inspiring group!
Monday, September 13, 2010
September 6 - 12, 2010
The week before Whitefish!! It was a weekend I was really looking forward to, but nervous about because I hadn't been getting my miles in since Spokane to Sandpoint. Oh I had been running and working out, doing hard cardio circuits, speed ladders and Boot Camps, but I hadn't gone for a long run since Wednesday, 10 days before Two Bear Half Marathon.
So this was my week of training:
Monday, Labor Day - Boot Camp
Tuesday - 72 minute cardio circuit, yahoooooooooooooo. Boy we were exhausted, I fell asleep that night at 8:20 p.m.! Thanks Lindsay, Erica, Donnie, Corrie and Josh for doing it with me, I love having company!
Wednesday - 4 miles easy with BellyBoo
Thursday - Taper!
Friday - Taper and Travel Day!
Saturday - Fun fun day in Whitefish with the girls and Brady, we ate great food, went on a 2.0 mile run, relaxed, stretched, walked around town and just had a fantastic day. Can't wait to go back to BedN'Bale House!!!
Sunday - Race Day! I have to say I am finally inching toward my goal time of a 1:32 Half Marathon, thankfully. It was a perfect day, a little chilly at the start, but I warmed up for about 15 minutes, stretched, dynamic warm up and was feeling really good. The race started off downhill so mentally you feel great and physically you feel even better, but you know the hills will be come at mile 4.0 and don't stop until after mile 8.0, then you have rolling hills to look forward to, which even when they are only .10 in length, after 9 miles any hill is tough! But it was a beautiful course, challenging but scenic and fun, I NEVER got bored and it went by pretty fast. I actually held myself back in the beginning and had negative splits!! I was really excited about this, I did have a bad mile around Mile 8, but recovered and got back into my pace. I finished in 1:36 which I haven't been able to break 1:37 in the last 3 races so I'm really excited about this. More exciting though is that Brady, Bridgette, Michele, and Cyndi all PR'd as well, and Denise ran her first half marathon and did awesome!
It was a really fun weekend, I'm definitely going back next year for this race!
Happy Training All!
So this was my week of training:
Monday, Labor Day - Boot Camp
Tuesday - 72 minute cardio circuit, yahoooooooooooooo. Boy we were exhausted, I fell asleep that night at 8:20 p.m.! Thanks Lindsay, Erica, Donnie, Corrie and Josh for doing it with me, I love having company!
Wednesday - 4 miles easy with BellyBoo
Thursday - Taper!
Friday - Taper and Travel Day!
Saturday - Fun fun day in Whitefish with the girls and Brady, we ate great food, went on a 2.0 mile run, relaxed, stretched, walked around town and just had a fantastic day. Can't wait to go back to BedN'Bale House!!!
Sunday - Race Day! I have to say I am finally inching toward my goal time of a 1:32 Half Marathon, thankfully. It was a perfect day, a little chilly at the start, but I warmed up for about 15 minutes, stretched, dynamic warm up and was feeling really good. The race started off downhill so mentally you feel great and physically you feel even better, but you know the hills will be come at mile 4.0 and don't stop until after mile 8.0, then you have rolling hills to look forward to, which even when they are only .10 in length, after 9 miles any hill is tough! But it was a beautiful course, challenging but scenic and fun, I NEVER got bored and it went by pretty fast. I actually held myself back in the beginning and had negative splits!! I was really excited about this, I did have a bad mile around Mile 8, but recovered and got back into my pace. I finished in 1:36 which I haven't been able to break 1:37 in the last 3 races so I'm really excited about this. More exciting though is that Brady, Bridgette, Michele, and Cyndi all PR'd as well, and Denise ran her first half marathon and did awesome!
It was a really fun weekend, I'm definitely going back next year for this race!
Happy Training All!
Thursday, September 9, 2010
I'm back...........
Well I took a little hiatus in blogging after Mt. Misery because I started to get really busy getting ready for school to start and traveling that the weeks just slipped by.
After Mt. Misery I took a couple of weeks of not completely planned workouts, ran some, did a lot of track workouts and Boot Camps.
I went to Lake Clark, AK and Juneau the week before Spokane to Sandpoint Relay and that was tough because in Lake Clark I could not run due to the bear danger. So the 10 days before I did 4 double days and 6 days of workouts without taking a day off. I was exhausted but it felt great. When I got to Juneau, I did 15.5 miles in 25 hours and although I was nervous about having taken that 8 days off in Lake Clark, I ran really well, felt rejuvenated and re-energized for running.
August 9 - August 13: Logged about 30 miles and a couple Boot Camps, pretty good week
Spokane to Sandpoint Relay: Awesome awesome awesome. My first leg was horrible, it was 5.5 miles in the heat of the day and I averaged 7:15-7:25's so wasn't very happy about that. I was severly dehydrated after standing around in the sun all day and not drinking enough. My second leg was around 12:30 a.m. and I ran really well, averaged 6:55-7:10's for 5.0 miles, great run despite the "creeper" who was hanging out in bushes! Leg 3 was touched with sadness as about 60 minutes before I ran, a lady whow as riding a bike and was shadowing a 17 year old runner for safety, got hit by a drunk driver and was killed. That was hard to swallow and hard to be excited about my run. But I did my 4.5 miles in 6:55's and it was a good run despite the sadness. It was a good running weekend for me, I got to spend it with my beautiful "little sis" Hilary, and for my wonderful Snap friends who completed their legs with success as well.
After S2S I got back into Boot Camps and doing cardio circuits with my WSU groupies and didn't run many long runs which I know will affect me at the Whitefish 1/2 marathon this Sunday but I don't really care too much, I just want to have a good weekend, enjoy the friends who are going and some who are doing their first 1/2 marathon!
Happy Training All!
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