Novice or Expert? Eh, I run

Note to self: don't try to run hard when you're dehydrated and it's warmer than you anticipated. We'll just leave it at that.

I wish this thing had a box for "medium"-paced miles. I do too many medium miles. Had a number of those today.

Intervals today. Nice long warm-up and cool down with five 1-mile repeats. I would have done more but I didn't have the time. I did the repeats on a canal road by my parents' house in South Jordan. Run out a mile, then back. I was caged in by busy streets at either end, so back and forth I went. Kept passing the same people walking their dogs. I think one lady was a bit perturbed because she had to put her dog on the leash  instead of let it run free.

 I must admit that I was a bit disappointed in myself. I was trying to run hard and push against the wind and breathe through the wheezing and get a good workout, but I just wasn't tired enough when I finished my last interval and had to head home.

It doesn't happen very often: I felt like running on a treadmill. It was even nice outside; I was quite perplexed at the notion because I generally dread running in place or in a pool. But, I decided to go with the whim because I have an inability to run easy on a treadmill and felt like I haven't been working hard enough lately, so I hopped on there and pushed the increase speed button a few times. 'Twas a grand run.

So I know I'm going to have two easy days in a row. But I don't care. Slow and long is what I want today. Yeah!

I ran with people today! First time in....hmmm, do I count a little jaunt around the "block" with roommates? I had a good time. Easy trail run. I only biffed it once (sorry I disobeyed the decree of no falling on the way down).  We ran into a few hunters who asked where our guns were. I pointed at my bicepsl, but no one noticed, which was a good thing since like many runners, I don't have superfluous arm muscles.

 It's funny, the amount of nothing that can take place during a 12 mile trail run (say that 27 times fast. Twelve mile trail run, twelve mile trail run. Ok, maybe not). Anywho, I had a thoroughly enjoyable time listening for shots, chatting about races, being jealous that I was a bit behind on the way down and didn't get to see the deer, almost dropping to the ground when we startled a few birds wo then startled us and wondering how that Range Rover got high-centered on the edge of the road without rolling off and tumbling down the cliff.

 At any rate, I'm new to this blog, but I think I'll like it. Maybe not as much as I like running but it's blogging isn't the only thing that's lower on my list. 

Good run today. 2 mile warm up. 4 hard (about 6 min pace), 2 easy (with 4x30sec hard just for fun), 4 hard (6-6:30-ish, i think), 2.25 cool down (w/ 4.30sec hard for good measure).

I bought a watch this morning. Lost my last one in the summer of 2006 (I think it feel out of my bag as I was rowing a little boat around a lake in Versaille. Either that or a French pick pocket picked my watch instead of money). It's been a little while since I've caged my left wrist with a time-keeping device and I didn't like it much at first, though I did find it useful in monitoring my pace and timing out 30 second intervals for me. Though I must admit the reason I waited so long to buy another watch...(no, it's not because I'm cheap). I find that I get really negative if I think I'm running slower than I should be. I've been able to plead ignorance for a long time, but I thought I should take some responsibility for my own training and keep track of myself, and today I did. Well, for half the time. I stopped the watch a half mile into my second tempo because although I was on pace, I was afraid that I wouldn't be in a while and that it would be too much to handle both the mental struggle with time and the burning in my legs as I pushed through the tempo.

 Maybe next tempo run  I can make time my friend. 

Ah, today was beautiful. What a better day to jaunt around and look at the leaves. Yeah! Fall is hanging on.

 Just a nice easy day to recover from yesterday, prepare for tomorrow. Just building with a few miles. 

Glad I invested in more pepper spray. Had to spray the same dog twice. One of my roommates thinks I'm cruel to run with pepper spray and use it, but she's not been bitten, nor chased as much as I have. I feel bad to admit it, but I hate dogs when I'm running (or biking). Love 'em otherwise, but people should either chain or train their pets. I passed an Australian shepherd (I think) that just lay there watching me run.  There are other dogs I have come to "trust" too, but those who come out and chase and bark, and curl their lips back in anticipation of biting me deserve to be maced. (call me mean, but I just don't want to take time off to recover from a dog bite).

 But, today's run was ok. warm up, long tempo, cool down. I think I'm not eating right because I'm just tired in the middle of my runs when I shouldn't be. Not running tired but tired tired like I've used up all my reserves.  

Lovely morning run with people with a nice brisk wind coming out of the canyon. Met both Paul and Ruthie and look forward to logging a few miles here and there with them. Ruthie and I saw a few deer, but I think the boys (Cody, Paul and Joe) missed them. 

This afternoon was warm and gorgeous. I took a rejuvenating run up the Logan River Trail and wandered into the haiku that I promised Paul.

Halo of dry leaves

With the dusk light outlining,

My fall run was heav'n 

Yeah, I know. Two easy days in a row. Lazy, lazy girl. I was headed out on my warm up before a ten mile tempo, legs felt ready and such, and suddenly I had a desire to run in the First Dam 10k (or maybe 5k) tomorrow. So I took it easy and ran up Smithfield Canyon, rather ran in Smithfield Canyon because there's almost no "up" (or down for that matter). 

Anyway, it was a lovely run, still felt like fall--with bright yellow leaves still on the trees. I turned a corner and a breeze stole leaves from a not-yet-barren tree and they didn't dance or rain or float down but swirled and let the wind carry them, much like the bit of downhill was carrying me down the canyon.  Okay, that was cheesy, I'll admit it but it was a perfect running day. Overcast so I didn't have to wake up early, quiet road lined with trees. 'Twas lovely. 

So here are my excuses. I'll get them over with and confess the real problem: I ran 16 miles yesterday. I stayed up until 3:30. It's the end of an 80 mile week....I was just didn't run smart. "Stay behind her for about 3 miles and then fly past her," Cody told me as we warmed up. I had patience to run about a stride behind her (or less) for a bit over a mile and then flet like she was slowing down, so I gradually passed her and put some distance but she cause me a  little before mile 4. My legs, I'll be  honest, were tired. I finished 20 seconds or so behind her at a pace that's definitely not my best, but it wasn't bad for having run 16 miles yesterday.

I ran a few easy miles to cool down and discovered that indeed my legs are tired.  But, I enjoyed my run yesterday and the race was not terrible. Fall is still hanging in there (hopes of a little canyon running this next week). Yes, yes, life is grand.

I love sundays and no running is one of the many reasons. All I can say is that my body needs that bit of break. I plan on high mileage this week again (and a "recovery" week to follow), so I think my muscles are thanking me for this. I hope the rain doesn't put a damper on my roommate's and my weekly sunday afternoon walk. Maybe it'll be shorter (not the hours of wandering we did last week) but I think we'll go.

Good run today. Three mile warm up, ten mile tempo, three mile cool down. I wasn't as tired as I expected to be given my mileage the past couple of weeks, which is encouraging since I'd like to keep the  mileage high (yes, with scheduled "rest" weeks of lower mileage). 

The thing I've found curious lately is my asthma. I must not have trained very hard in the past few months because I never really noticed it. I could run hills and be fine, but recently and especially today it gave me trouble. I think I need to go back to my dr because she gave me the prescription I like on the condition that I not use it more than once or twice a week. I used to never use the stuff (as I seemingly never ran hard), but I'd like to use it more. I didn't today (hence the trouble breathing up a few hills). Yes, must make note to see her again when I'm in Salt Lake. Pooh Pooh on breathing. 

Same as many tuesdays. Easy-ish miles broken up around my teaching schedule. Did my second run after all my classes...Not sure how I feel about this whole getting dark at about 5 o'clock thing. Wait, I am sure. I don't like it.

I need to call my allergist/asthma dr. I headed out to 34th north (35th?)...whatever is at the end of 16th east and turns back west. Interval/hill day. Planned on a few 800m repeats and mile repeats and 400s...Attack in my first interval. Tighter and more serious than just the normal wheezing.  so I stopped to breath at the top rather than just turning around and "resting" on the way down. Caught my breath (it waited for me, how nice) after a few seconds and decided to try it again. To no avail, so I thought I'd run home and eat lunch and then run a tempo later and again tomorrow to make up for my laziness today. Ended up running farther and faster than I meant, so I had a shorter tempo (6.5 miles) but I didn't want too many miles, seeing that it will be three days in a row of 16.

But this afternoon's run was good. The uphill kicked my trash a little but I hit my stride a couple of miles in and then kicked the run's trash (would that be the opposite of it kicking mine? Because whatever the opposite is, I accomplished). Good hard run. Good effort. I needed that. 

Ok, the 4 fast miles weren't terribly fast, but they were faster than I meant to go. I met up with a friend who I'd never run with. Most can't really give me much of a workout (except they guys on this blog, of course)...and I don't say that to brag, it's just true. Most roommates and buddies just don't run as much as I do. But apparently Patrick runs daily or almost every day, and he runs trails. So, we ran up the trail on the north side of Logan canyon and down the the river trail. We "ran" through a little tunnel (I couldn't run very well in there because not only were we hunched over, Patrick was blocking the little bit of light at the end, so I couldn't see a thing). We also ran on top of a pipe (my favorite part). I must say that I'm impressed. He kept his pace up the whole time, like I said, that doesn't often happen with the friends that I've run with. But, it was exactly what I needed to run the sore out of my legs. My earlier, easier run didn't help with that much (may have made it worse, in fact).

On the drive home I saw Cody and Jon (? were you two running together this evening?) decked out in their reflective vests, jogging along the sidewalk on 8th east. I wanted to honk or yell or something, but they never would have seen me. Twas too dark. 

I'll be honest. I'm having a rough time with motivation and running hard in the cloudy weather we've been having. Getting used to winter always seems to do this too me. My miles were "medium"--not hard specifically or super easy but medium.

I love the sun. And I love Emigration Canyon. And I love gradually speeding up into a hard pace and just pounding it out. Feels good. I needed that run. 

Went on a walk with my roommate as I do every sunday. We were wandering around North Logan and saw a sign for the North Logan Cemetery.  Neither of us had heard of it before so we thought we'd check it out...perfect cloudy day for exploring an old, creepy cemetery. No, no. Don't think you'll find any haunted corners or weeping statues or glowing grave stones. It was dedicated less than two months ago. A quiet, pleasant patch of grass with one lonely grave and an open view of the valley. We sat on the bench for a few minutes, until a truck came into view and we thought it was family members of this one person, so we left. But the truck just pulled around the cemetery, probably hoping the road went through somewhere (where to that far east, i don't know). i'm just glad no one got out of the car just then. I don't know why, we weren't disrespectful but contemplative. I guess, it's just the thought of being seen at an stranger's grave...I dunno.

Medium miles. Medium pace, I guess. Just a good "base" run.  My right knee was bugging me a bit, so I finished a mile or mile and a half early (out and back run. took a short cut home).

i think I'm getting used to winter--or the idea of it. I'm such a summer person that I have a hard time transitioning to colder weather, but I think I'm coming out of my funk. Yeah! I have to keep myself in check against the winter doldrums and tendencies toward laziness. Running, usually at least, helps with that, so long as I can wake my mind up enough to just let myself run. 

I did my ladder intervals in the pool this morning. So...no it's not the same as road running but sometimes my body just needs a break from the pounding. I like to run intervals in the pool because I can actually concentrate on running hard for the shorter times (that and it passes the time faster. I tell you what if the US government really wanted to torture people...) Anywho, twas a good run. One of the ROTC programs came in and seemed like they were going to do lots of drills. They had fake guns they had to try to keep dry and everything, but they didn't even stick around for half my workout (and the well...i don't know what kind of leader he was but the guy in charge was talking most of the time). I enjoyed the workout.

I'll probably get out for a few more miles this afternoon.

Ran again this afternoon (6 miles medium--comfortable but not completely slacking pace). I didn't mean to run that far, to put that many miles in today, but I just couldn't help it.  Seems pointless to run just a couple of miles at a time when I'm striving for a couple of hours of running each day. Mostly, though, I just enjoyed my little jaunt around the Island. Ran over to that park/nature preserve (or whatnot) on 1st south and about 7th east. Hadn't been there in a while. It was a useful run for stretching my legs out a bit so I can run tempo tomorrow. 

Started out slow and bummed that I didn't feel like running hard. I am really having a hard time pushing it in all this cloudy weather. Ran "up" Smithfield Canyon. Decided to push it harder on the way home. Good run back. Quite enjoyable (found out I can run hard without the sun).

Ah...the sun came out today. Made my "recovery" run quite lovely....nice and easy.

But the harder miles were also satisfying. I ran on the treadmill today because I wanted a good hard run (third day in a row with some sort of 'hard-ish' workout). 8 mile-temp.

here are speed breakdowns as far as I can remember:

0-.5-      6:35

.5-1.0-   6:31,6:27

1-1.5     6:22

1.5-2     6:15  (faster song that i love so i sped up)

2-3.5     6:22

3.5- 6.5 6:18 

6.5- 7    6:16 

7-7.25     6:11

7.25-7.5  6:07

7.5        6:00

7.5-8 went up a notch each .10

felt good! 

I went out on what should have been an easy 17 but i got sleep in the middle and just couldn't bear it. Decided to split my miles into two runs (i know that's not preferable, but i just didn't care). So, I ran 9.5 and will finish up later this afternoon. ahhh. the sun the sun.

My afternoon run was chillier but better and not so sluggish. Burrrrrr. 

so some of the miles were faster, some were slower but we figured it was a pretty god pace. near 8 min avg for trail running.

Met Cody and Jon at first dam and ran about 5(ish) up the river trail. Chilly chilly chilly running up the canyon to the trail. joe and paul met up with us when we got back and we took the boneville shoreline trail to green canyon. however we did not take the final mile of single track to the top despite the fact that paul and i had never run it. never run it, you say? are we sure? have we seen the nice bathroom at the top? what about that camp ground they got rid of? oh, oh and the tree....nope. nope. pretty sure i missed that. oh, except i do remember the tree. (jon kept asking if we'd been there, checking to make sure we'd never seen the bathroom or campground. cody joined in with a great description of a tree that i'm sure i've seen somewhere. maybe not, but we had a good time. nice to run with the guys again.

oops. forgot to write earlier. went out for a 2x4mile tempo but wasn't feeling up to the pace (don't know what's wrong with me) so i ran a 10 mile tempo. the pace is a bit slower and i've been wanting to push it for a longer distance so i don't mind that i changed. i'd left my watch at home so i don't know my pace but my legs were burning the last few miles so i figure i'm ok-ish on calling it a hard day. 

Two nice easy runs. Beautiful weather. I bought new running tights yesterday and although it was really not necessary, I wore them this morning. I think I'm in love.

ah....good tempo. 6:30 and under (well, except the first .5 miles. that was about 6:35). spent most of it at 6:22 and 6:18 but finished last .75 miles at 6:00 and under.

i finally hit it... exhaustion. i logged 11 tired miles. and all i can say is whew! w-i-n-dy! i swear there were a few strides there where i ran in place, and i had to brace against the side gusts when i wasn't running against it. but on the bright side, the valley air is cleaner.

i know, i know another easy day. maybe i'm just getting lazy (a lazy person who runs 20 miles? yeah. it can happen, but most people don't understand how it works. i think a lot of us do though). anyway, (and i hope this is understanadable), i'm just tired. not physically or really even mentally. i just felt likek running.

I'm close to 100 again but i'm not pushing through 3.5 more miles. my little sis has a dance performance that i must attend.

staying at my parents' house again this wk end and spend time on the canal roads. good ol' south jordan/riverton. love those canal rds. though one of them i was on today has piles (mounds) of dirt that i had to clamber around a little. good thing i'd done my tempo earlier in the run. will have to keep this in mind next time i want to run down that canal road. 

nice run. altered 17  min easy, 13 min hard. great way to break up a 2 hr run and get a good workout but not get overly bored.

by the way, i think my asthma doesn't have it out for me as much as it did. breathing felt pretty good today. helps that i was running the flat stuff out west, but i ran my hard stuff at sub 6:30 pac and didn't wheeze too awful much. yeah! 

intervals in the pool again this morning. just trying to give the joints a break. they're fine but i like to run on soft surfaces and cross train every now and again. no ROTC this morning but a girl who was learning to swim without the head-above-water-turning-side-to-side thing. she improved quite a bit. will run again this afternoon between classes.

just 4 more easy miles this afternoon, just to get out in the sun. ahhhh, what a nice day... 

easy miles. nice rest day after two hard. hope i go to bed early tonight 'cause i'll have to get up early to get miles in tomorrow. good thing my little sis will bike with me while i run.

got up early to get some exercise in. yeah. but thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because my cousins and sisters and i go to the salvation army downtown (slc) and serve the meals on wheels (we get there early, cut pies and do random things like divy up 600 sets of plasticware. oh, and serve, serve, serve food. we have a good time. my cousins are hilarious. hil-ar-i-ous.

my miles weren't completely slow but they didn't deserve to be "fast"...

i ran in moab today. twas lovely. i quite enjoy that place like a second home. it was home for a while. i miss it...ah, the red rock. 

yeah. no major comments on the run. it was a run. soft stuff. ran faster than i meant to but i liked it.

Moderate run today. wanted to run hard but my asthma (which seems to be worse when i actually take my inhaler--note to self. see allergist when i go back to slc for the winter break) was bugging me a bit. so i stopped and stretched a second and meant to run slower, but i still ran a pretty decent pace. not as hard as i would have liked but much harder than i intended (does that make sense). anyway, it was lovely weather. (warm before the storm? my roommate just told me it's supposed to snow tomorrow afternoon). all in all, i'm happy.

Ran a few hard miles in the morning.  Not afraid of 6:07 (not for a few miles anyway), so it was a good morning. Then, a few miles easy and an easy run in the afternoon.

i like intervals, but i have a history of stress fractures in my shins...so i run them in the pool. also, it's nice to get a good hard run in without the pounding.

will run a bit more now. 

i ran a bit more. now i'm tired. good thing i have a lovely chicken salad to re-energize me. 

easy day. morning run...6.5, afternoon 9.5.  i don't particularly like running in the dark alone (scary things about, ya know), but school was such that I  had to start in the dark this morning and finish in the dark this afternoon. but don't worry. i didn't die.

my legs were TIRED today. tired like they haven't been in a long time...like i lifted wieghts recently (ha ha) or ran a lot of miles (strange that it would affect me now. i always run lots of miles)...so i started easy on a warm up and without realizing it started running hard/fast. i really wanted to stop because it wasn't time to start running fast (still just barely into my run), but i knew that if i slowed down, i chanced my not wanting to work hard at all. 

 part way through the run i realized i needed to gauge how far i could run. i needed to be back to go to my sister's house and didn't start at my normal beginning place so i really didn't know how far i'd gone (hard to know on a canal road. later i mapped it out on mapmyrun.com). i checked my watch and thought about how much time i'd need to get back to my car from where the canal road intersected a main thoroughfare, then tried to divide the remaining time in half. i don't think so well when i'm working hard physically. the first, second, and maybe even third time i calculated it didn't seem right. i don't know what i was thinking, but logic was not it. i'm much more creative when running than logic (what does that say about the sport...hmmmm. may prove something about the rest of the world thinking runners are nuts--i.e. illogical).

 ok, back to the run. once i'd decided on the time i'd turn around, i was a bit dis-heartened. i was tired tired still but trying to run hard. i decided to extend my cooldown about a half mile so i could stop working that much sooner, but on my way  back up the canal road the more determined part of me (perhaps less logical when feeling the leg burn) decided to can the extra cool down and i pushed harder in that last half mile. felt good.

all in all, good day. may try for a few mroe easy miles to stretch my legs and run out that burn. (run to recover...ah, the logic of it all).

i woke up at 8:15. i was supposed to meet the boys at the river trail at 7:50. Oops. missed a chilly run (and good company). so...i ran later after it warmed up since i knew i'd be running alone anyway. good easy run. loved it.

probably shouldn't have run monday (writing this on tues). probably shouldn't have worn heels to church sunday. probably shouldn't have done the elliptical in my basement the day before.

 just an easy 8. drove up to couer d' alene (what does that mean?)with a friend for his 2 hr meeting (yeah for having a month off work. i love teaching).

my achilles is angry again. 

if anyone needs me for the next while, i'll be in the pool. 

pool running and other cross training for me. more intervals. 3x 2 laps hard, 3 laps hard, 4 laps hard (with recovery in between). took a bit more than 95 minutes. 

smells like teen spirit?   no no. i smell like chlorine.

pool running. about 1:45. laps are around the dive tank...not the regular lap swim laps.

1 lap easy, 1 lap hard, 1 lap medium

1 lap  (sprint, jog, sprint jog), 1 lap hard, 1 lap  (sprint, jog, sprint jog)

 6 laps moderate

2x 1 lap sprint/jog alternates, 1 lap hard, 1 lap sprint/jog alt.

6 laps moderate. 

will do some other cross training later. 

 10 min elliptical, 20 min bike (then i had to take my roommate home)

20 min swim. 

easy running this morning in the pool (1:50). well, a few "harder" laps and a few laps of hard/easy but mostly easy.

other easy early this afternoon. will probably swim later too.  

pool running (time 1:50).

intervals (laps not equiv. to pool lengths)

warm up 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1.5, 1, .5, 4xhard/easy switch off. cool down. (each lap also had easy recovery running after).

i like the 3 lap lengths the best. and then six (because i switch directions after three laps. so it's just like three laps twice--obviously. amazing how something like switching directions or breaking it mentally into 2x3 with no rest helps me mentally stay with the workout). 

more easy stuff to follow soon. 

3 more easy later 

i'm stuffy.

feeling much better though still coughing some. 

roughly 2 hours. intervals with a 40 min tempo in the middle.

will run a little more later 

nice and easy. ran 6.5 on the dry ground (ok. well wet and sometimes snowy ground, but it wasn't in the pool).

then 8 in the pool anda little more later.

the thing is that my new shoes, which i like, are not made for the winter. mostly mesh. very cold for the first few miles. i was tempted to put on more socks, which would then make the shoes not fit well. but eventually my feet did warm up.

 i was going to run 8 but i could feel a shadow of something in the side of my achilles. so i hit the pool and gym later.  

tom, i know, i know. too many intervals. but i'm still in the pool! i haven't evolved into a full-time land runner again (though I am partially running on land again). i guess you could call me a frog. Anywho, i don't often have the mental capacity to run hard for miles and miles at a time. intervals are just easier for me to handle mentally. i don't know why i can run hard for so long on land but not in the water but that's the truth...so, i run intervals. they were at tempo not sprinting pace today.

 few more easy miles (outside! it's chilly!)

easy miles. achilles feels good (not all on land, but some). i have a cold rash from either running outside today or walking the dog this morning (it was 6 degrees. i only went about 3 blocks. i hadn't known it was that cold.)

ran in the pool by my parents' house. blah. so warm...but that's better than running in blizzard-like winds. there was water aerobics going on while i was running. cute old ladies. and a few old men slowly swim laps and do pull ups off the diving platforms in the deep end (mostly in water so they're easier). they're all so cute and happy in the mornings.

i was actually able to focus well enough to run a decent pace for a long time (no intervals!). i'll do my land running later, but probably in the gym. i got a cold-burn yesterday in logan. 

Well, i was gonna be a wuss but the wind subsided enough and i ran outside (layered as could be). wasn't that bad. especially running with the wind; against it, my eyelashes sprouted white, clumpy mascara. 

i meant to run twice as much today. but THERE WAS POWDER!!! I skied all morning and ran errands whilst digesting my lunch then cranked out about 6 at a pace that surprised me. then i went to the gym for more but only managed a couple by the time i decided i was too tired to care any more.

 sweet powder today (for the amount of snow Alta got). up to my knees in most areas where i skied and some spots past my knees. i had one interesting run...we skied in the trees most of the day because viibility was low and the powder there wasn't carved up.  and...the pillow of powder i was going to take was a small tree. i endo-ed. good thing my landing was soft.

Admittedly they weren't the hardest of hard miles but i was pooped (note to self. eat more protein than i did yesterday. or just eat more than i did yesterday...) got up the morning and ran in the pool, dodging old ladies who were willy-nilly with their water aerobics today because their instructor's garage door wouldn't open. they're so cute. i was then going to run from the gym but had left my contacts at home (purposely run without them when in the pool 'cause then i can't see time slow to a near stand-still).

by the time i slapped my contacts in and threw on my dad's old yellow hoodie, it was snowing. i followed my little sis out (she was a good mile or more out by the time i left). we were the only two nutty enough to run on the canal road. just her tracks and mine for a while at least. this made the running a little sloggish and tough, battling the wind (burrrrrrr!) and the few inches of snow (worse in the drifts). we were smart though, against the wind first and then with the wind for most of the rest of the run (except that the wind changed directions just a little and the snow bit my face for a few miles). but, it was a nice run. i actually like running in the snow. 

8 more miles with the old ladies.

7 more alone tonight. one of the life guards recognized me from logan.

they were medium-ish (still too easy). i was going to ski today so i got up early to run before hand but then i decided it wasn't worth the money to ski for just 3 hours (too much to do today). 

anywho, so i was at the gym running in the pool while the high schoolers had swim practice. i've never been so wet running.  (i think. maybe in a good rain storm) 

I love running but I am now about to enter into more rest than I've had (in terms of rest from running) in a very long time. It's time to play. 

Going skiing (downhill) and then to a cabin (5 miel x country ski in) tomorrow. hope to find time to run tomorrow and sat night after returning from the cabin. Then i'm going to mexico. Driving to Mexico. I hope to be able to squeeze a few miles in with all the fun i'm going to be having.