Spin Class

Day 2 of my comeback!  Back to Willem's spin class, mostly same people on the same bikes, same sign up to get one of the 29 bikes, remember to go early!

Year off-DONE

Today successfully ended my year off of triathlon training.  I really needed a mental break from exercise, I am not so sure I benefitted physically from the break.  Nonetheless, I hauled myself out of my nice warm covers and headed back to the gym this morning.  Wow-new receptionist, my favorite treadmill has been refurbished, no one was in the pool (including me), the gym is looking like, well the same old gym and there were my favorite gym peeps Dave and Nancy, no year off for them!!

Training Plans

Proof positive--training plans work!  Case in point--last years St. George Marathon pr, a sub 5, this is great for me, no matter how embarrassing it would be for others.  This year, my worst marathon ever, after improving each year I slid into a sub 6:30.  Yep training plans are a good thing.

So this is the story--we got to St. George about 8:00 pm on Friday and met up with Brent, at the Dixie Center, collected all the necessary "stuff" packets with numbers, this years t shirt, forgotten Body Glide, an extra hat, and score BYU running socks!  A quick trip to In N Out and checked into our condo.

I did not sleep well, I heard Craig up at 3:30 am programming the watches, and finally gave up on the idea of sleep, we got ready and got down to the busses, those darn busses never go slow enough, we just get up to the start line too fast.  It was pretty cold up there this year, Brent, Craig and I stood around the bonfires as long as possible.

We sent Brent off to do his own run, he took it easy and had a good run.  Craig was being my sherpa again, someday I'm going to have to talk him out of this so he can run his own race again!  As soon as I stepped over the start line I got a stabbing, sharp pain in my hip, I thought, "oh no, this is crazy, this can't happen at the start line".  I don't know what started it as I was barely running yet, I was determined to run through it, it seemed to get better and then worse, eventually having a numb sensation.  I was hanging in there, slow, but sure until about mile 23, I decided to push it all the rest of the way in so I could at least have a sub 6, as soon as I decided that, I couldn't run any more at all, three steps, stabbing pain, three steps, stabbing pain.  The pain wasn't as bad when I was walking so we walked it in as fast I could walk.  I have self-diagnosed greater trochanter bursitis.  It calls for rest, haha, I'll do that well.  Seriously I wouldn't have done this if it weren't another "notch in the belt".  Marathon #5 on the way to the 10 year club.

We did it!  Brent hopped the fence and ran it in with us.  Thanks Brenny for waiting so long for us to get there.  We missed Kerri, she just started a new job and couldn't get away.  So, what's ahead?  Well, Kerri, Brent and I are all registering for the Runners Series on Monday.  And this year....training plan ON!

Big Gulp

We leave for St. George this afternoon when Craig gets off work.....this about adequately sums up my feelings!  Updates later, drive safe Brent, see you there.

Hoka One One

AKA:  Hoka Poka, or Trigranny's gone orthopedic!  Well Trigranny did just have another birthday last month, putting her way up there in the double digits.  Anyways I just picked up my new Hoka One One shoes tonight.  I ran in them in the store and was speechless, yea, me speechless!  Tomorrow morning we'll hit Sunset and give them the real test run.  Already I can tell you the good, they're elevator shoes!  No kidding, I'm at least an inch taller, loving being 5'1" now!  Craig calls them the memory foam shoe--we'll see how my ankle does. 

St George??????

So we had a great Lake Powell trip, at some point I will get some pics on the family blog, but there is a little kink in my St. George Marathon plans---The first day we were on the lake I stepped out on the swim deck and twisted my ankle, I'm pretty sure I heard a pop too.  It hurt like crazy, but in all the craziness of the day I really couldn't pay much attention to it.  I was determined not to complain about it because I really didn't want to go get it checked, I had to try out the new wakeboard.  The new wakeboard is great, fun times, but my ankle is still looking not so good almost a week later.  It doesn't hurt that much, just enough to remind me about it, but it's still pretty bruised and swollen, I'm not sure about 26.2.  I guess there's still enough time to decide later. :(

Training Wheels Off

Hey family, I finally took the training wheels off my wakeboard last week!!  I can't wait to see everyone.  I got a new girlie board for the girls---(Kyle and Kael too, but shh...about the girlie part).