Each Day Is a Gift

Just like Spring weather in Utah which can't decide to be warm or cold, calm or windy.... I had a hard time deciding what to run this morning.  Should I do intervals, hill workout, medium long run, or what?  I started out with just a l/s shirt and tights, brrr, it's colder than I thought.  Went back to get a jacket, brrr, the hands were cold, went back to get gloves, the sun peeked out, went back to get sunglasses.  I must have run over 0.25 mile to make wardrobe adjustments.

I finally headed west to do the hills first.  It's funny how after couple of warm up miles your body just tells you what you should do.  The legs were sluggish.  I ended up running 9 miles at an easy recovery pace.  There was an intermittent headwind the entire run.  It didn't matter whether I was heading north, south, east or west, the wind would come up then die but I never got a tail wind.  Good thing I had my jacket and gloves. 

9 miles in 1:27:58  AP: 9:46

I wonder...Is it common or normal to have uneven wears on your shoes?  My left shoe heel always wears out more and faster than the right one. 

Hail, snow, wind, white-out blizzard!  Need to run errands today.  May be a short run later, probably not!  Stay safe everyone!!! 

Beautiful sunny cold morning. T in the high 20's, no wind.  Wore tights, l/s shirt, thermafit jacket, headband, gloves & sunglasses.  6.2 miles recovery pace with 4 x 100m strides.

TT: 58:30.  AP: 9:26. 

AM/PM Yoga

 THANKS EVERYONE for such a FUN RACE and PARTY afterwards!!!!

What great friends!!! Kelli picked up my packet, Bec picked me up at my house, all I had to do was show up to run this thing.  Behold, so did the cold wind!  I wish I had my running fleece; but all I had was my Boston jacket which was a bit heavy.  It kept me warm 'till mile 8.  In the process of taking it off, I had stopped the Garmin inadverdently for about 0.25 mile; so my splits are a little off.

What a delight to see so many friends and bloggers, RivertonPaul, Walter, Jose, Allen, Nancy and many others.  Marion and I pinned on our bibs in her car and hit the bathroom.  At the start, Marcie N. found me and we lined up together and chatted 'till "gun off" and so did she, the speedster.   My plan was to do this whole thing at marathon pace.  There was a nice tail wind and gentle descend so everyone went out fast.  I kept my pace within 10 sec of mp.  I chatted with a few runners about Boston who noticed my jacket.  We hit the first hill where I saw a gal in my age division.  I passed her as we crested the hill and made it a goal to keep her at far distance behind.  On the trail, a gal ran up to me and we chatted the whole way.  She's trying to BQ at SLC in 3 weeks.  It was fun to encourage her and give a few pointers.  That made running up the hills and wind bearable.  I was right on pace at the half way point.

I took a Gu at the aid station where we got off the trail, about mile 7.  BQ gal took off.  I gradually reeled her in and resumed talking.  We chugged up the S hill and was surprised at how easy my breathing was compare to hers.  With 5K to go, I decided to make the move to drop her.  My legs felt great so I ran those at 8:30 pace (about 1/2 marathon race pace).  After I crossed the finish, I kept jogging for another 2.25 miles.  I wanted to run 4 but was worried that my bro-in-law, Bec, Marion and Kelli had to wait plus I didn't want to get lost.   We had a great time visiting at the Pizzeria.  Hubby was on his way home from skiing so he took me home.  It was a perfect day!!!  It was a nice Sat. long run, no soreness to speak of today.

Question:  does anyone know if division winners get any prize besides a medal?  I didn't have my result card when I went to get my medal and the guy was hesitant to give it to me.  Also, my bro-in-law left without his medal, he took 2nd in his AG.  He flew in to run this thing and flew out the same night.  I wonder if they still have his medal.