Fuel It Right

8:47 ap

felt good today

1:05:39/8:13

Gradual downhill ladder(kinda) then flattening out for the last 400's and 200's. forgot to do some 200's to start but I felt decent for this. Still faded towards the end but liking the trend.

2x400, 2x800, 3x400, 3x200

1:32, 1:37, 3:14, 3:21, 1:39, 1:44, 1:43, 48, 50, 46

Evening Emi ride. Felt really strong. PR for the year(37:12). Gorgeous day out.

8:47 ap

Morning swim followed by a run. Swim was 16x100 w/ 15 sec rest between 100's. 3xeasy, 1xhard. I kinda suck at fast swimming but I like making more of a workout out of it.Took the run really easy. Felt a little sluggish but not bad.

1:08:58/8:15

Ran from home w/ some strides at the end.

Easy ride around Antelop Island. Ate a few bugs. It was good.

easy from home. no watch

50.24/8:08

from home to liberty. 2 mile tempo around the park. 7:14, 7:32. i ran about 1.5 and the pace suck so i stopped. it was dumb.

easy ride from home.

7:19, 7:11, 7:46, 7:44, 7:21, 7:15, 7:25, 7:55, 7:28, 7:26, 7:39, 7:25, 7:29, 1:18(7:26)

My mantra for the day: Success is in the effort not the outcome.

My initial goal going into this race was to run a time of 1:30:00. When I'm honest with myself about it, I know I was not trained well enough to run that time so it was hard being confident going into it. This made things very hard from the start. I could tell I wasn't in it from the start and I could feel myself kind of giving up before the race even started. My plan from the starting line was to take the first couple miles easy and see how the legs felt. If I felt good I thought a 1:35 was realistic, if I didn't I had no clue what would play out. The gun went off and I started out with Amber and Jen going their pace which was right behind the 1:35 pacer. I figured if my legs felt good I would make my way up to the 1:35 pacers and try to hang on with them. My legs never felt good. Never felt fresh. This was very discouraging especially since I took such a long taper. From mile one I could tell this was going to be a long race. There was a headwind that is not only hard to push against but it can defeat you mentally. By mile 8 I wanted to drop out or at least just stop and walk. My legs felt dead and I was just done. I made myself keep running and it was hard to keep up the pace I was going. I needed to prove to myself that I could push through the disappointment though. Miles 5-9 were the hardest. With about 4 miles to go my legs magically started feeling like they had some strength behind them so I tried to push myself to the end. It came just in time. It allowed for a mental boost as well and I needed it big time. It still wasn't enough though. I wasn't anywhere near the 6:50 average pace I would have needed for a 1:30 and still off of a 1:35 pace. But I never gave up. I wanted to and I didn't. That's what I'm proud of today. I pushed as hard as I could. I ran an effort I am proud of.

easy from home.

Morning gym sesh. 1 mile wu, hiit, 2 miles then a swim.

evening emigration from home. 35:44. getting close to a pr.

1:02:28/8:55

Easy not so easy from home.

Rode Mirror Lake Highway to the summit. Tough climb that kind kicked my trash. 

Went and did the echo bike and run course for a brick workout. 18 mph avg bike 7:44 avg for the run. Felt decently hard. 

51:33/8:35

Easy from home. Core in the evening

Am- city creek/memory grove ride. 

Pm- trail run up snow basin. Fun stuff. 

AM swim 4x400 w/ 100 sprints last 100. WU/CD

1:08:14/8:31

Ran to the park and did 2x1 miles, 7:42 for both. I still feel like I have no pep in my step.

53:05/8:51

Easy from home followed by an outdoor swim followed by a little sun bathing. I need this daily.