Fuel It Right

Easy miles from home.  Didn't necessarily feel easy.

Little Cottonwood Canyon. Haven't done this whole thing since last year.  Had to push but it felt good. Very windy on the way down.  I was frozen when I got home.

1:22:56/8:18

Liberty Park. 1 lap around park then out and back on the flat road, 7:39, 7:28, 5 min jog, started the 2nd HMP miles heading back to park but the headwind was too much so I turned around and kept going away from the park. 7:36, 7:41, 3 min jog, 8:05. Took Josse's workout for 2x 2 mi @ HMP and 1 @ MP.  I was a little tired.

Easy miles from home. Again, didn't really feel easy.

Emigration. Super easy. I was gonna do a couple easy running miles but my calf has been tender the last couple days so I thought a ride would be better for today. Man oh man, it was nice out this morning.  Cool, crisp and no wind.  Amazing.

1:36:56/7:24 

7:33, 7:12, 7:33, 7:11, 7:11, 7:19, 7:26, 7:19, 7:29, 7:29, 7:31, 7:19, 7:10, 1:10(7:15)

I wasn't sure what I was going to do today.  I was pretty tired all week but I still felt like I could push through to at least do what I did in Striders so that was my goal.  Stayed at Josse's and met up with a bunch of fine ladies to drive to the top.  This was fantastic to not have to wake up super early and ride the bus.  Ate some coconut flour banana bread. a hard boiled egg and milk for breakfast and some banana right before the race. It was cold up top but I was actually comfortably warm.  Did a little warm up and striped down.  I wasn't nervous at all.  Probably because I was just thinking of this as a training run.  I was sooo nervous for Striders.  I started out way too fast in Striders so this time I wanted to be conservative.  I started just behind the 1:35:00 pacer and stayed right there to see what it felt like.  I didn't feel like it was smart to keep up with him so started just running my own race.  Took all of the first 3 miles pretty comfortable and then started to work a little once it flattened out some.  I think this worked well for me to not try and push those down hill miles too hard.  I tried a flask out today to see if I would want to have it in Ogden.  I really liked it.  I took a shot at mile 6 and then again a few miles later.  I don't know that I needed it but it didn't hurt.  I had a bad stomach after the race.  Not sure if it was from the extra gel or just from running faster. I also used compression socks for the first time during a race.  I kept having little twitchy pains behind my knees and upper calves but I think i like them.  I am barely sore. 

I feel like I ran well.  Comfortable but still hard and had enough to push at the end.  This way of racing is still new to me so I was scared to push harder and burn out, but I was thinking while I was running and now that I could have done more.  I'm still happy with the result.  I needed this race to go well to build some confidence for Ogden.  I felt really good the whole time and hope I can feel this good in 2 weeks.