Not my day

What a morning I had.  The days I teach spin are always a bit stressful for me.  I have to be there no matter what's going on at home and it's just so darn early.  This morning Sophie had a bad dream and woke me up at 4:20 then she just kept tossing and turning and was still not asleep when I got up at 5:00 am.  She turned to me when I got out of bed and said "mama, you are supposed to protect me from bad guys".  Nearly broke my heart but all I could do was have her 10 year old brother crawl into bed next to her to protect her.  Then I show up to teach and the microphone was gone.  UGH!  Not how I wanted to start my day. 

Luckily I had a "song workout" on my iPod.  So it ended up working out great and we just switched up our tempo and tension each time the song changed.  I ended up getting a great hour long workout and when I got home the kids were all still sound asleep.  After my shower I even cuddled up next to Sophie for 30 minutes. 

My favorite tank

I have issues.  Really.  When I love something I tend to go a little overboard.  I have 4 of the same tank.  At least I bought different colors.  I think they are super comfy and slimming.  I wore the black one in my marathon and loved it. I am planning on wearing the pink one with my black Lulu skirt at the St. George marathon.

Today was an 8 miler and it felt great.  My average pace was 8:38 so I feel like I really am getting back to where I was in May.  I'm at 140 miles this month.  

Training for the rest of the week is: spin/lift, 16 miles, 7 mile tempo run and another 8 miler.  39 miles total this week.  Bring it!

P.S.  I should not have gone to the website to find a link to the tank.  Did you see all those colors????

My Inspirational Mom

Yesterday my mom decided she wanted to learn how to wake board - she turns 70 this year.  She got up on her first try and had a blast.  She is just so full of energy - I LOVE IT!!  I want to be just like her.


One of the reasons exercise is so important to me is so that I can have energy and be able to play with my kids even when they are full grown.  I love that my kids see me workout and that they come to my races and that they know how important health is to me.  I hope I can pass that on to them.  


Yesterday I ran 16 miles and it felt good.  Maybe it was the fact that I'm getting back in shape or maybe it was the fact that I used my usual GU nutrition or maybe it was just a good run.  But I'll take it.  Today I did a nice easy 4.5 miles to relax my legs.  Now they aren't sore at all.  

I'm a GU girl

I am a total creature of habit and I hate change.  But sometimes I don't have a choice - like when I'm too lazy to go to Runner's Corner the day before a long run.  Last week on my long run (14 miles) I didn't do GU and just used what I had in the drawer.  I didn't feel great on the run so I'm going to blame it on the gels and go back to my "go-to" gels.  Personally, I love Roctane and regular GU's.  I usually alternate between them on runs. So I stocked up at the running store.  Bring on the training my drawer is full.

Today I ran 5 miles.  Don't worry no GU needed for a 5 miler.

My hidden socks

Today was a long run day.  I ended up running 14 miles (8:22 avg pace) and then walk/jogged 1.5 miles as a cool down.  The run was tough but felt good.  It was fast because we got dropped up the canyon and did a nice run down my favorite trail.  I so love the trail - there is water along the way so I don't have to carry anything, it's cool and shaded and simply gorgeous.

My legs are feeling a bit tired so I wanted to throw on my compression socks after the run.  All of my socks are (or were) full footed socks and I didn't want to look ridiculous at work so I grabbed a pair of scissors and chopped off the feet.  I love that I have hot pink compression socks on and no-one even knows :)

This weeks total mileage: 33.50.  So far this month I've run 98.5 miles. That is 5 miles further than ran the entire month of June and I had 2 big events that month. 

Bling Bling on my minivan

Today was a treadmill speedwork day.  I'm finally feeling like I'm really back to training and getting back to feeling on top of my game.  Today I did 7 miles total with 5 of the miles at an 8:07 pace (I sped up the last mile to a 7:30 so I could just get it done).  For most of the run we chatted then with 1.5 miles to go it was headphone time. 

I finally decorated my van with stickers.  I love my sweet pink ragnar sticker (custom made for the Housewives team) and my marathon sticker.  What a month.

The Body Issue

Have you seen the current issue of ESPN?  It has tons of Olympic Athletes nude.  I'm not a big one on nudity but really this is done very tastefully and you can't see anything except their amazing bodies.  Athletic bodies are amazing!!

I'm way excited for the Olympic!  I can't decide if I like track and field or swimming the most during the summer games though.  Decisions.  Decisions. 

Today's workout:  spin & lift

Tomorrow: 7 mile run w/5 at 8:07 pace