I'm back in the saddle again!

Went to the Jazz game last night and by the time we picked up our kids from Jared's moms house and got home, it was 11:15. Fell asleep at 11:45 and woke up at 5:00 to the sound of rain and wind. I was supposed to be to Julie's at 7:00 and I layed there until 6:30 listening to the rain, dreading the run. I called Julie at 6:30 and woke her up because being the blonde I am, forgot to set my clock back. DUH! She informed me that it was only 5:30 so I had another hour to sleep. We decided to meet at the gym at 7:00 and do our run on the treadmill. It was actually a pretty good run. We started out a little slow but picked it up about 6 miles in and then ran a 5k at marathon pace with a 6:58 1/4 mile at the end, followed by a cooldown. Overall pace 8:30. I felt good other than it being SOOOO hot in the gym. There was no airflow and I got really sweaty.

*So, get your laughs but I just played Dance Dance Revolution with my daughter for 45 minutes and WOW! I think it is a great workout. It is like doing a step class.

Went to the gym and did shoulders/biceps/abs. Jumped on treadmill for 6 miles at 8:57 pace. Felt good.

I was so tired this morning so I didn't do anything.

Went to step class (equivelant to 6 miles), followed by back/tris/abs. Felt pretty good. I took an Ambien last night in hopes of getting my sleeping schedule back to normal. We will see.

Okay, let me start with how TERRIBLE I ate yesterday. I did okay until afternoon and then I went crazy with my daughters Halloween candy and then ate Pizza for dinner (Pizza Hut pan style, buttery crust) and bread sticks. Followed by an oreo shake. We were at our neighbors watching WEC Urijah Faber fight (he lost:( ).  I took my half an Ambien and went to bed and was out like a light and actually contimplated not going this morning and then remembered all the crap I ate yesterday and forced myself out. Now I probably only need to burn another 5000 calories today to burn it all off. I will not do that again. I felt so yucky. I think I will take half an Ambien tonight and tomorrow and hopefully I'll be back on my normal sleeping schedule.

Now for the run. Met Julie, Angela and Cheris at Julie's house and ran a 6.2 mile loop up towards the District and back out 11400 So. We witnessed a pretty nasty accident about 1 1/2 miles after we started. Kind of crazy. There were about 4 other cars that stopped to help so we felt like we didn't need to stick around. And besides none of us actually could tell what happened. We just heard a honk and then crash and looked up and saw what the result was. Anyway, I felt really great today until mile 5 and then I had to go potty really bad but made it back to Julie's house. 8:42 overall pace.

Taught my class at the church. I did my normal class for 45 minutes and then did a core class for 20 minutes. They all want me to do a core class each week so I'll be teaching the class for 60 minutes followed by 15-20 minutes of core. Thursdays are going to KILL me.

Today was actually a really great race for me. I had been told this course wasn't a great one but I really liked it. It definately was tough. It had about 5 miles on a gravel road and quite a bit of up hill but also had lots of down. The temp was perfect and I felt good. I really didn't have any expectations for myself today. I haven't worked on speed since SG Marathon and I was really just running this to complete 1 of my 2 Washington County races for the runners series but I felt great and decided to race it.

Mile 1-6:47 Steep downhill

2-6:58 Still down

3-7:29

4-8:18 Uphill on gravel trail

5-8:13 Still up on trail

6-7:32

7-7:43

8-7:18

9-7:24

10-7:23

11-7:28

12-7:33

13-7:21

.1-? I forgot to stop my watch:(

This was a fun day. Angela took 8th overal (women), Kris was first in her age group. We had a great time. Thanks friends:)