Patience; the new endurance sport.

Sat, May 16, 2015

Sat, 16 May 2015 06:00:00

9:23/10:00/10:06/9:43/9:48/9:45 Loving the rain. Loving it.

Thu, May 14, 2015

Thu, 14 May 2015 06:00:00

The great thing about unseasably cold weather is that I don't have to restrict running outside to the earliest hours of the day. This rain is crazy though.

Wed, May 13, 2015

Wed, 13 May 2015 06:00:00

Woke up wide awake at 4:20, first thought on my mind was my next doctor's appt. It's going to be awesome. So instead of laying there until it turned light outside, I put on my headlamp and ran around outside for a while.

Tue, May 12, 2015

Tue, 12 May 2015 06:00:00

My hamstring/ sit bone ached after SAturday's 8 miler in the ran. So I took days off with RICE. It's helped but I've got to be careful. I can feel the tendonitis flaring up and I guess it will always be there. The good news is, I ran without the patellar tendon strap on Sat and it did not ache afterwards.

Sat, May 09, 2015

Sat, 09 May 2015 06:00:00

Today was great. We got up to plant flowers down the Provo Center Street planters with about 200 youth. Afterwards BOTH of my kids came running with me up the canyon. It rained/poured the whole time. I loved it. We just put on our rain gear and trudged along. It reminded me of the St. George Marathon in 2008 when it rained the whole time and never stopped. It was wonderful to be outside with my kids. They both much faster than me but I hung onto a 9:40 pace so they wouldn't be bored to death. Happy rainy wet run! Happy Mother's Day to me!

Fri, May 08, 2015

Fri, 08 May 2015 06:00:00

10:00 ap

My hamstring sometimes stings at the attachement point under my hip.

I think 'stinging' inside a tendon is strange and I don't understand it.

Thu, May 07, 2015

Thu, 07 May 2015 06:00:00

Easy jog up to the cemetary x2 laps.

Tue, May 05, 2015

Tue, 05 May 2015 06:00:00

My girl offered to ride her new bike while I ran. We made a nice, early evening outing of it. I am going to miss her terribly next fall. I know she'll be close, but she'll also be a world away.

Mon, May 04, 2015

Mon, 04 May 2015 06:00:00

Temple loop x2 rock canyon bowl

Sat, May 02, 2015

Sat, 02 May 2015 06:00:00

Canyon water fountain

Fri, May 01, 2015

Fri, 01 May 2015 06:00:00

Single temple loop

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

Thu, 30 Apr 2015 06:00:00

9:54 AP (9:24/10:22/10:20/9:18/9:39/10:13) Temple loop 2.1. Rock canyon bowl 1. Home 2.2 I spent my run thinking about Amanda burying Derek today. I wish I was in NC to do the evening memorial run tomorrow. I've always taught my Kids to make eye contact with drivers while in a crosswalk and to watch for cars making rolling right turns, and cars behind them turning in from the left hand turn lanes. People are distracted while driving and with the increased number of bikes and runners in the road it seems worse than the days of mothers against drunk drivers.

Tue, Apr 28, 2015

Tue, 28 Apr 2015 06:00:00

I was able to get out the door at 7 and watched as the sun rose over the valley from the shoreline trail. I will never get over, how the sun rises the day after a horrible tragedy-- indifferent to the suffering and seemingly end to our individual worlds. The year or so that Amanda and I ran together each morning was so important to me. It was when I was taking care of my invalid and clinically insane father the year he died. That was a lot of road therapy. We talked about everything important to two married women with small children and strange family histories. My morning runs will now be tinged with sadness for quite a while to come. Both Amanda and Derek ran, they were running together the morning he was hit by the car last week. It is incomprensible to me how much my friend's life is changed in just a few days. We are neither the author of our beginning or our ending which leaves us free to create the narrative in between.

Mon, Apr 27, 2015

Mon, 27 Apr 2015 06:00:00

Amanda Davis's husband Derek died today. I ran daily with Amanda in 2005 & 2006. She and Derek and I ran the Ogden Half Marathon (Amanda's First half marathon ever) and then trained with her for the Wasatch Back Ragnar, some time before they moved in 2007. I am in shock. Derek was just 37 years old. He was hit while he and Amanda were running together at 6:30 a.m. while using crosswalk. The driver, an 18 year old high school student, who accidentally ran a red light. Derek was in critical condition, in ICU last week and seemed to improve until yesterday when he took a turn for the worst. He passed away just a few minutes ago. It seems inconceiveable that you could lose a 37 year old husband and father of 4 to a jogging accident. I am heartbroken for Amanda and their children. Just heartbroken.

Sat, Apr 25, 2015

Sat, 25 Apr 2015 06:00:00

Provo Canyon/waterfountain.

I ran into Cath on road. I do miss my running buddies.

Last Tuesday, a girl I ran with for about a year in 2006, Amanda Davis, her husband was hit by a car. This is the 4th person within a year I know of who has been critically injured or killed while excersizing (running or cycling). I've almost been hit myself while running with Josse and Ericka one morning. A driver turning right on a red light stopped for them, but rolled right on through as I trailed just behind them. The car's bumper pushed into my knee and I fell/jumped onto the hood of the car (attempting to preserve my knees). The driver just stared at me as I slid off the hood and kept running.

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 06:00:00

Ran 3 in the a.m. And 2 in the p.m

Wed, Apr 22, 2015

Wed, 22 Apr 2015 06:00:00

The guy who has been my assistant at work for the past 2 years has moved on, necessitating my return to full time. It's a big bummer. I loved that guy, but with all admin positions the shelf life is 2 years max. So in anticipatioN of my reduced daily energy level. I'm going to run less, or for shorter amounts twice a day, can't wait for a nice Saturday run.

Tue, Apr 21, 2015

Tue, 21 Apr 2015 06:00:00

Temple loop x2 rock canyon

I am in love again with running now I don't wear my Garmin or care how fast I'm going. A small handful of dry oatmeal and glass of water is enough to get me past 60 minutes of running. I can't wait for school to get out so I get back my favorite morning hour to myself. Today one kid had driver's ed at 6 a.m. the other had seminary. So I got to go out at 6:30 which reminded me how much I loved running once. I really started running in earnest the spring of the year 2000. My son was 8 months old and my daughter almost 20 months. I bought a double stroller and ran 5 miles every morning on the bike trail. I ran only during the weekdays leaving weekends free for my family, and I never ran more than 5 miles. I also never ran during the winter. I treated running as a celebration of good weather. Those were great days of pushing my kids in that stroller. I pushed those kids until my girl was 8 and my son 6-- near 100 pounds of kids in that thing. I remember the first days I stopped brinning them along and felt so liberated not pushing the stroller. That's when I started running-running for real (races and marathons). Those were also great days also, until they were not. But I'm feeling liberated of my own expectations. Running is becoming that thing again I always loved. Time to myself, time outside, time to reflect, excersize.

Sat, Apr 18, 2015

Sat, 18 Apr 2015 06:00:00

Canyon water fountain, vintage park.

I was in Portland and Arch Cape, OR last week for Spring Break with my boy (s) while my girl was in Washington DC on a student governement visit. It was heaven to run at sea level, and in the clean air and humidity. It was a bit rainy the first days, but I always carved out a time to run when it was dry. Running the on the loney cold, flat sanded beaches with rolling waves as far as the eye could see, surrounded by cliffs and mountains is nothing short of majestic. The trails in the mountains along the coast are heaven. There is nothing but the quiet padding of your own feet along pine needles with the sound of the ocean somewhere distant. The beauty, the green, the clean air refreshed my soul. The days just before or after ski season are painful, frustrating depressing ones for me. They are filled with dreary days, not yet one season or the next. Oregon renewed me as I rested my eyes upon the greenery and the misty, mysterious clouds clingining to the mountain tops. There is nothing compared to running on the coast of Oregon. In the year 2000 I had a conference for work at a resort at Mount Hood. There was a 5 mile loop around the mountain. I will never forget how cold it was in July, and how many rasberries I ate along my run, or how the sound of a rushing river was never far. I know a lot of wacked out weirdos live in Oregon. But when I'm done raising kids, I think that's where I'm headed.