Trail Running Granny

This morning I ran with the girls, we did a 10min run/1 min walk. It felt like hard work, I think having the scale go up this morning was playing tricks with my head!  I really need to work on following my weight watchers routine on the weekends, all those Father's Day treats were devine yesterday, but now I am paying the price!

OOPHS!  I noticed after reading Maurines note that I wrote this entry on the Sunday slot, but I ran it today- Monday. I will see if I can fix this

***See Sunday's note, that was my run today!! 

PS.  I had to go up to Snowbird to pick up my final winter pay check and decided while I was going up I would run the Little Cottonwood trail.  It was scorching hot, I made it up one mile and turned around, giving me a big 2 extra miles to add to my day.  What was I thinking??  I think we are into full blown summer!!!!

This morning Kim and I hiked the Porter Fork trail in Millcreek with Odee. We thought it would be low enough to avoid snow but ran into it just after 2 miles, we fought through it for a while and then said to heck with it.  We got a lot of catching up done and had a fun time. A nice cross training day. Now I am headed to the pool to do laps. I had my first private swim lesson last night. I am going to do the Jordanelle triathlon in Aug. and will have to swim a mile, it is completely out of my comfort zone, so I need to spend lots of time in the pool getting ready for this. I am hoping this will fun, I keep telling my self  "this will be fun, this will be fun... I am actually pretty dang nervous about the whole thing.  

What a busy day!  I got up this morning and did a 5 mile hike with Colleen, the Shoreline trail again.  I will write tomorrow and report on our 10 mile long run.  I wonder if I can come any where near Marion's Riverwoods pace, that would be nice, but I doubt it.   Off to the bank before my next appt!!!

Oh dang, I am mixed up, my long run is Friday!!!!!!  It has been a super busy crazy day!!

 This morning I did muscle-up, I am looking forward to our 10 miler tomorrow!!!

This morning was our 10 mile long run, we had Erica, Lisa, Jenny and me.  We started at 5:00a from the Smiths on Bengal and ran to the bridge at South Mountain. We all felt great, I did not put my garmin on for the 5 minute warm up or the 5minute  cool down, our pace was  11:39.  We all felt strong at the end, the only problem we had was Erica took a fall within the first few minutes and turned her ankle a  bit, she was a trooper and did the whole run with us. I love the long runs, they are the best part of this whole running thing!  Marion, my goal for my half marathon is to shoot for 10:55!!  Now I have to get to work, I will sneak up to my computer while my perm is processing to see if you gals have made your daily entry.  Have  a great day!!!

5:00p  I just went on a 45 min. bike ride with my hubby!  It is such a work out!! Going up hills on a bike is TORTURE! I think it is 120 degrees outside too!  I prefer my feet to do the running rather  than biking any day!!!  Oh, well I need to support my husband, he is doing the bike leg of our triathlon.

Finally!   We did a real live trail run. Ernie and Gary and I ran, and Harold mountain biked. We started at Mill B in Big Cottonwood and ran to Desolation Lake and back.  There was a bit of snow on parts of the trail, but not enough to discourage us.  Everything was great, except my adorable husband lost the car keys at the lake, good thing we had one of those magnetic boxes with a key inside on the car. Afterwards it was breakfast at Silver Fork!  DELISH!