Blessings and Balance

Treadmill miles. I ran while my 2 year old napped. My older children were so good and I was able to get in all my miles.

AP 8:15'is

Blessing... The Treadmill. That's right people you heard me.. The Treadmill. Normally it is not my first choice, but there is for sure a time and a place for it. I would not have been able to get all my miles in this week with out it. When I was done running my kids wanted a turn. My 7 year old ran 2 MILES!!!! I was totally impressed. He was so cute when he would stop to take a drink of water or tell me to turn it to a better song. He was totally singing away. My 5 year old ran .25 which wasn't too shabby either.

Oops this I meant to post this on THUSDAY!!

YEAH BABY!!!! I felt so good today. I was really worried about doing 22. The furthest I have ever gone on a training run is 20 miles.

I wish I was a bit more prepared physically for this race in the sense that I am not trained to run a PR but I feel so strong mentally so I am super excited.

Renae met me around mile 7.5 and rode her bike the rest of the way with me. She ran her marathon last Sat. Seriously! How sweet is she too come and hang with me and get me through this long run.

I took 3 IBprophen at mile 8. I've never done that before but think I like it. Does anyone else have experience with this?

I busted out my last mile in 8:15.

AP 9:07

Blessing... Renae. For obvious reasons today!! She rocks!!!!

Ran along the beach again today. My legs still felt heavy from 22 miles on Sat.

AP 8:37

Blessing.. My parents are coming to visit today for the week!! YEAH!!!

Could barely get moving. I didn't feel right today so I just did what I could and now I am trying not to be annoyed that a 12 mile run turned into a 4 mile run.

Felt better than Sat. but still not great.

AP 8:48

Blessing... My husband has a great job, I know those are hard to come by these days.

Took it real easy today and was surprised at my Average Pace. Super hard to get out of bed only to run alone again today. Once I was out and running I sure was happy to be there. The beach was beautiful this morning. I really gotta learn how to surf.

AP 8:43

Blessing... Modern Medicine. My son has Strep.What did they use to do without antibiotics?

I ran down along the beach. Neener neener neener!!! LOL! Of course I am totally kidding!

I love my MP3 now that I got rid of all my husbands music. The 6 went by so fast because I was singing away. I hope nobody could hear me! Ran past a lady with tons of plastic surgery and her dog had pink tennis shoes on!!! I have also seen people pushing there dogs in baby strollers. O people are fun!

AP 8:35

Splits 8:52, 8:48, 8:56, 8:56, 8:38, 7:26 (when I grow up I want to be like JonA)

Blessing... LEGS. Just before my last mile I ran into a beautiful woman in my ward who is in a wheelchair. She was coming down to the beach to exercise. She use to run high school and college track until she was in a car accident and now is wheelchair bound. I powered out my last mile thinking how good it felt to use my legs. Seriously, I am so thankful I get to drag myself out of bed early each morning to run. You never know when it can be taken away from you.

Ran 10 along the beach. I was going to just take it really east today but I couldn't help myself today. I kept finding people in front of me that I just had to pass. Then once I passed them I couldn't slow down for them to pass me and then I would find a new person to leap frog. It was actually quite fun.

I also ran into a woman in my ward who is AWESOME! I have never seen a woman so ripped in my entire life. She is the one I have talked about that is a speedy marathoner with a Olympic time. I ran 2 miles with her. Thank goodness her dog is slow so that I could keep up with her.

AP 8:33

Blessing.... Choclate milk... I just LOVE it. I love how thick and yummy it is. I like to drink a cup of it after a long run.

Really slowing down for my race on Monday. I ran without my music today.. I need it!

Blessing... Indoor Plumbing.. Can you imagine dragging yourself out to the outhouse in the middle of the night in the dead of winter? I

UM...... I felt like I had never run a day in my life this morning. I ran real easy the first mile and then wanted to do a marathon pace mile just to feel the speed I am planning on running. After the marathon pace mile I almost passed out and I had to sit down. Then ran the last mile real easy home. I felt light headed and nausea the whole time.

My asthma has been bad this week so maybe my brain just isn't getting enough oxygen.

Not a really good feeling just 4 days before I am going to run a marathon.

AP 9:05

9:27, 8:26, 9:24

I keep looking at my splits and feel a bit puzzled as to why those miles made me sick. WHATEVER!

Blessing.. The Temple, I am going tonight I am really looking forward to it. I love it there!!!

Read with Caution you might get jealous.... So I ran 2 miles on the sand today, barefoot. It felt so good. Close to the water so the sand was  a bit more firm. After wards I took my ice bath in the Ocean! It was beautiful. The water was not as chilly as it was last week but I think it still did the job.

Blessing... 2 year old hugs. My two year old gives the best hugs, the kind when he holds on so tight it squishes your face.

I can't believe it is over!!!! Let me start by saying I am super proud of mysely today. It was not the best racing day for me. I started struggling by mile 3 and then by mile 10 I just wanted it to be over. That is little earlier.. don't ya think.

My asthma has been bugging me for the last week now... and Teena I have been staying on top of my meds. (I thought you would be proud of me)

My lungs were pretty tight most of the race and my legs were bricks but I am proud to say that I talked myself through it.

I spent the whole race really trying to be positive and focus on the great things about the marathon instead of the negatives.

Mile 1 dodging in and out of people

Mile 2 more of the same

Mile 3 reminding myself it is okay to not feel perfect today just stick with it

Mile 4 feeling pretty good talked myself through a rough spot

Mile 5-10 more of the same

Mile 10-17 Really struggling and singing a lot of primary songs. Was still able to keep an okay pace. I wanted to walk sooooo bad but didn't.

Mile 18-20 Felt really great and was able to pick up the speed a little. At this point I was also doing the walk 30 seconds at every mile marker. That really seemed to help me today.

Mile 20-23 still feeling pretty good but couldn't keep up the pace anymore. I was moving slower. Still doing the walk for 30 seconds at each mile marker.

Mile 23-25 Can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Singing some more primary songs to keep up my mood.

Mile 26 Started busting it out. The crowd was AWESOME!!! They really got me going

.2 I had to stop and walk twice.... Can you believe that?  My quads started spasming so bad I couldn't keep running. I was a little bummbed I couldn't finish strong.

The volunteers at this race were so great... They would see my name on my bib and cheer me on by name. That helped so much.

The best part about today was my support system. My friend Renae came and cheered me on. I first saw her at mile 10 and then I saw her atleast 5 other times along the course. She would get in her car and drive to the next spot and get out and cheer me on. How great is that? I can not even believe how awesome she is.

 Renae called my husband after she saw me at mile 10 and told him things were a bit rough for me. He gathered the kids and they all prayed for me. My family is really what got me through today. They are so supportive and encouraging of my hobby. They were all waiting for me at the finish line and my kids were so cute cheering for me. They were so darn excited and I loved it!

 Well all in all I am really proud of myself. You tend to get out of Marathon day what you put into the training and for me I think I did even better than what I put into it. It has been really difficult to stay focused to my running during our move and while adjusting to our new lives. During training I just kept telling myself to "Fight for it" and that is exactly what I kept repeating to myself over and over again today.

Love to all my sweet blogging friends. Miss you all!

Peace out.. this girl is going to sleep!!! Till next time "fight for it" !

1797 out of 14,192 finsihers

49 out of 715 in my age group

The final results came in for the marathon and I am super excited about where I placed.

1798 out of 14,192 overall

49 out of 715 in my age group

257 out of 5180 women.

Now looking at the results I wished I could have run a 3:45 like I did at SGM. I could have placed 23 in my age group but I am pretty happy about what I did get.

Blessing.... Sleeping in and not feeling guilty! I love that I can sleep in this week.

WARNING: Do not take your two year old anywhere while you are still recovering from a marathon.

This morning I took my son to story time at the Library. The library was not opened yet so mom's and kids were all just waiting at the front door. This library is on Main street in downtown huntington beach so the street is very busy. Zane decided it would be fun to start running back and forth along the sidewalk which was okay until other kids started to follow him. He thought it was a game so he decided to run into the street to get away from the rest of the kids. I could not get to him fast enough because I am hobbling around. So the only thing I had was my voice and I screamed like a crazy woman. Keep in mind I can see I car coming right at my son. So I am running to him the best I can and screaming with a crazy voice so that it would startle him, which it did and he stopped. He was in the middle of the street and thank goodness the driver was paying attention.

So after getting nasty looks from all the other mom's I left the library in tears feeling like such an idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am still shaking!! I feel so dumb for not having him in a stroller or something but I didn't have him in a stroller because you can't take them in the Library. So thank goodness Heavenly Father was watching over us today. I feel so stupid and mad at myself.

We will not be going anywhere until I am faster than him.