Work will win when wishy washy wishing won't

Maybe I'll try tracking my miles again just for kicks! Tom and I on a nice snowy morning. Happy New Year!

Zumba then short run

This 15 miles is from my whole week on my Carnival Panorama Cruise.  Definitely not all in one day on the cruise especially!

My after Zumba run.  Only up and down heartbreak hill twice since I just got home from my cruise!  looking forward to uping my mileage a bit in the next few weeks.  Hopefully the weather will cooperate!

Since I signed up for SGM this week I am going to try really hard to track my runs to make sure I'm doing the right things to prepare. We will see how the logging goes. I was so good at it for so long but am so out of the habit. Luckily not out of the running habit though. That's more important then the logging.

May the 4th be with you.

Down the Leland loop with Tom and Dan.  

Up and down Loafer with Tom and the guys.

6 with Tom and Dan around the Leland loop again. Baby goats and a beautiful brand new colt with his mom was so fun to see. I'm going to take Millie and Winston down to see them today.

Loafer

Took yesterday off because I was wondering if my IT band was trying to cause problems.  Luckily today when I did Loafer Canyon it didn't bother me.  

Loafer.  Fartleks up

Yesterday was Monday and raining and I was alone so I wimped out and did the elliptical instead.

Today it was a bit chilly to start out and I could actually see my breath by the fields but turned out beautiful. Nice to be with Tom and Dan for part of it.

With SGM cancelling I decided to switch to Mt. Nebo. Had to get a 20 in and start tapering a month sooner than expected. I guess we'll see what happens.

This was the first time running a marathon in a few years, the first time running Mt Nebo Marathon and running it spur of the moment after SGM cancelled.  So I lost about a month of training but I have ran the last half of this several times this summer so I was ok with jumping in!

I really had no idea what my time would be because of all of the factors listed above.  A stab in the dark would have been hoping for 4:30ish but wishing it could be faster.  

I was alone for most of the first half.  I did catch up to Hal and run the Santaquin out and back with him but I could tell he was going to start pushing the down hill so I set him free.  I wish I could have stayed with him but by the last 4 - 5 miles my knee was acting up and it probably would have been even worse if I would have tried to stay with him.

Tom drove up and met me at the half way point and ran me to the end.  It was nice to have him there or I would have been really alone.  Where I was in the mid packers was very spread apart.  

Anyway, I made it to the finish line.  Would have liked to feel better those last miles and not have to stop and stretch my knee out so often.  But hey, it's a marathon, those last miles don't really feel great for anyone!  

When I finished I was done!!  I mean done with marathons!  I got a pretty bad headache and had to lay down in the shade for a bit and I was telling everyone that was my last marathon!  I was going to stick to half marathons from now on.  Well, as you probably know, that feeling has passed and I will most likely run more marthons.  But maybe not this one.  I really like the half on this one so I think I'll stick with that.  At least that is what I am saying today.  Tomorrow may be different!  :)