Here we go again~

Oh the Payson Days 10K.  I actually have very fond memories and much gratitude to this race for several reasons.  1. This is the first 10K that I ever ran (back in 2000 I believe). They have changed the course since then but it has a bit of sentimental value due to the fact and also that it is what kind of got me started into running.  2. This is the race that I met Marion and Kelli at last year.  These girls have become such great friends and girls that I love to hang out with!!  Thanks for everything Ladies.  3.  After this race we get an unbelievable home cooked meal equipped with chocolate chip pancakes, buttermilk syrup and anything else that is completely bad for you post race and don't have to feel bad about eating a morsel of it! (THANK YOU MARION AND THE PIT CREW FOR FEEDING US) Oh, how lovely!! I love this race.  

Tyler and I drove to the start (might I add how much I love having mornings with my hubby all to myself :). It is nice waking up and driving places together.  Just a little slip note there).  I started out with Kelli and we ran together until a bit after mile 3.  Kelli is still suffering with PF and gives herself absolutely no credit that she is still running, at a very impressive pace I might add with an injury!! I welcome any opportunity to run with her and so it was fun to hang together for a bit.  Even though I couldn't talk, and we had the world's heaviest breather behind us, it was still very fun.  Thanks Kelli.  After about mile 3 Kelli told me to go ahead and so I crept up just a bit for the last 3 miles.  I finished only a few seconds faster then last year and I was using this race as a training run so all in all I felt fine about it!  It is always so good to come to races and see so many familiar faces!! Everyone did awesome today!! Tyler took first in his age group, Walter took first overall, Mac did AWESOME, Marion, Michelle, Smooth, Kelli, Scott, JonA, Luz, Rachel, AWESOME ( I hope I am not forgetting anyone)!!!!!  Way to go Fast Running Bloggers!!  Fun Morning!~

Fall is in the air, I LOVE IT!!!!  I met with the Heidi's this morning and Michelle, HOORAY!! It was so nice to walk outside this morning and see Michelle right on time (as always, she is so punctual) and ready to run. We started out fairly slow and then picked it up a bit. Michelle ran to 2 miles with us then turned and went back, then Heidi W picked it up a notch and Heidi C and I hung together.  We ran "new leaf" and back home.  It was a great morning and nice to run with the girls. 

AP: 8:22

It's now 10:45 and I just finished a work out video.  Nothing like getting a work out in right before bed time :).  I was going to get up this morning but didn't want to get out of bed.  So, all day I kept telling myself that I would get the kids to bed and do it later...........but.........it kept getting later, and later and pretty soon, it was 9:45.  So, I started and just got finished.  I am running 7 tomorrow with Heidi C and then Ty and I are traveling to St. George to run our last 20 miler on the marathon course. HOORAY!!  I am excited to go to St. George and really excited to get my last long run in before Taper time!!  It's getting close :) 

Kind of a quiet morning this morning.  Just Heidi C and I were out for our usual Friday morning run.  Miss Heidi W is on a Disney Cruise (Lucky) and oddly, we only past one other runner during our route this morning (very different from the usual 8-10 runners).  I think everyone must be on vacation or still recovering from Labor Day last weekend, or perhaps from the Ultimate Pig Wrestling :)!!!  In any event, it was great to run with Heidi.  She is really doing well with her running and actually had to pull me along this morning.  We ran the "seventh Heaven" route this morning.  Just 3.5ish Out and Back!! Perfect fall temperatures were so welcomed this morning.  It makes it much easier to run!! Tyler and I are now on our way to St. Goerge to run our last 20 miler.  I get to go with MarcieJ and Tyler is running with Dustin so we are looking forward to that.  Have a great weekend ya'll!!! 

AP: 8:27

My last 20 miler................check it off the list!!! Hoorah!!! Man, that is a good feeling!!  Tyler and I got up at 4:00 so that we could meet at the park at 4:30.  Tyler was meeting up with Dustin and Bill to run 23 miles.  I met up with cute MarcieJ who lives in St. George and had the opportunity to ride 20 miles up the marathon course to start.  Her sweet Father in Law picked us up and drove us up (what a nice man).  I also got to see her friends Courtney and Heidi again and meet Marissa and Sherri so there were 6 of us total.  I ran with Marcie for maybe .5 miles and she, along with Sherri and Heidi, took off.  Courtney (who may just be one of the sweetest girls I have ever met and who is also 2 months pregnant :)  and I ran pretty close together for the next 13-15 miles (before she took off) and Marissa and I ran the last 5 together so it was great to have some company.  These were fun girls and I am grateful that I got the chance to run with them.  By the time we got to the finish line (literally, the marathon finish line) Marcie has already left to go home and Tyler had went to get our car (he had driven up) so I proceeded to sit at the park and stretch, etc for an HOUR while waiting for him to come pick me up!!  That part kind of stunk but that's okay, it was quiet and peaceful and I played "dodge the sprinklers" a few times!!  It was a fun morning and has been a fun day down here in Sunny/HOT St. George!! Now we just got home from a movie and it's almost mid night so I am signing off and hitting the sack.  Night~

AP: 7:56  :)