The Rest of July

I signed Emily and I up to run a 5k bubble run. Mine and Marci joined us and it was really fun. The weeks prior Emily and I went on a couple of runs together. She talked the whole time, and twirls and runs backwards all while I'm just trying to breath. Haha. We plan on doing more runs together.

Later in July the kids and I drove up to Rock Springs, Wy to visit Felicia and her family but also to see Wanda and Rachel since they were driving through to pick Joseph up from BYU-I. It was a fun visit and makes me ache for family to be close again.

Last, but not least I graduated from the pathway program this month. I'm so glad I did it! I made some very good life long friends and I'm furthering my education.
 

 

Pumpkin Pie 10k

Today I ran my second official 10k race. I had been training these last 2 weeks with running the 6.1 miles on Saturday's and 3.1 miles during the week and also doing leg workouts with Mike. Two weekends ago Marci, Elisa, and Mine and I went out on the trail where Mine and I did our first 10k. I knew I wouldn't be able to stay with the others because of my breathing, so my goal was to run the majority of it, which I did. I only ended up walking about 2 minutes total and that was after mile 4.5. My total time that day was 1:15:39 and we ran 6.34 miles. Last Saturday I went out to the same trail to run again, but this time by myself. I wanted to test out my new inhaler to see if it would really help. It did, I shaved off about 2 1/2 minutes off my time. I ran 6.29 miles in 1:12:51. Then this past Thursday night Marci and I needed out of our houses so we met up at the Paul Derda Rec center so we could run a 5k. That night was the fastest I've ever run a 5k with a time of 30:01. That means my average pace was 9:41/mile. Pretty good for me.

Anyway, Marci, Elisa, and Tala and I headed downtown to City Park this morning about 9:30 a.m. My goal was to run the 10k in 70 minutes or less. By phone GPS I ran it in 68:14 which beat my goal time, by my chip time I finished in 1:09:59 so still beat my goal...by a second. HAHA. I think that I will probably run another 10k this winter and my goal for that will be to just PR. I sure enjoy running.