PC2PG Race Recap + Weekending!

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Simply a kind of races the place you go into it considering about the place your health is at, and then you definately discover out a number of miles into it that you just had been mistaken and going to have a bumpy experience🤣🫣

My coach requested why I felt like I used to be going to puke just about the final ten miles after I informed him, and I want I may have stated it was from consuming one thing otherwise. The reality was that I used to be working actually laborious and making an attempt to hit the paces I used to do final summer season, and I’m not the place I used to be fitness-wise final summer season!

I awoke at 5:30, took a bathe (a should for me earlier than a race), ate some bread and apple sauce packets, after which grabbed my niece to return to babysit.

Andrew drove me to the beginning, and I received to keep away from the 5 am bus scenario. We ran 2.8 miles collectively for a warm-up as a result of I wanted 20 miles and needed to get in a small chunk earlier than the race. I additionally did some 20-second strides within the parking zone earlier than the race began.

We bumped into Heather (Lauren’s sister and our cute photographer) and did a little bit of the warmup together with her too.

I wore a sweatshirt as a result of I anticipated it to be chilly, however my expectations had been very mistaken.

It was a small race, and the gun went off at 7:10 am.

I used to be already fairly sweaty from the warm-up and wished it was a 6 am begin time… Not just for the climate but additionally as a result of the path we had been operating on will get SO busy on Saturday. It felt like we dodged automobiles the primary 3 miles on the street after which bikes the final 10 miles on the path. However the attractive views alongside your entire course make all of it value it!

For the primary 3 miles, you fly downhill.   That felt so good and received in my head that I might get a 1:21 for the day.

I used to be in first after which yoyoed with my good friend, Kari, for the following 8 miles. She and one other woman handed me within the remaining two miles, and I took third.

I took a caffeine gel earlier than the warm-up and didn’t take one other gel till mile 3 within the race, which was in all probability a mistake… I strive to not go greater than 4 miles and not using a gel on huge runs like this, in order that was a little bit late for me. I took one other gel once more at miles 7 and 12.

I introduced my very own bottle with electrolytes to drink all through and grabbed cups from volunteers to dump water on my head. I’m praying for a a lot cooler and fewer humid marathon day 🤞🤞.

It was a kind of races the place I used to be so tempted to leap within the automobile with Andrew every time I noticed him. Combating by these emotions makes runners so robust.

I put music on at mile 6, which helped me to carry on and never bounce within the automobile to get donuts with Andrew.

The wonderful end line.

I used to be so able to be completed. It’s humorous how we get the paces we must be operating in our heads even once we aren’t doing the identical quantity of labor it as soon as took us to run comparable paces.

A 1:25:25! We are able to’t all the time be in PR form, and this summer season, I didn’t put within the work for a pr or a 1:21 as I hoped for on Saturday, so I’m actually proud of the day.

6:04, 6:01, 6:10, 6:16, 6:36, 6:24, 6:29, 6:39, 6:40, 7:12, 7:11, 7:04, & 6:38.

Throughout mile 12, Connor Mantz and Jared Ward glided by me SO quick (they had been doing a exercise, not a part of the race), which motivated me to push it a little bit extra.

PS The end line was on the junior excessive that I went to.

Recollections!

One other medal so as to add to the rack.

1st and 2nd… each of their 40s, so robust and crushing their coaching.

They flew by me!

We then set out for an additional 4 miles to complete up with 20 for the day. Andrew joined us too!

Listed below are a number of extra highlights from the weekend:

A BYU soccer recreation and cougar tail.

And a soothing day at residence on Sunday with the household.

We celebrated Brooke’s birthday with our households. I used to like making truffles, however now I really like shopping for them on the grocery retailer and adorning them.

I really like her love for artwork!  My mother introduced her these watercolor pencils they usually had been a giant hit.

Here’s what week #3 of official coaching regarded like:

Monday: 10 miles @ 8:27 common.

Tuesday: 13 miles @ 7:39 common. W/U, 8 x 2’ (1’ simple), 1’ (2’ simple)… 24 minutes complete of pace, C/D. 1.11 miles later with Knox.

Wednesday: 7 miles @ 8:36 common.

Thursday: 9 miles @ 8:24 common.

Friday: Off… My physique was telling me I wanted one.

Saturday: 20 miles! Half-marathon @ 1:25:25 (vital drop in first 3 miles).

Sunday: Off

60 miles (the purpose was 65 miles, however I didn’t have it in me to do one other 5 miles).

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How was your weekend?  

Inform me a should for you earlier than a race!

Prepared for fall or clinging on to summer season?

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