This is 8th St. right now, going up to my house :o)
Spot by the greenbelt :O) I love the river.
This sign made me laugh :O) hehe
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Barber to Boise....
I raced the Barber to Boise 10k yesterday morning here in Boise. The race went very well...I ran a 36:26 (6.2 miles). That is a minute and 16 seconds faster than my track PR that I ran about 2 years ago. My coach was very pleased with my race, as well as the rest of my teammates. I placed 2nd for females overall and 12th out of close to 2000 people I believe.
If you want to look at the race results, pictures, or live video of the finish, go to this link:
http://www.barbertoboise.com/home.html
On the live video feed I am around 24:50 (if you click on the line and drag it to around that time you can see my finish).
Overall, I am very satisfied with how the race went :o) My team did really well too. After the race we went to breakfast together as a team to Big City Cafe downtown (goooood muffins and coffee :O)).
Friday night we had a team dinner at Paul's house. A few of the people used to run for Greater Boise but just recently moved to Oregon and one is in Washington. The two guys are now running for Strands (Corvallis and Seattle) and the girl that used to run here is running for a club in Eugene.
Starting from the left: Kevin Sheehy, Paul Davis, Kevin Peters (holding the mug), Jordyn Smith, Jordan Zwick (holding the other mug), Eddie Ernest-Jones, Sylvia Veal, Coley Fitzgerald (in the white sweater), me, and Mike Sayenko. ....and Moses, Coley's dog, in the front :o).
Jordyn Smith used to run for GBRC but is not in Eugene, Eddie used to run for GBRC but is now running for Strands in Corvallis, and Sayenko is running for Strands in Seattle.
It was a fun weekend...good people to be around :O).
My next race is the Strands 5k in Corvallis, OR on Halloween. I will be coming home that Friday morning and leaving Monday afternoon. :O) Excited to be home and to race! :o) Hope you are all doing well!
If you want to look at the race results, pictures, or live video of the finish, go to this link:
http://www.barbertoboise.com/home.html
On the live video feed I am around 24:50 (if you click on the line and drag it to around that time you can see my finish).
Overall, I am very satisfied with how the race went :o) My team did really well too. After the race we went to breakfast together as a team to Big City Cafe downtown (goooood muffins and coffee :O)).
Friday night we had a team dinner at Paul's house. A few of the people used to run for Greater Boise but just recently moved to Oregon and one is in Washington. The two guys are now running for Strands (Corvallis and Seattle) and the girl that used to run here is running for a club in Eugene.
Jordyn Smith used to run for GBRC but is not in Eugene, Eddie used to run for GBRC but is now running for Strands in Corvallis, and Sayenko is running for Strands in Seattle.
It was a fun weekend...good people to be around :O).
My next race is the Strands 5k in Corvallis, OR on Halloween. I will be coming home that Friday morning and leaving Monday afternoon. :O) Excited to be home and to race! :o) Hope you are all doing well!
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Club website...
The club website was just updated by Paul (a teammate) so I thought I would pass along the link to it. I don't know how updated it will stay, but you can look at it from time to time :O).
http://www.greaterboiserunningclub.com/index.htm
http://www.greaterboiserunningclub.com/index.htm
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Tuesday...
Well, today is Tuesday...which means I had another hard workout tonight. :O) It went very well. It consisted of running 4 x 800m repeats on a dirt trail at a park here in Boise. We were supposed to run them all at 5k perceived effort for today (what we think our 5k pace would be for today), and then run a 400m recovery loop (slower than the 800m's). I ran them all right at my PR (from high school :o)) which was 2 minutes and 30 seconds. The goal is to run them all at the same pace...definitely no slower. And then we do a 10 minute recovery run over to one of the high school tracks and ran 4 x 300m on the track. They were cut-downs so each one was supposed to get 2 or 3 seconds faster. I ran them in 62, 60, 57, 55. And after each one we go right into a 200m jog and then start the next one. Anyway, it was a good workout...faster than I have ever done them. :o)
I am running in the Barber to Boise 10k this Saturday morning. I a excited for it. All of my 10k's have been frustrating...none of them have been ran well, so I am hoping that changes this weekend. It is hard to run a solid time here because of the elevation, but I am hoping it goes well.
I am still looking for a job...with no luck. I feel that someone has to call me with all these applications and resme's I have sent out...hopefully something happens soon. :o\
The weather is definitely starting to change. Very cold in the mornings and evenings but still pretty decent during the days. It is harder to get warm now after my ice baths in the river...but I will do them until it gets too unberable! Or until we can find a place inside to do them! :o)
Well, I am off to bed...my workout made me sleepy :O) Hope you are all doing well!!
I am running in the Barber to Boise 10k this Saturday morning. I a excited for it. All of my 10k's have been frustrating...none of them have been ran well, so I am hoping that changes this weekend. It is hard to run a solid time here because of the elevation, but I am hoping it goes well.
I am still looking for a job...with no luck. I feel that someone has to call me with all these applications and resme's I have sent out...hopefully something happens soon. :o\
The weather is definitely starting to change. Very cold in the mornings and evenings but still pretty decent during the days. It is harder to get warm now after my ice baths in the river...but I will do them until it gets too unberable! Or until we can find a place inside to do them! :o)
Well, I am off to bed...my workout made me sleepy :O) Hope you are all doing well!!
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Good trip....
Sylvia and I ventured back home this last weekend, and we both had a good trip. :O) It was nice to see my family and my nieces :oD I do miss them! I'm glad I was able to be home for Hannah's birthday :O)
Today was another workout day. We did 2 x 1 mile, 1 x 1000m, and 2 x 400m. FINALLY got to do some mile repeats! While I love doing them, the shorter distances are what I need to work on...I need to get some of my speed back so that I can get my race times down. That is my goal for this fall....to run some solid 5k's and 10k's and get my PRs down so that when the time comes to race a half-marathon and a full marathon I will run a good time (hopefully a qualifying time in the marathon :O)). SO, while I am disappointed that I won't be able to run the Big Sur half-marathon in November, this will be best for me in the long run especially because I don't have much time to qualify for the trials.
Well, I am sleepy, so it is off to bed for me :o) Hope you are all doing well!
Today was another workout day. We did 2 x 1 mile, 1 x 1000m, and 2 x 400m. FINALLY got to do some mile repeats! While I love doing them, the shorter distances are what I need to work on...I need to get some of my speed back so that I can get my race times down. That is my goal for this fall....to run some solid 5k's and 10k's and get my PRs down so that when the time comes to race a half-marathon and a full marathon I will run a good time (hopefully a qualifying time in the marathon :O)). SO, while I am disappointed that I won't be able to run the Big Sur half-marathon in November, this will be best for me in the long run especially because I don't have much time to qualify for the trials.
Well, I am sleepy, so it is off to bed for me :o) Hope you are all doing well!
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