Stop and Stretch

Ran through neighborhoods close to my house.  Easy pace - 9:24

Met the BBKs at Riverton HS.  We did a warm up around the school, then started our route.  It was dark, and I'm not very familiar with the area, so I can't say exactly where we ran.  We were on 3200 W. for awhile, then back into some neighborhoods that eventually led us back to the HS.  I started my watch late 2 different times so I don't know our pace.  We seemed to run in two groups.  I was with the first group with Peggy, Cheris, Scott, Jody, Kelli, Julie, Lynette, I hope I remembered everyone - oh and Dean.  The second group was Kris, Debbie, Alan, and I'm not sure who else.  I thought the temp. was going to be in the 40s, so I dressed warmly and I got soo hot.  I was glad when we turned and could feel the wind.

 I thought it was interesting, everyone said they are running Snow Canyon 1/2 just to run it, and not for time, but we'll see if anyone can actually do that on race day.

Was that enough info Cheryl?

Happy voting!

I was so busy I didn't blog - sorry to all my avid readers.  BBKs met in Herrimann at Scott and Kelli's house.  We ran a fantastic route - it's always fun to run somewhere new- it just included too many hills for 2 days before a half marathon.  But normally, I would love all the hills.  There were only 9 of us there.  Somehow I managed to slip and fall on the only small section of black ice in all of Herrimann.  They didn't get snow like the rest of us.

I swore I would never run this race again.  And yet, I found myself there, waiting to throw myself down a very steep Snow Canyon road.  This year thought, I was wiser, at least at first.  I took it fairly easy on the 2 mile steep downhill, so my quads wouldn't get so beat up.  As I turned onto the dirt road, I did feel much better than last year.  I just kept a steady pace for most of the race.  At one point, I decided to see how many women I could pass, which wasn't a great idea, because once you pass someone, you can't just slow down and let them pass you back.  So I was stuck at that pace that was faster than I had planned to run.  So I have been very sore.

They changed the end of the race.  Instead of staying on Snow Canyon Road, we went under the road and came out in Entrada.  That was a winding, up and down road, that led us back to Snow Canyon HS.  I liked this route better than staying on Snow Canyon Rd. for so long.