Countdown

In 6 more days I'll be running my first 50 miler.  I think I'm ready.  There is really nothing more I can do at this point.  My training wasn't ideal.  Would have liked to of had longer long runs but I had several 50-60 mile weeks and that will have to do.  At this point running a lot more would only hurt not help so I'm totally embracing race taper and carb loading right now.  Yesterday I didn't exercise and ate pizza.  

Plans for the week:

run 10-12 miles

figure out what to wear at race

decide which hydration system to use

decide what to put in drop bags

hydrate like a boss

eat lots of simple carbs

I figure I have been spending 7-9 hours a week running plus cool down time, extra trips to the gym, multiple showers each day.  It's like I have a whole extra day this week until I use it up all at once on Saturday.   

Last Saturday, March 15th I ran the Lucky 13.1 for the 2nd time in Peculiar, MO.  I used it as part of my training and didn't taper or anything for the race.  I finished in 1:41:49 only 13 seconds off from my PR.  1st in my age group 30-34 and 4th women overall out of 51 so not bad.  I'm thinking I need to train for a half marathon.  I feel like if I did I could easily drop my time below 1:40.  But more interesting to me right now is that I plugged my time into the McMillan race time/pace predictor thing and it said based on this time I should be running a 50mile at a 9:30 pace, finishing just under 8 hours.  This is what I've been thinking/planning in my head.  So even though I wish that a couple of my longer runs would have been a little longer i'm feeling pretty good about the race.

This race predictor said it would take me a whole day.

What Is Up

So it is still ridiculously cold out and there is more snow.  Blah.  My running has been sub par.  I did get in 51 miles last week but that didn't really include a long run.  Then my hip started bothering me so I knew the best way to make it better quickly and not worse would be to not run.  I find this very irritating.  I ran a whopping 19 miles this week and did a bunch of foam rolling and some cycling which didn't bother my hip at all.  I think it worked.  I ran 3 miles yesterday pain free but we are stuck in the house again today so looks like another day off.  No good.

Gretchen rolling out her IT band.

Stopped at Target on way home yesterday before the snow hit.  We needed a giant tub of PB filled pretzels to get us through.  Gretchen and I were able to eat half the container in a 12 hour time period.

Thinking of turning living room into giant ball pit.

We went outside for like 15 minutes.  She picked up a bowl of snow to chow down on.

I was told one of these toothbrushes fell in the trashcan but she was iffy on which one.  They are both in the trash now.