St George 1/2 marathon

I just wanted to say how much fun the St. George 1/2 marathon was!  I was so impressed with everyone!
I want to thank everyone for their help.  Jason for being my long distance coach.  He designed my training schedule and gave me tips along the way.  Sherstin for giving me encouragement and telling me I could do it.  Shelley for doing the long Saturday runs with me and then running the race with me. The race went so well I think we should plan another one. Any ideas?

I told Brenda Brundage about our race and she thought her running team (Kurt and Ellie) should join us next year.  Big news on Big E!  He is no longer Big E, now Jamie calls him small e.  He has lost 70 pounds since the family reunion.

Good luck to Emily and Jane.  They are training for a 1/2 marathon in March. Emily you can do this if I can.

I haven't heard yet how Brent Bell did on his 100 mile run last weekend. That will be the next post.

 

2 more weeks!

The St. George half is coming up in just two weeks! Unfortunately, my training has been between slim and none, but I'm hoping to still finish with Mom and Shelley. Jason- we are excited to see you! Good luck with these last few weeks!

Sherst

More running

I had a decent week of running. I still haven't been running a very large number of miles, but it is slowly creeping up. I think I only ran 13 this week total, but it was spread out over 4 days. On Saturday I went on a 45 minute bike ride where I went fairly fast. Later in the day I went up to the Santa Monica mountains and did a 4 mile trail run. Basically it was straight up for 2 miles and then straight back down. I haven't done very much running in hills for the last month or so and it was pretty tough. My quads are actually fairly sore today. It is probably partially due to the biking earlier in the day as well, but I think it is a good amount of soreness as long as it goes away soon.
Next week I am slowly increasing my mileage and plan to do a 5 miler on Saturday. I know that isn't really long at all, but it should be good to go a little bit longer than I have been. I have done pretty well at my swimming and biking training as well although I missed a couple workouts this week due to being lazy.

I hope everyone else is running well and getting ready for St. George or any other races that may be coming up!

Jason

Running Update

Hi everyone!
I have been completely healthy now for a little over a week! I am pretty excited about that and have been able to work out nicely since last Saturday. I signed up for a half marathon in St George on Jan 22. For anyone else who wants to join it should be a lot of fun. My current training involves nice and easy mileage build up. I am not training too fast just slowly increasing the amount I do at a reasonable pace to get a decent base built up. Hopefully I won't get too excited about running far and overexert myself. My biking and swimming training have been going well also. Generally they are easy and just working on a base as well.
It feels good to be out there on a daily basis and improving my fitness.

How is everyone else doing? I heard the update about all of the family members that did the St George marathon. I am impressed and inspired. It has been almost 3 yrs since I have ran a full marathon. (Wow that makes me feel lazy). My last one was the Death Valley Trail marathon in Feb 08. Hopefully I will get in a marathon sometime in the spring along with a half ironman. Although you never know what may come up in life it is much more fun with goals to work towards.

Keep up the running!
Jason

Running!

Well it has been an eventful couple of weeks on the exercise front here in Southern California. I got back into running about 2 weeks ago which was quite nice after a short sabbatical (I don't know if you can actually take a sabbatical from running). Anyway - I did my first trail run in a while in the Santa Monica Mountains. It was a lot tougher than I imagined because I am not in that great of shape, but I made it about 6 miles or so. Then this Thursday I pulled a hammy playing beach football. The worst part about it is that I missed the bomb that I was going for when I did it too. Ok, that really isn't the worst part, but now I am sidelined from running for a bit. It seems to be healing quickly so hopefully it will be ok to run on in less than a week.
On a more positive note I got a road bike about a week ago and have started biking and swimming and sort of training for a triathlon. I don't know when or what one I am going to do, but I am training anyway. It has been a lot of fun and I can bike just fine with an injured hamstring. I did a 44 minute ride this morning south along the coast which was a fun ride down to LAX almost.

Well - hopefully I will be running again Monday and Tuesday if my healing goes well!

Also - Sherstin and I were discussing doing a half marathon in St George in January. I am pretty sure we are going to sign up. I will keep doing some triathlon training but focus more on the running to make sure I am ready for a good half. It has been quite a while since I have raced a half marathon so I am excited.
Jason

Back in the U.S.A.

I am back in the US!! I haven't posted anything on here in months which is definitely not good. I had been doing some running in London, but not as much as I would have liked to. It turns out that dating tends to cut down on the amount of running that you do, especially if you work long hours. Although I did have a few running dates in London which were fun. I am starting work in LA tomorrow - and hopefully will get some good beach running and trail running in. Our office is 1 block from the Santa Monica Pier so I can easily run along the beach there after work anytime that I want. Well - I hope everyone else is running more than I am, and has fun things to post soon!

Jason

Running updates?

I just thought we needed to hear how everyone is doing on their running.
Here is an update from my neck of the woods.
I took off running almost two weeks due to a bad bruised hip while tubing on a river. Started back today and it felt pretty good.
Matt has gone running a couple of times since his mission. He ran 6.8 miles on Saturday but then was pretty exhausted. He says he needs to work up to it a little more gradually.
Brent Bell decided on the spur of the moment to run the Days of 47 Salt Lake Marathon. His time was 3:57:44.
Not bad for a run the day after his daughter got married.