This week I tried to do everything perfect. I think the realization that we just have a month left, hit me hard. I ate good. I foam rolled everyday. I strength trained 3 days. The day before I did an hour long stretch, foam rolled and focused on carbo loading. (and drove everyone else crazy telling them they needed to drink Ensure). But do ya know what? I think it made a big difference. I really did feel great. Ebbi kept asking me what I was on.
So first off, we got out there and had a pretty good first take on our pic:
Then we took the time to do some stretching. We don't usually do this. It's dark and kinda creepy and we just go. Then right as we started, we saw a falling star. You can guess what we all wished for. Then we are running along and Ebbi goes over to the bushes and yells "hey!". What the heck? Freaked us out. She said she thought she saw something. We kinda didn't talk about it. not gonna lie we were freaked out. I said, "next time you go at something like that, get my mace first." A little farther a long we came to a sign on the side of the road. We were so excited. Someone had put a sign up to cheer us on. We thought it was MaryAnn. We were praising her up and down. This first sign even made Candi tear up because it was her little girl. As we continued on there were signs every mile. They were funny and cute and we were amazing and wondered how MaryAnn pulled this off. The signs were awesome. If you ever have to run 20 miles, you need some amazing friends to post signs for you every mile.. makes all the difference.
I really felt great on this run. At 10 miles, half way, we stopped and danced and took a picture.
This time at Moqui cave we brought a pencil and signed the Geo cach. If you ever run or I guess even drive by there, stop and sign it yourself.
With about 6 miles left I went ahead on my own. I just left like if I kept stopping I wouldn't be able to finish. I just wanted to bust it out ya know... so that's what I did. I felt good. My favorite was when Jennifer Stewart stopped and talked to me when I had one mile left. She ran the marathon last year. She knew what I had just done and that is kinda rare ya know. People are driving by ya and ya just want to yell... I just ran 20 miles!!! I am not just out on a little run.. 20 miles!!!!! Twenty! So here's a picture of all the signs that I got pictures of. I didn't go the parade route as planned so I missed some. I'm just not a fan of running where people can see me. Oh and about the signs.. when MaryAnn denied doing the signs, we learned it was Ebbi and Lexi.. Who knew Ebbi could keep that kind of secret?!! I mean really. And the reason she had yelled "HEY" into the bushes is that she thought the first sign was there. So funny! Her parents had put the signs up.. but I'll let her tell more about that. But seriously. If you ever run a marathon, you should do it with an amazing group of girls like I am, but that's not possible, they are just too awesome. so... Too bad.
Anyway! Great run. No it wasn't all easy.. Like the last 5 were really hard actually, but I felt good and if Hal Higdon is right... If we can run 20, we can run 26.. so BAM.... Marathon, Here we come!!
This run was a lot of work for Ebbi & myself. Haha. We came up with this great plan about a month ago to do something special on one of our long runs for the girls. We thought it would be so funny for them to have some motivating/funny signs marking each mile with pictures of the girls + Bryant. (AKA WJ) Of course... being it Ebbi & me things always just complicated and we ended up doing the majority of the work Friday at 10 PM. Haha. We spent the few weeks before trying to get funny pics secretly from family members and we were able to get a few but failed on a lot. Haha just our luck. The best was that the Friday night before our run we couldn't get the staple gun to work to attach the signs to the post! So we went to Doug & Carol's in hopes of finding a staple gun. Ebbi really didn't want to wake her parents because Doug had agreed to help us at 5 am the next day put up all these glorious signs and Ebbi's sweet mama Carol was down with a bad back! Well, that pretty much didn't happen. We woke them up and Doug pretty much ended up helping us finish all the signs. It was one of the most hilarious nights ever. If you guys ever wonder where Ebbi gets some of her quirks.... well I know the culprit now! Too funny. He really is so awesome to help us out with our plan. Both him and Carol spent the entire morning putting our signs up. How cool is that?
Did I mention Doug helped us shirtless! That's right folks! He sure did!
I hope all the girls enjoyed the signs. It's been so awesome to get to know you all. Ebbi and I just wanted to feel like we could do something fun for you all! Love you!
My run was a pretty good run. Another 20 miler down! I felt a lot better this week. Becka was a tooting and a hollering about Ensure and so I followed her advice and carbo loaded up on Ensure. I really did have a ton more energy on this run. Although, I think that I might have run the first 10 a little too fast because I definitely ran out of steam at mile 19. I actually walked a little at 19.3 and Becka's house was literally around the corner! I couldn't figure out what was wrong with me! Those last 6.2 miles of the marathon I think will literally kill me. I am actually going to write up an obituary that you can all use if needed. I also appoint all my fellow fishies to sing at my funeral. I love you all!
I LOVED this run because of the signs! They made it awesome! When I came up on the first one I thought it was going to be a 'family reunion' this way sign. It was kind of flopped over, so I went to flip it back over to see who was having a family reunion (I was running by myself, bored I guess, alright I am nosey I admit it) and there was Lexie with her what's up look! I was loving it. Then I was just running to get to the next sign to see who was on it and what the fun message would say. My running buddies are the best! I really don't think I could train with a better group. I have learned so much from all of them as we plan our runs via group text and there is always time to ask advice or share something funny or frustrating on that group text. We have many one liners that have come from driving to the start line or sitting at the start line of our long runs. We are cool like that!
I LOVED this run because of the signs! They made it awesome! When I came up on the first one I thought it was going to be a 'family reunion' this way sign. It was kind of flopped over, so I went to flip it back over to see who was having a family reunion (I was running by myself, bored I guess, alright I am nosey I admit it) and there was Lexie with her what's up look! I was loving it. Then I was just running to get to the next sign to see who was on it and what the fun message would say. My running buddies are the best! I really don't think I could train with a better group. I have learned so much from all of them as we plan our runs via group text and there is always time to ask advice or share something funny or frustrating on that group text. We have many one liners that have come from driving to the start line or sitting at the start line of our long runs. We are cool like that!
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