Believe to Achieve

Meeting up with Kim, but no Kim?  Ran back to my house.  No Kim.  How did we miss each other?  Did she call back and tell me a later time?  Nope no message on my machine.  Ran back  towards Kim's house.  Yay!!!  Kim was yelling "Julie!?"  She had accidentally slept in.  I thought since I took a slight variation to her house I somehow missed her and she was at my house while I was going towards her.  She was really just asleep : D.  Glad we got in about 7 together.  I was going to stop at 10 as I was achy from my upper body and core workout and the humid inversion air was not comfortable.  But you know me.  I didn't like that my thighs, feet and arms were very stiff  Couldn't feel the blister too much with a latex free stretch bandaid on it but I was going much slower today.  I need a recovery run.  I work the weekend however so I will have to do two early morning runs before work at 7 miles each to be at just 46 miles for the week.  Quite the decline  from last week but  I don't have time.  I have two Christmas parties after Fri and Sat's shifts at work.   AP today 8:16 for 12 miles.  I feel very achy all over and took a while for me to warm up in the shower.  Not sure why.  It was slightly warmer than last week's early am runs.  I think the inversion has something to do with it.  Not good for the body.   Nor are the sugar cookies with food-color frosting on top I ate at the  Annual Mother/Daughter Cookie Exchange at my neighbor's house last night.  Everyone brings two dozen of their favorite cookies and you leave with two dozen of the kinds you choose there PLUS she makes over 12 dozen sugar cookies for all the girls to decorate-- frost and sprinkle to your hearts content while the women socialize.  Some eating cookies others saying they are on "no sugar diets".  I may have eaten one too many. I got a sugar rush eating all the broken sugar cookies and frosting them myself.  Then I sampled from a few that were left over.  Yes I am a not so recovered sugar addict.  Some days good. Some days very bad. ADDENDUM:  Troy was heading up to the Rec center at 9:40am so I joined him. Got out of my nice post shower clothes and back into spandex and my 50 miler long sleeve cotton shirt.  I wish it were a tech shirt.  This year the race director for Squaw Peak is giving out Tech shirts in honor of the 15th anniversary of the run.  Yesterday was sign ups.  It fills in less than a day.  I avoided  temptation to signup  even though I think I could do WAY better next year with training on trails and no NIGHT shifts the week of the race.  So nice to be a day shifter again.  But there is always that what if?   I can't have another trauma to my running like that before SGM next year.  Anyway  got on the bike at the gym.  12 sweaty miles at level 10 (less than 43 minutes!!).  Pace 3:34.  Avg RPM 93-95.  When I looked over and saw old guy with a gut with his RPM at 92 and mine at 80 to start with I thought I'd better pick it.  The seat was soft but pushed me forward and ailed my back at times so had to find different positions to lay off my back but eventually got in a groove.