Believe to Achieve

Met Melanie at the Legacy Center (where she usually works out) and we ran a 3.55 mile warm up outside of course, first mile 8:54.  AP 8:12.  Then she needed to do 6 x 1200s while I needed to do 7 miles of LT (15k to 1/2 marathon pace).  My original plan was 2.5 miles x 2 then 2 miles (with 1/2 mile easy pace in between) for the finish but I felt SOOOOO good the first two miles that I ran a 5K instead.  We ran in a large FLAT, COUNTRYSIDE SQUARE however mile two was ferocious--- a significant head wind yet no wind at the legacy center two miles away!! We of course hit that part during the speedy  part each time and had a tail wind on recovery going south.  Dang.  But we toughed it out and tried to not think of turning around instead of turning north  :  D.  I ran this workout  with NO fuel or water, just two swigs of powerade zero (not the best AT ALL.  I would have rather have had water).  But hey they were on sale and Mel and I have a bunch (.39 for a 32 ouncer).  Anyway we laughed at the finish cause we got lost from each other because Mel extended on in a straightaway and when she came back on course she could not see me so she ran a different way and then well....we met up within seconds at the Legacy Center oddly, coincidentally enough, having run roughly the same amount of miles.  Both of us stopped during the final cooldown miles wondering where each other was??????  toooooo funnnny!!    At the end we stretched in the Legacy Center and did some planks (2:15, and 30 sec each side).  Arms frozen from the elbows to the shoulders.  We ran in shorts and I wore short sleeves after our warm up.    Almost forgot,  here is what I ran:  5K in 20:31 (splits 6:33, 6:38, 6:39, 6:35 for .1)  FELT AWESOME and since this was LT I felt I could have run this quite a bit faster.  I was shocked when my garmin read 6:31 pace consistently for the first .7 miles, I knew for sure I better slow it down.  After the "5K" I ran 1/2 mile at 8:31 pace and then pottied real quick as Mel sped by me finishing one of her 1200s.  Second set (two miles):  Pace 6:37, 6:45 (0.75 miles in the headwind going north, bummer!!),  then 1/2 mile recovery at 8:40pace, then went right into the third set (two miles):  Pace:  6:42, 6:43. AP for 7 LT miles = 6:40!! : D.  Ran back to Mel's road (1.7 miles) and could not find her.  Took another swig of powerade then headed back to the legacy center stopping to pick up my tights etc... on the fence still wondering where is Melanie?  Low and behold there she was standing next to her van as I was getting to my car.  Cooldown I ran 3.6 miles at 7:48 AP.