Believe to Achieve

Mizuno precisions, japanese flower.  Hmmmm how many miles can I put on these shoes?  I honestly should not have run this morning....who know what I am doing to the nerve in my ankle--   crawling ants feeling as the nerve tries to come to life, numbness like feeling all around mostly the inside of my ankle and follows above and crosses over the top and to the bottom of my foot.  I am like falling apart....what the heck is all this injury stuff???  My PF is numb so I may be injuring it more and more.  I can't get into my podiatrist for two weeks from today.   Hmmm how much damage can I do in that time??  Got my MRI report back--- it showed facet hypertrophy on all my lumbar vertebrae and a dry disk at L3-L4 and a herniated disc (mildly protruding into the ventral thecal sac--- spinal cord) at the L4-L5.  So my thought about "DOUBLE crush" to my ankle is probably true--- first a pinched nerve in my back and second a pinched nerve in my ankle.   Blah blah blah.  I am in training. NO TIME FOR INJURY.  Plan this week-- 6, 6, 6, 5, 5, 10  = 38 miles (up four miles from last week).  Ran cautiously for six mile this morning out and back past AF high school to the half course mile 12 mark and back home.  Although I strategically avoided my ankle completely FREAKING out--- the nerve keeps doing a popping feeling so it causes "electric shock" like symptoms in my ankle....I still ran 9 x 30 second pickups with 1:15 to 1:30 seconds in between just to test myself on speed. I have no speedwork planned this week or next.  I am waiting for week 4 to run some at the track after  I build up my running aerobically.  I felt really strong in my pick ups.  Pace was in the 5:40 range.  Love the short speed.  In between I ran easy but it made my last two miles a 7:17 and 7:10.  AP for 6 miles= 7:54.  First mile 8:44.      Then I had to go biking....because it has been since the 4th of July!!!  AP for 12 miles 4:05.  It was an intense hilly course on the foothills of PG.  I was tired at the end. 

1pm-- ONE MILE with Courtney in the sun.  Courtney wants to get in shape aerobically for soccer etc....So we started our training together.  One mile and some change-- 9:51.  Stopped for 45 seconds at 0.62 miles.  Courtney having a hard time breathing.  She had just eaten and it was hot.  AND she hasn't run in a while except little bursts at twice a week if that soccer practices.  She has been swimming though.  I motivated her with talks of Rachelle's "never ran more than 2 miles" two years ago and NOW look at her :D.  I hope Courtney doesn't lose motivation.