Believe to Achieve

Oh my.  Tough run but did it!!  Slept from 1140pm to 630am (alarm).  Should have gotten out earlier but still wasted from the three night shifts this week and 3 hour a day sleep.  Should have gone to bed earlier but Courtney and I stayed up to watch more of A & E's version of Pride and Prejudice.  She just finished the book.  She reads tons.  Had to finally just turn it off.  The first mile  I could tell my lack of sleep was going to wear on me but I still felt I could accomplish my goal with a little push.  It was extremely humid out for Utah and I was just dripping sweat when  I got back and walked inside my house.  Had three water stops.  Ran significantly slower than in April as far as through the canyon.  I just couldn't push out the 6:30s and really isn't time to do that on my long run.  I hope to peak a little later.  I ran this run about three weeks before Ogden and SGM is 9 weeks a way.  No need to rush, right?  The heat began to wear on me.  I left at 7:04 (per garmin).  Started at the fork and ran up over 300 feet 2.15 miles (the Dam) and turned around without stopping.  The garmin lost satellite coverage twice on the west side of the road by the canyon wall.  It said  I ran a 7:02 second mile ( a huge lie), not sure how it did that?  It even calculated my distance longer than in April by 0.3 miles.  Why did it do that?  The map doesn't reveal them as short but I course tooled it at 2.15 like in April.  Of course I figured that in to my calculations and negated my stupid garmin.  I reset it at the top and started on the east side down and had coverage the whole way then.  AP for next 13.1 miles= 7:10.  Slowed the last two miles to make 15 miles @ 7:18 average.  Oh well.  I was so tired and so sweaty.  I dipped my shirt in the river and my hat and it just felt even more humid doing that.  Total average=  7:32 for 17 miles due to the two miles uphill.  Glad its over.   The nerves in my legs are doing the same thing they were doing.  Sure hope it passes quickly.  Iced in AF river for 10 minutes.  Toes were froze.  Slowest mile 9:03, fastest mile 6:40.  Last mile 8:13.  Ate one Gu and one block.  Water x 2 and gatorade  x 1.  BTW  it was biker o-rama out there.  They sort of protected me as they were riding up the same side I was running down so cars saw them first and slowed. Saw a few runners as well. Leaving late was not good as the car traffic was pretty significant.  I can't run with music until out of the canyon because I am too nervous.  Forgot about my music until mile 11.  Geez.