Believe to Achieve

Somedays WAKING is NOT THE ANSWER.  Seriously I awoke at 420am, got a drink and pondered the workout before me in an hour with Kim, Mel, and Jane.  Kim was picking me up at 5:15am.   MUCH to my SURPRISE I awoke suddenly at 5:46am and FREAKED out that my ALARM did not go off.  I noticed it was not even turned on but I had set the time.  I ran downstairs and found I had two messages from Kim.  LOSER.  Apparently my body so needed more sleep.  I was so ALIVE at 4:20am but NOW I was WASTED tired and couldn't fall back to sleep.  It was too late to run with the group.  They were running 10 at MP.  So perhaps, as Kim mentioned, I subconciously did not want to run with them.  Melanie had put out drinks and made up our nice flat course by her house.  And here I was lying in bed.  FOUR hours later I drove myself to the JRP (Jordan River Parkway) on 1500 north and began my own workout.  Thinking the weatherman was right I wore shorts.  NOT good.  My legs were quite red and numb the whole run.    I kept having to punch them to make the blood flow.  It was colder at 9:30am then I was thinking it would be.  The sun really didn't come out much behind the layer of clouds.  Brrr....and LONELY.  I decided to just run and see if I could do some speed.  After a 4 mile warmup I thought I would try the 5k, 10k, MP at 1 mi., 2mi, 3 mi, in that order.  I didn't think of that until I started my 4 mile tempo at MP and realized I was WAY FASTER than I needed to be so I just decided to do the first mile at 5K pace.   But after the first mile  I was needing a nap, even though the first half of it felt great.  So I just tried the best I could and ran these paces, not finishing the last MP mile until two miles in between at recovery pace:  8:41, 8:24, 7:53, 7:42 WU.  Then, 6:27, 6:48, 6:45, 6:46, rest PLEASE (no fuel or water the whole run) so then 7:21, 7:12, 6:53, 7:21.  AP for 12 miles = 7:21.  For the "fast" eight miles AP = 6:57.  I so need a HOT shower.   My left IT band is acting up QUITE tenderly.  I think my hip is out. Chiro closed today so Thursday adjustment necessary.  I work tomorrow.  I need a nap.