Believe to Achieve

Why is it when you get an idea in your head for a great run that when it comes time to run torrential winds and pelting snow begins to fall just as you take your first few steps? Yup just another NAIRC thing to do.  And I dragged Kim along with me.   Actually she dragged me along in the run.  She felt great.  My upper body was spent.  I have been working it out the last week and a half.  And yesterday was upper body day.  I am following that 100 push ups .com program Smooth showed  me plus lifting weights.   Just walking around this morning I didn't feel sore but when I got on my run and asked them to workout they were screaming.  It didn't help that there were over 20 mph winds in our face and we only got one BRIEF tailwind on our run and a total of a mile with lesser wind.  The rest was fierce head and side wind from the Northwest.  You'd think when we headed south things would change but the sidewind was just as bad with the pelting snow.  I am sure I noticed it more too with my sore upper body trying to fight it.  I stayed from 4 to 10 seconds per mile behind Kim after the first two miles.  Here is what we did:  I picked her up at 5:30am and we drove to AF Canyon entrance booth and parked.  Ran two warmup miles up and turned around and ran straight out of the canyon in to the incoming snowstorm.  4 am no wind, no snow.  Of course.  Even 525am when I left my house.  Blah.  We ran to the light and turned left on to Lone Peak HS road and turned left at Walmart and right at the turnabout and left by Lincoln Academy and right towards 2600 North PG and over to 1300 west to Kim's house after a brief lower loop.  Ummmm...as we turned west again the wind was even stronger for our last mile.  The first part downhill and the second part like a stand still into the wind.  It was kind of hilarious.  My arms were of no use and then we ended up hill.  Wowsers!!  Kim said she felt great.  My heart was okay, my legs actually felt like they barely worked.  But these arms/shoulders are just a shaking and can barely type. I am such a wimp.  But I WILL get stronger from this.  I know it takes time.  I have got to start somewhere.  Splits: 9:17, 9:22, 6:42, 6:54 (see how the wind slowed us as we neared its mouth?), 6:43,  6:57, 6:54,  6:53, 7:01,  7:00.  Total avg pace = 7:22 .  Geez I didn't even beat my half pace last Saturday.  That's weird.  Oh yah, 1.2 mile cooldown to my house from Kims at 8:27.  BRrrrrr.  I let my sweat cool off too much.