Believe to Achieve

2 warm up.  3 x 20 min at steady state. 7:13 avg 2.77 miles first set.  2.79 second.  7:10 avg. 2.82 third. 7:05 avg.  hotel at Disneyland. Felt good.  

Drove home from Barstow hotel after driving there from magic mountain.  Listened to conference    Had Troy and girls drop me off at Provo city center temple and I ran home first going to wills canyon stop and up on to canal path. 14.75 miles.  8:38 avg    Stop watch.  Did 10 x 2 min at LT with two min easy.  One min half marathon and said forget this. I need to get home in one good piece.   Stopped at wills pit stop and 1100 north.  And a couple brief moments to catch my breath during speed.  Basically first mile I was wondering if I could make it with tired fluid filled vacation legs and stagnant in car 7 hours legs.  Weather perfect.  A little chilly at end and a breeze as sun went down but before that perfect.  

Really hard to get going. 1145 am.  Finally got the speed work started and at 2.85 emergency BR break. So can’t back. Finished first set.  Felt weak so tried second but just felt awful.  Weak and no adrenaline.   6:52 avg 

22 min warm up at 6.5 mph.   8.4/8.3 alternated each song for 30 min at ss     Then. 8.6 x 5 min.  8.5 x 4.   8.6 x 4 min 8.5 x 2 min.  8.6-8.9 for one min. 7:11 avg. then five min rest.   Standing. Then 8.6 x 5 min.  8.5 x 4 min 8.6 x 4. Then 8.5 x 2 min.  7 avg. then last 7.5 min after 3 min rest at 6:48 pace.  Walked to cool down 

one mile up suncrest starting at one mile from top.  four down and turning at junior high and going into eternal fountain then down alpine highway to Art dye/beehive park. ran with jane summer angie and jenny for first five.  Then just angie and jenny last 8 plus.  7:57 avg.  sick this am.  fighting the bad cold everyone is getting.  1:45:19 for 13.26 miles.

2 easy warmup.  Well gradual increase every 1/4 mile to two. 3 miles at 6:53.  2 percent decline.  Tired and pelvis hurting.  Worked last three days in a row. The 8 c 2 min at 6:35 for four.  6:41 for three. And 6:20 for one.  Two min rest in between.  This is Tuesday workout

8;55 avg.  7 mile loop up to canal and down by silos.  Oops this is Wednesday workout. Did not workout Monday.   Worked. 

Two easy.   Two hard.  Canal trail out and back.   

Left leg hurting. Lower back left side as well. Burning tingling. Sciatica nerve pinch. Ran two at 530 pm at vasa. Then two -2 percent 6:58 pace when leg hurt more so had to stop did some weights and abs. Light weights 

one walking mile 3 percent incline 4 mph.  Then very slow jog for 3 miles. Finished at 6.3 mph for one min. Everything else lead up to that.  3 percent incline. Leg is bad.  Back is bad.

needling, symphisis put in place.  needling didnt seem to help at all.  back still bad, leg still bad and its thursday as I write this.

2.9 easy the 5/4/3//2/1.  but with a bum leg.  pace about 7:15 or faster at times.  

2 easy pace home tm miles. Pace easy. Leg not so 

320 wake up.  Bus from mcc hotel. To start.  430 am.  Knew it would be painful.  And it was.   At mile 8 quite bad zapping sciatic pain that made me yell out like I was on fire periodically.   Had ru just keep at a pace where my leg could not turn over quickly and aggravating it more. Which was 8:02  didn’t look at watch afyer the point of ridiculousness. So didn’t know pace except mike 11 being 8:21. Avg pace 7:41.  Course long but I ran poor tangents.  I didn’t notice the heat. May others talked a lot of it.  I am sure marathon was brutal at end as high of day was 100.  First 50/54 year old.  That was a shocker.  Next runner 50/54 was 30 seconds behind. I was behind her until mike 12 in virtual running.  I was 5 min behind clock.  The pace ws si easy. Never out of breath. I had so much speed left in me from my training.  The leg was not runnable. Quite sure 1 percent of population would be as insane as me  99 percent would never have got dressed in the am to run.  It is pretty bad back and sciatica and hamstring pull from it all