Believe to Achieve

Of all things to do last night Troy and I took our three girls to the drive-ins in Taylorsville.  It was fun.  The weather was very nice and the breeze was welcoming along with the clear starry night.  I haven't been to a drive-in in over a decade.  So fun to be outside in front of car enjoying two movies together on cushy chairs with our pillows and blankets.  We saw Despicable Me (cute) and Charlie St. Cloud (I have a thing for Zac so this movie was way tolerable. Yes I am happily married).  So....of course I set myself up for the no sleep pattern. We got home at 1:20am.  I slept okay until 6am when Brooke got in our bed then nodded back to sleep until 8:40am in time to get Brooke up and off to Piano Camp at 9:00am when I broke the news that Troy needed to drive me up the AF canyon for my tempo run.  He drove me up 3 miles from the mouth of the canyon and dropped me off.  I left one water at the mouth of the canyon.  No Gus today.  I was stuffed from all the not so good for me treat I ate during the movie and the pizza at staff meeting yesterday.  I started by climbing up two miles nice and easy.  I left at 9:19 am.  The air was cool and crisp but the sunny areas were getting pretty warm.  The canyon did provide some good shade.  9:49, 8:51 (can feel myself getting stronger now).  Conveniently there was a campground potty stop with a great water faucet outside of it.  Drenched my hat and took off back down the canyon.  Kind of getting in the groove the first mile and then maintained a pretty good speed even with the strong head wind which hit more so on the last mile.  Tried to relax.  I tend to get anxiety about speed and then my breathing gets too irratic and I falter.  Splits for five miles: 6:49, 6:29, 6:26, 6:19, 6:33 (AP 6:31 : D)  Water stop.  Hill climb out of AF reaaaallllllll slow for recovery.  Even saw a friend with her kids on their bike and jogged so very nice and easy as I crested the hill.  Then I decided to pick it up moderately and did one more quick mile with a HUGE headwind at 6:47.  The dry wind made me so parched and I felt so worked out by the end here.  I ran easy home.  AP for last 5 miles= 8:02.  Splits for my info: 9:40 (the HUGE uphill and chatting mile), 7:45, 6:47, 8:25, 7:32.  Total AP for 12.1 miles=  7:38.