Believe to Achieve

I need to go to a  RUNAHOLIC's ANONYMOUS group.  I am not supposed to go running and here I am running.  And as I was running (only going to run 3-4 I told myself just to warm up to do my arms/pushups) I was thinking "how am I going to explain this to the blog?".  Well....I drove my daughter to her friends this morning at around 11am and the WEATHER and the AIR was calling my name.  No other reason then I needed to BE OUT THERE.  I couldn't let this ABSOLUTELY gorgeous day for running to PASS ME BY.  SO I goofed up.  But you know what, my PF was good to me.  It only slightly hurt the first 1.5 miles and then it didn't hurt at all and without looking at my pace I got faster and faster and it felt easier and easier.  NOW mind you my left leg was totally ACTING ridiculous, but I blame that on my left foot and all the pushups.  I am sure my legs have to do a lot of the work because my arms are too weak to push me up.  My left sciatic nerve is the over stretched one.  But I did some stretches after my run and it appears to be on the back burner, not bothering me at all. I did my pushups-- WEEK two day 2, second column--- 10, 12, 9, 9, 13 (12 just could not do the last one, I collapsed!! before I could finish it, no way could I finish it).  That's 52 pushups for me.  ME who couldn't even do one at one point.  Anyway....9o seconds rest in between sets then  I did 60, 30, 30, on the planks repeated x 2.  The push ups make it way too hard for me to do the planks without out shaking.  Weird.  My upper arms/shoulders are just too weak!!!  I finished up with my usual routine with the arms as I have been doing.  Two sets of 12 each.   AP for 8 miles = 8:08.  First mile 9:08, (didn't look at my watch), 8:45, 8:21, 8:00, 8:02, 7:48, 7:29, 7:29.   All felt easy except for my tight left leg that is gone all of the sudden.  Oh YAH I iced myself in the RIVER for 8 minutes.  I felt great in the river.  VERY therapeutic.  I think this is going to help my recovery all the more.  This is my first icing since before SGM.   I totally forgot to ice after SGM as I couldn't find a decent spot and then I just gave up because the ROCKS by the river were too hard to climb down post marathon in St. George.