Believe to Achieve

Sore throat started Saturday morning.  Thought 16 miler would kick it.  But alas no. Vitamin C and probiotics and a few short naps is all I could do.  Woke this morning  to a worse sore throat and major bloating from Olive Garden Saturday night.  Too much Caesar Salad and Lasagna Rollata and three bread sticks!! yikes not to mention a 1/2 a piece of triple chocolate cake!!! (shared with my husband).  Got it free for a mixed up order.  As if I needed that.  BuT it was very yummy.  The scale just did not like all the salt and cheese and choclolate.  Five pounds in two days.   Yay!!  Sooooo....I hit the mill for some speed.  HAD TO WAIT 15 minutes for a TM!!!!!!  For WALKERS casually walking and talking on the TM!!! WHAT EVER!!!  So I did the stairs.  I like that machine.  Level 10 for over 10 minutes.  Got my heartrate up well enougth!!  I really tried to talk myself out of speedwork today because I am so full of fluid.  I am NOT joking when I said I puffed up with five pounds of fluid weight!!!! Man alive.  Legs  like LARD to the Nth degree.  Ran five mile warm up  at 1 %:  8:34, 8:20, 8:06, 7:48 (sped it up to make it to four miles before a potty break so an AP).  Off TM for about three minutes for EMERGENCY potty break.  That broke the momentum and desire for speed.  Felt even more lardy.  Got back up to pace and ran a 7:41 for 1/2 mile then back to 8:00 mm for 1/2 mile then right into SW.  Plan was 6 x 800 but THAT FELL THROUGH after the FIRST one because YES I can DEFINITELY say that it was THE SOCKS that STARTED the ENTIRE CRUMBLE AT SGM.  I wore them today (the company sent me the duplicate pair I wore for the marathon, along with four other kinds).  Well this kind is thin and with my shoes, the double layers SWISH around in my shoe and at FAST speeds my foot moves around and I can't hold ground.  It is like trail running FAST.  It takes a lot of concentration to try and not let the feet to move around in my shoes.  AND THEN BLISTER O'rama feeling in my feet.  YUP UTTERLY THE WORST nonSTRATEGIC moment of my running career.  New socks the day before a race.  AND this pair had been washed several times.  So washing would NOT have helped.  On short slow runs the socks would not bother me.  This is all PRETTY COMICALLY SAD FOR ME!!  If your FEET HURT ALL OVER (reflexology), YOUR WHOLE BODY WILL BEGIN TO HURT!!!  At least a few months later I can have a sense of humor about it : D.  Okay on with my work out--- since 800s at a time was creating too much pain in my feet I narrowed it down to 1/4 mile repeats with 1/4 mile recovery runs to break up the pressure on my feet.  So I ran 12 x 1/4 mile repeats.  On paces were 9.9 mph, 6:03 min/mile  x 8  and the last four at 6:00, 6:00, 5:56 , and 5:49 (1 percent grade for first 6, 0.5 percent grade for last 6) with recovery pace at 8 mph for the first one (7:30 min/mile) and 7.5 mph (8:00 min/mile) for the last 11.    Cool down .75 miles at 7:45 AP.   Warmup AP for four = 8:11.  Speedwork including cooldown 8.03 miles at 7:04 AP.  Total AP for all 12 miles = 7:26.   Came home and did 50 true to form pushups : D.  And 25 situps--using just my core, well at least I tried : D.