Believe to Achieve

OH my.  It started with a call from Melanie at 5:30am as she was on her way over  "how is it over there cause it's snowing hard over here?"  I was up at 330am.  The three inches of snow we got before I fell asleep was cleared in the streets then.  I looked out, not snowing but a new dusting on the roads.  Great, slosh running.  We left at 5:50am from My House  in the sleet/rain and our footsteps were guarded as it really was sloshy in areas and snow in others on the roads.  It began to snow within a mile of our run.  First mile 8:55 ( I do think due to the storm the garmin didn't pick up our pace as well as usually my garmin reads a mile several paces before we even turned).  BUT if it was true-- Dang I thought I was going faster.  Slowing Mel down.  Not good.  I found the air thick/heavy and hard to breath in.  Or maybe it was that 3:15 plank last night after my 13 hour shift running around literally all day long.  I was tired.  So I tried my best to stay up with Melanie even though the pace was not even that quick at first.  We ran a uphilly route and met up with Kim at Lincoln Academy.  We then proceeded north in the snowy climate.  More UPHILL.  A doozer of one in Cedar Hills.  I felt like I had asthma, my airway was tight and my ears felt full of fluid.  A little sinus problem with the air pressure changes outside, who knows.  Mel and Kim got about 20 seconds ahead.  But I didn't care.  I eventually got up to them on the downhill then came the more slosh running as the snow turned to sleet again.  : (((.   As cars went by we would get "sloshed" more.  Our feet got soaked but it wasn't too cold out.  Probably 30 degrees.  This route ended with a long  sloshy uphill back to Lincoln Academy from American Fork.  Somehow I managed to get my AP to 8:01.  I think Mel's was 7:55.  I feel tired.  I really just need to sleep better tonight.  I woke a lot last night and the night before.  All in all in was very nice to run with Melanie and Kim in the Winter Wonderland.