Believe to Achieve

FIRST things FIRST  3,000 +  MILES for 2011.  OH YAH!!!  Baby you are a FIREWORK, up in the the sky, ah, ah ah!!  : D.  Happy NEW year.  Bring it on!!  I am excited for a great 2012 running year!!  ALONG with all my FRB friends!!  

So this run was postponed because I watched Batman The Dark Knight-- about three hours long, which I didn't realize and when it was over it was 1120pm!!  Troy thought he could read in bed after I was overstimulated with that movie by the pychotic performance of Heath Ledger playing the Joker.  I just could not fall asleep.  At midnight Troy turned off the light and five minutes later hurricane-like winds!!!  Or tornado.  Just would not stop....kept up well past 4am!!  So NO way was I going to bring down the 3,000 miler barrier in a shielf of debris and wind resistance training.  I watched the clock turn past every hour and dragged myself to my closet to get dressed for work at 5:45am.  Yup.  15 minutes to get to work.  Clocked in on time.  Worked over 12 hours worried something would happen that would prevent me from reaching my goal but alas I got home and took only a half hour chatting and then promptly taking off into the DARK COLD night.  It was in the low 20s.  Bummer.  But I was so focused on my goal in a half asleep way and with heavy legs I plodded thru the first mile in 9:05.  Wore for the first time my MINIMALIST shoes-- Altras.   They feel like I am wearing slippers, flat slippers.  LIGHT.  VERY light.  My feet felt great in them.  My legs swollen from a long shift and 18 miler yesterday but afer two miles I was in the groove.  Was going to run 8 miles but decided to go for 74 miles total for the week so added 2 plus miles on.  AP easy at 8:21 for 10.23 miles.  It was pretty cold.  I think I mentioned that.  But the night was clear and the stars were bright!!  Even got a great display of some fireworks and Christmas lights were all on (unlike 4am runs).   This run was run a lot on sidewalks.  Pretty much risked my life SEVERAL times in the dark streets wearing black fleece and tights on New Year's Eve with people rushing in their cars here and there.  I just prayed I would make it to 5.22 miles at least.   A police car roared down the street as I neared the 5 mile mark.   He was going pretty fast.  Cars veered off the street as he passed by.  So many times I avoided catastrophe!!   : D.    Just finished playing cards with my mother in law, Troy and Courtney.  I am so very tired.