Believe to Achieve

Do you know what I really love???   It's getting up at 4:27am to my alarm, wanting to just drift back off to sleep instead of exit my house for a February-like March run, but forcing myself to get out there and get my 8 miles  (8.1 to be exact) and come indoors get totally undressed and ready to hop in the shower when I hear my husband say "your work called.  You are on-call."  Meaning, I don't have to be to work in 6 minutes and here I am red patches all over my stomach from the freezing temps-- 24 degrees for my run.  Dang, nab it I could have got to 70 miles knowing this.  Better yet I could have gotten two hours more of sleep and ran in the sunshine (but that is always risking it, being on-call and all).  So what did I do?  What any normal JulieC FRB runner would do.  I put on a new outfit (certainly NOT going to place my previous clothes back on or I would have froze to death) and decided to run another 1.5 miles.  But what's another 1.5 miles.  So  I decided to run another 4 miles.  Now these miles I ran in my altras and ran at RECOVERY pace.  My first mile the first time out was a 9:29.  The first mile the second time out was 9:12.  I sure stiffened up considering my AP the first 8.1 was 8:45mm.  The second four miles AP was 8:36.  AP total for 12.1 miles = 8:42.  I ran a two mile hilly loop x 6.  Boring I know but I was sleepy and I needed to know my surroundings.  I really wish my heel would let up. But it won't I am sure until I stop running for several weeks.  I will do just that right after Boston.   Truly I will :D. Btw I was really hungry by the end of this run.  I didn't eat much after yesterday's run and I only slept 6 hours.  I had run 32+ miles in 20 hours.