Believe to Achieve

Ok so I thought I better get it in gear.  Haven't run since Monday and I could have.  I didn't work so the excuses of that is not there.  Courtney left on her mission to England for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Tuesday morning.  I knew I would not run then.  I will miss her. And I can't wait to hear from her again (only one gmail saying she made it there) then only once a week emails from her, no phone calls except mom's day and Christmas.  So next tuesday I will hear from her.  I turned 49 on Wednesday.  Did absolutely nothing except at 6 pm went out to Costa Vida where Brooke works while she was working and ate with Troy and Amber.  It was good because I like Costa Vida and we had my free birthday Tres Leche which was YUMMY, I shared of course.  Really could have run Wednesday too.  Then Thursday I have no idea I just didn't exercise when I know it would help.   I am dealing with lots of headaches.  So they do get worse with hard running but mostly with strength training.  So today, Friday I finally got out there at noon in the warm weather (50s).  I improvised the work out on my BM training schedule.  But let's get real I haven't even been following it. AT ALL.  Two times a week running is Lame.  My back got jacked up from Yoga really from the fall I took a month before that so I am just an almost 40 year old mess.  Ha Ha.  Well this coming week I am not going to falter.  We leave for Phoenix to a soccer tournament.  I should be able to run Friday and Saturday easily as games are 4:30 pm Friday--Amber.  1:45 pm Saturay Brooke.  8:30 pm Saturday Amber.  830am Sunday Brooke.  1145 am Sunday Amber.  8:45 pm Sunday.   Then on Monday are the final games and times are based on how we did the first three games.  So hoping for the 8am time slot for Amber and the 1130am slot for Brooke rather than later in the day.  The early slots are for the top two in their brackets. So here's hoping because we have to drive back to utah.  10 hour drive which includes a 45 minute stop.  so 9 hours 15 minutes in a van full of girls :D.  We rented a 15 passenger van.  Last year was so much fun in our now extinct Ford Expedition with five extra players we raised the bar to 9 extra players besides my two daughers. Okay so I did run so here it is:  

2 mile warm up.  5 x 0.25 mile hill/pace work at 10K pace which again I did too fast and did them at 7:13, 7:18, 7:35 (that's better) 7:22 and 7:14.  With 5 x 0.25 mile run down (MP which I ran too fast and avg 7:30.  Then ran 2 miles back.  I really per schedule was supposed to do 10 but since I have a 10 k that I only have run three other times in two weeks and twice a week the month before that I felt it best not to push too hard or  I will croak at 10 k.