Believe to Achieve

6am run before first day skiing with family this season.  too cold in January.  Okay...TM random run.  needed to take it easy so had to vary something so as to not go fast out of boredom.  Lots of random tightness areas all over in legs.  very ridiculous.  did some hillwork, easy hillwork.  1 to 4 percent.  In this fashion...1, 3, 4, 2 and repeat at 1/2 mile intervals.  Ended up climbing 800 feet in 6.5 miles.  The first 2 miles I forgot to check and got off tm to reset it so I wouldn't try to get 8 miles in 60 minutes in or something crazy.  If I reset the tm I can go slower. ap 7:55 for 8.52 miles.  first mile 8:27.  froze to death at sundance.  could never warm up. family toasty.  it hit me to the core.  i got home shivering and even after a hot shower.  i called into work. felt immense fatigue. slept from 8pm til 615am.  that felt good. 

random very tight right hamstring.  i m falling apart. got to rec ctr to run 8 easy. first mile 8:27...2% avg (1 and 2).....second mile 810ap.  i was at 4% for 1/2 of this mile.  then got notion to break 60 minutes for 8 miles...crap ran slow the first two miles.  so went right to 7:30 pace @ 1.5%. eventually hitting random paces at mile five from 7:19 to 7:24.   flip...not gonna make the cut off..so with two mile to go i ran a 7:03 then 6:50. made it. 700 feet elevation gain , 7:30 avg pace, 8 miles, 1.5 percent for all but one mile at 3 to 4 percent. finished with upper body weights. feeling weak from yesterday of 7 hours of skiing.  chills turned to bout of gi dostress. thankfully rachelle told me about ihop and i stocked up on some carbs.

worked all day.  most likely walked 20 miles.  seriously busy.  patients upstairs and down.  ate a krispy kreme chocolate frosted donut for a late breakfast out of time constraints.  student nurses brought them : D.  legs dead by end of shift. 

tried to meet up with kim for bday run.  she was supposed to look out for me in case I decided to come.  somehow i missed her.  i was FROZEN!!!  my phone said 24 degrees so I thought for sure I was losing it.  then realized phone hadn't updated temp from last night (found that out two hours later).  IT WAS NINE degrees and 100 percent humidity.  FLIP.  It was core piercing.  since kim wasn't around I slowly trudged over to the rec center to do my 6mm on the indoor track as stiff muscles not conducive to running fast in this ol' body.  44 YEARS OLD today!! YIKES.  got there and thawed out putting hot water on my arms.  I only had a single long sleeve thin layer on and my pink pacer short sleeve.  BRRRRrrrr!!  Tried warming up STIFFLY on the track.  After 5.2 miles (just course tooled it, didn't wear my garmin), outside the track felt "squishy".  No wonder my bones are getting soft.  ran a mile warm up in 8:20. told a few gals I was running a 6mm and I was off in lane 3.  well come to find out lane three is inaccurate for distance so when I thought I ran way off I was actually one second over :D.  Glad I figured that discrepancy out.  6:01.   lots of swerving in 6.5 laps, same people in same lanes at different points along my route.  not easy.  too many turns--26 to be exact.  My throat was burning and I actually almost cried from the pain.  I had to have Troy come get me at 7am before he could get the kids up.  My birthday consisted of several FB greetings and a few phone calls : D.  Lunch at Costa Vida, chocolate chip pumpkin cookies from my neighbor (yum, I ate six!!), a soccer game (troy went to the other one), got lost in Riverton/Jordan for 20 minutes.  Made it in time as Rugby still was going on under the "bubble" field and they locked the soccer teams out-- too dangerous in there!!  so getting lost was no big deal as everyone was squished in one small but very nice waiting area.  Both teams.  Then it was Panda Express for starving children (didn't get to choose out of "I'm too hungry mode" of my kids).  But COLD STONE was awesome. We as a family had been off ice cream for FOUR weeks.  YUM, double YUM!!  Watched  Disney's CARS in bed before drifting off to sleep.  Oh yah 44:31 for the 5.2 miles of near death freezation!!

new mizunos from my birthday.  precisions.  sweet pink :D.  tried them out with rachelle in Orem from Maceys into Provo Canyon.  4 miles out and back.  30 mile per hour wind gust out of canyon (our predicition).  We jogged nice and easy.  AP up 8:10.  AP back 7:24.  overall= 7:47 for 8.05 miles.  Thanks Rachelle, YOU cutie!! :DDDDDDD         4pm.....with courtney  :)  at rec ctr.  ran 4 on track.. 7:58 ap with first mile at 9:15  paced courtney in fortb lane when she ran third lane. an old guy was very impressed and tried to pace off me. He told me that i was the fastest runner he has seen on this track for as long as i was going. i had fun helping him pit. upper body weights, brief abs and wall sits with acute couple asking me about running caise they saw me on the track. it all felt easy and was so it was funny that they thought i was fast. movies with my girls...life of pi.

mizunos. lovin them. ice and crunch layer of snow. no speed today. jist an easy run at 5am before work. first mile 10!!!!!!!  ap 9:10. did not want to biff and since i havent run outside much this winter i didnt feel confident. just a couple near misses. no falls.