Believe to Achieve

Long work-filled weekend.  Babies.  Gotta love em!! :D.  Worked in admit nursery yesterday. Sweet times :D.  Okay,  not sleeping well after five hours. Wake suddenly at 3 am.  Twittle thumbs.  Then finally get tired by the time it is time for me to go work out go figure.  For some reason (must be all the chinese food my mother in law made for our Chinese New Year Party) I had a continuous flight to the potty this morning,  FOUR timeS!  Tmi but just sayin'.  I then began to feel achy.  And blah. CRAP.  cause I went to bed thinking of doing a tempo run on the TM since I am the 1:30 pacer for the Moab 1/2 marathon.  I am such an over achiever.  If there is a flag in my hands I HAVE TO DO IT!! D: 

Warmed up:  2.5 miles...started at 8:27 pace. Ended with 1/2 mile at 8:00.  1%.  Kept running no stopping the TM after warmup today. I stretched just before starting, briefly.

1/2 mile at 6:53.....hmmmm maybe I should just keep it here...so nice and easy why push it????

Just do it already.  So.. next miles were:  6:44, 6:40, 6:35, 6:31 (wanted to try and go to 6:27 but breathing getting erratic....dehydration...no water but a few sips after getting up.  I never prepare for these tm runs, I had a large amount of dried on salt saliva on the roof of my mouth. totally parched).   Is this enough then??? I felt wimpy but to complete the 5.5 miles I wanted I put the pace back to 6:53 for 1/2 mile.....ahhhhh that's more like it...then 1/4 mile at 6:49, 1/4 at 6:18 to 6:44.  AP 6:37 for 5.5 miles based off time it took to run it-- 36:22.  STOPPED TM and got a drink....now that's more like it.  I think next tempo I will bring along some water.  Maybe even a gu.  I will be doing 7 next time.  YIKES.   Then, 9, then 11.  Or maybe that is too much??????  Once a week though since I am an old lady.  At 11 I would probably do....6:49x 3 , 6:44 x 3, 6:40 x 3, 6:35 x 2.  Ick.     Oh yah,ran a 2 mile cooldown in 16:25.  1 %.  Speedwork done at 0 percent.  Wimpy I know but it will have to do.  I could use a "cola".  Ha ha. 

Went NIGHT skiing with my family at Brighton last night.  95 dollars for five adults and a large pizza.   Family fun night--- except we nearly froze to death...more me than anyone else.  TO THE CORE....after five runs it was two hours and 6pm.  We went in for pizza and thaw out and  I never could.  The kids all went back out and Amber came back in after one more run with frozen fingers--- her gloves were wet when she went out and they immediately iced over outside (it was NEGATIVE 4 degrees when we left by our car temp, and the resort said they would close the mountain at zero...but they never did!!!).  Sitting in the lodge was barely tolerable...I had to put my hands under the warm water sink and push the heat on the hand dryer several times to feel a bit more comfortable.  Well....the bad news is....Troy tried to keep up with my 12 year old daughter and crashed, catching his ski on a rut...twisted it really good and has been moaning and groaning but still saying "I'm fine" since it happened. It is obviously swollen in two places.  He hurt himself two years ago. He is new at skiing...only had gone twice before I met him and we didn't ever go until our oldest was 7 years old.  I on the other hand have been a skier since I was little and this is the first time I have gotten this cold in a long time (apart from last week at sundance during the day, I was gettting sick).  So I did what any normal insane runner would do....I WENT RUNNING IN 7 degrees temps this morning!! YUP at 6:30am I was out there.  I had slept in to 615am and didn't have time for a rec trip to run the tm cause of a Neonatal Rescusitation class for four hours starting at 9am.  So I headed outdoors with a very keen reminder of the bone chillin' night.  I wore LOTS of EXTRA clothing.   Ran 8 miles at 8:09.  First mile 9:02.  Just ran recovery since yesterday's tempo.  But at four miles I did 0.1 miles at tempo pace (6:35 to 6:40) then 0.4 miles easy, repeated 8 times til I got to 8 miles.  Felt very easy but I was getting cold.  In fact I still feel cold!!!! 

Met with Carina and Tara in Lehi.  Ran a nice loop. I was well dressed this time.  So tired of freezing to death...so can't say I was ever cold.   I was stiff however from my frozen body on Monday night skiing.  ANKLE is giving so much crap....IF was pain free I would be on FIRE right now.   Why oh WHY????  It is not like I have a lot of time right now.  HELLO THREE MONTHS and then three WEEKS later---TWO MARATHONS!!!  8.21 miles at 7:42 AP.  First mile 8:32.  I love a slow start.  We eased into a steady pace for the end.    Last mile 7:11.  All the rest 7:36 to 7:51.    We were done by 6:52am.  I got there at 5:48am.  No stops.  The way I like an 8 miler.  Thanks women!!   430 pm- 4  @ 8:49 ap.  so slow i was in a coma...but pain in heel really biting!!!!!!! upper weights .

Work.  busy day at work sometimes counts as a workout. no time at work for even a valentine treat.   decorated three sugar cookies after work with my kids.  Ate them all. yum . sugar intoxication.

early am run before work...flip i thought it would be warm!!! freeze out.  well my thighs and right foot----numb!  thoight it would be a dreadful pace but came out pretty decent. first mile 8:11. last mile 7:08. ap 7:33 for 6.21 miles. at work now. not as bad as yesterday. 

1 mile wu really slow....9:00 pace to meet kim,jane, melody,chandi, julieE, and kassi. i stayed back with jane and chandi.   not time for fast long runs yet.  only going 14 to get 50 for the week.  been a while since i got that mileage.  keeping it here for the next week.  ankle keeps geting pulsating pain signals....so definitely a nerve entrappe. pain under control for todays run shockingly.  i was probably too cold in my feet to notice. they were quite numb the first mile.  so my ap for first 7 miles was just under 8.  we ran to eternal fountain the short way.  but uphill way. ran unintentionally at first...neither jane or i talked about it .....a little tempo run...5 miles @ 6:41. didnt feel forced so thats good. hard part was when jane and chandi put on their music the last three miles together.....so i picked it up and ran ahead. total ap 7:26 for 14.  tempo 6:46,6:40,6:35, 6:40 (uphill), 6:42 (tight quad so slowed down..... think my muscles cooled off too much from the stop at kims to say goodbye to the gals. personally i think it is harder to go faster after stopping longer than three minutes. sorry on phone. lots of typos. no spell check on frb.