Believe to Achieve

Taking it down a notch.  May hit 50 this week, may not.  I really need to give myself a break.  Went to the Rec center.  Warmed up on the TM  for 2.5 miles and threw in at least a 1/4 mile repeat at 6:27 to 6:35.  Then went to a cycling class.  Second one ever.  The first was over two years ago.  It kicked my butt big time.  I think I am putting it at a high level to match my running on SW days.  I was definitely pushing it or I am out of biking shape.  Hope this helps my speed.  It should.   Ran another 2.5 miles with another 1/4 mile repeat at 6:27.  Avg pace 7:54 for 5.  Shoes feeling a bit better, or at least my body is.  They kind of turn my knees inward. Not sure why?    OLYMPIC SKIING TOO AWESOME!! LOVE THE mogul event for Women and then the Nordic combined.  Soo wishing U.S. came in first there but hey its the first medal ever in nordic since 1924 first olympics.  We'll take silver.  HE did awesome!!!  I was off my bed cheering.  I also soooooo loved the short track speed skating, Go Apollo!!!

I took a few steps towards starting a run then turned around.  I am really tired.  I am not sure I will run today.  Decided to eat something, watch some Olympics, take another nap.  I am not sure why I have lost that runnin' feeling.

Ran to the rec a nicer but longer route.  This took a fork lift but somehow I made it to the door by almost 11am.  Oh my did the start feel so agonizing.  There just was no zip to my zap.  I slept over 8 hours and still I wanted to sleep more.  I think the Olympic viewing plus working nights and trying to be a runner has taken my zap away.  Adrenal fatigue is probably the cause for this crash and its hard to zip out of it.  But I did my best and overall I am happy I pushed myself.  So 4 mile run to the rec at 8:33 pace, each half mile increasing the pace starting with a 9:30 pace.  Love the rolling hills there.  Got on TM and ran another mile,  increasing  the speed every 30 to 90 seconds to 7:24 pace just before "take off".   Ran the scheduled plan of 3 miles at short tempo pace:   6:49, 6:49 and 6:35  (0 to 1% incline) in a  row,  no stopping.    The last .1 miles I increased it to 6:11 pace. Could have run them faster especially the end but was feeling like I shouldn't push it too much yet.  My lower back, buttocks and hamstrings have some intense nerve pain and soreness that I just ignore.  This could still be part of adrenal fatigue as these are symptoms listed on line.  Got to get rid of the right shoe uneven problem before I get a serious injury.  It is causing my foot to turn inward and some slight pain in the arch.  I am heading to the peddler right after I shower.  Ran a two mile "cooldown" on the TM at 7:35  (.5% incline) pace then ran home the four mile route at 7:47 pace  (5:55 fastest pace on garmin : D).  Laid on the grass meditating.  It felt great to be done.  So my 10 miler turned into 15?   Who would have guessed?  

After getting hyped up watching the Olympics last night (Lindsay Vonn's Gold etc...) I tossed and turned all night in and out of imaginary Olympic moments for myself  (jk).  But I do imagine myself flying thru the Giant Slalom course and Sprinting on the X-Country ski course.    The Five Circles zipping my zap again until the wee hours of the morning as I take off on a run with Kim in the rainfall that turned to snow as I stepped outside at 5:45am.  Lovely.  Hey, the Olympics postpone their runs in this weather, what are we doing?  Well, been thru worse, most of us, at SGM 2008 so why the whining?  After dodging tons of puddles along the entire course, Disneyland revisited, we managed a fairly good pace of  8:05 for 10.13 miles.  Wow, to be done so early, now what to do?  BTW sneakers felt pretty good, too bad new shoes had to be run in the rain/snow.  After stretching I decided to try my old shoes on.  I didn't realize how much of a heel cushion and lift they had.  Quite a different feel.  Like the flat feel better.  Let's hope I can gain some better biomechanics from this.  

I tried the Michellel workout.  It was snowing out the entire time but still I set up my garmin as Michelle emailed me and I wanted to try it out.  I ran a 3 mile warm up at 9:05 pace and looped around Discovery park and decided I would do all my intervals around this loop so I wouldn't have distractions (speeding cars, etc..).  Well, still had some distractions even in the snow fall.  A man was walking his unleashed apparently tame dog and a community truck was driving on the loop for a bit, whatever?  Anyway that didn't happen until a few moments into it so I just kept up with the plan and pushed the lap button to start.  I wasn't ready for speedwork after SW Wednesday and the early run yesterday so I was not pushing it to the max I could have.    I was also thirsty at the start.  Tried to eat some fallen snow to wet my whistle.   The shoes are also causing some issues again.   Not enough heel cushioning and my body is not  quite adjusted.  It's only been two days on the exchanged pair.  I am kind of impatient.  My left achilles started to burn by interval 7.  I ran one minute on one minute off x 15.  Loved the little five seconds of beeps to warn you when its almost over and when its almost time to start.  There is a good uphill in this loop and I seemed to hit it during  the SW instead of recovery  time more than I would have liked.  You should be able to tell with my splits, but I will star them.  Here are my much slower than Michelle's splits:  6:26, 6:25, *6:40, 6:06, 6:26, *6:43, 6:16,  6:27,  6:15,  6:25, *6:49, 6:09, 6:37, *6:53, 6:05, 6:20.  Last one coming into the hill again but pushed.    My recovery minutes ranged from 7:48 (oops) to 9:13.  Avg was about 8:40 on them.  Ran home 1.8 miles at 8:27 pace.    I like this work out.  The miles go by without thinking about them cause you are thinking about that minute instead and lovely minute of recovery,  ahhhhh!!

BURNING NERVE PAIN  yikes!!  from the left lower back, piformis etc....to the knee and down around the achilles tendon ending at the side of my foot, pain score 7 out of 10.  Can't do much but stretch and heat pad as I work again tonight.  Last night was busy and painful.   Blah.  Stupid new shoes.  I tried to put on my old shoes again and they just feel too strange now.  Great, now a pair of shoes screwing up my back and my old ones not showing any more longevity.  Time to research for better shoes.   Addendum......but don't think that's going to stop me (I am developing my ultra marathon psyche) I just got back from a 6.5 miler determined to punish my shoes for hurting me by trying to see if the correction lies within me.  I started out easy hoping to run the burning pain away by endorphins.  It worked.  I may pay for it tonight at work but at least after 3 miles I didn't really think of the burning pain but more on my form, accidentally at times gettin into the high 6s in pace so slowed it down.  Tried to figure were my comfort form pace is.  I think it is at 7:12 to 7:20.  That would be my avg pace for my SGM pace last year.  Go figure.   Avg pace for 6.5 supposed recovery run 8:08.  I even have the VP dude turned off.