Believe to Achieve

11 miles real easy.  Weather-- 29 degrees but humid so slightly cooler but felt very nice.  Lots of areas to watch for "black ice" or "white ice" on concrete due to the humidity freezing the top layer out there.  I left at 7:23am.  11 miles at 8:13 AP.  So lovely.  Felt so nice to take it down today and relax, enjoy myself.  I feel MUCH better today than Saturday.  The problem with Saturday's run was 4.5 hours of sleep and just getting better from a slight catch of the strep throat.  Achiness gone now and so are the the spots on my throat.  Probiotics, vitamins and iron a big cure.  My throat barely hurt on Thursday but I looked at it and white patches were on my tonsils.  I was achy all over but no headache.   My daughter Brooke  (10) ended up with the FULL blown flu Saturday night.  High fever, body aches, slight sore throat and runny nose.  We were supposed to go skiing today but she feels awful.  Such a beauty of a ski day too.  Oh well.  Amber (8)  prevented our last planned trip to the slopes.  We are running out of weekends  I can go.

PM:  I think there is something wrong with me.  I was looking outside watching the night begin to fall (it was 6:10pm) and I just couldn't watch this beautiful day go by without more miles in it because what if tomorrow it storms and is freezing once again...?  So I quickly got on my running gear (except I wore my regular dress socks, they felt soooo comfortable to run in, they are ankle type, so corny) before my husband got back from Subway with Courtney and didn't even tell my other kids...So rejuvenating.  My muscles all felt sooooo good.  Like I hadn't even run today.  I did have MAJOR stomach cramps and had to stop three times to potty but STILL this was sooooo worth it.    I felt I could have gone on for at least 10 more miles.  I truly am going INSANE.  Anyway got in another 10 miles at 8:10 AP.  When it was dark it was quite hard to see my path on the roads.  Sooo glad the ice had melted.  I am so glad I didn't fall in a pot hole.  So loved this feelin' in my run.  I live for these runs minus potty stops  : D.   I guess I don't have to run before work tomorrow now.  I can sleep in til 5:30 am unless I am called to a different hospital and have to get up earlier.

Nada. I sort of ran a while yesterday.  Worked all day (13 hours) on pediatrics.  Adorable, but sick babies.  Got to discharge three so that was nice.

Yucky, NOT FAITH promoting SW day.  Started just too late for my clock today.  9:25am at the rec center.  4 mile SLOW warmup at 2 % incline.  Just have to talk myself into some speed.  Fell short of my plan.  Stupid blister forming and my form crumbled and so did my mental toughness and then I was like, hey Utah Valley Marathon is like 3 1/2 months away.  PLAN:  2 miles at MP,  1 mile at 10K , 2  miles at MP, 1 mile at 10K,  **2 miles at MP, 800 meters, first 1/4 5k second 1/4 ALL OUT.  ** == I stopped here.  I was twisted in places landing funky on the SHAKY TM causing many a muscle problem, especially in my left foot and forefoot.  So there.  Dang it.  It just wasn't in me today.  The first four miles felt easy but then somewhere I lost focus to my foot and the blister.  Splits at 1%: 6:49, 6:49, 6:35, 6:49, 6:49, then ONLY .7 miles at 6:35 to 6:18 pace. After two miles of totally taking it down I finished that last mile to somehow redeem myself  0.3miles at 6:35 pace.  More cool down to 12 miles on the mill.  I told Troy to leave so  I would be forced to run three miles home.  Wore my shorts outside for some cryotherapy.  I sure was running slow.  NO WATCH and no clock to time me so I really don't know how long it took but I sure was "tripping" all over my feet trying to work out the blister formed kinks in my legs.  With a 1/2 mile part of my warm up at 8:00 to 8:13 pace I got to the 10K mark at 42:18 having zeroed the TM after the other 3.5 mile warmup.  Another problem is at work I go long periods without eating.  Yesterday was one of them.  When I did eat I chose something that tasted spoiled so I couldn't eat it and didn't have time to get something different.  I was SOOOOO hungry by the time I got home.  Especially after 21 miles Monday ending at 730pm.

Drove via Pioneer HWY (first time on the new road) to Saratoga Springs Vista Heights Jr. High and ran slowly the Shamrock Half Marathon Course.   It is a very HILLY course but not anything I am not used to.  Enjoyed the new sights.   Quite the quaint little town over there.  I liked it.  It got a little breezy but the weather was warm, about 36 to 40 degrees.  My quads were really tight and my left foot was problematic due to the blister.  Went to the chiro after my run.  Should have gone beforehand.  My muscles were real tight so it was hard to move my joints.  He was able to get my hip back in place.  So that's good.  AP today for 13.1 = 8:13.  Had some add on distance for scoping wrongly the course, but luckily that was only once. Taking it real easy over the weekend since  I work three 12 hour shifts in a row that always ends up being 13 hour shifts.  I will probably be working on pediatrics.  Glad I like pediatrics.  Kids are fun to work with.  I try to make them happy.  

mom/baby shift.  no workout.  giving legs a break.  left leg a bugger from the hip to the foot.  determined shoes overly worn even though I have only had them since Christmas.  

pediatric shift.  no workout.  left leg a pain.