Believe to Achieve

Hard to get going today so at noon i got my kids to help me run a two mile loop six times. First loop with amber, second with brooke third by myself, forth with amber and last two loops by myself. Slow and easy with the girls and my first loop alone. Last loop 7:02 (felt easy) and last mile uphill last half mile 6:48.

Sleeping good then woken by alarm to get Courtney out of bed for school.  Finish making lunches for everyone.  Then I was called into work.   Clocked in at 7:15am.  Worked until 4pm.  Got home finally ate lunch but then decided to run my four scheduled miles today on a full stomach.  Ran real easy.  Woke in pain in my right ankle for second half of night-- PF region--nerve like pulsating that I couldn't fall asleep for a while.  MAN it hurt.  Weird cause no pain after waking.  But a little when I started running in my cramped grey flyknits that I accidentally shrunk in dryer.  Ran two miles and met Amber (my 11 year old who ran four miles yesterday in 8:35 ap) and ran a mile in 8:25.  Finished on my own for one more mile.  No stops for me.  AP 8:33.  The wind suddenly died down after two miles and I was actually hot that I took off my gloves and sweat shirt.  This was 5:20pm when I started.  Rash is spreading from my eye behind my ears and a spot on my thigh.  This is so fun. NOT.  Going to have to go yeast free for a bit and see if I can cool off some food reactions through my skin.  Go Fight Win.  :D.

Okay so ambien starting to work for me or I would not have had any sleep last two nights. The trick is to take it around 10 to 11pm. Stay in bed and do not eat anything for two hours before or after (food slows absorption). However it only works to get me to fall asleep and when i awake i am up for good which is usually 4-5 hours . Idk what to do about this insomnia except stop everything and mellow the heck out. My plate is so full right now with kids to soccer a zillion times, school future planning , carpool planning for next year for crying out loud....but its important to get in one that works so stress! And then shopping for 2.5 hours another 1/2 hour toput it all away.  After meeting with high school conselor to plan my 10 th graders future and then flying thru my easy run cause i dont have a minute to slow down before picking up carpool kids at school and then driving to Provo to get grandma 30 min away in traffic and then driving 40 min away to Riverton in traffic to a soccer game for Courtney (along the way switching cars cars with Troy cause the SUV sucks the life out of my wallet. And my head is spinning and my brain wont slow down and oh yah i somehow had time to get the chicken ready for dinner. Troy made the salad to put it into before we rushed over to watch a semifinal soccer game of Amber's in futsal, playing a team that has half their girls a year older and we lost 3-2. It was 2-0 and then when amber went in she cruised passed everyone and crossed from left side of field to right side of goal passed the goalie. Perfect goal. Then we scored again. But then  we just couldnt score again. Amber got hurt and came out of game with 8 minutes left. She is tough. She went back in for four minutes.  But she was limping. The girls they played were huge! As u can seee i just beed a break from adrenaline and life would be easy. No more soccer games they wear me out and no more shopping on my day off! I just want to zone out . Mainly cause my eye hurts alot and havent had time to make an appt during day hours so tmr appt is being made for this painful eye!!   AP for 10 miles 7:04 four miles sub 7. 6:56, 6:53, 6:40 and 6:48. Ran first 7 then picked uo carpool. Ten minutes later ran three more miles.  First seven 7:05 pace. Last three 7:03 .  Rolling hills. JUST LIKE BOSTON.  Except elevation going on here : D.  So hopefully it will feel even easier than it did today.  This pace very doable!!!

Saucony fives. Eye such a pain. And inner right thigh rash. Lovely. Moving forward. Showed up at gym at noon. Ran 4 miles at 1% 8:12, 8:00, 7:47 and 7:35.Then back to 8:12 for 0.25 to start with off section then right into hillwork. Ran 7 x 0.25 miles at 5% incline and 7:03 pace with jog a 8:12 and 1% incline for equal distance times 7. 1/2 mile cooldown at 7:47 to 8:12. 8 miles in 62:22 (7:48 ap). Brain fried from tons of stress so this workout was all adrenaline.

Zero. Called into work at 6:40. Clocked in at 7:10am. Very busy shift so came home just went out shopping for a baptism gift forTerrah my 15 year old niece andabday gift for my moher in law. Got home 0930pm and wrote my talk for the baptism. Got in bed past 11pm and couldnt sleep and didnt take anything to sleep. At 2 i finally tried my old remedy whic only proceded to make feel too tired when i got up to run in Payson. But i was determined to get there for the bday run.

Not much restful sleep but really wanted to join Rachelle and jer friends for their bday run. Drove to Payson from PG. Made good time having left at 6:35 . Ad an incident at exit that still puzzles me. Really didnt expect it . Amazingly they hadnt left without me so :-) and i spotted them coming down the stairs from Rachelles place. We started running about 7:15 and i ran the first loop with them. Just jogging along. So beautiful. Loved the route and company. Stopped breifly at mile 8 and then at her townhouse for five minutes. Ran with them and i knew it would be tight being 8:50 am and a thirty minute drive back home in order to get to baptism of my niece and also talk on baptism. So i turned around 1.5 miles out on second loop. Felt strong so ran the last 1.5 miles fast with las,t half mile heading north the entire 1.5 miles , into a significant headwind but i just tried to not care and instead embrace the beauty all atounf remembering the many running blog entries i have read about Rachelles training a few years back. First mile 6:28 and half mile in 6:29. Wow that felt good . Made it in time for baptism ...well one minute late. Came into room and there seated were over fifty people! Yikes. Hadnt given a talk in church in years. But i have to say i was honored to speak at Terrahs baptism. Such a beautiful girl. :-) ap for 13 miles 8:19.