Believe to Achieve

10 mile "Recovery Run".  Ran up 1100 north (very steep) to the canal and ran 6.4 on the muddy in some parts trail, did some jumping and weaving but managed pretty well.  This was an out and back run.  I ran to 5 miles on my garmin and turned around just behind and a little west of Deerfield Elementary.  Thought I was going slightly uphill on the way  but when I turned around I realized the uphill was on the way back  (lovely) until the 8.5 mile point where I hit the steep downhill for .6 miles.  That's where I put in a 7:09 mile but no faster as the quads were angry.  Must have been the SW last Wednesday and 9th East at the "Time Trial" Saturday in Provo.  Also I have been only running in my old yet comfy, cushiony shoes since last Monday!!  They have a ton o' miles on them.  Waiting for my new ones to arrive if I can figure out how to order them.  There is a problem with the place I am ordering from and ebay not allowing the third party payer.  Blah....  So glad to be running on the trail again.  Managed a pretty good pace on dirt.  First mile 8:59.  Avg pace= 7:51 for 10 miles.

Ridiculously slept 3 hours from 7am until 10am.  Thought I would sleep longer with daylight savings getting me home at a darker moment but nope.  Frustrating.  So I got up and ate and strolled around and decided to head out for 10 miles.  Wasn't sure where to go but just got out and began to run towards American Fork on 1800 north.  The weather was lovely, Spring in the air and music keeping me alive.  Told myself not to look at my garmin and to actually run a recovery run especially feeling zombie like.  The longer I went the better I began to feel.  At mile 5 I was surprised to see my pace at 8:30.  I thought for sure I was running 10s.  I got the thought to run to Melanie's house in Lehi and surprise her.  I haven't seen her in a while.  So I ran a scenic run there adding on a two mile country run on farm roads.  So nice.  I definitely surprised Melanie and she was so nice to give me powerade and a ride home after we both had her visiting teachers give us this month's lesson.  Nice.  Ran 10 at exactly 8:30 pace.  Now Melanie is super mom.  She is doing all this stuff for her kids for St. Patricks day including rainbow cupcakes with a white cloud (whipped topping) and a gold coin on top, Lucky Charms with green milk in the morning and a "catch the leprachaun" game.  So of course I need to improve in the fun mommy category so I am off to the store while my girls our at dance.  Thanks Melanie for helping me see the light : D.

SW day.  The joy. Ran to the AF track 2.53 miles at way easy pace of 9:07. Oh great, spectators.  There was a frisbee class going on and some non-commited teenagers on the bleachers and a student teacher just standing at the side of the track watching.  I am not good at running fast in front of people.  It reminds me of those dreams you have when you are naked in public.  I feel very exposed.  I get anxiety from it and feel almost suffocated like but of course I try to have confidence in myself.  I am in shape. I am over forty and I am running intervals on the track none of the spectators  over half my age can run.  They look unfit most likely from too much texting and too many twinkies from the vending machine.  They weren't fat, just their skin and muscles looked hungry for real energy.  Anyway... I am soooo judgmental.  I really wanted to call out to them to come join me but they seemed surprised to see a person work out.  I mean to the general high schooler, what is working out?  Here I go again.  Okay here is my work out.  I shot for below my goal after the first lap.  I was grossed out with a "no way do I want to hit puke zone feeling" that I made an improvised goal I could handle mentally with the public viewing and my lack of motivation for track work.  Ran 1 mile @ 6:25 (5:36 max speed ), 400 meter RI,         2 miles @ 6:42 avg pace(5:31 max speed), 800 meter RI,   1/2 mile @ 6:06 avg pace (5:23 max), 400 meter RI, 1/2 mile @ 6:08 avg pace (5:23 max).   Cooldown miles home 3.25 @ 8:38 avg.   Total mileage 10.35.  Not including some walking I did for the RI.  I am an old lady.  Need my walks sometimes : D.     My goal for the mile was 6:20.  Two miler 6:40.  1/2 miles 6:10.  Odd that I got closer to my goal with each interval.  It takes a bit for my body to "wake up" to the work involved.  

6.5 hours of skiing in place of running....so nice up there in the pines.  The weather was very nice, not too warm but not  ever cold either.  Occasional sun with nice clouds rolling by...WHAT A VIEW!!  We went to Brighton.  We took the kids out of school.  With my schedule this was the best thing to do.  More time to be with the kids was needed.  Was going to run at 6am for an hour and was up then but said "what for?".  Really just lied in bed in a state of non-involvement.  OF course there is always tomorrow.....   :  DDDDD

Fell asleep at 930 pm after a fun-filled day of skiing yesterday and woke at 3 am in the mood to run.  Like really?  You've got to be kidding?  I tried to fall back to sleep, to no avail.  Kim, Jane and Kerri were running 15 miles at 5am so I thought maybe I could hold out til then.  Sometimes my initial feelings for running are crushed with a zap of tiredness.  But I was still wide awake an hour later.  I figured I might as well get up and go for 20 miles today.  I ran over to Kim's the long route starting at 443am for 2.2 miles and met up with Kim and the others.  We ran a route Kerri had mapped out for us with varying terrain from PG, AF, Highland, and Cedar Hills.  At first the sky was crystal clear with the stars shining and then the storm rolled throughout the run as the winds picked up and the snow began to flurry.  Seriously?  First day of Spring tomorrow and this is what we get today?  It seemed the storm cloud followed us on our route.  Ran their 15 mile loop and took off at the end for another 2.8 miles to get 20.  Avg pace 8:08 for the 20 miles.  The splits:  8:38, 8:23,   group start 8:29, 8:34 (uphill), 8:25, 8:01, 8:17, 8:33 (uphill), 8:23, 8:03, 8:10,  8:11, 8:20,  8:15,  8:02,  7:45 ( sl. downhill), 7:34 (downhill), 8:08,  7:28,  7:19 (uphill finish : ()  )    Ate two gus.  Needed them.  Nerve pain in thighs came on around 13 miles.  C'est la vie.  

This whole daylight savings has played a ton with my internal clock that was already messed up .  Stayed up at work totally well until 520 am when I got a bit tired.  Got home at 645am and got in bed at 7am.  Put on a sleeping mask and ear plugs and yet as I awoke I looked at the sides of my curtain to see the brightness of the sun.  Yay, did I sleep until 11am?  4 hours?  Oh no, it was ONLY 940am!!  HELLOOOOOOOOO!!!!!  Are you kidding me?  just over 2.5 hours of sleep?  Have I truly turned vampire-like?  Got up cause I had to pee badly and I felt hungry.  Well, all of a sudden "something" pops up out of my bed.  My husband was still asleep!!  Sleeping away while I couldn't.  errrrrr!!!!  Ate a little organic pop tart, if there is such a thing, sweet : D.  I love costco.  They make anything "organic".  I was feeling pretty awake but I made the mistake of logging on to the computer to check the Spectrum status (no results then) but I stayed on longer and became tired again.  This was only 15 minutes but it was zipping my zap.  But my tired wasn't enough to lull me to sleep so I felt the air outside and the "warm" sunshine with a breeze and decided to get my short run in, determined to go progressive and get under 8 pace.  It was hard at first as my muscles were fast asleep and the garmin took over .4 miles to register the ummph I was putting into my run.  I mean seriously I did not start out at a 11 pace.  Why does my garmin at times take so long to register?    Oh well, at least it went according to plan.  Splits:  8:20, 8:17 (gradual long uphill), 7:59, 7:37, 6:57.    One mile cooldown in 8:17.  Avg pace 7:50.    New maximum pace met of 5:20!!!!  Wow, that's high school days 800 repeat pace!!  I wasn't very good at track so I guess that's not saying too much except that I am much older.  I  am pretty happy with this run considering it was sleep deprivation mode.  OFF to shower, eat and hopefully sleep.  Work again tonight.