Believe to Achieve

Closing in on 800 miles on my red nike flyknits. The bottoms are hammered but theupper is in great shape. Same 20 miler as two weeks ago and same wondetful running partner except we both were not into it, her physicallly..she raced spectrum 10k saturday and me partially physically....batometer reading body with the joint aches and mostly mentally not into it. Feeling drugged hours after taking an ambien. Kind of weird. But also just vented some issues to jessica We have pleged a positive last 20 in two weeks The wind on our run wasnt a big factor but if we waited 15 more minutes it would have been disastrous. Tiles from my table outside on my porch flew off into the air and landed on the deck. This is a heavy table and it was moving. Crazy. Ran last four miles in 6:45, 6:51, 6:47, and 6:54. Ap slower but last miles faster. Ap for the four 6:50. Ap for run 8:06. We were totally not into it. Next time. :-)

Saucony fives.  Oh boy I am having a hard time remembering how I ran this day other than I felt higher than a kite (not sure why, absolutely NO soreness from my 20 miler).....hoping this run will fully come to me....Well I know I ran at the gym 8 miles.  Totally forgetting pace.   Wait..I think I remember...started real easy cause I was trying to be in recovery mode. Real recovery.  First mile 8:49 (all miles 1% incline). Then second mile 8:34.  Then I was just bored so picked it up to 8:00 and increased pace every mile by like 0.2 mph and ended at 6 miles with average pace just under 8:00. Crud can't remember exactly.  That's what I get for not blogging for four days.  Last mile I believe was 7:00 ap.  Just for fun.  Talked with Angie next to me for three of the miles.  Then went to Power Pump class to really get my muscles to work :D.  Was fun.  I was energetic.  

Busy work day.  Went to meeting first at Scera (required for work) then very nonstop shift on mom/baby.  No time for running.  NOT SLEEPING.   I feel very manic.  And I am not bipolar.  Well maybe I am now?  My schedule is soooooo busy.  I have soooo much I am doing and fitting in here and there.  I don't get tire.  Weird.  Just a wired brain.  So I NEED PEACE AND CALM.  I gotta stop going to all these soccer games of my kids.  They are just so exciting.  But they are zapping me.  Oh picked up so Sketchers GoRuns.  So far so good.  : D.  They are extremely light and 4mm drop.  See tomorrows run.  

Sketchers GoRUN (black).  New shoes.  Let's see how my feet and legs handle back to 4 mm drop (from 10 with nike flyknit).  I had absolutely no heel left on the outside of both my flyknits (ha ha 800 plus miles will do that) so I can only assume that the heel is in the way of me landing mid foot  ;D.  Walked all day in my sketchers then ran at Gold's gym on TM.  OVER TIRED but YET still not able to sleep.  My lips and tongue burn a lot....not sure what that is a sign of.  Probably sleep deprivation.  Can't take ambien. It worked at night but lingered too long during day that I was wigged out on it.  So....tried nothing the last two nights but my 1/4 of xanax that I am almost out of.  Got five hours.  That is all I got. Then awake.  VERY alert.  No more sleep.  And I was sweaty all over and the heat isn't even on.  I suppose hot flashes is the word. Crud-ola.    Plan today was some sort of tempo...and follow Hal Higdons meaning for it.  Well...his meaning is so different from what I have read on the blog so I did the best I could. Ran easy first two miles at 8:12, then 8:00 minute mile then, 7:53, 7:47.  Off tm for a quick stretch and pee stop (really couldn't hold it).  Usually I like to just not stop at all so this was a must especially with what I had next coming up.....a SUB SIX minute mile.  Yah I just decided it midrun to do it.  Started at 6:15 pace and within 0.05 miles got confused and worried I was starting too slow so upped it to 6:10 pace and then left it there for 0.1 miles and increased pace every 0.1 miles by 0.1mph to 5:42 pace (10.5 mph).  Ran a 5:57 mile when it is all boiled down.  :D.    finished with a mile at 8:02.  Had to take a two minute breather after the mile that fast AND with NEW SHOES.  Gotta be careful.   This was at 1230 just past noon.   At 3:30 ran with my daughter Brooke and her friend Brooke two miles.  AP 9:07.    Then Art Festival for Amber and a dinner out with husband to Olive Garden.  

Sketchers black. 8 miles with stopwatch. No music. One of those just put in the miles at aerobic pace kind of run. Easy easy. 8:47 ap I believe.

Plan was to sleep as close as i could before needing to get upfor work and clock in at 6. Phew woke at 5:38. Clocked in at 6:00. So busy and oh my the pelvic pains....tons of shooting pains through all my joints in my pelvis. 4 mm to zero drop shoes are not gonna be good. That is when my pf really blossomed....with altras. Three years ago. Zero drop rotate my pelvis and my spinal cord..cause man alive the pains are to the marrow. Yowza. Makes me yelp like a wounded dog. Anyway..decided the sketchers are going back. I dont have time to break them in and the flyknits didnt do this to me. So i found a new color....pink with lime green. Since this last pair lasted over 800 miles without injury i think i am safe. Even when the outside of the heels were gone. Completely! So because of the pain...induced by new shoes and no easy break in....cause i ran a 5:57 mile....i did not run my easy six today. Four weeks and i have no idea how i will feel. I dontfeel well hormonally and have had night sweats constantly and i feel quite foggy brained so i am hoping to just do what i trained for even if i do not feel well because that is just what i do. I push thru it no matter what. :-) just gonna do it