Believe to Achieve

did the cousin switch.  two of my daughters went over my cousins house to one of her daughters and two cousins came over to my aunt's house where I am staying (my aunt and uncle are away in Florida) on the Cape.  Wonderfully beautiful beach house 100 ft from the ocean.  Watched Princess Bride with three 13 year olds.  They all slept in one queen size bed giggly until they conked out.  I woke at 730am.  Walked two miles today around the island.  Hung out in the beach house.  Had the teens all clean the house so I didn't have to do much :D.  They were awesome cleaners, sweeping, dusting and vacumming and mopping.  Drove to Franklin Massachusetts at 230pm (an hour away).  Met my Aunt (dad's sister) and she took us all to dinner.  Ate a wonderful turkey dinner complete with stuffing and squash and cranberry sauce.  Delicious.   Also ate with my three uncles and two of their wives.  It was great to see everyone after so long.  They were impressed with marathoning.  I am so at ease.  I haven't thought much about running.  I feel so calm.  I have had  a great week.  The heat just seals the deal to run easy and just have fun.  I am excited for my training run :D. 

Spin class, 6am.  Woke at 4am and could not fall back to sleep but sleep was good.  Got up and hid Easter Eggs (I worked yesterday) outside. Then hit the gym.  Spun next two girls also heading to Boston.  One big happy Utahn Family :D.  The class worked me good but I held back.  Just taking it easy.  NEUROMA is really bugging right now and my foot is just asking for more and more time off.  No pain with spin.  Just walking-- push off.  The WHOLE left foot needs a MAKEOVER.  Bunionectomy might solve my neuroma problem.  It is small but it causes my foot to push off outward and not forwar.  Which with the neuroma first and then crazy running madness in snow and no sleep and you name it--- the worst foot disease for runners ever PLANTAR FASCITIS.  Or is it PF????  It is the tendon/nerve that is attached from the metatarsals to the base of the heel.  RIGHT SMACK IN THE MIDDLE OF MY FOOT.   hmmmmm I wonder how many POUNDS of pressure I will put on it in one measly 26.2 mile run????  After walking around in a boot for two work days straight running in that is not an option.   On a side note-- trying to avoid other traumas like cold and flus.  So I am at the spin class and the instructor is coughing and hacking and coughing and hacking.  She is right in front of me.  The fans are blowing.  Oh yay.  That's all I need.   Off to Boston tomorrow morning with my hubby and kids.  Actually we are landing in Manchester New Hampshire and heading north for the night.  

could not sleep.  4 hours is all.  Then flight to denver ,flight to manchester, NH.  10 minutes sleep there and a kinked neck.  long flight and layover.   Left our house at 7:30am arrived in NH at 5:25pm (3:25pm Utah time).  We actually flew in a whole 30 minutes earlier then calculated due to wind speed!!!  IMAGINE what that wind speed could do for all of us at Boston as it usually blows that direction if it is blowing.  From Manchester we rented a car and drove north to Campton, NH (an hour away).  Got pulled ver for going 75 in a 65 mph zone (he just gave us a warning, phew!! but it got us nervous alright).  I told Troy cops are well hidden in lots of trees!!  But the funny thing is my cousin and some random Park Ranger told me everyone from Massachusetts always drives 80 on that highway.  I mean it felt abandoned.  We rarely saw another car and you can't see the towns as there are so many trees (sure miss those!!).  My cousin laughed as she has never been pulled over and we were staying on her condo.  She drives up from Massachusetts to where we stayed all the time!!  The condo was nice. We ate at The Mad River Tavern.  Still open at 8pm in a very country setting.  All of New Hampshire is so very pretty.  Even with trees bare the pine trees make up for it.  Spring is usually hitting around May but since low snow fall some flowers are budding early.  Years ago, on April 11th a friend and I jumped in the lake in Wolfeboro just after ice out.  The water has no ice at all and hasn't for several weeks now. The lake is huge- Lake Winnepausakee.  I grew up  on this lake.  Where we are headed tomorrow.

stayed in Wolfeboro, NH at the Windrifter.  Old Inn in good shape in a two bedroom suite, New England-style.  : D.  We all swam.  30 years ago my mom had a family pass for the kids to the pool there.   Amazing how things change but still look the same ???  hard to describe.  Met an old friend at my renovated high school that looked amazing-- finished in 2011.  We ran into each other and it was so fun run towards each other and hugging/catching up.  Met up with another old very goodfriend--  Kelly. We were on track and field hockey together.  She always beat me in the 800.  She has very long legs and is five inches taller.  She now has six kids and is such a wonderful woman.  It was so nice to see here again.  She was a dear friend of mine.     Showed my kids the kangamagus river and where we used to slide down rocks through the rapids and we visited my dad's store he owned for 8 years before he died in a car accident with my older sister in 1982.   It was an old country store. The town is dire need of up keep now. It is somewhat of a ghost town to me. 

great sleep.  and we're off once more to Massachusetts where my cousins live on Cape Cod.  We stopped in Portsmouth, NH then Salem, MA (witch trials, wrongly accused, then hanged for it).  Drove thru Boston in the on and off ran.  Weather cool but refreshing.  Arrived on the cape and weather very nice.  No rain at all there.  We got in about 6 pm.   Ahhhh to be by the ocean and smell the breeze!!  Cousin Jen came over with her daughter.  We had a great visit and she had our next day planned for all of us-- her daughter and her sister's daughter and my girls.  More cousins to follow later that day-- three more girls.  My three cousins each had three kids along with my three kids. The boys stayed out of it (only three of them to the 9 girls!!).  

6 miles around the island (8:00 pace).  so wonderful!!  trying out the foot that didn't think it was quite so wonderful as my mind did.  ran 0.1 mile pickups x 5 at 6:04 to 6:27 pace.   Walked four miles in Woods Hole off a beach on the ocean to an aquarium.  Hearing word that high temps (88 degrees) are expected for the marathon.  Plan is to jog this thing.  Warning sent out by email about unusually high temps from the race directors telling us all to slow down and hydrate and detailing signs of heat exhaustion.   Ate dinner with all the family/cousins.  Very fun day!!

four more miles on the island.  if you saw where i was at you would understand why.  not many runs compare to this!!  AP 8:30.  Wore a different pair of running shoes.  Still don't know which ones to run in.  Drove into Boston with my family/cousins.  Took the train in.  Expo for an hour.  Got my alignment checked.  I overpronate greatly with my uninjured foot and only slightly with my injure foot.  Align is a insert product to help this.  It was very informative but no time to break in the inserts so I didn't buy them.  They actually have you stand on a platform and it is obvious how off my feet are!!  WOW!!!  I never knew I was that bad.  Like an unrotated car tires on an old worn out car!!   That was all my thoughts about running.   Not even thinking much about running the marathon-- my plan is to "jog" it.  And with the latest warning from the Boston Marathon today (even having the option for all runners to defer their entry to next year) telling all runners to slow down and even the fittest of runners can suffer greatly from this heat wave coming.  88 degrees and 79 percent humidity.  Humidity has only been 30 percent the past two days so this could get real bad for marathoners and spectators as none of the trees even have leaves on them-- NO SHADE.  I am not backing out and have even considered running in a bikini with a sharpee written remark "  Where's the Beach?"   Even thought of a carrying a beach ball to throw out along the course.  :DDDDDDD.  Too funny.  I am not worried at all since I am not going to be serious at all.   Finally a race where I can relax and enjoy myself.  I have really just been chillin' with my family preoccupied with catching up with them-- since it has been 13 years since I last saw them!!!   We all walked the Freedom Trail in Boston seeing historical sites and eating cannolis ( a must do) at Mike's Bakery.   Totally something I wouldn't usually do before running a marathon.  To die for.  Seriously yummy and extremely filling.