Believe to Achieve

MY BABY was sent off to Clear Creek Camp this morning!!  I drove her to Orem Elementary at 7:30am.  Then drove my sisters car to Orem Cemetery fields to give her her car.  Her husband needed a ride to work so he drove their car to my house this am.  So to accomodate I suggested I run home from her place but she decided to run to the fields where I met her only two miles from where I dropped off Amber.  Took pictures of Amber and her friend Zoe.  Fun times to be had all week.  I looked over the schedule and I wanted to be a fifth grader again and go too!!  Courtney and Brooke have also gone and quite LOVED it.  So of course I had to let Amber go.  She will be back on Friday at 3.  Last week Courney and Brooke were at Young Women's camp for three nights (wed to Sat).  I spoiled Amber while they were gone and now it is time to spoil Brooke and Courtney.  But man they love to sleep in.  Harder to get teenagers to get moving.  I ran on the canal trail from the cemetery fields to 1100 north in Pleasant Grove.  The 7 mile just after getting passed the steepest part of 1100 north I decided to run a fast mile.  Ran that in 6:15.  AP for all of run 7:51.  Quite liking the altras and the arch support they give as well oddly enough.  

called into work at 515am. no run. love the Gospel. Keeping me afloat. So love my family. Would never want to be without them.   Hope there is running in Heaven. :D

work again.  not a good day.   but made it thru.  my head hurts, my arm hurts.  my stomach hurts.  went to soccer meeting for amber's team.   ate some junk that made my stomach worse.  to bed early.

food allergies I believe in full force.  stomach cramps all night.  took my dog to get hair cut and had to go right back to get him because he was snarling at the lady.  He was a nervous wreck.  I had some huge issues with abdominal cramping, etc...  It was awful.   Finally made it out to run at 10am on an empty stomach and feelings of needing to eat something.  Ran two easy, 9:03, 7:58 then one at MP 6:50 and another easy at 7:45 and then one at 6:49....this one I ran about a 7:10 pace for the first half mile then picked it up a bit to 6:30 pace for last half mile.  Bone pain better but hamstring tight and right achilles acting up out of nowhere so TIME TO CLEAN UP MY DIET big time to help my arthritic like pains and depression.   World Cup Viewings are gonna be fun for this family!!!   AP 7:42 for five miles.

3:25 pacer.  In no way did I think I was going to fail in this mission so I am very disappointed in myself for the miscalculation.  At mile one my left hip and pelvis was aching. I had really bad stomach cramps wed and thursday along with other maladies til friday. i didnt eat much as a result and i think i came into this job dehydrated. slept from 12-3 am. got to buses for 415 bus so tired but able to chat to keep myself awake. i had steve pace with me and i thought he was going too fast but what was really happening was my garmin was in wrong mode in order to judge pace ...long story but it was my error as i know this course measures 0.2 long. i did not have the pace chart , it was with my buddy and when i thought i could turn it on i could not due to significant headwind just after i stopped for 95 seconds in the porta potty at mile 13. i tried to catch up and the concrete messed more with my left hip that by mile 18 it was seizing up considerably. i tried to be strong and never mentioned my pain til the finish. i cheered the entire way...quieter the last two miles . my pace buddy had to bail at mile 23 and passed the sign to me crud not good as the pain in my legs made me want to stop too . My hip is still burning but hamstring has calmed. it just feels out of position a lot . i had many followers but my potty break was the divider. i have never stopped that long in a marathon before but i just had to stop. I love the uvm course so i am bummed to have not run it exactly as planned. iif u take away the 95 secs to pee etc and the 0.2 over...which is 94 secs (47 per 0.1 miles for 7:49 pace) i had it in the bank. I made this same garmin error in 2011 when i ran 3:09:13 . grrrrr!!! oh well i tried...with only one 15 miler since boston i should be thankful i am not sore right now 10 hours later not a hint of soreness in anyplace besides my left hip pain. I walk up and down stairs normally. no guarding whatsoever.  Splits-- pace on garmin with actual mile splits when I pushed my lap button at every mile marker on the course, a few in the last miles are grouped together when I couldn't see the markers from the crowds and me pouring water on myself:  7:43 (7:48), 7:42 (7:39), 7:34 (7:35), 7:50 (8:01), 7:35 (7:44), 7:37 (7:38),7:45 (7:48), 8:10 (8:12), 8:11 (8:11 wow one right on :D), 7:37 (7:39), 7:47 (7:51), 7:59 (8:05),7:35 (7:39), 8:33 (8:42--95 second potty stop), 7:46 (7:56), 7:57 (7:56-wow a little shorter ), 7:57 (8:02), 7:44 (7:47),7:38 (7:44), 7:48 (7:58), 7:56 ap for two miles, 7:55 ap for 3 miles, 8:05 pace for last 1.24 miles.  I slowed way down when I got to the crowd because I was embarrassed to be charging through and wanted the runners beside me to feel good about themselves and not feel like they had to feel defeated.  I let them catch me.  So irritated with my plan that backfired on me.  NEXT time the stop watch!!  or just know for 7:49 AP on UVM I need to actually run a 7:46 AP per garmin to have me hit it right on.  course 0.19 over well I did have to run off a little from course to porta potty so probably more like 0.18 off.