Believe to Achieve

Worked last two days.  That's five shifts in six days. Jogged 8 miles. Piriformis waxing and waning.  9:13 avg. one brief stop discovery park. 

Very surprised. 
bed 1235 am. 
awake 545 am. Playing cards with Brooke David amber and Alec. And Troy. 
turned up by Lavell Edwards stadium road just north of as all blocked off. Back roads to Kiwanis.  Parked by new church by it. On hill arrived 6:47 am.  Potty. Lost amber until finish. Jogged 3-4 min.  Started 15 seconds behind clock. 
7:23/7:01/7:06/7:15/7:23/7:33.  7:34 pace last .09 uphill   Got 6.09 miles for course  no cutting of anything added meandering side to side to go around 5 kers  so of course on 7:09 pace per race result   Per coros pace 7:18   Both surprising   Last 10 k Memorial Day 7:37 avg   Today 44:22 (May  47:18)  felt strong  didn't have watch on pace mode to go by feel   Just mile laps and overall time which I didn't look at until I got to last mile 36:17 so I knew I was going to be under 45 min  Pribs slowed knowing this   Didn't feel too tired at end   Amber ran 55:59 with a cold and nothing over 4 miles   Not to mention severe  lack of sleep 

ran from s and j auto into pg down town up past central elementary then north then up 1100 a few minutes then left (north) then down to canyon road then up canyon road to the bathrooms.  water break /potty almost two minutes.  Then down hill to manila pond, added on around there to make sure 8 miles at finish.  then to home my usual route.  9:06 avg.  slowest mile was 1st at 1016.  Fastest was 8:20 down that hill.  Not pushing anything.  relaxed. felt good.  

.17 miles on bad tm.  6.03 miles in 50:58.   8:26 avg.   6.5 mph increase every half mile by 0.1.  Some pick ups x 30 seconds at 6:40-6:48   X 5 or six.  30 seconds at 7.3-7.4 in between.  Stretch. Water.   Then a mile in 6:47 Bc was feeling good. Then a mile in 7:54 to cool down. Upper body and abs after.  

8 started at ch9urch mouth of canyon.  watermelon for the girls 18 miler while I did my own thing as i am running hobbler tmr.  went to golf course bathroom over aroung lone peak pond and down by tri city golf course and up through art dye park on out via hill then over to lone peak pond again and back same two mles as first.  9:10, 8:33, 8:50, 8:23, 8:58, 9:04, 9:08, 8:58.  8:54 avg.

Bed 1030pm. Up 230 am to no daughter at home after date.  So yah concerned.  Tried to fall back to sleep.  Left house 415 am.  Arrived 440 am.  Ran to bus.   Bus just left but 100 runners waiting. So we stood there until 535 am.  Up to top 6 am.  Chatted with Brooke and Brenda.   Cold up top.  Wore my long sleeve for two miles then wrapped it around my waist.  Felt good to brace my back.  Ran surprisingly well.  Though  I saw three woman in front of me last two miles.  One of them ( I did not think one of them was my age- 54)  was over 50.  51 to be exact.   I was slow at start not knowing what my plan was to race or not.  I was 15 seconds behind start.   On  the forth of July  freedom 10k my first  nearly all uphill mile was 7:23.  Here it was downhill and 7:34 (though could be loss of service)  At that point I decided to test myself and just pushed myself to be at a good 7-730 pace.  And the more I ran the better I felt at that pace and easier to do even with the roller coaster hills.  Pretty excited. 1:34:54. 
miles :7:34/7:24/7:14/7:15/7:06/7:19/7:19/7:13/7:08/7:27/7:19/7:37/7:14.pace for mile 13 which was 0.96 miles. (6:56).  The usual issue is hobble creek losing reception. Hobble creek have notorious for watches reading 12.9 miles.    I am gonna say it is on. Lol.  Avg 7:15!!!  (If short avg 7:19).  Both to me are great.  Not sure how I had it on me.  Took one gu before mile 6.  Alternated one or two sips of water with Gatorade the next station. Just two sips. And put water on my head.  Massage at finish.  Maglebys French toast too.  And a creamie!   Brooke did well. 1:48!  She'll get her sun 3 one day ! 
jogged to car.  Jogged to bus.  Jogged two minutes up top.  Adding on 0.9 miles