Believe to Achieve

still camping. went back to go to church with david and brooke to zoe's farewell.  1030 am.  had eggs bacon and hashbrowns for breakfast first.  came back relaxed and I played corn hull with david.  he won best out of three twice against me.  Got closer second round.  Was fun.  Then cards taco cat goat cheese pizza. Then a dip in the water with skipping of rocks. It was fun. Then alec and amber showed up.  They played more games while troy and I made spaghetti dinner, bread sticks, salad.  later s'mores by the camp fire and a game of Smurf.  David got "quitting your job.  Amber eating ice cream.  Alex peeing your pants. Me-skinny dipping.  Pretty funny game.  tried to watch batman returns but remote is missing. slept like a rock!!  

same route as saturday only didn't do the loop first. started from the bathroom.  Stopped watch to pet puppies and to use outdoor bathroom on route( ground) and to cross the busy streets.  3.5 minutes total.  Saturday 2:50 for talking to troy, crossing street which took a while.  surprisingly faster today (though opening mile saturday was more uphill as  I did the entire loop first then back up).  mile paces: 9:41, 8:12, 8:33, 8:35,7:47,7:40,8:29, and 8:10.  Felt good.   Avg pace 8:24!!! 

Elevate with 8!  (Miles theme). 1 mile 8:33.  Hazy warm morning.  100 degrees today. Low in 70s. Very warm at gym.  Next to Kim for warmup.  And two up 4 percent incline. 7:30 pace.  Some pull in hamstring so hold on to front to work on form at times.  Got into a pattern hold for 0.05 each hand.  0.15 no hold. Lol.  Sometimes I'd go longer without holding.  This was hard to go from east warm up to 4 percent and fast.  Took a bit for heart rate to adjust and hamstring. But it no longer pulled during your doing that. 5 down 9.0 mph. 6:39 pace.  First four straight through (switched tm to smoother one that didn't   clop.  I felt dehydrated and didn't want ti push through that and so I got to four went to bathroom got a drink and someone was on the tm i was on. Phone right there. So gently told him I was on there.  And got started.  Ran last mile on 6:35 total avg. started 6:39 but takes tm a bit to get up to speed so last 1/4 mile 9.3--10 mph.    Weird only saved 4 seconds but it's probably bc of the slow up to pace from stand still tm. Got to half mile at 3:25.  6:50 pace. So really made up 16 seconds picking it up.  Feeling strong on that mile. Water helped.  Weights arms and ab machine. 

Busy shift.  Brenda with me.  3 babies.   All girls. Darling 

Oddly good run.  Kept with my 8s though. Was thinking of tapering. Nah.  Did a rectangle course from my house.  To train tracks pass new Maceys down to Olive Garden. Cross to mod pizza. Back up past hobby lobby.  Turn to take 1800 back.  Turn again temple road then right by church throgh that new neighborhood straight across to 600 west back to Manila and right then left to not yet built development.  End before Brooke c house.  Ate breakfast there.  Crepes.   Fun family. 8:23 avg.  first mile surprised 9:08.  Felt slow.  So just kept the effort and got faster. 8:34.  8:16, 8:11, 8:38 (hill). 8:13,8:14 and 7:48.   Felt strong.  Warm out and it diving bug me.  Muggy !  I wrote this while on elliptical for pt appt. 

Work.   Beds 10 and 11.  Girls. 

820 am heat sim.  Didn't bother me.  80 degrees.  Ended up on parade route for steel days.  9:43//8:58/8:56/8:29/9:07/8:39/8:45/8:39.  8:54 avg. ran into nickie Hyde on parade route.