Believe to Achieve

Guessing on mileage based off similar old routes...but i took and extended and detoured wherever...some grass, some trail some sight seeing. Symphsis pubis and hamstrings just the niggles... burning pain in both areas after five or six miles.lots of vitamins but need to get glucosamine. Sorry i decided i had to get out cause i love fall running...simply so much nicer to me than summer. Winter will be another story. But sure love the leaves on the ground right now. No pace knowledge. Watchless for the next two to three months. Ahh so liberating :-) i work next two days so nothing planned but that and activity days wednesday night. No mileave concerns just mental well being runs. Nothing forced out of obligation . All for the love of running. Hopefully i can run with some friends but dont want to slow anyone down.

Work. Yup no workouts. No time with 13 hour shift and just doing what i feel like. The old lazy me :-)

Work. Soooo busy today. Student with me for 10 hours. Teaching for 10 hours and working. Wow. I am pretty sure i am gaining weight on this low key moment for me.

Course tooled route after i ran. No idea pace. Probably 820 to 8:30. Just a guess. Pelvis and hamstrings....just need more easy time. Neurologist...not good. Not going to get into it. Lers just say she was more a pychologist than her neurologist schooling.

So ran with stopwatch as I had to be back by exactly 9:20 to go and pick up my sister's daughter from my daughters Junior High CTE class (she is 5 years old and the jr high has them come to learn how to care for kids :D).  She was there an hour.  I had picked her up with My Brooke at 7:50am and brought her to her school.  I got back and ready to run and out the door at 8:40 and some seconds...crud...not much time for many miles I thought....but after feeling quicker than usual in the first few minutes and a frustrating Dr. visit yesterday that left me sleepless last night....pondering many things...I just picked it up after a half mile and decided to run by feel my five miler at a brisk pace. This five miler of  mine is HILLY!!! Oh my.  But I felt strong and nothing was hurting.  I guess two weeks is my body's time post marathon.  The last four miles were done in 27:07.  My last mile (I know where it is from other times I have run this run with a garmin) was a 6:34 :D .  Felt really good.  AP for last four miles with significant hillage-- 6:46.  First mile 7:50.  I think I will run with a watch once a week just to test myself.  I think I am coming back from the dead.  I SOOOOO LOVE FALL.  I was remembering on my drive home from taking Emmy back to her kindergarten....that during the SG marathon I had on my ear phones from mile 13 to 26.25....At mile 24 ....a song came on that just really made me believe in myself.. It is a church song calle "You are a Light on a Hill".  It is powerful and it lifted me from the sadness I was in at that point in the race wondering why this year was so LONG and tough and PAINFUL....I BEGAN TO SING....YUP  I was singing.....and LOUDLY too.  Ha Ha probably caused me those 11 seconds for a 3:06...but you know what ??? I felt amazing and happy for being where I was at that moment.  MIRACLE!!!

A guess in milage. Ran before work. 64ish minutes. Bummer had to bring stopwatch so i didnt get lost in the no time zone and forget to be to work on time. Left for run at 440am. Cant sleep.  Course tooled it on Monday--7.75 miles.  8:21 pace.  Wow thought I was slow.