Believe to Achieve

4 miles easy with 12 min on/offs at 7:30 pace.  offs at 8:57 pace.  33:09 time on tm at home 1 percent incline. forgot i was pacing half saturday.  juice cleanse came today instead of next wednesday like i thought. so starting it tmr which may make it hard for sat half pacing 1:40. 

worked all day yesterday of first day of juice cleanse from company called JUS by Julie.  How fitting.  First drink Sweet Spin.  Good start.  second spicy lemonade, third worst tasting -- greens with ginger cinnamon and nutmeg and apples, forth chia berry, yummy--pomegranate and strawberry and chia seeds, fifth-- choco nana, PB JUS (peanut butter, natural), or matcha chia, different one each day.  Favorite is first two of these three).  Sixth and final drink xtreme greens.  I can't believe I made it.  They allow for up to 3 egg whites per dinner and two cups of leafy greens if needed.  I did that two nights.  Last night I sucked it up as I was at the finish line.  Lots of water in between.  Lost 5.5 pounds.  I am sure all water.  But after mile 8 in  the half I could not think anymore -- splits - 7:03 (too fast but had to use bathroom wanted to get ahead so I could find one then hop back with Amber my pacing companion), 7:19, 7:47 (long potty stop), 7:07 (catching back up to Amber), 7:44 (slowing it down, pace band says 8:01 mile), 7:25, 7:39, 7:36...stop and could not talk anymore so I stopped even though we were still on pace and doing just fine I was just getting a negative mind set without the carbs.  We were at a 7:25 avg when I stopped.  LoL   then I was so irriated with myself running with kim an easy 7:35 mile (I had stopped 20 seconds and along came kim banditing the race starting 3 min behind me).  Same with mile 10.  Mile 11 I gave up completely and sat on the ground for five minutes with my shoes off and took off my leg compressions.    I had an out of body mind experience.  Like a severe brain fog.  I had taken the juice before the race  one I quite like with kale, spinach, mangoes, pineapple and banana and rice milk.  One stinger organic gu (not on juice cleanse but ingredients are).  I am so lame.  I just could not get my head to pull out.  I guess I did.  I got up and joined the 1:50 pacer.  So I came in at 1:49:15.  Doing the juice cleanse the rest of the day was interesting.  Spicy lemonade I had packed on ice in my car.  Drank that.  And 1/4 of a banana at finish line.  Figured I needed some substances.  No salt on this diet so its pretty intense.  Veggies have barely any natural salt.    Went to BYU football game and reaped the rewards of all the SMELLS OF the foods there-- onions on a footlong hot dog, cinnamon almonds, kettle corn and more.  I was not hungry.  Almost just satified with the smells.  The drinks were fine enough to fill me.  Last night was the hardest.   Hard time falling asleep.  Headache.  Total calories a day 1000.  Wowza.  Made it to the finish line of the cleanse.