Believe to Achieve

dead tired at 930pm so fell asleep fast.  woke once and got up at 530am.  slowly made my way over to the rec at 6am.  Ran on the TM for 10 miles @ 1 % incline. Started at 8:13 pace, then 8:06 for a mile then 8:00, 7:53, 7:47, 7:41, 7:35, 7:30 then two at 6:31 pace-- TM burnt out in the first 3/4 of the 9th fast mile.  Completely died.  It was shaking quite a bit so maybe it shook lose the cord.  No time to assess.  No one left on the TMs (were all taken when I got there) so hopped right on the next one.   NO wobbling at the 9.2 mph pace.  Still at ONE percent grade.  Finished off the last five laps.  Increased the pace the last  1/4 mile from 6:22 down to 6:15 for a fast get it done finish.   Tired today probably because IT WAS SOOOO HOT in the REC center!!! Turn down the heat already!!  I think cause the TMs are upstairs and the frontdesk people are seen thru the mezzanine that all their hot air they keep turning on rises as usual.  I also wore compression socks.  Both together made me feel more heat.  Feel great now.  No soreness from any of my runs this week with my NEW nike pegasus 29s!!   :D    Oh yah!!  a shoe that doesn't make me feel creaky!!

just too cozy in my bed and couldn't get out to run.  worked all day though.

so couldn't sleep when I awoke at 4am so I got out earlier than planned-- 420am.  Ran for 72 minutes at UNknown pace until I reset my watch.  Thought this would for sure get my wanted 8 miles. VERY surprised I was at 8.95 miles and 8:02 AP!!  I seriously thought this was a "jog".  I am coming to life.  So glad.  So of course I zipped around my cul de sac to get that 9 miles.  Came indoors and noticed red stripes on my abdomen and chest.  Oops.  It didn't feel cold at all to me.  Felt really quite nice.  Must be my sweat freezing up in those areas.  Worked all day.  Long day teaching and working (student nurses with me the last two days).  Babies still rule!!

no idea of pace or distance til back from run with kim and jane in highland.  felt faster than usual from the get go-- when kim's watch beeped at one mile I looked at my stop watch mode I had my garmin in-- 7:50.  It was freezing and it took that one mile to warmup to even want to go that pace.  We ran the big dip down and up in Alpine to the Eternal Fountain. Stopped for a drink (along with one other potty stop before mile one --- let jane and i catch our breath, thanks kim!!  and just after mile 1 to have kim take off her jacket and stow it).  It was very dark the whole time except the last mile.  It was also VERY busy on that road with the dip. We had to dodge to different sides of the roads often to stay safe.  Some other runner group was going the other way and said to us "slow down!!".  Obviously to them we were going fast.  AP ended up at 7:14 for 8.46 miles.  Aerobically felt good and my legs too except I was cold and stiff if that makes sense.  Should be interesting-- sw at the AF track with speedy Rachelle.  Can you say nausea??

saucony fives first time since before SG marathon.  can you say flat and feeling the ground beneath you??  37 degrees and I wore shorts meeting Rachelle at 6am at Mtn View track.  We warmed up outside of the track for 2.63 mile (8:29 AP)  then did the ladder workout inspired by Melody-- 200, 400, 600, 800, 1000, 800, 600, 400, 200.    Started out fine then I quickly became nauseated not necessarily from running too fast but from whatever I ate yesterday, being rather cold-- shunting blood away from my stomach to warm by extremities and anxiety of running with the GREAT Rachelle SPEEDSTAR.  I have a hard time running against my friends and most of my track time is seriously mental as I am not sore or feel too tired now but I am super nauseated still.  Darn those Cougar Tales and long afternoon in the freezing cold-- we watched two soccer games yesterday-- one at 3pm (we got there at 330pm) Princeton vs Marquet and then BYU vs Auburn at 6pm.  A complete adrenaline rush game shivering but finally warmed with the first and only goal scored by BYU with 43 seconds left in the game -- Penalty SHOT by Carly Payne-Holmo.  SWEEET!!    I so wanted to back out on Rachelle but I am not a quitter most of the time so I just had to show up.  I got to bed just after 1030pm after taking a 1/4 xanax.  Haven't had to take anything to fall asleep since before SG but last night I was so hyped up having seen the two games and GETTING a smartphone  for the very first time (and texting for the first time 1 1/2 weeks ago!!).  Geez more distractions is all I need.  Okay back to the work out.  We tried to stick to McMillan paces for a 19:45 5k.   Funny the longer we went the easier it was for us to hit our goal!!  We are more long distance runners for sure.   The way up I hit the goals and quite on the faster end for the 800 and 1000meters.  Rachelle was always 1 to 3 seconds ahead.  Maybe 4 one of them can't remember.  I was so nauseated I thought I was going to poop my pants.  My stomach was not happy.  Okay here are the splits: 

200-- 39.62     Goal-- 36- 40.8    cd  200    met goal

400-- 1:24.65    Goal-- 1:25-1:29   cd 400    little faster than goal

600--   2:12.27   Goal-- 2:05-2:11    cd 600    slower by 1 second

800--  3:01.10     Goal--  2:59- 3:07.8   cd 400    met goal

1000-    3:49.62    Goal--  3:45- 3:58   cd  600     met goal

800--  3:01.37     cd  400    met goal

600-- 2:16.65     cd 200   slower by 5 seconds!!

400--   1:27.66     cd 200   met goal

200--  40.67       cd 200    met goal

CD 1.75 miles  8:51 pace.     Total mileage-- 9.35.  Garmin of course says we ran longer.  Gotta love track accuracy!! BTW I thought it best to start just after Rachelle instead of worrying about one of us taking the outside track after the first three ladders.  This was mental to see Rachelle pull away easily.  I only had enough to hang on. 

so very tired when alarm went off at 5am.  8:15AP for 4.1 miles.  Thought I was at a 8:45 pace so that is good.  Wet out.  Super busy day at work.  Now draining all my adrenaline watching BYU women's soccer after double OT go to Penalty Kicks in order to advance to the "Elite 8".  I can barely watch.  My husband and two of my daughters at the game.  I got home at 6:35pm.  I am shaking with anxiety for BYU.  Crossing fingers!!