Believe to Achieve

barely any sleeping last two nights-- Saturday night due to too much excitement from the BYU Women's Soccer game that ended with double overtime then penalty kicks-- 8 each.  Very intense.    BYU won.   : D.   Then church early 9am. Then dinner with mother and sister's family at my house.  THEN no sleep again-- 3 hours!!  I was wide awake at 1am.  It was awful.  My stomach was giving me so much grief.   Restless the rest of the night when  I got up at 545am I could barely move.  I thought long about totally not running today knowing I had a long shopping day with my mother ahead.  In fact I just got back and still feel very restless.   And for some reason my PF is coming back on both feet.  I am quite sure it is from being very run down.   I got on the TM at 610am and ran at 8:13 pace for one mile then random paces down to 7:41 pace for a little bit before doing some 1 min on/offs.  Inspired once again by Rachelle last week after our SW.    She of course planned way more than I ever wanted to do when she mentioned  running them and CERTAINLY today with little sleep and so much anxiety I just could not push myself.  I ran 8  x 1 minutes  on/off with ons at 10.0 mph  x 2 (6:00), 10.1 x 4  (5:56),   10.2 x 2 (5:52).   Offs at  7.5 mph (8:00).  All at 1% incline.  Got the eight miles done in 60:20....would have been faster but the TMs automatically slow at 60 minutes and change to cooldown so I have to up the pace from zero again.  I was at 7.98 miles at 60 minutes.    But all is well.  Got it done.    : D.   Probably will have nothing left for Thanksgiving day. 

okay Rachelle, here goes some writing.     Just couldn't go running a 5am after going to be at near midnight.  Woke at 7am feeling a scratchy throat.  Holiday stress early as my mother is in town and she likes to spoil my sister and I and our kids.   We shopped all day yesterday and then watched a movie Monday night with the kids at home.  We also went to dinner at IHOP.  We all devoured our food. Nothing left on anyone's plate.  Shopping can do that to you.  Oh yah....I went running before the day of shopping began again and ONLY had a limited amount of time.  Didn't even have time to TEXT on my new phone!!!  Because of limited time I allowed myself only 60 minutes of running.  Watch in stopwatch mode-- I went 7.58 miles in 60 minutes so 7:55 pace.   I did a twisting hilly route running random roads and lots of angles-- and then I thought of the stupid 5 k I am running--- lots of hair pin turns.  We ended the day with a trip to SubZero ice cream.  My mother's favorite.  The day consisted of driving back and forth to the shops by Kohls in AF and then up to Kneaders in Lindon to meet sister for lunch after stopping at my daughter Amber's forth grade class to give the cooked corn to for their holiday meal. I ate some mashed potatos and a little turkery there too.  I was famished from the go go go.  YUMMY!!  took pictures.  Later my mom and I redesigned my bedding and bathrooms (three) and my Courtney's bedding while my girls were at Activity Days and Young Womens.  SO thankful for the WARM weather!!!!  We ended our evening watching the movie "Mirror Mirror".  Quite a witty film.  We like it.  My mother hadn't seen it and enjoyed it.  Bed at MIDNIGHT.  Yikes.  So overtired and getting sick.

Woke with more body aches and a worse sore throat.  Quickly took in some Airborne and vitamin c.  My mother had to leave my house by 9am to catch her flight and going to bed at midnight, feeling sick was not conducive to early rising.  Got out the door for a short EASY what I thought was a 9 mm pace for only 54 minutes (740am).   Got back in time for a short shower and right into my car with my three girls and my mother to drive up to the airport. AGAIN so thankful for the warmer weather.  AND so thankful to my mom who so graciously spoils us all!!  Really wish she lived here year round instead of visting just twice a year (one week in November and two weeks in May).  It was such a short week as she spent 3.5 days with my sister and 3.5 days with me.  And now sadly she is not here again.  AP today 8:22 for 6.45 miles.  So random and nothing but my garmin in stopwatch mode.  I know I have said this several times lately but it lets me focus on me instead of the time.  I run by feel and today 8:22 felt like 9 pace so that is a good sign especially with having a lovely sore throat and lots of body aches.  Guess I will just shoot for surviving the 5k tomorrow.  Really bummed to be sick now.  Oh well. 

Met Rachelle before the Fleet Feet 5 K.   WU on the course at a leisurely 8:13  pace for 3.1 miles.  Gotta know this course as it weaves and turns a lot!!  But WELL marked (unless some funloving citizen decides to maneuver one of the many cones with arrows just to have a good laugh).  Course accurate and pretty much flat.  Some good wind at times but not really a factor.  The only factors for me--- is utter exhaustion from nonstop go go go ever since my mother came into town last week.  She was at my house since Sunday and she loves to shop.  I do not.   It stresses me out.  Don't know why. It always has.  We just never had any down time.  So I lost a lot of sleep and ran too hard on easy days to get home to go with my mother.   So lack of sleep and running too hard led me to waken on Tuesday with a sore throat and chest congestion.  By Thursday morning I was achy all over but I knew I could handle a 5 k-- only 3.1 miles.  But NOT an all out 5k.  This was effort based hard but not too uncomfortable (oh except for the first mile when I tried to hang closer to Rachelle and started to have a heart attack).  I did not know my pace.  I had my garmin in stopwatch mode.  So no splits.  You could probably add about 14-15 seconds per mile to Rachelle's splits since I was 43 seconds behind her.  Wish I had felt better to be in the 30 second range behind her like I wanted.   I knew Rachelle was being overly generous with herself wanting to only break 20 minutes.  She looked like this race was easy for her.   I told her she needed to lay off her "crack" before the race.  Well at least that is what "caffeine" came up on my voice texting screen.  Before we met I was hoping she wouldn't take the caffeine to slow her down a bit.  It was too funny that it interpreted my voice saying caffeine as "crack".  That would have definitely slowed her down!!  My next goal is to break 19:30 then 19:15, then 19 minutes.  That would be it for the 5 k for me (on an unaided course like this one).  I am quite happy with my 5k PR considering I ran two speedworks of one min on/offs x 15 then x 8 in the last two weeks coming up to this race and only mile to two mile pickups on the mill to 6:31 pace or so x 2 since the SG marathon.  Oh and the grand finale was last week on the track with Rachelle where my lack of SW really showed.  Before that my only SW on track were my 3 mile time trials x 4 before SGM.  I should have given myself a break and left it at that but then did the 8 x 1 on/offs  three days ago to really get me fatigued.  When I feel better I won't feel like I need an inhaler the first mile.   The air was quite chilly and I wore shorts.  My thighs were rather stiff.  More than I would have liked.   I was thinking the morning would be as warm as the last two mornings.   The best part was winning a very large turkey along with a pumpkin pie.  I was third overall.  We were all in the 19 minute range.  Should have sprinted to the finish but I was worried about pushing too hard when I had to work in a few hours.  I survived work just fine.  6.5 hours non stop action on mom/baby.   Yup busy day at work surprisingly.  It sounds like a cop out but I really just know my body well to not push it too far and make myself sicker.  Some days I can and it is okay.  Today was not that day.  NO puke zone for me :D.  AP 6:22 for 3.1 miles. Then cooldown with Rachelle for a little over 3 up past Costco.  8:37 AP.

Easy run after going to bed past midnight.  Left my house at 815am.  Ran in stopwatch mode this way and that until I felt like stopping.  Ended up 8.78 miles @ 8:23 pace.  Felt like 8:45 AP so that is nice. 

very tired last night after a sad loss for BYU women's soccer.  I went to the game with my family. So fun!!  We had our chances and we were so close!! double overtime and in the first overtime we could have scored but just was not in our favor at the moment.  Then second ot of sudden death--- all went silent as North Carolina strong forward (wow was she quick!!) just faked us out good when our defense accidentally cleared the ball too close to the goal.  Just bad luck.  It was tied 1 to 1 before OT.  We were four minutes from PKs to be the deciding factor.  Oh well someone has to lose.  Wish it wasn't us since North Carolina just about always goes to the championship game.  Ran on my own this morning.  NO garmin.  Just my stop watch.  Just course tooled it.  Very surprised at my "by feel" pace which felt easy even though I was running to Highland on a hilly course.  AP 8:01!!!   woot woot!!  13 miles all alone.  No music.  Was roasty toasty leaving at 830am.  NO stops the enitre way.  That is the way I roll.   : D.    Went to the Mt. Timponogos Temple with my husband and two of my daughters.  My 12 year old Brooke hadn't been yet.  She turned twelve Oct 1st.  She so badly wanted to go and we had it planned.  It was such a lovely two hours!!  Such peace comes through the gospel and serving others!!