Believe to Achieve

yup 3.5 hours of sleep.  INSOMNIA again.  Steroid injection helped my heel but keeping my brain too stimulated. 

massive FATIGUE!!  lasted all day Sunday (cause I woke at 245am sunday morning before work and could NOT get back to sleep). Glad the nursery wasn't too busy yesterday.  So surprised to still be unbelievably fatigued today.  Had NIGHT SWEATS all night.  It seems whenever I get a steroid shot it goes systemic (throughout my body) and shuts me down (adrenals).  Then takes a few days for my own body to kick in.  Seriously not good to existence yesterday.  I even slept Sunday night from 830 pm to 6am.  9.5 hours!! I woke a couple of times.  No sleep aids though.  Menopause SUCKS!!

Put on call...I faintly picked up on this buzzing sound by my bed that woke me from my sleep...518am...ON call.  So of course I can't fall back to sleep.   And the more I laid there the more I just knew I had to RUN.  Five weeks off is too much.  And my heel is only slight tender (the spot he missed injecting, I am going to ask for a 1/2 dose right in the right spot).  But I will wait for 2 weeks first to see if it kicks in.  It has only been four days.    So glad I ran.  Felt good in the warm FALL air.  Saw 53 degrees on Junior High sign as I ran by.  I didn't need my gloves after a mile and I wore shorts with compression socks.  Just easy pace after a full week off.  Plus a little guarded with the heel bone tender spot. Read Joan Benoit's book Running Tide.  She was/is CRAZY.  She had a least four surgeries on both her HEELS!!!  and ODDLY the first time she came down with heel pain she was feeling very fatigued and learned she was anemic...JUST LIKE MY first bout of heel pain.  Anyway if she can pull of 90 - 120 miles a week in similar conditions I can do my measly 35-50 at a much slower pace.  I can't believe how crazy it was reading her running---She was a constant RACER.  Wowsers.  This book was written in the late 80s so I need to read a more current one.  But she does describe the intense stiffness her legs took on that went along with her heel pain.  OVERUSE.  Ya think?? She was just young so her body could handle it better and no full time job or kids at the time.  She did marry just after the Olympic marathon.  She is an amazing athlete.  Love that she grew up near me and ran lots of races around the towns I know of.  And one particular race that is only a few miles from my Aunt and Uncles house on the Cape-- Falmouth Road Race. Very popular.  She won 6 times.  I ran by there in July this past summer.  So yesterday Josse posted Daily Rounds and I decided to get myself out of my funk---  so I did 3:00:53 for the plank, 15 pushups, 38 jump squats, 34 crunches, 16 burpees (no push up), 2:05 for wall sit.  Then had to catch my breath for 20 minutes ha ha.  Today I just jogged and loved it.  AP 8:25.  Stop watch and course tool.  Plan was five miles but the weather was too good to pass up.  Then I just finished upper body workout after starting the 100 push ups in 6 weeks program.  Hope I last.  Started in column two--6/6/4/4/5....60 seconds in between.  Good form.  This is first upper body work out in months.  I just got to get my head in the game and stay there. 

AP 8:03.  Easy run toward AF high school then up behind Art Dye Park.  So pretty.  Heel spur is a joy.  I envision it shaved off but that would require surgery...so instead I envision SHOCK therapy that can blast that little piece of bone to pieces.  Fun running moments.  Feeling so much better lately now that I am sleeping.  Yes actually sleeping...except for Saturday night which was a joke.  Actually was EXCITED to run the past two days....I looked forward to it.  A VERY GOOD SIGN.    last three miles I felt so good I picked it up,   7:22, 7:23, 7:11.   felt easy.  certainly not 5k pace.  tempo i suppose.   when I started out I could barely move my upper body from the weight work out and push ups yesterday, 9:03 I think.  OUCH.  I felt I was running in slow motion.  Some leg muscles (left shin and hamstring) were pretty tight too most likely from the Wall sit and jump squats on Monday. 

Easy run pace til 3/4 mile into last mile , already easily at 7:15 pace to get the last mile at under 7:00. It was up hill the last 0.1...and just barely got 6:59.ap 8:06.then pushup...challenge day two week one 8/6/6/6/7 90 sec rest in between. Also weights upper body, planks 60/45/45, and brief core. No heel pain just muscles saying ....hey i thought we were in hibernation..just hammies and lower back. Expect this so not worried. Hence why i am running easy pace miles. Would like to run even slower if i had a friend willing to run 8:30 to 8:45 ap for 8. ???

woke at 4am.  couldn't fall back to sleep.  running.  good first two miles then the cold got to me..felt warm but legs were numb...no watch, garmin died so ran a varied route til I thought I was at 8 miles.  course tooled 8.85 miles.  know time i left and time back..so 8:28 ap.  hamstrings sore from push ups.  tired day at work.  legs achy all shift.  i guess i have run 4 -- eight milers in a row.  so today no pushing pace.  just way laid back.

4.17 miles to start of 5k cookie in af. Ran with sister to help her. Ap for 2.97 miles, website says course is short, 10:09. Warmup ap about 8:22. Ran back home 3.2 miles. Ap 8:22. Took progesterone last night. Figured got to try something leg pains are awful. Hamstrings angry in this run when i started. So glad i was smart and did not race a 5k.