Believe to Achieve

so glad I awoke and no back and hamstring pain.  I guess I can't do the planks and pushups and messes with my lumbar spine and I have been battling bilateral hamstring/sciatica.  OUCH.  Could barely walk right at work Friday then on Saturday's run complete rebellion of both hamstrings so jogged a 5k.  The pain persisted til about 4pm yesterday and I awoke without pain.  Legs felt light.  NO pain meds either.  Just hormones...day three progesterone and estradiol both levels seriously low...even lower than menopausal should be.  Anyway we shall see if this helps me.  Kind of feel a little weepy on estrogen.  Okay so I was like this should be a great run...my legs feel light.  Started running and at about 1.5 miles I got shooting pains into my foot.  I was scared. Been there done that last June.  So stopped an walked briefly. Considered walking home but waited for shooting pain to pass then started running again.  No pain..until  0.3 miles later same thing. So walked a little bit.  Tried again....Made it 0.4 miles....shooting pain when on uphill due to slant of heel into hill...lovely. Stopped and removed about 20 stickers from the bottoms of my shoes.  Ha ha.  I must have MENTALLY felt them PHYSICALLY.  Cause sure they did not push through my shoes.  I didn't feel anymore pain (just a weird feeling in my hamstrings coming back, numbish) the remainder of the run but I slowed way down...until last mile...ran 6:43 for fun.  Besides a little bruise like feeling on my heel I felt strong.  I am almost at 500 miles on my Nike Lunar Reds so I am sure there is no more cushioning.  The heels on outer sides on both shoes are worn to the next level...white....not black anymore.  Obviously I heel strike.  Not COOL.  AP 8:10 for 8.2.

Worked. Busy 13 hours. Yay repeat tmr.

Couldnt sleep. Up at 4am but just did not want to run in the freezing air. Eventually got out there at 5:12am...had to work at 6 ...ha ha clocked in at 0600 on the dot. Busier shift today than yesterday. No breakfast til 145pm. Ap 7:59. First mile 8:50.

Won entry from ryr pace grouo on facebook. Not prepared to race since only four ten milers since sgm and no sw but one mile fast last week for over a month. I decided to hang with 1:35 pacer. Good to hear them breathing hard.....i was not so much. It was cold and i only warmed up 0.7 miles easy with 15 second pickuos to 715 pace. After mile six i did a few miles at 7:04 to 7:10 and ended up a minute ahead of pacers. I passed four women and four or five guys. I took one gu..caffeine free of course at mile five. Should have livened my frozen muscles up with my second one at mile 10 but decided i was doing well enough. No women in sight in front. The course is technical in several spots, twisting and turning and some rolling hills. More hills were at the last three miles...up. i had that feeling in your legs u get when u froze and they become unresponsive. No push so i jogged it in at 7:15 pace and cheered the two guys just in front of me to sprint. I had no idea i was second overall. Cool. My time listed in results is gun so i posted my chip. If uare top three u have to go by gun. So 1:33:52 but really 1:33:46. Loved Thanksgiving dinner at my house with family. Played some games and watched some studio c with my kids.

recovery miles by myself.  ap unknown.  about 8:30 to 8:40.  garmin flipped out.  my old  one i tried to revive.  it spazzed out.  got home to reset it and showed miles but forgot to look at overall time to figure pace. when i reset it all data went caput.  cold run. lonely.  hamstrings tender.  just getting real boring running by myself.  seriously.  i don't have anyone to run slow with me.  it is a drag.  oh well.  tmr however i am going to just run BEHIND mel and kim.  Jane hurt her back.  Hopefully kim gets a hold of Delightra so  I can have a friend.  

ran with mel and kim and Julie E  (WAY behind them).  hamstrings painful and lower back hurting quite a bit.  could not push the pace even if I wanted.  luckily they stopped three times so I could catch up for a bit and chat briefly.  kim put out water and gatorade. they ran 14 miles.  i was put on call and was surpised to be able to run today.  was only going to run 4 before work.  my mom is over.  her last day at my house so run was early.  630am.  Cold.  Very cold.  25 degrees i think.  AP 8:12.