Believe to Achieve

Ran OVER-dressed to the PG rec center the long way from my house.  4 miles @ 7:53 AP.  Last two miles 7:16 and 7:06.   Really feeling great.  Kind of wanted to just run outdoors but told my husband I would meet him at the rec on the mills after he dropped the kids off at school.  I  "warmed up" on the TM for 1/2 mile at 8:00 pace then ran 3 x 2 miles with half mile recovery at 8:00 pace.  All done at 1 % grade except for last 1/2 mile I brought to .5% then 0 percent  the last lap in order to "sprint" into the finish.   Here is the break down:  .5 mile WU @ 8:00;    1 @ 6:56, 1 @ 6:46,  .5 mile @ 8:00;  1 @ 6:51, 1 @ 6:42,  .5 mile @ 8:00;  1 @ 6:51, 1 @ 6:30.   Cooldown 1/2 mile @ 8:00 pace then another real 1/2 mile cooldown at 8:20-8:27 pace back at 1 % grade. So six miles fast.  2.5  miles easy.  Total miles on the TM=  8.5 miles @ 7:07 AP.   This run was really good for me.  I am not good on the TM as I wobble in my form and my feet slip inside my shoes, hence the blister revisit, AGAIN.  I tried my best to avoid a full blown killer one.  So far so good.   Odd info:  after a hard run on the TM when I talk I feel like I am under water--- or that my ears are filled with fluid.  It takes over 20 minutes or more to get back to normal.  It is so hard to talk and feel people hear me as I think I sound muffled.  I suppose my sinuses just start to clog up at high speed.   It doesn't really happen outdoors though.  My ears feel like they need to pop open but they don't.  

6 easy pace miles at 445am.  Really not wanting to get up before work but somehow got out the door.  Creepy-- car in my church parking lot in the dark corner away from the building.  I have run so many times around my block and thru the parking lot---the car doesn't belong. The next time I ran cautiously around, the car was gone.  Not good.  So it was kind of a mess with my mind run but  I ended feeling not so worried.  AP for 6 = 8:25. 

10.2 easy miles at 6am in the blustery flurries.  I guess we got two inches that melted by noon.  AP=  8:39.  I was VERY nauseated the entire run so I am glad I even made it thru.  Too much sugar at work, treats everywhere you go.  My stomach is in rebellion.  Glad I have running to set it straight.  After my run I finally got back to core.  Got off schedule at Thanksgiving and got out of the habit that wasn't quite a habit yet.  So back a week in pushups cause I am THAT weak.  Did 10, 6, 4, 4, 6 on the ball (pushups), shoulder presses, triceps (two types), lateral raises, biceps (two types).  2 reps of 12 each.  Followed by crunches on the ball.  Did planks last night: front 1 minute, sides 30 seconds each then repeat.  I was so nauseated so it was hard to hold my stomach in.  My goal is 2 minutes.  I think I can do it with an adrenaline rush.  Done for the day.  Oh my Ford failed emissions-- a whopping 771 dollars to fix it.  Merry Christmas.  What luck.  PM: Held a plank for 2:08.  Main issue left big toe sore.  Did this barefoot. 

6am TM run at the Rec center.  Wasn't impressed with News' forecast for 15 degrees this morning.  Not after the nice warm front we had.  I ran 2 % grade for 6 miles, 8:34, 8:20, 8:00, 7:47, 7:33, 7:20, 1.5 %  grade @ 7:13,  1 % grade  @ 7:19, 7:03, 6:50.  AP for 10 miles=  7:34.  The .2 miles was my sprint from/to the car to/from the rec center.  BRRRRrrrrrrrr!!!!!  Glad I chose indoors.  Felt great the whole time.  Sped off home to be there for Courtney as she leaves for school.  I have a meeting today then I am working a few hours for a coworker this afternoon.  Busy day. I work tomorrow.  Looking forward to my run with Melanie on Saturday : D.  PM:  after dinner Front Barefoot Plank 2:43 !!  Courtney timed me. 

EaZZZy FreeZZY run at 4:45am.  So very tired when the alarm went off.  I had some odd burning indigestion last night and remember burping in pain but never awaking fully to do anything about it.  Not sure what food I ate caused it?  But running ALWAYS helps so I just went thru the moves and got out there.  Brrr.  Plan to run 5-6 based on what easy pace ended up at.  Last lap a car came by me turned around in front of me and pulled up near me and I b-lined it in freak out mode and bolted to my cul-de-sac.  Then finished my last .5 miles in and around my cul-de-sac cautiously looking about.  The car was probably picking up someone and I jumped to conclusions.  Better safe than sorry.  AP 8:12 for 6.3 miles.  Am run with Mel and Kim.  Kim had vein surgery 8 days ago and suppose to NOT run for 10 days but she can't stand the wait.  But we have to go slow for her.  Mel and I will do 5 miles before meeting with Kim for 10.  Hope it warms up : D.  PLANK 3:15.  I just focus hard and BREATH heavy/deep.  I try to go to a happy place but after 1:40 it is hard to do that and then as time goes on it gets slightly easier to deal with the pain. 

OH my.  It started with a call from Melanie at 5:30am as she was on her way over  "how is it over there cause it's snowing hard over here?"  I was up at 330am.  The three inches of snow we got before I fell asleep was cleared in the streets then.  I looked out, not snowing but a new dusting on the roads.  Great, slosh running.  We left at 5:50am from My House  in the sleet/rain and our footsteps were guarded as it really was sloshy in areas and snow in others on the roads.  It began to snow within a mile of our run.  First mile 8:55 ( I do think due to the storm the garmin didn't pick up our pace as well as usually my garmin reads a mile several paces before we even turned).  BUT if it was true-- Dang I thought I was going faster.  Slowing Mel down.  Not good.  I found the air thick/heavy and hard to breath in.  Or maybe it was that 3:15 plank last night after my 13 hour shift running around literally all day long.  I was tired.  So I tried my best to stay up with Melanie even though the pace was not even that quick at first.  We ran a uphilly route and met up with Kim at Lincoln Academy.  We then proceeded north in the snowy climate.  More UPHILL.  A doozer of one in Cedar Hills.  I felt like I had asthma, my airway was tight and my ears felt full of fluid.  A little sinus problem with the air pressure changes outside, who knows.  Mel and Kim got about 20 seconds ahead.  But I didn't care.  I eventually got up to them on the downhill then came the more slosh running as the snow turned to sleet again.  : (((.   As cars went by we would get "sloshed" more.  Our feet got soaked but it wasn't too cold out.  Probably 30 degrees.  This route ended with a long  sloshy uphill back to Lincoln Academy from American Fork.  Somehow I managed to get my AP to 8:01.  I think Mel's was 7:55.  I feel tired.  I really just need to sleep better tonight.  I woke a lot last night and the night before.  All in all in was very nice to run with Melanie and Kim in the Winter Wonderland.