Believe to Achieve

saucony5s on the tm at 8am. started very slow at 827 pace . 1 % incline.  ankle to hip in a lot of burning pain.  mostly ankle bone and achilles.  busitis? arthritis? it band? herniated disc? wore my flats to change the way my feet land and use my leg muscles differently.  2 @ 827, 2 @813, 2@ 800, 1@7:47.  ap for first 6 -- 805. then reset tm and ran 3 at 733 ap. 1 % again.  ap for all 10 -- 7:56.  stupid ankle hirt the entire time.

okay this run sucked!!  MAIN reason (besides a 50 percent improved ankle still nagging)--  I WAS QUITE hungry this morning.  I think I forgot to each much yesterday.  I tried to drink a lot more water to make up for it but that only added to the nausea and weakness.   Oh well.  I am so funny if  I get it in my mind to do sw I just have to do it.  I had it in my mind to run 3 x 2 miles at 6:31 pace with 1/2 mile at recovery pace (8:27) in between but after the first one I was so that much more hungry that I couldn't even focus.  SOOOOO  I thought back to Rachelle's little SW session she did a few days back and thought "okay I can handle that better than what I had planned).  So I ran 6:31 x 2, 1/2 mile at roughly 8:27 then I ran one a 6:22, followed by 1/2 mile at 8:27 pace (I know recovery could be shorter but IT IS SUPER HOT IN THE GYM-- always on Tuesday cause it is cold all weekend so they jack up the heat on Monday and by Tuesday it is boiling).   I then did a 800 at 6:15 pace for 1 1/2 laps and 6:11 for the last 1/2 lap so about 3:05.   1/2 mile AGAIN yup super not into this workout in starvation mode.  8:27 pace. Finished the SW with the 400 in 90 to 95 seconds-- 9.8 to 10.2 mph.  Ran 1.25 mile cooldown at 8:20 AP.    1 % incline for entire run.  Went to pain Dr.  I have three injections scheduled for Dec. 26th.  Two in my degenerating neck and one in my lower back.   Fun times!!  Just getting to old to run fast!!   but not going to stop yet ; D.  I was super nauseated and done with this workout after the first two miles.   Really wish I never read Rachelle's blog this past week.   I would have quit at four miles!! 

HOOOOOLY  HOLLLLLY!!!!!!!!  (it light of the season that reads Holy Holly).   FLIP OUT so I venture out into the FROZEN TUNDRA this morning at 8:41am.  LITTLE did I realizs JUST HOW SO VERY FREEZING IT WAS!!!  UMmmmmmmm...hands almost like the end of Titanic when Leo was holding onto the boat and at about thirty minutes into my run I blurted out to a stranger in VERY stiff SLURRED speech she couldn't understand me nor could I understand myself (was I having a stroke???)-- I said "is it like 20 degrees or something??? I am frozen I can barely move!!"  she and the gentleman she was with looked in shock at me as I ran by.  She later drove by me and honked "merrily" and waved with a smile.  That helped : D.   So  I continued on just thinking maybe I am just completely wimpy today and I just don't know what cold is anymore and I told myself to buck up and continue onward.  I was running UP into Cedar Hills and ran on to the Golf Course trail there then headed west to Lone Peak and continued on the trail then headed East on the new Canal trail and got off at the Deerfield Elementary road.  The wind was blowing and it was humid so it made things all the more Merrier for me ; D.   My ankle was a buggin' but hey it was frozen so it didn't matter.  My arms however around the last three or so miles came alive and my hands were suddenly VERY warm and sweaty.  HMMmmmmm TRUE hypothermia now--- you know when you get so cold your body actually feels WARM now as you silently go down to your frozen grave???  All of my joints in my back were extremely stiff. Probably because my bloodflow was well NOT flowing.  I honestly thought as I warmed up I just must have been too wimpy.  I got in my warm house after viewing my mileage (stop watch and only looked at it for time in a few places.  only wanted 8 miles and I felt like for sure I was running 9 min miles running uphill so I ran until about 72 minutes--well 75 minutes when I got back).  It was a very nice loop.  I visualized a lot during my run that it was the middle of the summer and I was wearing shorts and drinking from the closed water fountains that line the course this time of year.  Oh yah-- when  I ran by the pond behind Lone Peak High School--- the water was quite choppy but not frozen!!!!  I was for sure thinking then that I was making this whole "cold" run up.   Surely the pond should be frozen by now??????   ALAS  I was retelling my story to my dear husband and he proceeded to tell me that his phone read that it was 21 degrees out in Pleasant Grove!!!  FLIP  how cold was it when  I started??? probably upper teens with the WINDCHILL.   I am unsure how I ended up with an 8:10 AP for 9.21 miles.   I was barely moving!!!  Warm shower right now!!! 

ankle pain mixed with lower back burning pain .....arthritis or another herniated diac puzzling pain.  the ankle bone is so very tender.   Worked all day.  No exercise.

so done with this pain.  worked all day.  busy.  tired.  unusually so.  hmmm....haven't been taking iron for over two months.  getting depressed thinking I am back to last years prolem all over again.

13 miles with Cristie (only one stop at a stop light for 15 seconds : D) met her for the first time today at kneaders Christmas run. we were averaging 750 up the canyon at mile four then ran a mile in the snow and that slowed us to over 8 pace as we turned around at mile five. The snow was crunchy and hard.  we then ran past kneaders towards wills pitstop with  scott and brandon who got our ap to 7:35 for 13 miles.  we thought we went only 12.  time flies when you are having fun!   ankle gave up pain signals at mile fourish.   then my left hamsting was an attention seeker.  stop watch.  loved my company today.  It was quite cold however.  Don't know the temp.  Lovely headwind as usual up the canyon. Thanks Rachelle!!