Believe to Achieve

1 mile and ouch hamstring painful. so i joined a spin class that was jist starting. Firat spin class since April.  Death.  I was like can this be over already? i tend to work too hard in spin.  lots of sweat. then i tried the hamstring out again and my right ankle was jist as angry but hamstring looser but not close to normal.  so easy easy easy on the tm for 3 miles...nope  ok u can do 7 to make it 8. first three miles were 820 pace (includ. wu mile) and then i ran 2 @813 then one at 649 and one at 641.  1% for first five. 0 percent for last two.  the last two were easier than spin class!!!!! ap 747 with half mile cooldown.work at noon.  

not the best sleep wheh your kids decide that we need to set more traditions....like THEM sleeping in our room on the floor.   good thing santa claus disguise was removed this year....I accidentally let the cat out of the bag to my almost 10 year (Dec 29).  Oooops.   So I was a sleep at 1030 but awake a 0100 to get presents put under the tree.  Back to bed at 215am   Awake at 545am when Brooke said she just couldn't wait anylonger. We held her off until 6am.  Finished by 730am.  Rachelle was so very nice to come over to my house and we ran a very icy run together. Our first one this year so we really were just checking out how to go about it without fatality and my lower back and hamstring was extremely tight I REALLY needed this VERY easy RECOVERY run to just JOG and TALK.  Thanks again!!!  Rest of the day was at Grandpas at noon a 1/2 mile away then to visit Grandma at the Rehab center in Orem.  We already had my sister and her husband and kids over for a Turkey Dinner (thanks to the Turkey Trot and the 22 pound turkey I won) on Sunday.  We have lots of Turkey still left.  Yup turkey the past three days as well.  Yum!!   8.61 miles @ 8:46 pace.  We almost got hit and each of us had some near miss fallings but amazingly we stood up the whole time!!  NO one plows in Pleasant Grove!!!

Saucony 5s flats.  Love the colors of these shoes.  But-- learned quickly that they are so light because they have holes in the bottoms.  I am not sure how Christie handled that crunchy snow up Provo Canyon.  My feet were quickly wet when I stepped out of the building after my run in a complete blizzard there and back.  Drove VERY slowly.  No need to take risks in this weather.  Okay--- plan??? well no plan but 8 miles.  Oh and of course my lower back and hamstring were quite angry on the left side and my right ankle OUCH even more.  But everyone know I am masochistic and like to whine about my pains afterwards.  I am sick in the head!!  Okay....really no plan.  Kept TM at 1% and ran 8:06 for a mile and got the notion to increase the mph by 0.2 every mile until 8 miles so that means I ran the rest like this--- 7:53, 7:41, 7:30, 7:18, 7:08, 6:58, 6:49 (the last 1/4 of this mile  I got down to a 6:18 pace gradually).  I focused on form and breathing and focusing OFF of my pains as best I could.  Relaxing shoulder and stride.  Felt good zoning the pains out.  AP here--7:22.5 (58:59 for 8 miles) then I ran a cooldown for 1/2 mile at 8AP.  All one percent.  Stretched for almost 10 minutes then did upper body with free weights for 15 or so minutes then a the kettle ball x 2 and some planks-- 2 x 60 sec, 1 x 30 L  1 x 30 R.  Running out of time.  Off to inject my lower back.  : D.  We also just watch Wreck it Ralph.  Really quite enjoyed this Disney Toy Story like show with my kids : D.

no motivation to get miles in before work. and definitely none after work.

snowy trail run with Rachelle from maceys in orem to just before the bridge under canyon road by bridal veil.  it was like  we were on top of a mountain in a blizzard.  the snow capped scenes were breathtaking.  we cruised along no mind to pace. i pressed tje lap button when we turned around so we ran up at 849 pace and down at 759 pace.  ap 8:24 for 11.26 miles.  we didmt stop our watches once and we had to maneuver through high drifts and crunchy footing often.  i came home and rustily got out for what ended up being 2.96 milez more.  i felt like i was barely moving and the snow was falling harder and mh sweat had frozen from the drive home.  ap 8:18. very surprised. total 14.22 miles. finished with some planks and pushups then ice skating  for 95 minutes.  pretty tired rest of day but still cleaned a bit.

I am in a no running before work slump.  Worked 13 hours. Busy.  Babies love coming between Christmas and New Years.  I know I had one on December 29 (today) 10 years ago.  We have to celebrate it on a different day every year.   Her friends are all gone for the break and we are wiped out from Christmas.  Poor kid.  She is getting a party on January 5.  Really should have just kept her in for one more week.  What was I thinking delivering on her due date????