Work will win when wishy washy wishing won't

This morning I was planning on going over to Springville to do my run so I could keep my eyes open for the missing boy.  I logged onto fb for a minute before going out to check and see if there was any news....there was!!!!!  He came home this morning!  He has a lot to deal with now that he's home, he left because some pretty serious issues and then added some huge issues onto it by leaving and having to have a search party.   BUT.....he is home!  I'm glad he was brave enough to come home and face the music.  Kind of sad that a 12 year old is in such situations.  : (

So anyway, I changed my plan and zig zagged all over the south east end of Spanish Fork instead.  I had one big dog threaten me.  Luckily he stayed on his property though.  Then 3 stupid little rat dogs that just about learned how fun it is to get kicked back to the future!  Dang!  I was pretty mad at the owners!  I wish they would have been outside, but NO.....no owners in sight!  GRRRRRR!!!!!!!  I hate dogs that are not on leashes! 

The first 3-4 miles were about the worst feeling miles I have ever ran!  I actually had to stop twice in those miles to stretch and try to get my mojo going!  After about 3 1/2 everything clicked into place and I enjoyed the sun and warmth and then the cold and biting wind and then the sun and warmth again and so on and so on!  At least there was some sun and warmth in there....I think the next two days are just going to bite! 

My first 3 ave. 9:00 pace and my last 5 ave. 8:30. 

This morning around 5 o'clock I heard the wind a howlin' outside my window and I reached over and turned off my alarm clock.  I didn't have any desire to go out in that!  I decided to go back to sleep and find time later today to get the run in.  However, at the time my alarm clock was suppose to go off my internal alarm went off.  So since I was up I decided to check things out a bit closer.  I looked at weather.com and it said it was going to be the same or worse the rest of the day so I just did it!  And I'm glad I did! 

Since I knew it was going to be around ZERO degrees plus wind this morning I didn't worry about an alarm clock and getting out early.  I was glad I didn't have to get out early also because our son was sick and kind of kept us awake those precious few hours before time to get up.

My plan for today was a 2 mile warm up then a 4 mile tempo at ave. 7:45 pace.  The bad thing about my run today was the warm up and first 1/2 mile of the tempo were all with the wind but the rest were all into the wind.  At 3 miles I wanted to quit but I decided to push until 3.5.  At 3.5 I decided I would try to go to 3.75.  At 3.75 I decided I was DONE!  I used the last .25 for a slow recovery home. 

3.75 tempo ave pace 7:43

Six miles alone today then off to spend some time with my brother for the afternoon.  Very nice, but came home to sad news that our friend Terry's, oldbean.fastrunningblog.com daughter had a stroke caused by a brain aneurysm yesterday while playing church ball.  Any extra prayers you have would sure be of help!

I hope today will be the last day that my running buddy stays in bed while I head out on the road.  Tom's thinking he might be able to see how things go on Monday. 

I met up with the SF gang.  Started out with just three of us with 3 or 4 joining in along the way.  The first three miles were with the group at 9:08 pace.  The next 2.5 miles I did by myself at a 7:49 pace.  Then 3 more home with an 8:54 pace.