Work will win when wishy washy wishing won't

I hope everyone is having a fun and safe 4th of July!  We always have a fun time back in my old home town of Manti with family and friends.  Today was the first year none of our kids wanted to go with us.  : (  Tom and I enjoyed ourselves though and the kids enjoyed being home.  

I was planning on 6 miles today but I left home with not even nearly enough water in my system. So I could turn around at 3 miles to get home with six or go another half mile to the water fountain at the park and end up with seven.  I had to choose the water....I was so thirsty today!  Very warm, muggy and windy.  I met up with Tom when we both had about 2 1/2 miles left.  I'm glad I had him to run with or I may have done some wimping out on those last few miles. 

Tom and I are trying really hard not to complain about the heat!  At least when it's cold out we can layer and warm up, but when it's hot there is nothing you can do.  All of you who are running in even more heat than us....you rock!  

This morning I tagged along with Tom to run up and down Payson Canyon. We started at Beercan Flats and went up 4 miles. The last .20 or so going up I started feeling sick!  Between pushing up hill and seeing the creek out of the corner of my eye and hearing the water roar I just felt yucky!  But I pushed to the top and took a little breather for the journey back down.

Going down felt much better until about half way down when I over extended my knee or something and got a bit nervous.  I stopped and started but it hurt.  So I told Tom to go on ahead and come and pick me up.  After he left I was able to start back up slower and it actually felt fine the rest of the way.  So I made it down after all.  Poor Tom....his main running partner always has some kind of issue....but he never complains.   

Kay was my running buddy today.  It's always fun to be with her.  We went out to the river trail and up to Canyon View Park for a drink.  Lucky enough to have a Kellie Shepherd sighting on the trail.  : )

Slight rubbing on the side of the left knee in the last .30.  I'm a little nervous about the IT band this year.  I've had good luck with it for a few years but have been feeling some little things here and there that I am going to keep and eye on and be very careful with.  I do not want ITB issues! 

Today was a day when the "plan" and "what actually happened" are not the same.

 I had planned to join in with the SF running club for 5 miles before heading off on my own towards Springville for 7-8- more miles to watch Tom come in at the Hobbler 5K.  

The plan started right.  I met up with a good sized group and did our regular route.  The first three miles I ended up in conversation with Ken and Chad which meant I was in the lead group. It was actually feeling really good, in fact I was doing much of the talking and it was going great. But somewhere along the way my right achilles decided it didn't like what I had done.  On the next three miles I was going slower but it was burning pretty good especially when I went up Heartbreak Hill.  

That is where the plan changed.  I decided to take the last mile home slowly and then jump in the truck to go to Springville instead.  I thought I might be able to get a few more miles in over there while I was waiting for things to start but it didn't feel right so I didn't.  

I'm thinking that with the UV 1/2 then Ragnar the next week I haven't quite given myself the rests I have needed as a still fairly inexperienced runner.  I am going to watch this carefully and try to get it better before it gets worse.  I may be a little over protective this next week to see if that helps.  I hate to do that because I have been enjoying too many treats this past month and I need to run to make up for all of them!  : )

It was very fun to watch Tom at his finish line though!  Whenever we both run I never get to be there to cheer him in.