Work will win when wishy washy wishing won't

Today's run takes me over the 1000 mile mark for this year.  It was a beautiful morning for a run.  The air was crisp and a bit cooler.  It was nice to run with the group but I ran mostly with Kay and had a nice start to the morning and the week.  

Not my favorite night, great run and then not my favorite day.  Without going into detail Tom and I were NOT able to get much sleep last night.  I "woke up" I say it that way because I was not asleep) at 4:20 to get ready to run down Payson Canyon.  Luckily the run went really well but needless to say I was tired when I got home.  

Instead of hydrating and eating well I went back to bed for a few hours.  When I woke up something was not good at all.  I was passing out and hearing buzzing noises.  My face was a very wrong color.  My cute 11 year old was here with me and I told her that her brother was down stairs and she needed to get him.  Anyway....felt terrible, tried to get some gatorade in me and ate a piece of toast with jam.  I had a hard time getting much in me and fell back to sleep for many hours.  I woke up feeling quite a bit better but as the evening has continued I really don't feel well at all.  

Yesterday I had a booster shot at my yearly checkup.  I am wondering if these symptoms are actually from that.  I really felt like I hydrated right and it was definitely not hot and it was only 8 miles. I am hoping to get a good night sleep and feel much better in the morning.

This evening we went to our 3rd son's final city league baseball game of his career.  It has been fun watching him.  They lost in the championship game but had a good time. 

One more thing...a friend of mine is in the hospital waiting to see if the donor lungs that came in today are a match for her....It kind of puts things in my life in perspective.  

I went to bed still feeling quite yucky last night so I decided today would be a good time for a rest day.  I am feeling much better so far today.  Too bad I have lots of catch up work around the house since I wasn't much good at anything yesterday.

My friend who went in for the lung transplant got there to find that the lungs would not work for her BUT another set with her same rare blood type had also just got there.  They had to postpone the surgery a few hours but she has now gone into surgery.  Crazy stuff.  Her hubby keeps giving facebook updates and said everything is going great.  This gal sure has had a positive outlook through her whole journey.  She is a great inspiration to all!

I took a few days off since I wasn't feeling well.  Today I got out there and could hardly make it through 2 miles.  I came back to get Rui and see if he could perk me up.  I barely made it one with him and ran into Annette who was just starting out.  I brought Rui back and joined in with her for a bit.  FINALLY...I started getting out of that nasty funk!  I hate when it feels so hard....if it always felt like this morning I would understand why most people hate running.  I just hope tomorrow's 20 miler is much easier than today's first 3 miles!  

Update: My friend with new lungs is doing well.  They call her the poster child of double lung transplants so far.  I hope it continues.  

Sad news is my best friend's mom passed away.  Life continues to have its ups and downs just like it was meant to have.

Luckily I can say the morning was pretty and the scenery was beautiful but the run was dang ugly!  Only good thing about it is that it is done!  Glad to have Tom, Carolyn and JaNae to help me make it through this one.  

My favorite part of the run was when JaNae and I came down off Harry's Hill and around the bend to the sun coming up from the east and looking out over the beautiful valley that we live in to the North/West.  Amazing!  We were both feeling the gratitude of living in such a wonderful place.  It was our little morning spiritual uplift for the day.  

I actually had to plug through the last 3 miles alone.  I am just happy I did it when I really wanted to bag the whole thing.  I hope next week feels much better.  I suppose after having the issues of earlier in the week it may not have been the best time for a 20 miler.