Believe to Achieve

Good ol' course tool.  Left on this run watchless and no idea when I left...well sometime between 8:15 and 8:50???  I just don't remember.  Serious early alzheimers disease.  My memory is going fast.  I used to remember things well.  So strange to be going through this memory lapse.  I honestly thought this run would be under 8 miles.  I just ran at a slow easy whatever pace.  9.13 miles course tooled.  Very baffled.  I must have spaced off.  It was a lonely contemplative run.  No pain but heavy legs.

Ran to af track with pink eye and a headache and body aches...three weeks ago the 10 days before sg marathon brooke had pneumonia...fever for 10 days....she was weak when i left for sg but on the mend. When i got back amber got an unstoppable cough that dr felt was pertusis or mycoplasma bacteria...put on antibiotic and gradually over last six days her cough is slowly diminishing..her sinuses were draining like mad. Also went to dr and all in office oncluding the dr were sick with this bad cold....me? Surrounded by even more patients sick and some coworkers....not a single symptom. Now pink (ponk) eye. So more bacteria.tried some sw at the track. Not feeling it. 200....41, 400- 89 200- 43 200 --43 400 88

At work at uv nicu. No exercise. Just hanging with cutie pies all day.

Insomnia! Oh well still met kim and jane...and a nice surprise melanieb. :-) jane and i tried to keep up. Overall a minute back....we stopped once at eternal fountain. . 10 minutes for all of us to potty. Brrr....are sweat began to freeze. Hard to start up again but legs awakened at mile 6. This was an out and back with some good hills. Cold air kept muscles stiff for most of run..most likely just me out of shape. Ha ha. Last mile 6:34. Ap 7:09. Pretty much mp tempo ha...first four miles were 7:27 avg pace according to jane. I wore my stop watch . Glad i didnt see pace.

5.12  (red nikes)miles on not much sleep. I keep waking at three am. Decided to run then an hour later. Nice and easy my five mile route. Started stop watch in house and left watch home. Ran easy. Stopped watch when back. Ha ha. Since i know it is 5.12 i ran 8:21 pace. Felt really easy compared to yesterday. I wanted to see if o could guess my pace. I thought i was doing about 8:25 to 8:30. So close.

check out the sleeping hours.  MASSIVE INSOMNIA.  I finally decided to fill my ambien prescription from the summer.  Didn't work the other two times I tried over the years. Wishful thinking.  I was awake and coherent to my 10 year old daughter 1.5 hours after I took it.  I told Amber I was taking it and she was to take "notes" if I did anything weird.  We were in my bed watching mindless tv.  Drifted off after 10 woke at 0100.  Took another half a pill (total one 10 mg) and slept only an hour.  Laid in bed and decided to text some running friends to see if they would run with me.  I wasted time to 7:20 wondering if I should run on NO good quality sleep in over a week.   I can't believe this. Thought hormone replacement would help me sleep bettter but it is having opposite effect.  Making me very HIGH strong and weirded out.  Have a thirteen year old daughter's party to watch over til 11pm but may just last til 9pm and let my hubby take over as I hopefully crash tonight for like 16 hours please!!! Anyway did just go out and run at 7:20am and ran up 1100 North in PG to Canal trail (murdock) and ran North. A guy passed me going quickly so woke me up and I decided to try and hang with him...by that decision he was already 20 seconds ahead.  He managed to stay that way for the three miles I trailed him.  Didn't have garmin but did have stop watch.  It was probably about 6:50 pace for three miles then I was like HELLO I need to just run easy which I think was about 7:40ish pace.  I also picked it up for my last mile and since I had my stopwatch and know where the mile to go to my house point is I ran it in 6:38.  AP for run 7:33 (10.28 miles per course tool).   Then it was on to Brooke's last tournament game. They won 5-1.  They won all but onebeing a tie in their season games. They finished their Division 2 season in 1st!! and move on to Division 1 automatically.  : D.  Troy (my husband) is the coach.   Amber's Celtic team has had a rough go.  They lost their last game.  But Amber played hard.  It is fun to watch them play soccer D:  BUT it drains me of all remaining, if any adrenaline, because I am super competitive in game sports.  Not so much in running except against myself...hence why I like running-- ME against the clock,, if I happen to pass people along the way  that is fine..but it is not my goal.  I  like to win master's but it is usually a win because the speedier gals didn't show up.    Just want the marathon PR.  Subthree someday.