Believe to Achieve

So I went with Option B.  Especially when I awoke in the middle of the night about 3am to see SNOW accumulation!!!!  and it was STILL SNOWING!!  I awoke at 4:45am and drove to Center St. in Orem to the Riverwoods to park my car and run 5 miles to Center St. in Provo before meeting up with Kim, Mel, and Jane for their last 13 miler before their big race next weekend.  They were pretty bummed about the snowfalling but I had grown quite accustomed to it by the I met up with them.  I was gettting chilled waiting for them to start their 13.  We left at 6:12am from Center St. and ran the Provo Half Marathon course (also the last half of the Provo Marathon).  The first two miles were 7:38, 7:30.  The next 11 the pace got progressively quicker and I felt really good except I felt stiff due to the COLD air and SNOW FALL ALL AROUND.  Mel, Kim and Jane were not feeling it and also they were to take it easier so they urged me to continue on.  I had decided on my drive over that I would run this long run with some MP miles and try with all my might to get the first half of next Saturday off and run 17 miles of the Provo Marathon with 14 at half marathon pace.  It was supposed to be a 15k (9.3 miles) at half marathon pace this week on a different day then my long run but I have to squeeze them together. So I reversed the order of MP and half MP because it is hard to race when there really isn't a race going on.  I am SO GLAD I didn't run Thanksgiving Point half today-- with how wet, and snowy it is the course would have been even more CHAOTIC.  It interloops with the other runners AT least 7 times.  A joke.  It would have been slip slidin' race and scurrying around, lapping runners.  It will be interesting to hear how others enjoyed that race today.  AP today for the 5.2 miles before the meet up:  7:59.  For the 13.1-- 7:11 (felt I could have run a lot quicker, felt really easy, just stiffer than I would like) last four miles--6:53, 7:01, 6:55, 6:56 (viaduct HILL, gross!!), last .1 at 6:37,  then cooldown 0.7 @ 7:32.  AP for entire run 7:28 for 19 miles.  Don't even feel like I worked too hard at all.  Ate two gus to prepare myself to fuel in the race.  I hadn't been taking much in my runs if anything.