Believe to Achieve

Plan-- run easy 5 miles.  Foot not near as painful--- 20 % left to heal.   But it did go through several rebellions during the run but ended up turning numbish (maybe it was the endorphins? :D) and amazingly the last 1.5 miles were pain free.   The good ol' days.  I was even pain free walking around my house.  AP for 5 = 8:27.   Turned out to be a progressive 5 miler starting with 8:48 and ending at 7:47.  Felt really good to smell the spring time!!  I had some kinks in my form and the sometimes odd feeling in my foot made it interesting.   When I got back I stretched and took my girls to school after they ate breakfast.  I was just so badly wanting to get out there again and was fearing I would over do it. 

I was back for 30 minutes then headed out again for 3 more (AP 7:53).  I felt so good.  The last mile was 7:31 and it felt easy.  I stretched some more.  I had my music in for the last three miles. This is the first time I have run with music in over three weeks.  Okay, well I haven't been running so it is not a long stretch as it sounds.  But I don't bike with music (safety) and I ran Boston sans music.  Even my little jaunts on the Cape were without music.  I wanted to feel everything. The music pumped me up.  I felt like maybe I could really turn back into my goal oriented running self.  Subthree is still out there.   But I will take it one step at a time.  : D.  Oh yah---  15 pushups, 60 second front plank, 30 sec side planks, 10 more push ups.  First of arm and core work since well before Boston (probably four or more weeks).   My adrenal glands are apparently working.  That was pretty scary on that med last week!!   happy day!   

I so miss my visiting teacher, neighbor, and friend Lee Ann Dayton.  She passed away last Thursday after having a heart attack Wednesday and then surgery Thursday morning for a quadruple bypass. Met with her husband on Saturday and we cried together.  They would have been married 62 years this June.  She was turning 83 in June. Church yesterday was a tear fest.  I could feel her presence everywhere there. The choir sang and she is in the choir.   She always sits right behind me at church with her husband.  He said he could see her up in the choir.  He came to hear the choir.  He also was determined to get his home teaching done.  My neighbor told me he called her yesterday.  Troy (my husband) was talking to him before church and he said he hasn't missed a home teaching appointment in 70 years!!!!!!  That is the kind of couple they were!!!  They even were at the temple doing sealings on Tuesday (when she had several attacks of not feeling well and having a hard time breathing).  She called me three times on Monday and last week she left a message on my machine that she had some vegetables in her garden for me.  That message is still on my machine.  I want to remember her voice for as long as possible.  She has taught me how to serve and she was an amazing example to everyone!!!  Thank you Lee Ann!!!