Believe to Achieve

8 really easy Bc of gout/poison sap pinky finger huge flare.  Woke up with it sat am.  After run lots of yard work pruning.  Got some fire purple bush sap on my right pinky. 
pain was excruciating yesterday until 1 am.   Took Benadryl.  5  pm yesterday. Three Motrin x 3.    Up nearly all night talking to amber.  She flew out today ti Ohio.  3 am drive.   Flight 510 am.   Her ocd is bad.  Avg pace 8:54.  First mile 9:43.  Last mile 8:17. All felt easy.  Here and there and every where four out and back up to canyon road from 1100 going by Brooke c house. New division.  Hot but surprisingly tolerable. 

Sudden mid back pain getting dressed to work out.  Left flank.   Hard to breath through.  Took an hour of working it out burping etc. warm water.  One tums.    Made it to gym.  Warm up one mile next to Angie.  8:30.    Four min break.  2 up 4 percent 7:30 pace.  First two min no hold. Then hold 20.  Then 80 seconds no hold repeat until 10 min then 40/20.    Five min break.  1.5 miles -2 percent. 10:02 (6:39 pace ). Four min break. 2.5 miles 6:39 pace last little bit 6:27 pace.   Then five min break. 6:29 mile.    Just not good ti push through gout in pinky and possible dehydration cause.  Felt weak except last mile. And last part of 2.5 miler. Lots of sweat.  

Got put on call so able to meet Kim Jane Chandi Julie Bekah and melody at church below AF canyon.  Chandi's hubby drove us up to a mile before the summit.   Ran 1 to summit.  And down to fork and up to second Tibble fork parking lot bathrooms.  Turn down to church.   Numerous stops.   About five min each.  Not easy on me but better than it used to feel with the injury by a large margin.  Stopped up top. Stopped at first mile down.  Stopped at pine hollow.  Stopped at fork.   Stopped at Tibble fork reservoir.   Stopped at the fork again.   Stopped at caves.   Stopped at melody's car base of canyon.  Just barely under 44 min of stop time.  So avg 5.5 min each stop.  Lol. 
paces: 10:02-8000 feet steep uphill, 1.1 miles to where we stopped/7:23/6:49/6:49/6:45/6:35/6:39-0.1 uphill /8:26 on purpose slowed it.  Arms very cold and left quad stiffening.    8:47 - that drastic hill nearly to top /7:33 includes going up a little and over to second bathroom, started slow. Ahhh. 7:04 to fork. 7:20- asked them if we could slow.   We did briefly. 7:19/6:42/6:45/6:51/6:45/7:16. Last quarter mile of this last mile we jogged it as we were passed the church.  Felt tired going up to Tibble.   Legs worn out.  And back to fork.  But felt better just before caves and to melody's car. Last 1.5 miles glad it was nearly done. But felt strong mentally.  Stayed 25 seconds behind Jane this part. Iced in river.  12 min.  Falling asleep typing this 1110 am. 

Easy 8 miler. 9:12 avg. out and back almost same as Monday.  Left 910 am.   Hot out.   

Ran with Brooke c.   620 am.  Up to silo road my 20 mile route onto trail. Over to silo road and back down.  9:02 avg.  er potty stop. The 0.15 is running from her house back to mine which I ran quickly.  7:25 avg  not counted in my 8 mile avg. 

Cut from work.  Ran 2 miles ti vasa at 7:58 am.   Angie and Jenny were there. It was humid out.   Got water.  Then ran 8:12 mile.    Started 8:34 increase at 0.4 left by 1 mph ever6 0.05 miles.  Water.    Goal three mile time trial but tried pickups x 3 that took me to 0.5 miles at 9.2 mph 6:31 pace for 30 seconds each I couod tell hip muscles fatigued.  Switched to road tm for three x 1 mile repeats. Actually was going to do 1 min on offs but felt strong so kept there for a mile.  Then three min rest.  Repeat.  Three min rest repeat.  Girl with very strong perfume came by me during second one so had to find a new tm for last one.  Tried one out and had the call it quits at 0.16 miles in.  Hence the 8.66 miles plus another random trial on another tm to make it 8.76 miles today. The last tm was  Not as good of one. 6:31/6:29/6:31. So avg 6:30.33.      Felt controlled.  STRONG.   But some fatigue in legs.  Ran home two miles.