Busy Week

This week has been a very busy week, which is the reason for posting a week late.  Last Saturday I was able to run the 6 miles. I had gotten up at 4 in the morning and did insanity before I had to be at work at 5:30 to work at farmer's market all day then I proceeded to take a nice long nap when I got home from work for 3 hrs! After I finally woke up from my nap, I left to go running around 8:45-9:00.  I felt pretty good and kept a steading pace.
Then on Sunday my family went up to Pine Crest for Father's Day.  For those of you who do not know where or what Pine Crest is; it is a lake on the way up to Sonora about an hour and a half away from Modesto.  It was so gorgeous up there and the weather was absolutely perfect! We BBQed hamburgers and had a few side dishes to go along with it, delicious meal!! Did not actually get into the water since it was absolutely freezing; we've had a lot of snow melt off lately and that is what the lake is full of so there was no way I was getting in with the snow being on the mountain still a couple weeks ago! I did my run up there but made it a shorter one of 2 miles since the night before was a little longer.
Monday night ended up being an awesome run! I wasn't really looking forward to going out and doing it but once I got going I actually felt great. Before I got to running I was only planning on doing another short one for the night since I wasn't really in the mood but as I was going I decided I at least do 3 or 4.  Well I ended up going out even farther and completed 5 miles that night at a steady 7:45 pace so I was pretty happy with that!
Then Tuesday night, I was out at a friend's house. We went swimming after we ate some dinner and his friend got over to his house from work.  When we got out it was around 9:45 and I still had to go out and do my run.  I was able to convince him to go out with me (the same friend who ran with me last time) since it was later, I don't think he wanted me to go out by myself.  I told him we'd only do a mile but we doubled that and did a whole 2 miles! haha The first mile we held a good 8 min mile but then the way back we were running pretty fast keeping a 7:25 pace whenever I looked down at my watch.  So he is getting in a lot better shape than the last time we ran together because he was not dying on me this time!!
Wednesday morning ended up being a horrible run since the previous 2 nights had been harder ones.  Even though the night before was only 2 miles, I still ran pretty fast on both those runs so my legs were definitely feeling it! I did 3 miles but they were slow and my legs were screaming at me.
Thursday felt great again! I took the 3 girls that I'm cross training from the swim team out to the path by the river next to my house.  The sun was pretty intense already at 8 in the morning but not bad enough to not be able to run yet.  There were a few shaded spots on the path but most of it was out in the sun.  I ran a little farther than I had them go but they are getting faster and in better running shape than last Thursday when I ran with them so that made me happy and glad that they are starting to enjoy it more!
Finally, last night was a very short 1 mile run than was not fun to do at all. I was really tired because I had driven up to Chico right after I finished the run Thursday and had stayed up late Thursday night but worth it since I got to hang out with some great people! So by the time I drove back home yesterday and got my run in I was exhausted and I was having some pains going on so that didn't help the running.  But Friday morning I had an appointment with my chiropractor up in Chico, oh man does he work wonders! He used this tool and scraped at my ankle with it because my achilles was inflamed some from when I fell back in April on my ankle. When he bent my foot back before it was still in pain but after he used the tool my achilles was no longer in pain so hopefully the tissue will not build up again and stay un-inflamed.
Well I'm about to go on my run for tonight so I will catch you all later and I hope everyone is having a fantastic weekend!!