Recovery

So today I was supposed to do 8... but everyone else was finished and I felt bad making them all wait. After doing all our stuff in the weight room at the school, Bill told us just to go to a dreadmill for 8 miles. No way can I do that! So when we got to Steiner, Natalie and I did 10 laps around the ice rink upstairs, which is 1 mile, then we went to the dreadmills. I survived 1 mile, then went back out to the ice rink area to do 10 laps in the other direction. Then when I got back to the other room, all the dreadmills were taken, so I hopped on an elliptical and did 3 miles. The elliptical actually felt really good for my plantarfacitis, since I didn't have to do foot toe foot toe lopsided running. Maybe my left calve won't feel so tight tomorrow...

Ugh. 2nd day at the Oval this week, and we have a meet Friday and Saturday. I hate that place now. We did the usual 4 laps warm up and stretching. Then 4 laps warm up and 4 laps speed changes. My plantarfacia hurts like heck! I can't step on it without the excruciating pain, and I'm scared. I did 5 300s, and counted my laps. I was at 20 laps, so I got on the bike while everybody else finished the workout. If it keeps hurting really bad to run, then it's probably going to be pool running, elliptical, and bike until I find out whats wrong. And I don't know when my mother will schedule an appointment, I would do it myself, but I just don't know how... Darn.

Today was easy, considering we have a track meet at the dumb oval tomorrow and Saturday. We ran from the school to the U flagpole along 13th east, then back along 13th east over to the flagpole at Westminster and back. Now we're going to go recruit at the freshman fair.

Day 1 of the Oval Distance Challenge. By the time I got there, paid, and checked in, I had little time to warm up. I managed to get just over 3 laps in for warm up and headed to the Bull Pen with Susannah, Amanda, Sarah, and Natalie. We were sitting there forever, and the people weren't really doing anything, so Bill saved our spots and we went to do some drills and warm up more. None of us were in the 1st heat, so we had plenty of time. Sarah did excellent in the 2nd heat!! We still had warm up time because nobody we knew was in the 3rd heat. Amanda, Montana, and I were in the 4th heat, and we were all wearing out Sojourners uniforms because we're just that awesome. I was boxed in at first, because Amanda and I started on the back line, three in a row with the purple giraffe spikes, score! I kept to the inner lanes, because on the straights there was plenty of room for me to pass on the inside easily. I PR'd by 1 second!! :D Happy day! My foot hurt too much to do a full cool down, so I walked around a bunch and then did some yoga with Natalie, Taylor, Susannah, and Amanda. Then took a nap with Delaney and Sarah. I'm doing the 800 tomorrow...

Did the 800 today. I was in the 3rd heat out of 5. My hip number was 4, so I had a good spot on the starting line. My plan was to get out hard and hold a good spot, then outkick in the next 400. I got boxed in, but people were leaving adequate room between the track and the mats dividing it from the ice, so I had plenty of room without stepping over the line. Once I crossed the 400 line, I was in about 4th place, and I figured I could at least get 2nd. But when I passed the other 2 girls I was with, I had to hold them off and I caught up to the 1st place girl. And in the last 100 meters, I got her. With about 15 meters to go, she started passing me again, but I moved my arms and finished in 1st, with a 14 second PR!!!!!!

Did I mention that I hate Mondays? Today we did the usual track warm up of 2 verticle laps, stretching, and drills. We also did the sardine one, and that's my favorite one. Then we had a relay, Bill's team against Gustavo's team. I was selected to be on Gustavo's team, and at first I wanted to be stubborn but I realized what we were doing and noticed I was on a team with Josephine, Sophie, Vohn, Tomy, Mickey, Noel, and all those other good sprinters. We conquered. Then the distance runners went out for a 10 miler. It was starting to snow when we started. We ran out the teacher parking lot up 9th south to 15th east, up Sunnyside to Wasatch Blvd. Going up Sunnyside I was with RJ and Sarah, but once above Foothill I was alone in shorts, in a hoodie, in a blizzard. On Wasatch Blvd, I went all the way to Thunderbird to the drinking fountain. I guessed it would be off, considering the blizzarding circumstances and all, and I was right. So I turned around and ran along Foothill to 13th south, and down to 19th east. Going down there, some idiots honked at me and were doing stupid hand signals. I hate it when people do that, pet peeves right there, getting yelled or honked at jokingly whilst running. I'd like to see them go do a 10 miler in a blizzard when it's getting dark. I turned on 19th east and went to Sunnyside, down to 14th east, over to 9th south, and ran all the way in the teacher parking lot to the back doors of the school commons. My hoodie strings were frozen ice, and since I couldn't move my fingers, Natalie had to let me out of my hood. They had all ran around the block for a ful 10 miles, but I didn't know that so I'm .75 behind... Oh well. If they're all hitting 50 this week... Thats jumping it huge for me. I'll go up 5 or 7 or something. Not 20.

Speed at the Oval. Have I mentioned yet how much I despise the Oval? We started at the school with the usual track warm up, stretching, and drills, then drove out to torture. We did 4 laps warm up, stretching, 4 laps warm up, 4 laps speed changes, and 1 lap recovery. I kept up with the group until speed changes, and Amanda and I ran together. We changed shoes and did a 1000. I was supposed to be between 3:55 and 4:00, and got a 3:58. Then we did recovery laps then 2 800s, each with good recovery. I got a 3:13 and a 3:11, which was good because I had to hit 3:12s. Then we did recovery laps and then 4 400s. I was supposed to be getting 1:30s, and I got 1:30, 1:29, 1:30, and 1:26. We recovered a lap, then changed shoes and did an 8 lap cool down for a total of 10 miles. Then we hurried on home for rice krispies and brown cow from Papa John!!

Today Sarah and I led the sprinters on a 6 mile run. We ran along 13th east to the Shriners drinking fountain, and going up the big hill at a nice, easy pace, the sprinters all turned around and ran down, but Sarah and I didn't notice until we were at the top and looked down to see them going back. Losers. Anyway, we went and got a drink and went back to East the usual way we do the Shriners run, and going down our big hill, we saw our fellow distance runners. It was a good run. And later I went ice skating... does that count as miles? Just kidding :)

I. Hate. The. Freaking. Olympic. Oval.

 Susannah, Amanda, and I did 5 laps of warm up. Then we all as a big group did 4 more laps warm up. And then I did 4 laps speed changes, losing the group. My tummy was hurting, but hey, I had just eaten the muddy buddies Ashley had given me, so it's all good... We changed into our flats and did 8 300s, each with about 100 meters recovery in between. Amanda and I were supposed to be hitting between 64 and 66, and we did great! Amanda had her watch, so I stayed with her. We got a 64, 64, 65, and 64. Then jogged a lap for our second set. We got a 65, 64, 64, and 65. Amanda is excellent at keeping pace! I only needed 6 today, so I did 2 laps cool down in my flats. I really don't think I'll be doing the 10K on Saturday...

Played the penny game for 4 miles. I was too lazy to even check where we were going. "This is like real life. The person with the money decides where everybody goes. And everybody is chasing the person with the money." -Bill

BLAHHHHHH! Warmed up with Bill, Susannah, Natalie, Ben, and Taylor. We went 1 mile out and 1 mile back. I was planning on jogging the race, so I took my ipod along for the 10K. I did pretty good staying even. Delaney, Frisch, Patti, Sam, Dakota, and Kim were all doing the water station. The first time I passed it, I got a cup from Delaney and accidentally snorted it up my nose. So I blamed it on Chuck Norris...Erm...Delaney. I cheered for Jamal, Ben, Susannah, Bill, Mel, Natalie, Taylor, and Jeffy. I kept an even pace as I listened to my ipod, running in the middle of nowhere to more middle of nowhere from middle of nowhere. I didn't do a cool down, as I've upped my miles pretty badly this week. I stepped on my foot really wierdly at about 3.5 miles into the race, and my hip has been hurting since. Ouch? I didn't do a cool down, instead I ate the delicious MUDDY BUDDIES Nanna and I made. Then, when we were ready to go, Susannah, Natalie, Delaney, Ben, Taylor, Jeffy, and Bill did our High School Musical jumps off the stairs. I love my team!

We did workout on our own track today instead of the stupid oval because it was nice out. :) We did 2 laps of warm up as a whole track team, and did our stretching as a whole track team. Then we split into our events workouts. I of course went with distance and did 8 laps warm up, 4 laps speed changes, 1 lap recovery, and changed into my flats. Then I did 12 200s, each with 200 recovery and back to everyone else, which made it 100 one way, 100 the other way, aka 400 of cool down every other one, because on the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th, and 12th one, I did 200 recovery total each one. I changed back into my trainers and we did 7 laps for a cool down.

Susannah and I ran from our house to the track, did 1 mile, 2 miles speed changes, 1 mile, and ran home.

Just an easy 5 since Simplot is tomorrow. We ran up Sunnyside to Amanda Ave, up 9th south, along 15th east to 21st south. It was really windy. I was just jogging because my side hurt, and as I was going down 21st south to 13th east, I almost tripped. Along 13th east in front of Westminster college, Natalie sneaked up on me and jumped me with 10 fingers. I picked it up and stayed with her for the remainder of the run. When we got to 9th south, we went up to 14th east, crossed the street into the stadium, did a lap on the track then ran around the soccer field until her garmin said 5. 

I warmed up with my Sarah by doing laps outside of the Holt Arena in Pocatello, Idaho. We did that for about a mile and a half before going inside by the check in to do some drills. I would be in heat 3, while Sarah was in the 8th heat. I checked in and more drills and stretching along the straightaway of the track when they set us loose there. I was hip number 8. I got  a good start, not too fast but fast enough to stay in the back of the crowd. Once their beginning sprint wore off, I went for it and passed the back crowd and worked up to the front crowd. I really wanted to break a 5:50, and that 1 second really upset me. I tied for 51st overall. After my race, I just walked around for a good 20 minutes to just think about my race and what I could have done better.

Easy 4 today. I ran with Sarah and Patrick to the cemetery, 2 laps, and back to the school.

My cough still hurts, and it made me feel ultra sick today. Sarah and I ran to the flagpole at the U, and on the way back we went through the campus and had an adventure... It was actually rather exciting and we got alot of wierd looks, but who cares when you're jumping like Buddy the Elf in the crosswalk, or running like an airplane with sound effects? Honestly, some people don't know how to have fun. We continued over to 13th south and realized we were at about 4, because we were having so much fun on our detour, so we ran back to East for a total of 5. My stomach hurt really badly the whole run...

16 cupcakes tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today we did the usual track warm up and stretching. Susannah put me in the center of the circle to lead the stretches for my birthday... I can't even count. Just kidding. After that, we did the dynamics in the hall then went outside for a relay with the batons. When someone hands me one of those, you may want to watch out because I always have the urge to hit something or someone, like the Highlame girl who cut me off in the medley at a trimeet last year.

After all that, distance runners went on a run. We ran from the school to Sugarhouse, big loop around the park to Highlame  High until we hit 3 miles, and turned around and came back the same direction. I was feeling really sick and it was really hard to run. Sarah was such a sweetie to stay back and run with me and listen to my complaints. I love that girl!

When we got back to the school, I got cupcakes :)

Just a run to the fire station on 11th ave and back with Sarah and Dakota. We took it easy because we're lame.