Recovery

After all the usual track warm up, drills, and stretching, we did wall sits, step ups, and other stuff before going on a run. We went along 13th east to the cemetery, then up to Guardsmin and did our Shriners run to 11th avenue and a couple blocks further than the fire station before turning around and going back the exact same way, including the cemetery loop. I was doing alright until we hit the U campus on the way up, the uphills started to get to me and I'm pretty brutally worn out this week. 18 miles left...

So I fell behind and ran alone the rest of the way, and since it's Food Run Thursday we all went to Wendy's and got food.

Speed at the oval this morning. There was a speed skating thing there, so there was a lot of equipment in lanes one and two, and a ton of spectators. We did a mile warm up and stretched, then did another mile warm up and speed changes. We changed shoes and ran over to the start of the mile. On our first lap, there was an announcement about clearing lanes 1 and 2 for the runners, which made me really happy. I hit my first 400 too fast, the next one too slow, and the last two were slow as well. I got a 6:07, which was bad considering I was supposed to be a 5:50-55. We did 2 laps recovery and then a set of 4 400s. Some spectators had moved back into lane one, and some old ladies barricaded it with some chairs. Jerks. So we did our 400s in lanes 3 and 4, I shared lane 4 with Sarah. I got 1:20, 1:21, 1:21, and 1:22 my first set, then we did 2 laps recovery then another set of 4 400s, I got 1:23, 1:24, 1:23, 1:22. We did 2 more laps before changing shoes then did 5 laps in our trainers. I kinda wanna watch Kung Fu Panda and then name Tomy, Natalie, Chris, Sarah, and I the furious five, Bill can be the big fat panda :)

Today I met up with Tomy, Bill, Sarah, Chris, and Kiley! We met up by the Highland marquee and ran up 21st south to 20th east, over to 33rd south, and into the cemetery. We did a lap in the cemetery, then went down through the neighborhood we like (actually...dislike) to run through when we do the cemetery run. We dropped down to 13th east and went to 21st south and into the park. We did a lap on the road and met back by the marquee. I felt pretty okay the whole run, not really any issue with falling back too far. I'm just glad the week is done.

Missed practice today so I had to go do my own 12 mile run. I ran from my house to Sugarhouse, did a big grass loop, ran up 21st south to 21st east, up and over by Hillside Middle School, up to Foothill, all the way to Sunnyside, did a lap in Sunnyside, ran along 17th east to Harrison Ave, down to 15th east, over to 15th and 15th, down to 14th east, and home. I felt okay the whole run, mainly because I was by myself, except pushing was rather hard because I was by myself. When I got home I had a missed call from Bill saying to go run 3 mile tempo on a treadmill to catch up on my miles, but when I was about to go to the gym my sister informed me that my membership expired last week. So now I get to add on every day this week and be a stud...

Took the ACT today. Since we got out of the test at 12:30 I went home, was locked out, went to ZoBell's for food, and to Natalie's to get a ride to the oval. It was nice to be able to leave right at 2:30 and be there by 3:00. We did a mile warm up and stretching, then another mile warm up and a mile speed changes plus a lap recovery. Then we did 2 800s with recovery laps and I hit 2:48 and 2:52. Then we did 2 sets of 5 300s (originally 3 sets but Bill changed his mind so we could have a long enough cool down to get the lactic out) I hit consistent 58-59s the whole time with Bill and Kiley, we took turns leading. We did 5 laps of cool down and then since I needed another mile, Bill needed another mile, and Kiley missed our first mile, the three of us did another mile to catch up. I think I'm going to do a mile before practice starts tomorrow and depending on where we finish another mile. I just don't want to do more than 10 miles on Saturday, but that's probably what I'll end up doing...

Before practice started I ran a mile to catch up. Then as a whole team we did half mile, stretches, and dynamic drills before breaking into groups. I went with the usual group up Sunnyside to 19th east, over to Harrison Ave, and down to Browning Circle to pick up Natalie. Then we ran over to 17th south down to 15th east and over to Sugarhouse park. We did a big lap in there and I started to crash. When we got up to 19th east we took our cemetery route but turned around as soon as we hit 6, then turned and came back the exact same way. As soon as I got back everyone had done another half mile but then Kiley had to go and she was my ride home so I had to go as well.

So far I'm at 8 miles, I should go run another mile tonight, but after I get new shoes. I'm at about 540 miles on these, no wonder I haven't been able to pick my legs up and why I'm so sore. We did the usual 2 laps warm up and stretching and drills. Bill and Tolbert divided us into boys and girls, then formed teams of 4. My team had 5 girls on it, Avvy, Kathrine, Izzy, Grace and I, but Izzy had to go so we were an even 4. We did a 4 by 400, Izzy started us, Grace was next, then me, then Kathrine. Then we did a 4 by 200, Avvy started us off, then handed off to Grace, then to me, and I handed it off to Kathrine. Then we did a double 4 by 100. Kathrine started this time, then handed off to me and I handed off to Grace who handed it off to Avvy who did a 200 and gave it back to Kathrine who gave it back to me who gave it back to Grace. I think that should be a scored event, it's fun. Then I went on a run with the usual group. We ran down to 13th east over to Sugarhouse park and started a road lap. We met at the bottom of the hill we run up for 400s and did 4 hills. Then we ran over to the hill by Highland where there was a lacrosse game and did 4 more hills. After my 4th one I ran straight to my dentist on 13th east, and once my teeth were all clean and shiny I went right back out. I ran to the school and then turned around and ran home. Now it's off to Salt Lake Running Co for some new shoes or I'll be injured!

I didn't really do this barefoot, I did this in an older pair of shoes because my other ones are at 550 miles. My legs hurt! We did the usual half mile warm up with the team and drills. Distance did a speed workout, we did a mile warm up and a mile speed changes and varsity did an extra lap. We did 2 sets of 800, 600, 400, 300, 200. I was to hit 2:40, 2:00, 1:20, 55, and 40 with Kiley, Dakota, and Patrick. I felt okay mentally and with my breathing, but my legs are full of so much lactic and I could not pick them up. I ran 2:48, 2:07, 1:23, 56, and 42 my first set. We did some recovery and then our next set, and I totally crashed. 3:03, 2:14, 1:26, 59, and 42. We did a mile and a half cool down by running up to Sunnyside park, doing a lap and coming back. It was like a triple score day because we ran our cool down with Ben Saarel and passed by the East and Judge lacrosse practices. SCORE! Yeah, a bunch of hotties right there. Then we went to Costa Vida for food. I really need new running shoes.

I think I'm going to go die now. 14.5 miles tomorrow? I have to be at the Temple by 9 and in Ogden by 1... Maybe I'll just go running in Ogden... FML

No I did not do this run barefoot, just on that same old pair of shoes that gets my feet all dusty and gross. Today instead of doing the track warm up, the distance runners drove down to the school where we loaded the high jump mats into Nat's truck to bring them up to the track. After that we stretched and did Tim's drills before breaking into our groups. Distance was to do the Adventure run backwards, but I didn't hear that, I heard "City Creek Run" and I could not keep up with the group today, so Ki, Patrick, Sarah and I fell back and decided to run together. Ki, Patrick and I went along 11th ave all the way to City Creek. We were wondering where Sarah was, I guess she had gone the right way. Anyway, we ran around City Creek and behind the Capitol, then down State Street to South Temple and all the way up to 13th east. Patrick lost us at South Temple, and when K and I looked back to see where he was we couldn't see him at all. We think he disappeared off the face of the earth. When we got to 13th east we ran over to 8th south and back up to the track. While on 13th east some Brazilian guy running started talking to us, and every time he stopped talking I would continue telling Kiley my story from Saturday and he would interrupt me again. We tried to slow down and let him pass us but he slowed down too, so we were glad when we turned up 8th south. At the track we did a lap before Bill told us to do 2 300s to be at 10. But we were at then! So we did one of the 300s then before the next one he asked us where we went, and when we told him we were able to just do another lap in the outside lanes of the track to be at 10.5. We are stud.muffins.

Today we decided on saving speed for tomorrow because it was windy. We did all the usual track warm up and drills, and only had to do 8.25 because we already had 1.75 with the drills. We ran to Sugarhouse along 15th east, did 2 grass laps, and back the same way. It was awful because my legs are dead and I can barely walk. I fell back with Kiley and Sarah, and then I think everyone crashed. It wasn't a good day.

Team time trials and speed today. We had a mini meet with just our team, a 100, a 1600, an 800, and a 400 'race'. We all did the half mile warm up with stretching and drills before doing our events. While the 100 dash people were having their trials, the distance people did 1 mile warm up and a mile speed changes. After those we went to the start. I got a pretty good start, I hit a 1:25, then at the 800 a 2:56, I don't know my 1200, and my final was a 5:58. We did a lap recovery before doing the 800 with a lot more people. It was a bad start because Kiley and I had to start behind while all the new freshmen started on the waterfall. Bad idea. Why? Because they all instantly cut in and I had to run around them all once they stopped sprinting the first 100 meters. I was a 1:26 split, and a final of 2:48. We did another lap recovery while they did some 400 heats and then we finished our whole speed workout with 6 400s. I got 82, 83, 81, 82, 84, and 82, pretty good and consistent considering I had a ton of lactic acid in my legs. We had to do a 4 mile cool down which was awful. We ran up Sunnyside to Foothill, down by the VA and back to the track. Ki and I couldn't keep up with the others, it's a cool down and we're already dead, our legs weigh a ton and we're not as fast as the others. When we got to the track we still needed about a mile and a quarter, so we did 3 grass loops without the hill, running around the soccer field three times where we almost got hit in the face by a lot of soccer balls, and the soccer boys were whistling. Oh man. I'm just glad that this weeks speed is out of the way and that tomorrows just another run. Oh, just another run.....

After the usual track warm up and such, Bill was busy handing out uniforms, so the distance people just ran around because we wanted a shorter run, and Ki and I had to make it to the lacrosse game. Ki and I ran around the soccer field a few times and were at 3.25 miles when Bill was finished and could run with us. We ran up Sunnyside to Shoreline, then along Shoreline to Red Butte and up to the gate. Ki and I were parched, and none of the drinking fountains were on, so we just drank from the creek. Don't worry, we're fine, we flushed it out of our systems, and Jesse and I did it over the summer during hill week at the JCC, we were fine. We ran down through the dorms to Legacy Bridge and down by the Huntsman Center until we got to Guardsman way and went down Sunnyside back to the track. We had to leave instantly to have time to get ready and go to the lax game.

Today was our first outdoor meet of the season, yay! We did the half mile warm up and stretching as a team, then I did another half mile. The whole time I didn't have socks, so I didn't bother wearing shoes. Finally my mom brought me socks, so I put my shoes on and did a mile warm up and a mile speed changes. I did some drills and strides with the other milers, then we started. The boys and girls were combined, and I was in the 2nd row behind the boys. I beat a lot of them. My start was pretty fast, I thought it was too fast, because my time at the 400 was 1:17, but I felt fine so I worked on passing the 2 Judge girls in front of me. I passed them with an 800 at 2:45, and my next lap was at a 4:12ish. My final time was somewhere in the 5:30s, I'm not sure where but I don't think it was a PR. I cooled down from that race and a few minutes later warmed back up for the 300 hurdles and the 800 right after. I mainly did the hurdles for fun, but I twisted weirdly on one of them, and I don't want to get injured so I might not be hurdling this year. I had a few minutes to prepare for the 800, so I just did some strides in my spikes. I got an okay start, people were cutting in early but I got around them. My first lap was about a 1:16, and as I was in the last 300 meters I passed one of the Judge girls, and with about 150 to go I passed the other, so I got 2nd to Natalie again. I love how our team is always 1 and 2 :) After the 800 I declared done for the day and just to get a 4 mile cool down in. I went up to Sunnyside and did a big lap around the park with Scotty, we passed the Judge lacrosse team. Score. When I got back to the track I ran a bit more and then decided since I only needed 2 more miles for the day I would do the 3200. There were 4 Brighton boys, 1 Brighton girl, Sarah, and I all running it. I just ran it as a cool down-tempo style run, and still chicked one of the boys. After that race I declared done for the day, but then a part of me got really hyper and wanted to be a leg in the 4 by 400, so Sarah, Grace, Ellie and I formed a last second team. Sarah did our first leg, then Grace, then me, then Ellie. We were dead last, but it was still tons of fun! :) I did another lap cool down to be at 10.5 and get some lactic out of my legs, and to have less miles to do tomorrow. It was a pretty good meet, and it was lots of fun.

Susannah and I met up with Bill, Kim, and Tomy at the Highland marquee. The wind was blowing strongly north, so we decided to drive out by Bill's house so we could just run north to our cars. Kim dropped us off at the pond and we ran around it. I liked this run alot. We ran across a really wiggly bridge, and Tomy started jumping, it hurt Susannah and mine's legs but it was so fun! Anyway, we ran along a parkway for a bit before getting on Holladay Blvd, running by Olympus and all those places. Stupid Oly. Anyway, Susannah ran her own run, so I had to run with Bill and Tomy the whole time. I managed to keep up, and it wasn't so bad, but that's probably because 1. I didn't want to get lost, and 2. the wind was pushing me forward, and 3. I was excited for the day. We finished off at Highland. It was a pretty good run.

Today we met up at the track as usual, but Nat had to take me home to get my shoes. I couldn't find my trainers, so I just grabbed my flats. Anyways, since the girls are going to the Davis Girls Super Meet tomorrow, we had less to run. We did the half mile warm up and drills with the team, then I went with Natalie, Chris, Tomy, Sarah, and Kevin to do 2 miles warm up, 2 miles speed changes, and 2 miles cool down. I stayed up with Tomy and Natalie the whole time and listened to their funny conversation about school. By the time Nat and I finished, the boys still had 4 miles to go (I would say ha ha suckers but now the girls are behind in miles...) so we did our core and went home.

Did a warm up with Natalie and Sarah. All three of us were put in the second heat in the mile so we had plenty of time to do drills before our race. Natalie and I took the first two seed spots (because we can) and the girl next to me cut right in front of me and threw an elbow, then I got boxed in and had a terrible start. Once I got into position to move up, on the second lap some girl started elbowing me on purpose, so I finally decided to fight back and give her a taste of her own medicine, HARD. That's when I gained a ton on her and she couldn't keep up. Mess. With. Me. I moved up to 3rd place in the 3rd lap, with only Natalie and Laura in front of me, but then in the last lap a Bingham girl picked up a kick really soon and I tried to stay with her but I couldn't, and then a Davis girl outkicked me in the last hundred, which made me really upset about my race. I hit a 5:28, and that's a PR by about 4 seconds, but I really was going for a place today. I took my garmin out for a little adventure run to clear my head of the mile and prepare for the 2 mile. When I checked in with Natalie and Sarah, we did our drills and lined up. Natalie and I took the 2 spots in lane 1 again (because we can) and I planned out my start this time. I was next to the same girl, and I was just going to have to throw my elbow first. She threw her elbow first, but didn't cut in soon enough, so I took the opportunity to get out of the pack fast. I let Natalie take a Davis girl out hard, then 2 other girls raced each other and I focused on trying to catch those two girls. Eventually the Davis girl realized that Natalie was too fast, and died so I passed her, then I outkicked the girl who outkicked me in the mile, give her a taste of that. Yeah, I'm brutal when it comes to racing, I just hate everyone and get angry, then I do better. I needed 3 more miles for the day, so Sarah and I ran in the direction of my cousin's house which is about 4 miles away from Davis high. We went a mile and a half out and back, and then realized that the team was all on the bus waiting. Today was the first day ever that I've liked my 2 mile better than my 1 mile.

Meet at Woods Cross with Clearfield. I ran a quarter mile in my shoes with the team and then stretching, then Natalie and I operated the long jump pit. When we were done I did 3 big laps around the field barefoot, which felt amazing because WX field is made of astroturf. 

I forgot socks... So I did the 2 warm up laps barefoot and stretching and drills barefoot. Then Natalie, Tomy, Chris, Sarah and I did 2 miles warm up, 2 miles speed changes, and 2 miles cool down. I had to run on the grass and they had to run out in lane three, so when we got to the cool down I did another big lap and then 8 around the football field, staying on the grass. I'm excited for Pine View tomorrow.

We all drove down to St George this morning for Pine View, it was a full car. When we got there, I did a mile and a half warm up with Natalie, Sarah, and Kiley, then we did drills and strides. Natalie, Kiley and I were in the seeded race. What I like about the distance races in PineView is that they do the fastest heat of girls, the fastest heat of boys, then the slowest to faster heats of girls then boys. It sucks for the people who barely didn't make the cut though, unless they feel like they need more time to get ready. Today was one of those days where I just wanted to be done. It was a waterfall start and I was in the 2nd waterfall as seed 5. I don't know what happened at the start, I guess I spaced out and it didn't hit me that the gun had fired. I still got out okay though. I was doing great the first three laps, pushing hard. I started the 4th lap strong, but once I hit that last 300 it got to me and 2 girls passed me. I tried to match, but it felt like I was running into a wall. On the final stretch another girl passed me, so I ended up 9th. I PR'd and got a 5:26, but I was really upset because I know I could've pushed harder that last 300 but mentally I was breaking down. I went and ran a mile with Natalie and Kiley before Sarah's race, then all of us went on a cool down. Since Kiley and I have the 3200 tomorrow, we went on a 3 miler with her dad, Sam, Sarah, Dakota, and Caden. Adventure run much? Once we got back we went and got food and everyone else left for home while I stayed down for the 3200 tomorrow.

Today was the 3200 at PineView. When I got to the meet, Kiley and I checked into the bullpen and then did a mile warm up and a mile speed changes backwards on the track. We did our strides and drills and eavesdropped on other coaches telling their athletes what to do. We went with the plan to hit 1:25 each lap no slower than 1:30. I was seeded 6th so once again I started in the 2nd waterfall. I got out pretty fast, but not too fast. I stayed with Kiley and McKenzie the first mile, and I was running on the outside because I didn't want to cut in front of nice people. I knew that Woods Cross girl who grabbed my elbow at the Oval and tried to push me off the track at Simplot was close behind me because people were cheering for her, so I made sure that she was far behind me. On the 6th lap is where I broke off from Kiley and Kenzie, and I went on to pass a couple of people. Once I got to that last 300, the memory of yesterday came back to me and I decided it wasn't going to happen, in fact I was going to make up for it. So I worked my arms faster and outkicked people, ending up in 7th with a time of 11:40. Kiley and I did a mile cool down before talking to her dad, who told us to go for another 3 miles. So we went out and ran through the neighborhood, and we were talking about what a coincidence it would be if we saw Benny, and lone behold, we saw him so we followed him for about a mile, then we lost him. I think he was hiding from us. We continued running through the neighborhood and almost got attacked by a dog. After our cool down we went back to the meet and looked at our times, I was 3.53 seconds off of qualifying for state. (UGH) We went to Jack in the Box and got lots of tacos before heading home. We made some new friends on the highway.

Today we met at the track for workout. We started with 2 laps warm up and stretching, and drills, lots and lots of drills. After drills we did circuits before breaking into groups. Distance was doing our Avenue hill stride workout. We all ran over to U Street on South Temple and strode up a street, recover down the next, stride up the next, all the way to 11th Avenue and whatever letter street we were on. We regrouped at 11th and ran along 11th ave to Shriners and down through the neighborhood and U campus. Kiley and I fell behind and when we got back Bill said to add up to 8 or 9, whatever we were feeling. We did 8.5 total today, we added on by running around the soccer field a bunch. Then Bill instructed us to start doing 3 sets of 10 weighted lunges and squats, 25 crunches, 10 pushups (I can maybe do 5 man ones, 15 girl ones...)and arms 1 min on 1 min off. Gee, I wonder whose blog he read that one off of *cough cough Susannah cough cough* Susannah and I had the following conversation:

"Bill's making us do these sets every night from now on."

"Weird, that's what we do! I'm sorry I blogged about it."

"If you do harder stuff don't blog about it."

"Oh don't worry I'm too lazy to blog about that."

I love my sister.

I got kidnapped at 5:45 this morning because I made ensemble! Oh right, this is a running blog, not a normal blog. Anyway, today for practice we did the usual 2 laps warm up, stretching, and drills. Then we were doing a speed workout with the sprinters, but not really. Distance did a mile of speed changes, which was weird without our mile warm up first. We did 3 1200s with a lap recovery after each one. I hit a 4:30, 4:27, and 4:28. We actually did 2 laps after the third one, then did 6 200s with a minute of standing recovery. We did a grass lap before going on a 4.5 mile cool down, up Sunnyside to Foothill, down 5th south to 13th east, over to 8th south, back to the track and adding on. I stayed with Natalie, Tomy, Chris, and Bill all the way up Sunnyside, which was a new push for me. I stayed with them part of the way going down 5th south, but lost them just before the light at Guardsman. When I got back to the track, I was instructed to do a grass lap and a track lap to be at 10 miles for the day. Nat drove me back down to the school for my APHUG studysesh...

I did half a mile with Sam at the start, then another half mile after team stretches. I massaged out my sore muscles then picked up my garmin. I did another mile before the mile, then some drills and strides before the start. They combined boys and girls, and I started on the back line behind Tomy and in between 2 Highland boys. The only thing I don't like about starting with the boys is that they all think that just because they're boys that they can beat you, so they think they can cut in front of you. WRONG! I chicked more boys today than were ahead of me. I ran my 2nd and 3rd lap with a Highland guy who was trying to stay with me, but I picked up my 4th lap and lost him so I went on my way, chicking them all. I kicked hard and I'm happy with my race, not to bad for a practice meet, considering it was only 6 seconds off my PR. I ran up to Sunnyside park with Tomy, Natalie, Chris, and Sarah (the furious five) and ran a lap in the park, then we did fartlek, 90 seconds on and 90 seconds off, ten sets. I felt like I pushed myself, especially because every time I ran into the wind it was during an on, and every time I ran with the wind to my back it was an off. We finished a big lap around the park before heading back down to the stadium. I did a grass loop to get my garmin to 9 (because I did a mile around the track without it) and then we helped put hurdles away and went home.

Today I was late to practice because of Ensemble practice, but when I got there I changed and did 2 laps as everyone else did drills. Distance ran down to Liberty Park, where we did a tempo run. Natalie, Tomy, Chris, Bill, Kiley, Sarah and I all had to do a 6 mile tempo at 7 minute pace. We all started together, and eventually I was running with Tomy, Natalie, and Bill. I had to keep mentally telling myself that I could do it, that I was doing so good, that if I had made it this far I could finish strong. Tomy and Natalie broke off at mile 3 to go run with Chris, so I stuck to Bill, determined not to fall off. I drafted off of him into the wind, and a couple of times I fell back but always told myself to catch up to him and make it easier. When we finished, we were about 40 minutes and 30 seconds, a minute and a half faster than what we were planning. Turns out it was a 6:45 average pace. I feel quite accomplished. We ran back up to the track and added on until we were at 11 miles for the day, then we all went home. I want some ice cream...

Today at workout we did the usual 2 laps of warm up with stretching and drills. Distance did 2 miles warm up, 2 miles speed changes, and 2 miles cool down. I ran with Tomy, Natalie, Chris, Sarah, Kiley, Patrick, Sam, and Caden for the warm up and we got a little split towards the end of speed changes. I was dead by cool down. Ready for the invitational tomorrow? Nope.

Today was the UHSTCA Outdoor Championships at Taylorsville High School. When we got there, they were already calling for the girls 1600, so Natalie, Sarah, and I went and checked in. I was hip 8 in the 1st heat. After check in, Nat and I put on our spikes, then warmed up. It was the weirdest thing ever, warming up in my spikes. I did half mile warm up and half mile speed changes plus strides. At the start, I got cut off immediately, and I worked with the group for the first lap or so. Near the end of the 2nd lap and beginning of the 3rd lap, I wasn't able to push myself, I don't really know why, I didn't hurt, but I did. I was dead last in my heat with a final time of 5:50, which is really bad for me considering how well I've been doing. I did a 2 mile cool down with Natalie and Sarah, and we took pictures by the Taylorsville sign to send to Taylor and Taylor. I pitched my tent back at the spot and napped pretty much all day, having a hamburger for lunch. I kept napping until it was time to go warm up. I did a mile and a half with Natalie, then we did strides and such until the start. There was 1 heat of 28 girls, which was a little crowded, but I'm glad I was seed 3 and on the front line, which motivated me to get out fast. At the gunfire, hip 4 grabbed my arm but I elbowed her. Then a Davis girl shoved me, but I shoved back and passed her to get out hard with Nat. Yeah, I'm vicious. After a little bit, Alyssa passed me and went up with Nat. I worked with 2 other girls, and we randomly traded off who got to draft. The same girl who grabbed my arm at the start kept trying to trip me, so I abandoned her and had to fight the 21mph wind by myself. Alyssa fell off Nat, and in the last 300 is where I passed her. She passed me back in the last 200, and the last 100 was a neck and neck battle. I didn't even know who won our battle, I still don't know my time (Because whoever posts the times is really slow!) but the official at the finish said I got it, so I walked away with silver, Nat gold :) I did a mile and a half cool down while cheering on Tomy and Chris in their 3200, and cheering on our 4x4 teams. I was actually pretty happy I didn't do so well in the 1600, I believe it helped me save it for the 3200.