Recovery

When we got there, the JV girls had little time to warm up. My race wasn't until 5, so I went around with people to cheer my teammates on. Great job to our JV boys and girls!! After the JV girls ran, I went running with a couple of them, plus some other varsity girls for a warm up/cool down. Suzette gave us some good advice about the course, such as the places where it is muddy or the places where people are weak and strong, and how bad the track smells. The advice really helped. We did a 2 mile warm up, then headed to the line. There were alot of elbows at the beginning, but when it was more spread out it was easier to pass everybody. In the last 300 meters of the race, there was a crowd in front of me I needed to pass, and I saw a coach of another team point at the girl in front of the crowd as number 20, so I gave my everything and ended in 20th place. I finally broke 20 minutes!!! And I hope I can do it at regions! For a cool down I only managed a mile, because the varsity boys race had already started. Great job varsity boys and girls!!! The only thing that really upsets me is us girls were 4 points away from a trophy...

Today was very light, we only did 1 mile warm up, 1 mile speed changes, 2 400s (1:30, 1:27) and 2 200s. (42, 43) Then did 5 strides on half of the soccer field then a 1 mile cool down. I hope to do well at regions and be in the top 5 overall and helping the team win.

Day before regions, we went and volunteered at the Food Bank and sorted moldy strawberries. After that, we went to the Jordan River Trail and ran 1 mile out and back. Then we had a delicious team dinner over at Emily's.

This was our day. I ran about 1.5 miles for a warm up and the rain and wind was impossible! Fortunatly the weather cleared slightly for the varsity races. Our team had an excellent start, great job everybody! For the first mile, I was going back and forth with a Woods Cross girl for 8th and 9th place. She is good at pushing up hills, so I did my best to stay with her and pass with her. Once we were fighting 5th and 6th places, I did a speed change to get away from her. I could still hear her getting close, which pumped my adrenaline. I PRd by about 20 seconds!!! Good job to Susannah for getting 1st, Natalie for getting 2nd, Maggie for getting 15th, Amanda for getting 21st, Suzette for getting 22nd, and Sarah for getting 26th. Our final team score was 44 points, we won by 8 points this year, last year it was 1 point win. I'm so proud of all of you fairies out there!!! Our varsity girls proudly won our 2nd trophy in a row. Good job ladies!! Also, congrats to Scotty and Ben for individually qualifying for our boys team!!

That was the most fun 8 mile run ever. Susannah, Natalie, Amanda, Suzette and I stayed together the whole 8 miles. We started at the stadium, went up to Gardsmin, up to Milton Bennion Hall, across Legacy Bridge, through U Campus Housing, to the Red Butte Shoreline trail. We had planned to go on the trail and down Sunnyside, but the trail was closed and we didn't want to take the detour. So we went on a trail to our left that took us to the JCC. Once we got to the area where it's still really wide where we did summer practices, we went onto a paved road and on 11th avenue. One small hill we went down was so steep, we were doing old lady power walks down, because we can't afford for someone to biff it with state being 13 days away. We continued on 11th avenue to a certain turnaround point and turned back to come our Shriners route. When we got back to the stadium, we did 1 lap in lane 8 for a total of 8 miles that day. Apparantly people had waited for us at the Red Butte Shoreline trail forever, but we were too far ahead to care! :D

Today we did speed at Liberty Park. We drove down there, Choncho Truck party! We did 1 lap warm up, then jogged over to the start line. We decided that we would just go around the park, 1 mile fast, recovery, 1 800, recovery, 1 800, recovery, 1 mile, recovery, then a lap of cool down. My first mile was 6:41, it felt really slow, and it was. I'm ashamed of my performance today. My 800 times were 3:18 and 3:22. You could tell that I was getting worse throughout the workout because my final mile time was 7:04. RCRT: Really Crappy Running Today. I hope to do better at practice tomorrow at Pipeline, I actually kindof miss running on that trail from summer workouts. It's serious state training time!

Saturday team workout at 11 at Pipeline trail. It was nice and chilly, and the effect of the fall leaves all over the trail was beautiful! I was keeping up with Amanda, Susannah, and Gavin pretty well at the beginning, until I tripped. That makes me have my scars from JCC, Shoreline, and Pipeline, so I'm still scared of Settlement Canyon and Gardsmin Trail. So I ran from that point on with Suzette and Maggie to the turn around. Shortly after we turned around we saw a TARANTULA! It was so scary! I probably screamed the loudest, and once we finally were gutsy enough to pass by it, Scott, Amanda, and RJ had come back to see what was wrong; they were under the impression we saw a rattlesnake. We ran with them for a while, the adrenaline was up. Eventually I got tired and ran the rest of the way on my own.

Today was a speed workout. We started with the usual 1 mile warm up and 1 mile of speed changes. I kept up with Maggie and Stephie for the whole 2 miles. We did 1 lap of recovery, then the speed stuff. First we did an 800, and I hit about a 3:15. We ran 1 lap recovery then did another 800, which I did about a 3:25. After 1 lap recovery from that one, we did 4 400s, each with 1 lap recovery. I was hitting between 90 and 95. After that, we did 8 200s. I would have been able to do 1 mile cool down if I wasn't in such a rush. Oh well :(

So excited for state!!!

Today we drove down to Liberty in the Choncho Truck with Natalie and Delaney. We met up with the team and ran 2 laps for a warm up around the park. After that, we took THE CONES (fear them, they are THE CONES!) We did a relay sort of thing for hills, and I actually liked it because doing relays for hills makes it so much better! The first time I was on a team with Riley, RJ, Natalie, and Sarah. What we did was start 3 teammates on one side of the hill, so we had to do a stride up the hill, around the first cone, to the second cone, and down to the other set of teammates and tag someone. There were some annoying groups smoking at the top of the hill, and they were saying the stupidest things at us. "Double time now! Go runners!" Well I almost invited them to do the workout with us. For the second relay, we moved one of our cones so we wouldn't run by those annoying people again. My team changed a bit, we swapped Sarah for Amanda. This time, instead of going up and over, we did a loop. All the team members were on one area, so we had to run up the hill, over to the other cone, down the hill, around the big pine tree (that one? this one?) and back to tag the next person. It was so much fun! For a cool down we ran 2 more laps around the park, giving us about 7 miles for the day. The ride back to the stadium consisted of many pinkys, Hey Soul Fireflies, and Waka Waka! :)

Today we just did the Thunderbird run. And I was an idiot who decided to wear black, so it was really, really hot. I ran with Stephie up Sunnyside to Foothill. We stretched at the light. Angela and Noami met us up at that corner and we continued up to the zoo. We went up that one hill (like how detailed that was?) to Wasatch Drive. Just before we turned down to run along the golf courses road, Stephie totally biffed it on a sprinkler head. It was scary. We ran on the never ending stretch of road until we finally reached Thunderbird. After stretching and getting a drink, we came back the usual way. We went along foothill all the way to the Wendy's, and down to 19th east. We continued on 19th east to Sunnyside Avenue again, then went down back to the stadium. By the time we got back, everyone had pretty much gone, and Bill was ready to come look for us. I guess today was just one of those days for me where I just couldn't push up that first hill, it's a forever road.

Since we're on UEA break, there was no school, so we had a workout at 1 in the afternoon today. We met up at Peace Gardens, and while we waited for Bill, we were swinging and playing on the playground. I was reminded of the time we played pinecone and stick baseball. Anyways, we ran 3 miles out along the Jordan River Parkway and back the same way. When we got back, we stretched and did core work. After stretches, we started with our strides, then arms, leg lifts, reach for the stars, and lunges in that order. Then we went over to the pavillion for step ups and wall sits. On the last set of step ups, we had to make it to 60 step ups, (last one done is a rotten egg!) Good thing I wasn't last:) The wall sits were worse, since the walls there are really rocky. They look great, but they are also the worst place to do wall sits.

Today we met at Wheeler Farm for an afternoon workout. We did the usual warm up around the farm, it was pretty crowded. After that, we went over to our .4 loop to do fartlek. We did 2 sets of 10 1 minute off 1 minute on. For the first 20 minutes, I ran with Suzette, she timed while I counted. Pushing was difficult, especially through the sand. On the second set of 20 minutes, I ran with Suzette and Patrick for a while. I was pushing really, really hard on the last 10 minutes of it. When we finished fartlek, we ran a cool down around the farm. Wheeler farm is a fun place to run, but if we go there too much I'm sure we'll all be sick of it.

This morning Susannah and I went down to Liberty Park. We planned on doing 4.5, which is 3 laps around the park. But at the end of the 2nd lap, I was feeling really sick, so I continued on the 3rd lap half mile out and came back for a total of 4 easy miles today.

Today was really light. We ran up to Sunnyside, ran 1 lap, and met at our tree. Then we did 1 lap of firemen around the park, I was grouped with Maggie, Stephie, Suzette, and Sarah. After that lap, we ran 2 400s, but they aren't full 400s (but they also have downhills...) I ran a 1:19 and a 1:17. After that, we did strides, one down to the soccer goal, 1 to the other soccer goal, 1 back to the first goal, and 1 up the hill again to our tree. We did that routine twice. Then we ran 1 lap around the park and back to the school for a cool down, I stayed with Suzette throughout the whole workout. And I love her neon!! :)

State is tomorrow, so we did a really light workout. 1 mile warm up, 1 mile speed changes, 1 mile cool down. I hope we do well tomorrow, good luck ladies! "Be a Man!"

State today!! I slept in and didn't go to math, but I went to Language Arts today, and I skipped French and Health to get on the bus and go race! When we got there, they were still on 2a girls. The varsity girls and one of our alternates all went on a 3.5 mile warm up, we went over some places in the course where we could use our advantages. At the starting line, we sang our songs and did our cheer. The start was kindof terrible, people were crowding in too soon and I almost wiped someone out who sprinted right in front of me and started walking, it reminded me of in last track season how someone cut in front of me and I took her out... Anyways back to the race. Going up the first hill on the pavement didn't feel good, my spikes felt wierd. On the flat part, I went for the passes. Going up the hill by the Sego Lily pavillion, a girl in front of me kept looking back at me and cutting in front of me, honestly can't she realize that I'm just passing her? Anyways, I was pushing really hard, and in the last 800, I planned a speed change then a kick when I got closer, but then I felt really sick, so I only sped up a bit. I still passed a bunch of people though. When we got to the Highland field, I just thought "What the heck, proudly puke, victorious vomiting, triumphant throwing up, GO!" So I outkicked people. When I passed my goal girl, I heard someone creeping up on me, so I booked it in, and since my time was a 20:46.6, hers was a 20:46.7. It kindof reminds me how last year I finished .3 seconds behind one of my awesome senior teammates, Kelsie. Anyways, it was a pretty good day. In the chute, I thought I was going to die. I started coughing and nearly puked, then I couldn't breath. When I caught my breath, I bent over again and had to puke, but I just coughed again, and I couldn't breath. That cycle repeated 5 times, when the nice Logan girl in front of me supported me. I would really like to thank her, it felt good to know that someone I had never met before was so kind. People are so nice in the chute, because we're all recovering from our race. I'm very upset though that I didn't get in the top 30, but at least I got 50th overall. In the hypothetical meet results that were on athletic.net I would've gotten 77th overall, but I thought there was no way. As a team, we got 8th place. I feel that I could've done so much better... For a cool down I went around with Suzette. We talked with my awesome cousin from Davis for a bit, then we went to cheer on Ben and Scott. I love having an XC sister and cousin, it's always fun!! :) Great job today East! We're awesome, run like you stole something and be a man!! :D

After a painful day of school, I ran 1 mile on my own. It hurt. I just went from my house to 17th and back, I really don't feel great right now.

Today was just a nice easy run, since only 10 people knew that there was practice today. I ran with Natalie and Susannah the whole way, we went up Sunnyside Avenue to Gardsmin Way, across to 500 south and down to the cemetary. We ran 2 big laps around the cemetary, we saw alot of deer and were reminded of the time our distance guys didn't have a coach for a day so they chased deer. After the 2 laps, we ran down to 1300 east and along 1300 east to 800 south. I hate uphill, but it was the last stretch of the run, so we went back up to the stadium. When we entered the gate, Natalie, Susannah, and I ran 1 lap in lane 8 to get an exact mileage of 4 today. It felt nice and easy, I do enjoy these days. I'm so excited for USATF and Footlocker!!

Easy 6 miles on the elliptical at steiner. I halfed it because it isn't really running...

Nice run from the stadium to the fire station on 11th ave. It is sooo not too cold to run outdoors!

Mom and Nanna forced me to go to steiners today, even though it's good running weather. I did 1 mile on the elliptical, and got bored. I did 1 mile on the treadmill, then got bored. I did 3 miles on the bike then got bored. I halfed my elliptical mile and made my 3 miles on the bike 1 mile running. Oh how I hate indoor training.

Today was pretty epic while we waited for practice to start. Snowball fight XC vs football... Obviously we won. Anyhoo, we ran down to Liberty park and did 2 laps of fartleks, or in other words, 10 one minute offs and ons. I ran with Maggie and Caden for the first lap, then just Maggie for the second. Then we ran back up to the stadium. Oh hill on 9th south, why do you exist? Yeah, it was a pretty good run. :) and snowball fight!

Today Susannah and I just went for a run. She wanted to go running in costumes, but I thought that would be strange. I wanted to do my stalker run, so we started at our house and went over to pass the following houses(in this order) Whitneys, Michelles, ZoBells, Nelsons, Stephies, Hoopers, Murdrows, Scottys, Elizas, Jolleys, Patricks, Mckensies, Delaneys, Natalies, and Blakes. When I was passing Mckensies, I also saw Natalies sister! Today was a great run. Scotty saw us, and since I told him last night that I totally dyed my hair platinum blonde, I'm pretty sure he doesn't believe me. When Susannah and I got to 17th and 17th, she went up and I went down. After I passed Natalies house, I ran into Susannah again at 17th and Harrison! Craziness.