Recovery

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.