Recovery

Just ran for half hour with Patrick inside the school. I'm going to try running outside tomorrow.

As I was hoping, I ran outside today. I ran over to the cemetary by Rice Eccles Stadium with Sarah, and ran 1 lap. After that lap, I did 2 laps of fartlek with Amanda and Dakota. My foot was starting to hurt again; I haven't worn my orthodics at all today. I ran up 5th south with Amanda, and I ran alone back to the school along Guardsmin. I really don't like getting sick.

Workout at the Oval today. I was really hyper in the car, but my workout was terrible. We did 4 laps warm up and then stretching. I had fallen behind so bad! Then we did 4 laps warm up again and 4 laps speed changes. I fell behind REALLY badly too. They started the 1000s without me, since I was so far back. When I was done with speed changes, I changed my shoes into my flats and started. I did 4 1000s, each with 1 full lap and to the starting line recovery. The 1000s my tummy felt better, but it still really hurt. I was afraid of losing all I had eaten. Luckily I didn't. After my 4th one, I did 1 lap recovery, changed shoes, and did 1 more lap. The others had earlier told me I would either go home in the other car or be duct taped shut for the ride home, but as soon as we got to the car, I died. The End.

Well I freaked out after lunch when I discovered I didn't have my blue bag with me, which contained my new shoes, new running tights, tank top, sports bra, shorts, and a running jacket. And we all know how pricey those get. After school thank goodness, Patrick and Suzette had found my bag in my Language Arts classroom. So yeah, freak out moment.

For workout, we only had 2 coaches, the ones that know how to coach. Susannah and I led the stretching. We did 3 sets of step ups for a minute each set, then we all headed to the hall. We did 3 flannagan circuits, popcorn, stride, jumping jacks, stride, squats, stride, mountain climbers, stride. They really aren't that hard anymore... Then we did 3 sets of wall sits for 1 minute each. Finally we did sardines drills. Everyone lays down and we do high knees without stepping on our teammates. I was between Natalie and Ben, and I was worried that Fatalie and Fatrick would squish me. Just kidding. When I was running across everyone, Tomy squished himself right next to Dakota as I was getting to them, so it's his own dang fault I stepped on him. Finally to finish the workout, the distance people went on a 5 mile run. We ran over to Presidents Circle, and I ran with Amanda and Sarah the whole way. We weren't very far when we got to the bookstore, so we kept going up through the U campus until we got to the VA hospital. We ran down past that roundabout we all love, and crossed by Rice Eccles Stadium and went up to Guardsmin way. We ran to 9th south, where we turned up, since we were only barely to 3 miles. I ran up a little bit with Amanda and Sarah, but my stomach hates me these days, so I turned around and ran back down to the school very, very slowly. Ugh. I need more iron... Costa Vida first!

Tomorrow is BYU Indoor Invite, so we took it easy. We didn't do any track drills, as there were only 10 of us distance runners there, so we were able to get out and go. I managed to keep up, I felt sick, but not as bad as other days. So I blame it on the track drills. Anyhoo, we ran along 13th east to 21st south, where the Highland kids called us terrorists. We went down to Millies, over to 13th south, up to 11th east, and over to 9th south. We walked up the big hill, and I saw a FedEx truck!! Yes!

Today was the BYU Indoor Invitational. When we got out there, I ran a warm up with Natalie and Susannah. We did 2 miles on the track, as our event was first and the track was open to warm up. I was feeling pretty good and hoping to break 5 minutes in the mile. I got a 6:03. Not. My. Day.

The people in my race started out way too fast, so that was an advantage to me. I know I was 8th in the 3rd heat, but I have no idea about overall. I had spoken to a girl from Lehi before the race, and both of us were hoping to break 6 minutes today, so we pushed each other.

I went on a cool down with Susannah, Natalie, Taylor, and Tomy, then we went to Jamba Juice and headed home. Good job everyone!