Recovery

I went out to Jordan River Parkway in Taylorsville with Natalie and Sarah S, where we met up with Bill and Tomy. We ran together the first mile, then Sarah and I slowed down a bit. We were supposed to go out for 40 minutes and back, and we were at about 38 minutes when we hit 4 miles so we just turned around to get 8. It worked well. It was really soft and snowy the whole time, and quite cold. Now I'm ready for some Age of Empires and hot food.

Speed today. Thank goodness the oval was closed, saved us a long drive. We did 2 vertical laps in the school for a team warmup, then some drills. We finally did the sardines drill! After that we broke into our groups and distance ran down to Liberty park. We ran the shorter way to the drinking fountain where we got water and then went over to one of the lines and dots marks where we started our 800s. We did 6 800s with half mile recovery in between. I was supposed to be hitting 3:02 for all of them, but it didn't go so well. 3:04, 3:07, 3:13, 3:15, 3:19, and 3:19 were my times. We did a full lap around the park and met at the fountain, then we ran back up 9th south. On 11th east we turned right and went to Belmont Ave, up a block, and back over to 9th south to get to 10 just before the big hill. Perfection. I've really got to step it up, it's almost as if I've hit a wall. Oh well, I'm still freezing. Hot cocoa time? Yes.

We did 2 vertical laps as a track warm up and the usual drills with strides and such. We did 2 circuits of 45 seconds before breaking into groups. I went on an 11 miler that was supposed to be 10 with Natalie, Kiley, Bill, Chris, Sarah S, and Kevin. We ran along 13th east over to 21st south, where we kept running on the Sugarhouse trail until we got up and around to 17th east, where we went right and did our normal cemetery run. That was all done at about a 7:45 pace. We went down to Imperial Street to Alden ave, did our crazy Crandall and Zenith zigzag all the way to the cemetery on 33rd south I think? I'm not sure. We did a lap in the cemetery and when we were finishing our lap Sarah was starting so we just had her run with us. It took us forever to cross the street to Melbourne because there were so many cars, it was great because I got some nice recovery time! Teeheee :)

Anyway, so once we finally crossed the street after our regrouping, we went all the way to that one street where we go down to 17th and cut back down into the park, where we stayed on the trail all the way around and back to 21st south. The part of the trail that was fenced off forever is finally not fenced off anymore! I liked it because it's a smaller and less steep hill. At this point I was dying to keep up with Natalie, Kiley, Bill, and Chris. I never got too far behind them, I managed to close the gap at red lights, and I was never too far behind. I feel really accomplished today. We finished by going into the parking lot, around the random building by the softball field, and back to the parking lot. Then Kiley drove me home in Viva La Volkswagen. Now I'm thinking about how sore I'll be tomorrow...

Today for a track warm up we ran a block around the school. I was fine until the end of the lap when my stomach started hurting. After the warm up we did our drills, wall sits, and step ups and broke into groups. The distance plan was to go to Sugarhouse for a ladder fartlek workout. While along 13th I felt really sick and on about Emerson ave I kinda keeled over. Luckily Olivia and Camille were right behind me, and Camille was turning around at that point to make her haircut appointment, so she ran back with me to make sure I could make it back to the school and get home. It was a painful run.

I went to the track later after school to do the team workout on my own. I did 1 mile warm up, 2 miles speed changes, and 1 mile cool down. I felt better during the speed changes than I did on the warm up or cool down...

When I got to the indoor track they were doing the 55 meter dash, so I did some warm up loops with Tomy since I barely had any time. I grabbed my spikes and got to the bull pen with the other girls. I put my time down as a 12:50 and got put in the first heat. At the start the officials said we could do strides, so a Davis girl and I did 1 stride and then the officials blew the whistle at us and told us to line up. Make up your minds, old people. Once they fired the gun, I got out fast and watched as Natalie and another girl broke off from the pack to battle each other. I decided I would stay right behind them and gap the group. There were 2 girls trailing behind me a little bit, but the main pack was off of me. I stayed in 3rd for the first mile, but on the 9th lap my plantarfacia started to KILL me, and the 2 girls passed me. As soon as I finished that lap after being passed by quite a few people it stopped hurting and I passed a couple of the people back, but then I just started crashing and I could feel it. In the final kick a 1000lb weight dropped in my stomach and I couldn't kick? 2 girls passed me, one of which I swore to myself I would beat because she was a freshman... Oh well. I went and did a mile outside with Natalie, Sarah, Olivia, and Bill, and when we got back inside the rain had gotten our shorts wet in the perfect spot to make it look like we had all wet our pants... Haha. It was really rainy and wet.