Recovery

SAVE SCOTTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today since there was no school, we went to ZoBell's for a run. We ran up Harvard to 19th east, up 13th south and to Wasatch Blvd. The hill from Foothill to Wasatch made me get really far behind everyone, and my calves were REALLY tight. When I reached 2 miles on my Garmin, I turned around and came back the same way. I was glad I did, because my plantarfacitis was hurting really badly. I ran back on the grass and snow, which made it hurt less.

Today we all piled up in Ben's car and went to the Olympic Oval. When we

got there, we had a quick POTTY break before beginning, and did 4 laps

of warm up. After the warm up, instead of going to the fundamental

skills zone to stretch, we stretched on the blue mats. After that, we

did 4 laps warm up and 4 laps speed changes. I managed to keep up with

Amanda the whole warm up, usually I feel queasy after a little while. We

changed our shoes and did a timed mile, I got a 6:42 I think. We did 2

laps recovery and went to the start of the 200. We would do 2 sets of 5

200s, each with about 100 of recovery. In between each set, we did a lap

and a half. Then we changed our shoes and did 8 laps of cool down. I

hate it when a ton of people start using the track, because then there's

usually a  crowd walking in lane one, speed skating coaches standing in

lane one, kids running the opposite direction in lane one, and people

crowding the other lanes so there's barely not enough room to squeeze

between people.

Woke up at 4:30 this morning because my quads were really numb. They've been doing that a lot lately, and I'm wondering if I should be worried. Well, I had a nice nap in health today, last A day of the semester anyway, we really didn't do much.

Today was easy day, since tomorrow most of us are going up to Weber Invite. We did the same run as last week, along 13th east to 21st south, down to Millies, over around the roundabout a full time, up to 11th east, and over to 9th south. I stayed with the group pretty well up until the roundabout, where shortl after that I fell behind everyone. When I hit 4, I stopped to walk, but remembered I was a quarter short from yesterday, so I ran to the hill, stopped my garmin, walked up the big hill, and started the garmin again until I made up that quarter.

Today was the Weber State University Indoor Invitational. I was placed in the 2nd heat of the girls' 3200 meter run with Amanda. I warmed up with Susannah, Natalie, and Amanda during the 55M Hurdles, and when Natalie and Susannah went to race in the seeded heat, Amanda and I kept doing drills to stay warmed up. My time had previously been a 13:40 from freshman year, and my goal today was to keep up with Amanda and PR with her. When the race started, we were in a pack of 5 for the first lap, and on the second lap I felt like I could go faster, so I pushed ahead of the crowd and led the rest of the race. Each time I completed a lap, I would stick a finger out to keep counting, until I noticed a lap counter that was accurate, seeing as I was the leader. I could tell that someone was pretty close behind me, because I could hear people cheering, 'Go get her, now!' So I threw in a speed change to create some distance between us. On the final kick, I started coughing and knew that I was going to puke. I kicked in, finishing in 1st (My sister had gotten first in heat 1!!!!!!!) and got down on all fours to crawl through the chute, puking along. :) I didn't do my cool down, but if I feel better later today, I'll probably want to go run a mile or 2.