Recovery

Today we met at the Church by Vintage park and Carterville to do our Carterville hills workout. I remember last time we did this workout back in September or October, and I did really bad, so I told myself that I was going to do better today. I did better than I predicted I was going to, which was great! Coach even let us skip a hill, and it was the one I was dreading! :) I felt really good. On the 2nd to last straight my plantarfacia hurt really bad and my options were pavement or ice, so I ran kinda funky. The gatorade today was purple, and we took this adorable picture. I love my team!!

Went for a run with Emily from the WAC. We just ran out 2.5 and back on Geneva.

Today Shae and I wore our matching tights! We all went to Vintage Park to do our 4 mile tempo. It was great because I was mentally preparing for 6 miles. We ran our warmup from the park to our starting line, then ran 2 miles up the canyon and 2 miles down on the PRT. I think I was supposed to go from 7:20s to 8 minute, but I was feeling good mentally and wanted to try and run with the 6:50-7:30 group. We stayed together for the first mile at 6:43, then Shae and I kept up the 6:43 and got 13:26 at the 2 mile mark. We regrouped with everyone and started the way back down. This time Emily biked alongside Shae and I as we ran a 6:34 pace. Overall it only took us about 26 minutes to run the tempo. I did so much better today than I did when I first ran that workout back in the fall! :) We ran our cooldown back to the cars, got yellow gatorade, and drove back to the WAC, where Em and I rolled out and gave each other calf and hamstring massages with the coconut oil. Lifting today we had weighted front squats, pull ups, inverted rows, core series, band walks, and dead seals lunges. Instead of the usual 2.5 lb on each side of the squat bar I moved up to 5s :) I remember the first week of lifting when I could barely lift the bar. And I did 3x5 pull ups instead of 3x3 :) Feeling happy! Might go to a kickboxing class with Morgan tonight!

Today I went with Sav, Vieve, and Em to Golds for our usual pool workout. We just pool ran for 30 minutes while Coach Evans walked alongside the pool teaching us the importance and the benefits of cross-training. Then we stretched in the jacuzzi.

Today we all drove to the Provo Airport to do some loop everyone said was so great. Yeah, mud, ice, and snow are so much fun! :) The packed down snow wasn't that bad. When we got to the lake we kindof wanted to run on it because it's frozen over, but then we remembered Jason's story from Christmas break and decided not to try it. I turned at 2.5 with some of the girls because we were told the loop was 8 or 9 miles, but when we got back we were told it was really 6.5. Dangit. I slipped on a sharp corner and hurt my knees, but it wasn't that bad, I just laughed it off and we joked about that time I smacked my face on a sign and fell over. Weights wasn't too bad today either.