Recovery

Taper down week! (For Simplot)

We went to the track and dropped off our shoes and went up to Sunnyside park for a 2 and a half mile warm up. When we got back to the track we did a mile of speed changes. For the workout we did 6 sets of 400 200. My first two were good, 1:23 and 1:25, and my 200s were under 40, but on my 3rd and 4th I got 1:26 and 41, and 1:29 and 40. My last two were stronger, A 1:22 and a 37, and a 1:18 and a 38. We had equal recovery on each one and only needed a mile and two quarters cool down. We were planning on 2 grass loops and a track lap and running back to the school, but the first grass loop all our socks got wet so we did three track laps after that before running back down to school.

Half mile full team warm up around the school and drills. After that Sarah B and I went on a short run. We ran along 13th east to 13th south, up to 15th east, over to Harvard, and to ZoBell's house. We stopped and said hi to Gavin and took some of his chocolate bars and then ran up to 17th east, over to 13th south, down to 13th east, back to the school, and a big lap around the school. Getting ready for Simplot! :)

Ran up to the track, another half mile warm up, 2 miles speed changes, half mile on the track, and back down to the school.

Ran a 2 mile warmup outside the Holt Arena with everyone. I went out hard in the race but not too hard. I barely managed to qualify for finals, 28th out of the 36 that make it. I didn't do a cool down, just straight to the hotel and to bed. I wasn't even sore the next day?

Bill told me to run until I didn't feel any lactic, but I wasn't sore at all from my race yesterday. I felt obligated to run though. After a free calf massage and plantarfacia massage earlier in the day I ran a mile on the treadmill at the hotel and took an ice bath while eating a banana smeared up with peanut butter.

2 mile warm up around the inside of the arena for about 25 minutes with Sarah S. We weren't sure if she was racing because she was 2nd alternate if some girls scratched from the mile, and good thing she warmed up with me because 1 girl scratched and the 1st alt didn't show. I got a pretty good fast start, not too bad. I gradually passed throughout the race and got pretty close to 1 and 2 girls. I was in 3rd for the second half of the race but in the last 100 meters random girl in orange passed me. I was glad it was over. They took us back to the bull pen and gave us our finals participant medals. I went on a 4 mile cool down around the arena by myself so I would only need 6 later. Later, I went for 6 miles with Bill, Tomy, and Sarah S. We went down the street and found a parkway trail that went into a cemetery and we saw a really old stone crematorium with a ton of ravens in front, it was pretty cool. It started snowing while we were out, and it was really windy too. We ended up doing 6.5 cooldown. That's okay though as long as I hit my miles. I love tapering down. And mongo cookies filled with oreos...oh and twinkies.

Good job Natalie in your race miss first place East 3200 defending EAST champ. :) East pride!