Recovery

Today there was no school, so I slept in and went on my own run. I ran up 13th south to Foothill, over to Thunderbird, and on the paved trail. After running in the snow on the trail, I saw a dog up ahead and couldn't see an owner, and I'm not in a 'be attacked by a dog risk' mood today, so I turned around and went back to Foothill until I reached Sunnyside. I ran down Sunnyside and crossed at 17th east where I ran until I got to Emerson, then I turned, went back to 13th south, and ran home. My fingers were frozen even though I was wearing gloves and clenching my fists, but oh well. Once I got in my house and checked my phone is when I got the team practice when and where text... ha.

Ran along 13th east from the school to 21st south and into Sugarhouse park. We ran up through the park to 17th east and then we did our cemetery run. I fell off from the group at the cemetery, and when they told me to catch up they sped up. Counterproductive? Anyway. Once out of that neighborhood we went to 21st south down to 13th east and into the teacher parking lot. Bill wants me to do an extra half mile every day this week to make up for the 12 miler I missed yesterday. I'm sorry that I hit between 8 and 12 like you told me...

Today after school I was modeling for my friends' photography projects. It took longer than I thought so I didn't start running until about 4:45. I had my mom come pick up my bags so I could run home later. I ran down to Liberty, and as I was entering the park I caught my team leaving so I was able to get the workout. It was hard alone but I managed it. 8 sets of 3 minutes on 2 minutes off 2 minutes on 1 minute off. I ran it on the trail outside the wood chips so I could get that extra half mile in. I also ran into Grey a couple of times, and the first high five burned a lot more than the second. Once I finished I had done 4 laps, not so great. Oh well, I was able to run home from the park and be at 10.5 for the day. I can tell I'm gonna be sore tomorrow...

We did 2 vertical laps at school and 3 circuits and then left for our run. We ran on 13th east to 21st south, up to 19th east, over to Sunnyside, down to Guardsmin, to 5th south, back to Sunnyside, down to 15th east, over to 13th south, and back along 13th east. I felt okay the first half of the run but then I just felt sick. I was just glad to be done. Then we all went to KFC for mashed potatoes, we made Natalie and Dakota chug gravy and I tried it for the first time. Food run Thursday!

2 vertical laps at the school and some other drills and stuff. We ran up to the track, 2 laps warm up, 2 miles speed changes, another 2 laps, back to the school. I hung out with Kiley for a few hours after, why? Because it was my 17th birthday :)

We all drove out to the water station for a mile warm up as a team. The wind was BRUTAL and we were not looking forward to the 2nd half of the race because of it. Then we all piled in Kiley's dad's car (9 people in a 5 seater...) and got to the starting line. My first half of the race was a pretty decent pace, I wasn't really racing though, more of just tempo running... As soon as I turned around the wind really hit me and my pace went down about a minute and I couldn't keep up with anyone to draft off of. My goal was to finish, because I seriously considered just stopping at the water station. Glad I finished though and got a finishers medal. I did 3/4 mile cool down to be at 55 for the week.