Recovery

Got a school early out at 12:45 for the basketball game, so we went on our 12 miler and were done by 3, it was amazing. Except that I forgot socks. We ran along 13th east all the way to Cottonwood complex, and back along 11th. We took a detour both ways so we could drop off Bill's hoodie at his parents house and pick it up, and so we could add on so we could walk up the big hill on 9th south. At 11th east and 9th south we needed another half mile so we ran down to Great Harvest and turned around. On the very last step, one of the many blisters that had been forming the whole run popped. I took my shoes off and walked up the hill with everyone. I'm pretty happy that I was able to keep up with Bill, Natalie, Tomy, and Chris, well for most of it, I fell back a bit but then caught back up and decided that I could stay up because I'm tough.

Speed workout. Also first official day of outdoor season. We had a track meeting and did paperwork with everyone before doing 1 vertical lap, stretching and drills. After that, Nat drove a few of us out to the oval for 5 1000s. When we got there we did 2 miles of warm up and a mile of speed changes and another lap for less cool down laps. We went around the track the long way to the 1000 start. I was supposed to be hitting 3:40-45 with Bill and Sarah, so we took turns leading. Bill led the first one and I got 3:41, then Sarah led and I got a 3:42. The third one would be the hardest and I was leading, so I really pushed and got a 3:40. The next one Bill led again and I fell back a bit but caught back up for a 3:41. My last one I was supposed to lead the first lap then let Bill take over, but then I sort of lost it and got a 3:53. At least I was under 4. We did a lap between each one for recovery, so we only had 7 laps total for cool down before heading home.

Today we met up at the track for workout. We did 2 laps around the track for a team warm up and Tomy, Natalie, and I led stretches. We have so many freshmen, I hope they survive! We did our dynamic routine stuff and then did 6 drill laps with our bleacher stairs, high knees, butt kicks, power skips, grapevines east, grapevines west, and toes. We did another lap on the track and Nat, Tomy, Chris, Sarah, Bill, and I went on a 7.5 mile run to be at 10 for the day. I was not feeling it today, I couldn't keep up with people and it was pretty miserable because I didn't really know what run we were doing. It was adventure run, the one that Susannah, Suzette, Amanda, Natalie and I made up the day after xc regions 2010. By the time I got to the U campus after going past Shriners and through the JCC area, it started to snow. It got heavier and heavier and on Guardsmin I couldn't see very well. As soon as I started going down Sunnyside, I was blinded because I was going into the wind and there was a LOT of snow. I got to the track and did 2.5 laps in the snowy wasteland of horror. Then we went into the shed while waiting for my dad to come get all of us, and I saw his car but he didn't see us so he drove away. Really Dad? Patience.

After all the usual track warm up, drills, and stretching, we did wall sits, step ups, and other stuff before going on a run. We went along 13th east to the cemetery, then up to Guardsmin and did our Shriners run to 11th avenue and a couple blocks further than the fire station before turning around and going back the exact same way, including the cemetery loop. I was doing alright until we hit the U campus on the way up, the uphills started to get to me and I'm pretty brutally worn out this week. 18 miles left...

So I fell behind and ran alone the rest of the way, and since it's Food Run Thursday we all went to Wendy's and got food.

Speed at the oval this morning. There was a speed skating thing there, so there was a lot of equipment in lanes one and two, and a ton of spectators. We did a mile warm up and stretched, then did another mile warm up and speed changes. We changed shoes and ran over to the start of the mile. On our first lap, there was an announcement about clearing lanes 1 and 2 for the runners, which made me really happy. I hit my first 400 too fast, the next one too slow, and the last two were slow as well. I got a 6:07, which was bad considering I was supposed to be a 5:50-55. We did 2 laps recovery and then a set of 4 400s. Some spectators had moved back into lane one, and some old ladies barricaded it with some chairs. Jerks. So we did our 400s in lanes 3 and 4, I shared lane 4 with Sarah. I got 1:20, 1:21, 1:21, and 1:22 my first set, then we did 2 laps recovery then another set of 4 400s, I got 1:23, 1:24, 1:23, 1:22. We did 2 more laps before changing shoes then did 5 laps in our trainers. I kinda wanna watch Kung Fu Panda and then name Tomy, Natalie, Chris, Sarah, and I the furious five, Bill can be the big fat panda :)

Today I met up with Tomy, Bill, Sarah, Chris, and Kiley! We met up by the Highland marquee and ran up 21st south to 20th east, over to 33rd south, and into the cemetery. We did a lap in the cemetery, then went down through the neighborhood we like (actually...dislike) to run through when we do the cemetery run. We dropped down to 13th east and went to 21st south and into the park. We did a lap on the road and met back by the marquee. I felt pretty okay the whole run, not really any issue with falling back too far. I'm just glad the week is done.