Recovery

No I did not do this run barefoot, just on that same old pair of shoes that gets my feet all dusty and gross. Today instead of doing the track warm up, the distance runners drove down to the school where we loaded the high jump mats into Nat's truck to bring them up to the track. After that we stretched and did Tim's drills before breaking into our groups. Distance was to do the Adventure run backwards, but I didn't hear that, I heard "City Creek Run" and I could not keep up with the group today, so Ki, Patrick, Sarah and I fell back and decided to run together. Ki, Patrick and I went along 11th ave all the way to City Creek. We were wondering where Sarah was, I guess she had gone the right way. Anyway, we ran around City Creek and behind the Capitol, then down State Street to South Temple and all the way up to 13th east. Patrick lost us at South Temple, and when K and I looked back to see where he was we couldn't see him at all. We think he disappeared off the face of the earth. When we got to 13th east we ran over to 8th south and back up to the track. While on 13th east some Brazilian guy running started talking to us, and every time he stopped talking I would continue telling Kiley my story from Saturday and he would interrupt me again. We tried to slow down and let him pass us but he slowed down too, so we were glad when we turned up 8th south. At the track we did a lap before Bill told us to do 2 300s to be at 10. But we were at then! So we did one of the 300s then before the next one he asked us where we went, and when we told him we were able to just do another lap in the outside lanes of the track to be at 10.5. We are stud.muffins.

Today we decided on saving speed for tomorrow because it was windy. We did all the usual track warm up and drills, and only had to do 8.25 because we already had 1.75 with the drills. We ran to Sugarhouse along 15th east, did 2 grass laps, and back the same way. It was awful because my legs are dead and I can barely walk. I fell back with Kiley and Sarah, and then I think everyone crashed. It wasn't a good day.

Team time trials and speed today. We had a mini meet with just our team, a 100, a 1600, an 800, and a 400 'race'. We all did the half mile warm up with stretching and drills before doing our events. While the 100 dash people were having their trials, the distance people did 1 mile warm up and a mile speed changes. After those we went to the start. I got a pretty good start, I hit a 1:25, then at the 800 a 2:56, I don't know my 1200, and my final was a 5:58. We did a lap recovery before doing the 800 with a lot more people. It was a bad start because Kiley and I had to start behind while all the new freshmen started on the waterfall. Bad idea. Why? Because they all instantly cut in and I had to run around them all once they stopped sprinting the first 100 meters. I was a 1:26 split, and a final of 2:48. We did another lap recovery while they did some 400 heats and then we finished our whole speed workout with 6 400s. I got 82, 83, 81, 82, 84, and 82, pretty good and consistent considering I had a ton of lactic acid in my legs. We had to do a 4 mile cool down which was awful. We ran up Sunnyside to Foothill, down by the VA and back to the track. Ki and I couldn't keep up with the others, it's a cool down and we're already dead, our legs weigh a ton and we're not as fast as the others. When we got to the track we still needed about a mile and a quarter, so we did 3 grass loops without the hill, running around the soccer field three times where we almost got hit in the face by a lot of soccer balls, and the soccer boys were whistling. Oh man. I'm just glad that this weeks speed is out of the way and that tomorrows just another run. Oh, just another run.....

After the usual track warm up and such, Bill was busy handing out uniforms, so the distance people just ran around because we wanted a shorter run, and Ki and I had to make it to the lacrosse game. Ki and I ran around the soccer field a few times and were at 3.25 miles when Bill was finished and could run with us. We ran up Sunnyside to Shoreline, then along Shoreline to Red Butte and up to the gate. Ki and I were parched, and none of the drinking fountains were on, so we just drank from the creek. Don't worry, we're fine, we flushed it out of our systems, and Jesse and I did it over the summer during hill week at the JCC, we were fine. We ran down through the dorms to Legacy Bridge and down by the Huntsman Center until we got to Guardsman way and went down Sunnyside back to the track. We had to leave instantly to have time to get ready and go to the lax game.

Today was our first outdoor meet of the season, yay! We did the half mile warm up and stretching as a team, then I did another half mile. The whole time I didn't have socks, so I didn't bother wearing shoes. Finally my mom brought me socks, so I put my shoes on and did a mile warm up and a mile speed changes. I did some drills and strides with the other milers, then we started. The boys and girls were combined, and I was in the 2nd row behind the boys. I beat a lot of them. My start was pretty fast, I thought it was too fast, because my time at the 400 was 1:17, but I felt fine so I worked on passing the 2 Judge girls in front of me. I passed them with an 800 at 2:45, and my next lap was at a 4:12ish. My final time was somewhere in the 5:30s, I'm not sure where but I don't think it was a PR. I cooled down from that race and a few minutes later warmed back up for the 300 hurdles and the 800 right after. I mainly did the hurdles for fun, but I twisted weirdly on one of them, and I don't want to get injured so I might not be hurdling this year. I had a few minutes to prepare for the 800, so I just did some strides in my spikes. I got an okay start, people were cutting in early but I got around them. My first lap was about a 1:16, and as I was in the last 300 meters I passed one of the Judge girls, and with about 150 to go I passed the other, so I got 2nd to Natalie again. I love how our team is always 1 and 2 :) After the 800 I declared done for the day and just to get a 4 mile cool down in. I went up to Sunnyside and did a big lap around the park with Scotty, we passed the Judge lacrosse team. Score. When I got back to the track I ran a bit more and then decided since I only needed 2 more miles for the day I would do the 3200. There were 4 Brighton boys, 1 Brighton girl, Sarah, and I all running it. I just ran it as a cool down-tempo style run, and still chicked one of the boys. After that race I declared done for the day, but then a part of me got really hyper and wanted to be a leg in the 4 by 400, so Sarah, Grace, Ellie and I formed a last second team. Sarah did our first leg, then Grace, then me, then Ellie. We were dead last, but it was still tons of fun! :) I did another lap cool down to be at 10.5 and get some lactic out of my legs, and to have less miles to do tomorrow. It was a pretty good meet, and it was lots of fun.

Susannah and I met up with Bill, Kim, and Tomy at the Highland marquee. The wind was blowing strongly north, so we decided to drive out by Bill's house so we could just run north to our cars. Kim dropped us off at the pond and we ran around it. I liked this run alot. We ran across a really wiggly bridge, and Tomy started jumping, it hurt Susannah and mine's legs but it was so fun! Anyway, we ran along a parkway for a bit before getting on Holladay Blvd, running by Olympus and all those places. Stupid Oly. Anyway, Susannah ran her own run, so I had to run with Bill and Tomy the whole time. I managed to keep up, and it wasn't so bad, but that's probably because 1. I didn't want to get lost, and 2. the wind was pushing me forward, and 3. I was excited for the day. We finished off at Highland. It was a pretty good run.