Recovery

Today we met up at the track as usual, but Nat had to take me home to get my shoes. I couldn't find my trainers, so I just grabbed my flats. Anyways, since the girls are going to the Davis Girls Super Meet tomorrow, we had less to run. We did the half mile warm up and drills with the team, then I went with Natalie, Chris, Tomy, Sarah, and Kevin to do 2 miles warm up, 2 miles speed changes, and 2 miles cool down. I stayed up with Tomy and Natalie the whole time and listened to their funny conversation about school. By the time Nat and I finished, the boys still had 4 miles to go (I would say ha ha suckers but now the girls are behind in miles...) so we did our core and went home.

Did a warm up with Natalie and Sarah. All three of us were put in the second heat in the mile so we had plenty of time to do drills before our race. Natalie and I took the first two seed spots (because we can) and the girl next to me cut right in front of me and threw an elbow, then I got boxed in and had a terrible start. Once I got into position to move up, on the second lap some girl started elbowing me on purpose, so I finally decided to fight back and give her a taste of her own medicine, HARD. That's when I gained a ton on her and she couldn't keep up. Mess. With. Me. I moved up to 3rd place in the 3rd lap, with only Natalie and Laura in front of me, but then in the last lap a Bingham girl picked up a kick really soon and I tried to stay with her but I couldn't, and then a Davis girl outkicked me in the last hundred, which made me really upset about my race. I hit a 5:28, and that's a PR by about 4 seconds, but I really was going for a place today. I took my garmin out for a little adventure run to clear my head of the mile and prepare for the 2 mile. When I checked in with Natalie and Sarah, we did our drills and lined up. Natalie and I took the 2 spots in lane 1 again (because we can) and I planned out my start this time. I was next to the same girl, and I was just going to have to throw my elbow first. She threw her elbow first, but didn't cut in soon enough, so I took the opportunity to get out of the pack fast. I let Natalie take a Davis girl out hard, then 2 other girls raced each other and I focused on trying to catch those two girls. Eventually the Davis girl realized that Natalie was too fast, and died so I passed her, then I outkicked the girl who outkicked me in the mile, give her a taste of that. Yeah, I'm brutal when it comes to racing, I just hate everyone and get angry, then I do better. I needed 3 more miles for the day, so Sarah and I ran in the direction of my cousin's house which is about 4 miles away from Davis high. We went a mile and a half out and back, and then realized that the team was all on the bus waiting. Today was the first day ever that I've liked my 2 mile better than my 1 mile.

Meet at Woods Cross with Clearfield. I ran a quarter mile in my shoes with the team and then stretching, then Natalie and I operated the long jump pit. When we were done I did 3 big laps around the field barefoot, which felt amazing because WX field is made of astroturf. 

I forgot socks... So I did the 2 warm up laps barefoot and stretching and drills barefoot. Then Natalie, Tomy, Chris, Sarah and I did 2 miles warm up, 2 miles speed changes, and 2 miles cool down. I had to run on the grass and they had to run out in lane three, so when we got to the cool down I did another big lap and then 8 around the football field, staying on the grass. I'm excited for Pine View tomorrow.

We all drove down to St George this morning for Pine View, it was a full car. When we got there, I did a mile and a half warm up with Natalie, Sarah, and Kiley, then we did drills and strides. Natalie, Kiley and I were in the seeded race. What I like about the distance races in PineView is that they do the fastest heat of girls, the fastest heat of boys, then the slowest to faster heats of girls then boys. It sucks for the people who barely didn't make the cut though, unless they feel like they need more time to get ready. Today was one of those days where I just wanted to be done. It was a waterfall start and I was in the 2nd waterfall as seed 5. I don't know what happened at the start, I guess I spaced out and it didn't hit me that the gun had fired. I still got out okay though. I was doing great the first three laps, pushing hard. I started the 4th lap strong, but once I hit that last 300 it got to me and 2 girls passed me. I tried to match, but it felt like I was running into a wall. On the final stretch another girl passed me, so I ended up 9th. I PR'd and got a 5:26, but I was really upset because I know I could've pushed harder that last 300 but mentally I was breaking down. I went and ran a mile with Natalie and Kiley before Sarah's race, then all of us went on a cool down. Since Kiley and I have the 3200 tomorrow, we went on a 3 miler with her dad, Sam, Sarah, Dakota, and Caden. Adventure run much? Once we got back we went and got food and everyone else left for home while I stayed down for the 3200 tomorrow.

Today was the 3200 at PineView. When I got to the meet, Kiley and I checked into the bullpen and then did a mile warm up and a mile speed changes backwards on the track. We did our strides and drills and eavesdropped on other coaches telling their athletes what to do. We went with the plan to hit 1:25 each lap no slower than 1:30. I was seeded 6th so once again I started in the 2nd waterfall. I got out pretty fast, but not too fast. I stayed with Kiley and McKenzie the first mile, and I was running on the outside because I didn't want to cut in front of nice people. I knew that Woods Cross girl who grabbed my elbow at the Oval and tried to push me off the track at Simplot was close behind me because people were cheering for her, so I made sure that she was far behind me. On the 6th lap is where I broke off from Kiley and Kenzie, and I went on to pass a couple of people. Once I got to that last 300, the memory of yesterday came back to me and I decided it wasn't going to happen, in fact I was going to make up for it. So I worked my arms faster and outkicked people, ending up in 7th with a time of 11:40. Kiley and I did a mile cool down before talking to her dad, who told us to go for another 3 miles. So we went out and ran through the neighborhood, and we were talking about what a coincidence it would be if we saw Benny, and lone behold, we saw him so we followed him for about a mile, then we lost him. I think he was hiding from us. We continued running through the neighborhood and almost got attacked by a dog. After our cool down we went back to the meet and looked at our times, I was 3.53 seconds off of qualifying for state. (UGH) We went to Jack in the Box and got lots of tacos before heading home. We made some new friends on the highway.