Recovery

Today we had to go back to school. RIP Spring Break 2013. It was really cold and rainy, so we met in the commons. Rich and I started everyone on vertical laps then led stretches and drills before breaking into groups. Distance was to do a 40 minute run. Nobody wanted to go on an adventure with me :'( I ran up Sunnyside to Foothill, then over to the Library and down to 13th South. Then I went to 19th east where I ran to 9th south and into the gulley, where I did a lap. It wasn't as muddy as I thought it would be, which was nice. I wanted to do more, but people had put their bags in my car and I didn't wanna make anyone have to wait because I had my key with me, so I ran down Sunnyside and called it a day. It was nice running in the light drizzle with my bright orange pants. I hope it rains again today.

Today after warmup and drills in the really cold wind, we started our workout. I couldn't make it to the Oval tonight so I did fartlek with Garek and Hanna. It was 10 sets of 1 minute on 1 minute off, and the soccer boys were doing a 2 mile so it was a little hard when they were in my way but whatever, I laugh at their 15 minute 2 mile times. Hahaha! Anyways, it was hard to hear Bill but I managed to stay on track. I got 11 laps and did a 12th for even mileage. Then I did 2 grass laps cool down then headed home.

Today we had a meet out at Cyprus but I wasn't racing so we went and did a workout. We ran from Cyprus out to the main road then along there. It was getting boring, so Tomy led us up a dirt trail which was nice because we weren't running by all the cars. On the dirt trail, Sarah and I lost the boys and when we got back onto the main road we hadn't seen where they went, so we went on a little adventure with her garmin. When we got to the top of this one hill we saw the boys, so we turned and went back down then ran out to 4.25 before turning and starting our 30 seconds on 30 seconds off fartlek. It was hard with the wind, but the dirt trail was mostly downhill and flat so that was nice. It was also nice that I had done full minute fartlek yesterday, so I felt like I was able to go faster. When we were done, we ran back to Cyprus talking about boys and crap, then we ran by my Grandparent's old house. Oh the memories! And tomorrow is the Alpha Invitational at Timpanogos so I'm running the mile tomorrow and 800 Friday. Should be fun!

I found a little half mile loop on the block of Timpanogos High School, so I ran that twice. Then I ran a lap in the soccer field with Bill and the Sarahs. Then I still had a ton of time to do some more running before actually racing. At the start, I was double elbowed by the two girls and got a horrible start. Luckily someone false started (I feel bad that she was DQ'd, but hey I got a second chance at starting) so on the second start I kept in mind that I had some fierce girls on both sides. On the second start I elbowed them both, then the really tall Orem girl kept trying to run me into the inner lane, perhaps hoping to get me DQ'd? I don't know but I beat her so it didn't matter. I spent the first 2 laps boxed in and managed to break from the box 3rd lap, but I was already really far back in time so I really had to hit a big negative split in order to get a good time. Nope. This wasn't really a race. More of a giant catfight. Some girl was tripped and grabbed my shoulder to keep balance but I kept mine and kept running. People kept stepping on the back of my spikes and cutting me off and elbowing me, it was way too physical. Okay sorry I really need to stop ranting but I really hate the mile because it's so physical and I waste all my energy in self defense. Ugh. Stupid. I did a 2 mile cooldown and then froze to death. I'm going to have a good 800 tomorrow.

Day 2 of the Alpha Invitational. I ran a nice 1.5 mile warmup for the 800 and checked in. I did a couple of strides before my race then started. I was seed 9 in my heat and ended up 3rd so I'm happy. I PR'd too :) the first lap I had to get myself in front of the main pack because I didn't want to be boxed in because the 800 is the worst event to be boxed in first lap. Going into my 2nd lap I picked it up and made it a goal to catch up to the Murray girl. When I passed her I tried to catch the Jordan girl and I got closer but didn't quite catch her. Oh well I still ran hard :) I ran a little cool down and elevated my legs on the fence. I had been begging Bill all meet long to let me run the 4x400 with Ellie, Ellie, and Eleanor, and he finally let me do it! We checked in a little late but the lady still let us run it. Ellie J started for us because she's the best with the starting blocks. She did really well! Next was Eleanor, and she also did really well considering she had just ran a really good 3200! Then it was me, I started out really fast and wondered if I was going too fast for myself, but when I was halfway through the backstretch I decided I was going to keep this pace and pick it up. I ended up PR'ing by about 6 seconds, 68 :) I handed Ellie L the baton and it was a beautiful handoff! She beat her 63 goal with a 62, way to go! I did maybe a quarter mile cool down while watching the boys 4x400 before heading to the bus to go to sleep and get home. Congratulations to everyone today! And a big shoutout to our boys Medley, only .60 seconds away from qualifying for state! Next week for sure!

Today was iffy. I wasn't feeling good, but I wasn't feeling bad either. I went for a short 5 mile loop averaging a 6:56 pace. Weird thing was I didn't really feel like I was going that fast but hey I trust my Garmin. I ran along 14th east to 17th south and along 15th east to 21st south, where I went up to 17th east and went back to 17th south. I was tempted to go down and go home, but I wasn't feeling terribly sick and I felt like I should do more.  I went up to 19th east and over to 13th south, where I went down. I planned to go home from here, but I was only at 3 miles and wanted to do more, so I ran over on 17th east to 9th south and entered the gulley. It was fun to run there, I felt really relaxed. I exited the gulley at 15th east and then ran home from there. I feel pretty good about this run and I think I'm gonna run in the gulley more often.