Recovery

Usual track warm up of 2 laps then stretching and dynamics. After that, I did the fire station run on 11th avenue, and I was on a roll. I had so much energy, I stayed ahead of Bill, Susannah, and Natalie until the fire station, then I turned around and they had farther to go, so I guess staying ahead wasn't that big of an accomplishment, I think it was a bigger accomplishment when I stayed with Susannah and Natalie for the first 7 mile uphill on a 10 mile run. Anyways, as I was coming back along 11th ave, I was dying, and when I stopped at the drinking fountain for a minute, I really had to go potty. For the rest of the run, I was dead tired, but I really needed to get to the bathroom, so I was pretty much booking it the last mile. I'm sure I did that 6 mile run faster than I did the Saltair 10K both years.

Today was crazy fun track day. I did the 4 people tied together 400, and our team white was 2nd place. Then it was the tube race, where people put on the inflatable pool tubes, sprint, put on another, sprint, until they had 4 tubes. Our team won that one easily. Then it was the 4 by 100 scooter relay, I was the  second leg for the girls team white. I think we were 2nd for that one, I'm not sure though. After 3 events, team white was tied for 3rd (there were 4 teams) And everyone had been instructed by Scotty to gain up against green. Then it was the 4 by 400 scooter relay, our girls did alright, and our boys won it easily. After that we did the shoe run, where we all put our shoes on a tarp and the coaches dragged it across the field and said go. The first team to have everyone back wearing both shoes tied wins, and we got 2nd. I picked up one of Natalie's shoes by 'mistake' so she was beating me up, haha. Then was the obstacle course, 4 boys and 4 girls per team. It was go over 4 hurdles, zig zag some cones, jump over a high jump mat wall (I jumped up, fell down, backed up, and jumped up again and managed to tumble over) then under a low hurdle, over a low hurdle, and under over again, then high jump, then sprint back to the beginning to tag a teammate. After the whole entire relay, we got results. Green got 4th, blue was 3rd, we were 2nd, and pink was 1st. Our reward was some of those USATF medals...funny. Then since Amanda, Sarah, and I all had to leave by 5:45, we did shorter runs. Sarah and I had time to go up Sunnyside, over to 9th south, into the gulley, one lap, and out again and back to the stadium, where we did a few laps around the track to make it a total for the day and head off to piano lessons and babysitting. Tomorrow we'll be having a speed workout then a practice meet, so I'm ready to fake an illness.

Practice meet against Stansbury, Bountiful, and Woods Cross. Before the meet, I did a workout of 1 mile warm up, 1 mile speed changes, a timed 1000 (4:11) and 3 800s. I didn't do the mile today as planned because of this speed workout, but I did do the 300 hurdles and the 800 run. I was hoping to win it, but I started out too fast and the Woods Cross girls created distance. Darn them, I need to kick their pockets at Regions. Anyways, I had been doing the hip bumps with the tubes from yesterday, which was probably the highlight of my day haha. I did a short cool down to finish off at 5 miles today and now I'm off to lacrosse!

Today we did 2 laps warm up, stretching, dynamics, and groups. Us distance runners went to Sugarhouse park along 15th east and did a lap and a half of fartleks, then turned around and came back along 15th east, with a lap on the track to even out our miles. Then we ate otter pops! Taylorsville Invitational is on Saturday, so tomorrow should probably be lighter. And next week is spring break! Huzzah! And then dead week because of AP tests for the next 3 weeks, whoop.

Tomorrow is the Taylorsville Invite so we just did our regular track warm up which is 2 laps, then distance broke off to do 1 mile warm up, then 2 miles speed changes, and half mile cool down. Then we had otter pops! It's Friday and next week is spring break! Yay!

Taylorsville Invitational was today. I did a 2 mile warm up with Natalie and Susannah for the 1 mile, which I was in the 2nd out of 5 heats. I easily won my heat with a time of 5:45, which is a 6 second PR for me! I tend to run a lot faster at invitationals and if I'm leading my race. I got out fast because I didn't want to get boxed in, and since there was a girl in my race that I don't ever want to beat me (Because she outkicked me BYU XC Invite, I didn't medal cause of it) so I was determined to stay up there. I took the lead because I could tell the girl that went way out was tired, and another girl came with me. Normally I would've stayed closest into lane 1 as possible, but there was a girl trying to pass me on the curves so I decided to be fat and hoggy. Muahaha. I heard Tolbert and Matheson tell me that she was 10 meters behind me in the last 200, so I picked up my kick because there is no way I'm gonna bust my butt and then be outkicked. After that I ran a little cool down, about half a mile. Later, for the 800, I did about half a mile of warm up and drills. I was in the 3rd heat, and the bull pen I had heard I was number 10, but when I got to the line there was another number 10 and a 12, but no 11. We then found out that I was that number 11, so we tore part of my number to make a demented 11. I got out fast to avoid being boxed in, which worked for me. I battled with someone for 4th pretty much the whole race, and I ended up in 5th. I did a small cool down with an iceberg rice crispy shake:) And out girls were 2nd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!