Recovery

Today I had to leave workout after warmup and drills because of work. Should be fun.

I'm currently blogging at work because there are no customers and all the dishes are done. I ran my speed earlier during my free period. I ran from my house along 15th East and Greenwood Terrace down Sunnyside to the track. I ran 1 mile speed changes and payed close attention to the wind. I knew it was going to be horrible. My mile splits were wupposed to be at 2 mile pace, so I hit 1:27, 2:49, 4:26, and 5:51. Fun stuff. I ran a lap recovery and then went into my 1200. I didn't pay attention to my splits, but my final time was a 4:27. Screwy. I ran another lap recovery. My 800 was a 2:55. The wind was also getting worse. I ran another lap recovery. The wind was horrible on the 400 start, but once I got past the first 50M I picked it up a ton and flew. I got a 78, not bad. For a cooldown I threw my sweats back on and ran home. I feel okay about this workout, I just wish it hadn't been so windy. But I do prefer doing speed alone, I always do better because I don't feed off of others paces. I know, bad race technique but whatever helps me get my speed up I'll take. Now I need CUSTOMERS. Erghh.

Today was a really cold day. I ran the team warmup and then my own warmup in my sweats because I was so cold. I did not feel my muscles getting warm. It was awful. For the mile they weren't going to let us wear hoodies or anything, so we were all cold, even while running. Mariah and I took the race out pretty fast, and I figured I could just stick on her and draft and go for the last 300 pass. I passed her, but then my arms froze even more and she passed me back with about 150 to go so I just let her have it today. Ugh. I didn't catch my actual time. I didn't even bother changing out of my spikes because I was in every other event. I ran the 400 in the same heat with Sam and another Bountiful girl, and I was lane 3. I didn't run as fast as I wanted to because I was so frozen. After that I had some time to go take a POTTY break and be a lactard on the toilet. Then I ran the 800. Another Bountiful girl took the race out hard, and I tried to go with her but started feeling sick, and going into the second lap I felt really sick and considered dropping out. The finish hurt really badly and I had to wait in the finish chute for 5 years before being able to go put my sweats back on and cry about my tummy, and Bill still wanted me to run the 800 in the Medley. I basically jogged the whole thing, sorry team. As soon as I finished I went and sat in the bathroom for a while before it was finally time to go. I really hate this weather too. It's too cold and it's April. It needs to be sunny and warm.

Today I didn't have a ride to practice so I ran there. I thought I was going to be late but nobody was ready when I got there so I was able to do the full warmup and drills thingy. Tomorrow is crazy track day! After all that fun stuff we ran down to Liberty. Emmaline and I ran together the long way, going about a 6:45 pace oops. But we felt good. When we got to the drinking fountain, we heard our workouts. I was doing a 4 mile tempo at 6:12 pace. We ran to the starting line and did 4 strides on the grass before starting. My first mile was a 6:09. My second one went down to a 6:19. Ugh. On the next mile my right calf tightened up, so tight I felt like it was going to burst. Then it went really numb, something that's never happened before. What. The. Heck. Leg. Why. Are. You. Doing. This. To. Me. My next mile was a 7:24. Ew. Then I finished my last mile an 8:48, doing all 4 miles in exactly 28 minutes. Poop. We ran to the drinking fountain and I massaged it a bit before running up 13th south to home, since I was already at 9.25. Later I massaged it some more and hopefully it won't ever spaz out again.

Today was Crazy Track day. Black and Blue team is better than Red and White team. Just throwing that out there. We won the Shoe relay, the boys and girls tube run, the obstacle course, and girls 4x100 scooter relay. I was the girl running in the tube relay and the anchor of the scooter. We lost the sponge relay, 4x400 scooters. So yeah the whole thing was a tie so the teams had to play tug of war to determine a tie breaker. Well the rope broke, so we'll just say that Black and Blue won, deal? Okay everyone's cool bye bye. Then we sang Happy Birthday to Austin and Justin before having cake and leaving. Great day!