Recovery

I miss spring break and hate Mondays. Today I missed the warm up laps with the whole team because my running clothes got there late. I jumped in at the stretching and dynamics, so it's all good. For a distance warm up, we did 1 mile warm up and 1 mile speed changes and went on to do intervals. We were doing 2 sets of an 800 and 6 200s. For the last 500 of the 800s, we had the sprinters pacing us, but it didn't help me at all because they all started with the first person doing the 800 instead of staggered, so I didn't get a pacer. They also did 4 200s with us, both sets. They were supposed to try to stay ahead of us, and we were supposed to try to beat them, so it was a pushing workout for all of us. In between sets we jogged 1 lap. After the 2nd set, we stretched out a bit. I did another lap on the track with my ipod to get to 5 miles exactly, and then we did 5 stadium laps for a 2 mile cool down. During my 2nd lap, all hail broke loose, and I was like, "Hail no."

Today  we did the usual half mile warm up and stretching. During the stretches, all hail broke loose, so in the middle of calves, we all stood up and booked it to the shed to finish stretches and have a short meeting about tomorrow. For a distance run, we went down to Liberty Park and did a lap of firemen, and I was in a group with Sarah, Amanda, Chester, and Dorkota. After that, it started hailing again, (Gotta love Utah bipolar weather, we got sun, rain, snow, and hail all in one day!) so we ran back up the hill to the track to end at 5.5. Then I went up to the running company for new trainers, because my blue Mizuno's are really starting to hurt my legs.

Today I went to the North Summit Invite with Susannah, Natalie, Amanda, and Sarah. Susannah did well in the 2 mile, and later all 5 of us did the 1600, Sus the 1 mile. We did a mile and a half warm up, and then I did speed changes for half a mile. Then the others told me we had warmed up too soon, so we'd have to do it again. Darn. When it was time to warm up, we took a POTTY break and went on a mile warm up. Then we did some drills until we had to go to the starting line. We had a start, and I was in a really good spot when everyone suddenly stopped and went back to the start. I never heard a second gun but okay. Then we started again, and this time I got elbowed, but I pushed through it and got a good spot close to the front. Unfortunately, that was also a false start. Lining up for the 3rd time, all of us racers said that if they fired a second gun, we would not come back, that they would have to suck it up. This time we finally got into the race. I moved up in the pack and was holding off Park City girls pretty much the entire race, and of the 1600 people, I was 3rd overall, 2nd from East, which I thought was alright. I hope I PRd, but I don't know my time yet so that's why I just put 6, I'll fix it later. We did a 1 mile cool down because Mama Shields had to get back home. When we were almost home, Bill called. We discovered that we were supposed to have done the 800...But we didn't know that, which is why we left so soon. Oh well. :) I love my new trainers!!

Today I found out I would be racing in the Davis Invite on Saturday, and we did a good workout. We did the usual half mile warm up and stretching. Then during the dynamics, one of the lines didn't do one of the drills the way back, so everybody else had to do a 400. After that, we broke off into groups. Distance went to the bleachers, where we did 3 sets of 1 minute of step ups. After that, we did smaller step ups, 5 rounds of one step, 5 rounds of skip step, and those two sets again. Then we went to the fence to stretch our calves, and after that we went to the walls to do wall sits, where we also did the Macarina because it makes the whole minute doing the sets of 3 seem so much faster and efficient. Then we jogged over to the soccer field, where we were supposed to do 10 hills. On the 7th one, Bill declared that the first 6 back would be done with the hills, and I was the 8th. I then discovered it was a good thing, because the others had to do leg lifts. After the 8th one, we were in the soccer teams way, so we had to jog away. Dumb boys. We did a 300 in groups, and I was with Amanda, Sarah, and Suzette. Amanda led our pack, which is really going to help me push her and her pull me. After that, we did a set of circuits: Popcorn, stride, jumping jacks, stride, squats, stride, mountain climbers, stride. Then we went back over to the 300 start, again to do it in groups. This time I was with Amanda, Sarah, and Chester. Amanda led our group again, and in the last 100, Chester outkicked me, so I've really got to work on my last 100 because that's probably my weakest. Finally, we did 10 100M strides, we did the strides with our backs to the wind, so we could jog towards the wind. After that, we talked about Davis and then went home.

We just did a pool workout today because we have a race tomorrow. Susannah, Natalie, RJ, and I all went up to Steiner to pool run. 10 minute warm up, 10 minutes of fartleks, and 10 minutes of cool down. It sucked because we had to be in the shallow end of the pool because our water polo team was there. After the pool, we went down to the stadium to get out track sweats :)

Today was the Davis Invitational. I was doing the 1600, 3200 (Grr.) And the 4x4 relay. I did a half mile loosen up with Patrick and then stretched for a bit. Then I did 2 laps around the block, which was 2 miles. I then went and did some strides with Amanda and we raced. My first 2 laps were alright, but I wish that I could have pushed harder. I advanced on my 3rd lap, and finished strong my 4th. Unfortunately my goal was to make it to BYU Invite next week, but my time wasn't fast enough :(

I did another loop around the block for a loosen up mile, then ran around inside of Davis because it was snowing outside. They procrastinated the meet for a few minutes to see if it would clear up, so we moved our stuff inside and camped.

Then I did a warm up for the 3200 meter, asking anyone if they're willing to kill me. I absolutely HATE the 3200 with a burning passion! I was doing okay physically, but I got a 6:25 for my first mile. Then it really started to hurt. I couldn't help it, I was in so much pain and feeling so much hatred that I cried it out. A Park City girl was nice, she encouraged me to go on and that I would make it, but at the time I couldn't take it. When I finished, I cried more and got really moody and snappy at everyone. Then I did a couple more drills to get ready for the 4x4.

Amanda was our starting leg, and she passed it off to me. I got a 75 for my lap, and passed it to Maggie. Sarah finished us off for a time of 4:57, which was our goal, to break 5. After, I went on a cool down to be at 8 miles today and then Michaela took me to her house to have some lunch, which made me feel a lot better and I stopped getting mad at everyone. But I still don't like it when people tell me I did amazing when I straggled and died, because that's just lying.