Recovery

Today we met at Sugarhouse park for cemetery run. For the first 2 miles I kept up with Tomy and Natalie at a freaking 7:15 pace, so I went down to an 8:15. When we got in the cemetery I found my ancestors. As soon as I got out of the cemetery I completely crashed and stayed at about a 9:20 pace the rest of the way. Near the end, Bill and Camille caught up to me and we went to the drinking fountain. Then we saw my twin(Ben!), he was wearing a neon t shirt just like me and grey shorts just like my skort. We finished the run at 7.5 miles. I don't know what I'm supposed to hit this week and I even asked about 4 times.

We did a 2 mile warm up plus strides and I felt pretty good. For the fartlek we did a ladder, 1 off 1 on 1 off 2 on 1 off 3 on 2 off 4 on 3 off 4 on 3 off 3 on 2 off 2 on 1 off 1 on 1 off. You were too lazy to read that weren't you? For the first half I did alright, and after the first 4 minute on I mentally prepared myself for the 2nd half but then my stomach said no. I worked through it best I could and completely died on the cool down. I was pretty miserable, but at least I gave everything I had to the workout.

Met at Cottonwood Complex this morning. We did a big lap along 13th east to St Marks, down to 11th east, over to 45th south, and to the bottom of Bessie. We did 8 strides in the shade, then did 6 800s along the region course as tempo. My first one was 3:30, then 3:18, 3:36, 3:30, 3:33, and 3:12. For a cool down, we ran around the softball diamond, but then I couldn't keep up. I followed the group to 45th south, then I didn't see them when I was on 11th east. I didn't want to make them wait long for me, so I went back into the complex and got some water and ended at 9.

Today we met at Liberty for a run. When I got there, it was just the girls, and Bill had started a lap so we started a lap. When we finished the lap he told us that we didn't have to do that lap because we were going on a 10 miler. We ran up to 9th east, all the way to 3rd avenue, down to Memory Grove, and up to City Creek. At the drinking fountain, Nat, Kiley, Bill and I met up with Tomy. As soon as we turned around and went down, I could feel myself crashing. Darn it Tomy for picking up the pace. Dumb boys. Just kidding. I went down to State Street and then zigzagged my way back to Liberty Park, stopping at the well at 5th east and 8th south. I finished at 11 for the morning and hopefully someone will go night running with me tonight.

Today I slept in so I decided to wait for a night run. When it got cooler it was pretty dark, and my mom would only let me run back and forth along 14th east, so that's what I did for 2 miles. It sucked. I will for sure be hitting 60 this coming week, rather than getting sick.