Recovery

Today I went to Sugarhouse park for the advanced group run, but I was 3 minutes late. Travis was there, so I asked him where they went, and he pointed to someone running in a white shirt and said Natalie was chasing them, so I chased her in hopes that I could catch up. However, she went up the hill and the trees prevented me from seeing where she went, so by the time I got to the top of the hill, she was gone. So I did 2 big grass loops around the park for 5 miles. When I got back more people were there, and when the advanced group came back I explained that my sister should wake me up 10 minutes earlier (hint hint). For a simple run, we did a big loop around Sugarhouse park, and then we did some pocket kicks, high knees, powerskips, reach ups, and lunges. After that we did 1 circuit, each thingy for 45 seconds. During the mountain climbers I kept slipping, and there are big mud marks where we did them. We did a lap on the road for a cool down, then sat in the shade by a tree and did core.

Today we met at the Peace Gardens to run on Jordan River Parkway. When I got to the flooded part of the trail, I turned around and went to the big bridge. I had been instructed to go left after the bridge and run by the golf courses for about a mile before turning around and going back, but as I was turning left, a guy on a lawnmower stopped me. "You can't run along here." "But the rest of my team went that way and I have to follow." "Well you can't run on here." "Why not?" "Because you'll get hit by a golf ball." Wierd story, I know, but that guy was a jerk. I ran back along the trail, thinking about how I would only be at 5 by the time I got back, and I was supposed to go to 8. I turned around on the trail and went back again for a bit then turned around and came back, and I was just under 6, but then I decided I'll just do 2 miles later today. Oh how I hated that guy...

Today I thought it was just an 8:00 start with everyone, but it turns out it was a 7:15 advanced before. Well, I slept in...Anyways, it was our scavenger hunt today. I was in a group with Natalie, Suzette, Sarah, Camille, Sage, Michelle, Olivia, and Travis. Our first clue was to find a broken tee at the golf course, then to go to the small bakery and get a small doughnut thingy. Then we went up to the oldest cotton tree in Salt Lake for a picture, then to some pink flowers outside of this garden shop, and then a picture of some windmill. Our next 3 clues required pictures by the stone sugar beets in the area. Our first one was at the Sprague Library, then the one by Petco, and finally the one in Hidden Hollow. Then we had to go to Barnes and Noble and get a picture of Beedle the Bard, and copy down the last line of page one. Then we had to find a specific cookbook, take a picture, and copy down a recipe for some custard Lorraine Quiche. Then we took the list of ingredients down to Smiths and had to put them all in a shopping cart and take a picture, so I climbed in the cart and held up some stuff. The worker lady just laughed at us! Next we had to go to some old tennis courts, which is now a community garden, and go to the message board for the next clue. We had to take a picture by the garden flamingo, then write our names with chalk on the ground. After, we went up to the Youth City thingy and found the tree with a hole in it. There was a paper in there that instructed us to take a picture of the hole, then have everyone find a pinecone and throw it in the river for a race, and time it. We all stood on the bridge and threw our pinecones in, then ran down the stream by the pinecone until it got to a handicapped parking sign in the Boys and Girls Club parking lot. It finished in 7:24. Then we went over to a slide and posed for a picture there, then ran through the sprinklers back to our starting spot. I did another quarter mile to get my Garmin up to 4 miles for the day. Maybe I'll stop being such a lazy bum and go for another run later...

We met at the park and ride today and carpooled up to Pipeline Trail. The Brighton team got there at the same time as us, so there was a TON of people. I started out running with Natalie, Gavin, Sam, and Sarah, but then Bill wanted Nat to pick it up, so I went with them. One of the Brighton boys was running behind us for quite a while, then I think he turned around. At 3.5 miles in, I fell back from Natalie and Bill. As I was turning around at the 4.7 mark, Vuong had caught up to me and passed me. For the rest of the run I stayed up where I could at least see someone, and there were still some others behind me, so if I got eaten by a wild animal, it wouldn't take that long for people to find me. When I got to the end, I needed .75 to be at 10, so I ran up the road to the stone bridge to the wooden wall and back along the boardwalk. The Brighton people gave us yummy bagels. I'm going horseback riding later today!

It's Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday...

Today we met at Liberty Park for our workout. We started with a full lap around the park for a warm up, then we jogged over to the starting line for our timed miles and such. We did an 800, and I got a 2:57. Then we jogged another half mile before doing our second one. I hit a 2:57 again. We finished that lap around the park, then went out from the drinking fountain about a quarter out, and then a quarter back. Then we did crunches, pushups, leg lifts, and arm swings.