Recovery

We met at Sugarhouse park for our run today. We had the advanced group, the group that has their base miles, and the still kinda new group. The advanced group did the cemetery run with 2 laps in the cemetery. This is my 3rd summer running with East Cross Country, and that was the first time I've ever ran in that cemetery. On the way to the cemetery, I tried to keep up with my sister, but I hadn't had time to eat before practice, so I fell back right as we turned the corner onto 33rd south. Then Patrick caught up to me and ran the cemetery loops and the rest of the run with me, and I was able to complain about the world to him without being questioned or argued with. When we got back I did my sets of crunches and pushups, and I have some very good news: I CAN FINALLY DO A MAN PUSHUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Isn't that great? :)

Today we met at Sunnyside park for our workout. For the advanced run, we went up Sunnyside avenue to Wasatch Blvd. We went along Wasatch Blvd until we got to Thunderbird, and at the drinking fountain we found a deer carcass. Gross. We ran to 13th south along Foothill and then down to 19th east, where we went to Sunnyside avenue and down to the park. We did a lap in the park to be at exactly 8 and then our core. I felt very sick during the run, but after I felt very accomplished. Why? Because I managed to keep up with my sister. How cool is that? :)

Today we met at Cottonwood Complex for our workout. We did our usual warm up, a lap around the softball diamonds, then along 13th east to the hospital, down to 11th east, and back over into the complex. I felt very good on the warm up, and rather accomplished that I kept up with the boys. After warm up, we got water and stretched, then we did 6 strides. We then did a ladder run on our region course, 1 minute on, 1 off, 2 on, 2 off, 3 on, 2 off, 3 on, 2 off, 2 on, 2 off, 1 on, and 1 off. I pushed with Amanda for the whole thing, I would get a little ahead on downhills, and she would get ahead on the uphills, and that helped me mentally know that I need to work on hills because that is my weakness. It was great! When our last minute off ended, we had made it to the bottom of Big Bessie for the finish, and we ran for 3 more recovery minutes to the finish for exact miles, so it's good to know that 10 minutes hard and 13 minutes of slow can get me through that course, so at a race pace I could probably finally break 19 at pre-region, which is my goal. After everyone had finished, we took our shoes off and did a barefoot cooldown on the grass, which felt AMAZING! We did our crunches and pushups and went home.

For workout today we met at the park and ride and carpooled up to Pipeline trail. We were only going to go out about 20 minutes and back instead of the full 10. I felt really good today, and I didn't eat breakfast, and I went to bed at midnight and woke up just after 6. I went from various paces, from as fast as 7 minutes to 8:20s, and my average pace was 8:03. I was running pretty close to Ben and Taylor, not where I could see them, but I knew I was close. I ran out and when my garmin said 2.52, I turned around and came back and added a little teeny bit for 5.1. It felt great!

Today we met at Liberty for a really short workout. We did one lap around the park on the woodchips for our warmup, then did 6 strides by the drinking fountain, and a backwards lap on the woodchips around the park. Simple as that. Then we went to the Park Cafe for breakfast and I had some yummy French toast and hot cocoa! :)

Susannah and I met up with Taylor at Sunnyside park this morning. We planned to go up Sunnyside Avenue to Foothill, down 5th south and to Shriners, but when we got to Foothill I was breathing really heavy and I couldn't keep up anymore and fell behind. When I got to the crossing by Guardsmin and 5th south, I stretched then turned around and came back, and finished with a lap in the park. I did my core and waited for the others to get back.