Recovery

I have no idea how many miles I really did, so I'm assuming 5. I started at my house, ran a warm up to Sunnyside park, ran at a faster pace for a big lap around the park, along 19th east to Harrison avenue, down to 16th south over to 17th east, up to 17th south, back down to 16th south, and cooled down over to Harrison Avenue and home. It was a nice run.

I love early mornings. We did 1 mile warm up, 1 mile speed changes, 2 300s, stride relays, and 1 mile cool down. My favorite part of that workout was the pancakes, I made mine look pretty.

After school we went over our race course. We ran 1.6 mile up to This is the Place Heritage Park, and went over the race course. I barely got past the 2 mile when I realized I was running late, so instead of going up the trail loop again, I went down to the parking lot for Shoreline trail where we usually park to go run. I ran down Sunnyside all the way to the locker room. It was so hot! Bad day to wear black top and bottom.

Our home meet was at This is the Place Heritage Park this year. After a lovely 2 mile warm up...(setting up cones and running) We raced. That course sucks!! :( 2 miles uphill, then 1 mile of mostly downhill but some ups. I don't like Shoreline trail at all, it's the worst place to run! Oh well. Then I ran a mile cool down with the rest of the girls. Congrats to Natalie, for setting the course record :)

Simple workouts because we have the Murray Invitational tomorrow. Our morning workout was to run up to Sunnyside Park, run 2 big loops, 10 strides, one loop cool down, back to the stadium, and 1 lap around the track for 5 miles. Our afternoon workout was really light, 1 mile warm up, 10 strides, 1 mile cool down. Plus 3 sets of 10 pushups and 30 crunches.

It was the Murray Invitational today. I ran a 3 mile warm up, 3 mile race, and 2 mile cool down. The start of the race was dumb, because our team got squished in the start line. And when the race started, there were so many elbows thrown around. Bill gave us the quote of the day, "God gave you elbows for a reason. Use them." Well the first start a bunch of the girls fell over and created a big heap in the way. 3 of my teammates fell over in that heap. Luckily they restarted that race. But the second race, Amanda and I both tripped and fell, but we knew to stand up and keep going instantly instead of assume that the race was going to restart. I got a PR!!