Recovery

We started at the East High Stadium. We ran on Sunnyside up to Guardsman, over to 15th east, and over to Sugarhouse Park. We went to our drinking fountain. Then we ran from Sugarhouse Park to Fairmont Park. We stretched, ran 8 strides, and continued along 9th east to 17th south, dropped down to 5th east, and ran up to the Liberty Park drinking fountain on the Southeast corner of the park on 13th south and 7th east. Then we ran to our hill, where we did 3 loops. (6 hills around the flagpole) We ran to 9th south and 7th east, and up. On the way back, Bryson, Mickey, and I stopped at Great Harvest for ice and water. Then we continued up the big hill back up to the stadium. It was a very hot run, and I did not like it at all.

Morning workout we did 6.5 miles. We ran down to Liberty Park and did 2 laps of firemen. Good job to my group, Amanda, Patrick, Caden, Mickey, and Chase. Then we ran back up to the track. The afternoon workout was speed. 1 mile warm up, 1 mile speed changes for everyone. Then we split into groups for seperate things. My group did 2 800s. My first one was 3:03 and my second one was 3:05. Next, Bill sent us to the soccer field to do 10 strides. After those strides, we did 1 mile of cool down. My hip is still hurting from hills week. :(

So first of all, I have no idea what my time is, so I just put 21 minutes. I'll correct it later when I find out. When we got there, I warmed up with Natalie and Amanda for about 2 miles. We raced the 5K, I really like that course. The first mile is up the Settlement Canyon road, then you turn right onto the trail, which is really rocky and pretty dangerous. After about 2 and a half miles on the trail, the last half mile is coming down from the trail, looping around this gravel area, running through some tough rocks, through a creek, and to the finish. Good job Natalie, for taking 2nd overall, great job to the rest of the girls! Good job Susannah, for placing 18th...in the boys race. :) For a cool down, I ran with Natalie, Amanda, and Bill up the road again. We found a huge tarantula, it was very scary. I continued to cool down with them, then we grouped with a few others and finished our 4 mile cool down so we could hit 9 miles today. Hitting my miles this week is hard...

For the morning workout, Varsity ran up Sunnyside Ave to Foothill, over to the corner cafe, up that big hill, and through the U campus to Legacy Bridge. Amanda and I ran it together the whole 5 miles. After Legacy, we went back to the stadium the regular way, cutting through some of the campus and across Guardsmin way. Breakfast was amazing, muffins!!

The afternoon workout was hard. I'm so happy and I feel so accomplished, I managed to keep up with Natalie and Susannah! We ran up Sunnyside, across Guardsmin, cut through U campus, up to Shriners Hospital, up to 11th ave, over to City Creek Canyon, past the Capitol building, down to South Temple, and up. As we went up, we passed what I call the alphabet streets, because there is A street, B street, so on and so forth. I was still with Natalie and Susannah at this point, but it was getting harder and my leg was aching. Eventually at Q street, I couldn't keep up anymore, this was about mile 7. I managed to run from Q street to 1300 south, across the park, and over. At 4th south, Amanda caught up with me, I was  glad to have someone to run with! We finished the last bit together. When we got back, the team was cleaning and filling our ice tub. Then lots of people crammed into it. It was a very hard run, and it's been a very hard week, but I'm so glad that I've survived.

Core work...We ran up to Sunnyside, ran a big loop, did some arms and strides. Then our coach made us do some ridiculous core work, the only thing I accomplished was falling over.(Stephie and I climbed a tree!) Then we did a loop cool down and back to the school.

We had a Saturday morning workout at Sugarhouse Park today. We ran a big loop around the park for a warm up, which was 2 miles. Then we ran 1 mile of speed changes on Highland's track. After that, we did a timed mile, I hit around a 6:30, I really don't know. We did a 2 lap recovery for that one, then we proceeded to run 8 400s, each with 1 lap recovery. So far on the track we were at 5.5. We finished with a 2 mile cool down. I have a really really bad feeling about my miles last week compared to this week...and the hip pain...