Recovery

Today we ran to Lakeside for our 3x10 minute tempo. I felt fine on the first one and stayed at the 6:15 pace. The second one I felt awful. I wasn't mentally prepared for this workout. The third one I pushed through it. I'm just glad that I finished the workout. We ran back to the WAC for cooldown, then I iced for 15 minutes before going to study hall. Later, Brenden and I went to Yoga. After that I went to Golds Gym with Harley, Shea, Caity, Savannah, and Brenden. We did a warmup on the elliptical all of our stuff on teamdesktop. Good workout. Now it's time for Cheerios and Apple Juice.

Today was speed. We ran our 15 minute warmup through the frolf course to the tunnels and back, then did all our drills. The workout was 4 sets of 600, 400, 300, 200. The recovery after each one was 500, 400, 400, 400. I felt good the first set but it was mentally tough because of the crowd. The second set I got worse. We thought we were doing 3 sets, so I was excited for my last set but then was disappointed that there were 4. After the 3rd set I felt better mentally because I only had one more. During the last set, Coach asked if I was okay and needed to stop, but I said that I wanted to finish because I've already come this far. I finished strong, then we did a 10 minute cooldown. Weights later, class now. Yoga here I come. Then a nice long 3 hour history lecture. I'm not signing up for night classes next semester.

After being on the bus all day we finally made it to Montana! We just did a run from our hotel, 20 minutes out and back. We ran on this wide dirt road next to a train track and stayed as a big group. Race tomorrow!

For a warmup we ran a part of the course together while cheering for the boys on their 8k. Our plan was to take the first mile slow and then pick it up a ton. Well I figured out the hard way that that won't work for me, because the first mile was too slow and then it was too hard for me to pick it up, but I still felt like I was at race pace. Once I got to the final stretch I realized I was on pace to break 20 minutes, so I started kicking. But the last 150M was the annoying little rollie hills which really slowed me down because it broke my stepping pattern and I almost tripped several times. For a cooldown we ran the lower loop, then did 2 400s on the field before getting back on the bus and getting lunch. I love burritos. We headed home after.