Recovery

Today was very light, we only did 1 mile warm up, 1 mile speed changes, 2 400s (1:30, 1:27) and 2 200s. (42, 43) Then did 5 strides on half of the soccer field then a 1 mile cool down. I hope to do well at regions and be in the top 5 overall and helping the team win.

Day before regions, we went and volunteered at the Food Bank and sorted moldy strawberries. After that, we went to the Jordan River Trail and ran 1 mile out and back. Then we had a delicious team dinner over at Emily's.

This was our day. I ran about 1.5 miles for a warm up and the rain and wind was impossible! Fortunatly the weather cleared slightly for the varsity races. Our team had an excellent start, great job everybody! For the first mile, I was going back and forth with a Woods Cross girl for 8th and 9th place. She is good at pushing up hills, so I did my best to stay with her and pass with her. Once we were fighting 5th and 6th places, I did a speed change to get away from her. I could still hear her getting close, which pumped my adrenaline. I PRd by about 20 seconds!!! Good job to Susannah for getting 1st, Natalie for getting 2nd, Maggie for getting 15th, Amanda for getting 21st, Suzette for getting 22nd, and Sarah for getting 26th. Our final team score was 44 points, we won by 8 points this year, last year it was 1 point win. I'm so proud of all of you fairies out there!!! Our varsity girls proudly won our 2nd trophy in a row. Good job ladies!! Also, congrats to Scotty and Ben for individually qualifying for our boys team!!

That was the most fun 8 mile run ever. Susannah, Natalie, Amanda, Suzette and I stayed together the whole 8 miles. We started at the stadium, went up to Gardsmin, up to Milton Bennion Hall, across Legacy Bridge, through U Campus Housing, to the Red Butte Shoreline trail. We had planned to go on the trail and down Sunnyside, but the trail was closed and we didn't want to take the detour. So we went on a trail to our left that took us to the JCC. Once we got to the area where it's still really wide where we did summer practices, we went onto a paved road and on 11th avenue. One small hill we went down was so steep, we were doing old lady power walks down, because we can't afford for someone to biff it with state being 13 days away. We continued on 11th avenue to a certain turnaround point and turned back to come our Shriners route. When we got back to the stadium, we did 1 lap in lane 8 for a total of 8 miles that day. Apparantly people had waited for us at the Red Butte Shoreline trail forever, but we were too far ahead to care! :D

Today we did speed at Liberty Park. We drove down there, Choncho Truck party! We did 1 lap warm up, then jogged over to the start line. We decided that we would just go around the park, 1 mile fast, recovery, 1 800, recovery, 1 800, recovery, 1 mile, recovery, then a lap of cool down. My first mile was 6:41, it felt really slow, and it was. I'm ashamed of my performance today. My 800 times were 3:18 and 3:22. You could tell that I was getting worse throughout the workout because my final mile time was 7:04. RCRT: Really Crappy Running Today. I hope to do better at practice tomorrow at Pipeline, I actually kindof miss running on that trail from summer workouts. It's serious state training time!

Saturday team workout at 11 at Pipeline trail. It was nice and chilly, and the effect of the fall leaves all over the trail was beautiful! I was keeping up with Amanda, Susannah, and Gavin pretty well at the beginning, until I tripped. That makes me have my scars from JCC, Shoreline, and Pipeline, so I'm still scared of Settlement Canyon and Gardsmin Trail. So I ran from that point on with Suzette and Maggie to the turn around. Shortly after we turned around we saw a TARANTULA! It was so scary! I probably screamed the loudest, and once we finally were gutsy enough to pass by it, Scott, Amanda, and RJ had come back to see what was wrong; they were under the impression we saw a rattlesnake. We ran with them for a while, the adrenaline was up. Eventually I got tired and ran the rest of the way on my own.