Recovery

Today was a speed workout. We started with the usual 1 mile warm up and 1 mile of speed changes. I kept up with Maggie and Stephie for the whole 2 miles. We did 1 lap of recovery, then the speed stuff. First we did an 800, and I hit about a 3:15. We ran 1 lap recovery then did another 800, which I did about a 3:25. After 1 lap recovery from that one, we did 4 400s, each with 1 lap recovery. I was hitting between 90 and 95. After that, we did 8 200s. I would have been able to do 1 mile cool down if I wasn't in such a rush. Oh well :(

So excited for state!!!

Today we drove down to Liberty in the Choncho Truck with Natalie and Delaney. We met up with the team and ran 2 laps for a warm up around the park. After that, we took THE CONES (fear them, they are THE CONES!) We did a relay sort of thing for hills, and I actually liked it because doing relays for hills makes it so much better! The first time I was on a team with Riley, RJ, Natalie, and Sarah. What we did was start 3 teammates on one side of the hill, so we had to do a stride up the hill, around the first cone, to the second cone, and down to the other set of teammates and tag someone. There were some annoying groups smoking at the top of the hill, and they were saying the stupidest things at us. "Double time now! Go runners!" Well I almost invited them to do the workout with us. For the second relay, we moved one of our cones so we wouldn't run by those annoying people again. My team changed a bit, we swapped Sarah for Amanda. This time, instead of going up and over, we did a loop. All the team members were on one area, so we had to run up the hill, over to the other cone, down the hill, around the big pine tree (that one? this one?) and back to tag the next person. It was so much fun! For a cool down we ran 2 more laps around the park, giving us about 7 miles for the day. The ride back to the stadium consisted of many pinkys, Hey Soul Fireflies, and Waka Waka! :)

Today we just did the Thunderbird run. And I was an idiot who decided to wear black, so it was really, really hot. I ran with Stephie up Sunnyside to Foothill. We stretched at the light. Angela and Noami met us up at that corner and we continued up to the zoo. We went up that one hill (like how detailed that was?) to Wasatch Drive. Just before we turned down to run along the golf courses road, Stephie totally biffed it on a sprinkler head. It was scary. We ran on the never ending stretch of road until we finally reached Thunderbird. After stretching and getting a drink, we came back the usual way. We went along foothill all the way to the Wendy's, and down to 19th east. We continued on 19th east to Sunnyside Avenue again, then went down back to the stadium. By the time we got back, everyone had pretty much gone, and Bill was ready to come look for us. I guess today was just one of those days for me where I just couldn't push up that first hill, it's a forever road.

Since we're on UEA break, there was no school, so we had a workout at 1 in the afternoon today. We met up at Peace Gardens, and while we waited for Bill, we were swinging and playing on the playground. I was reminded of the time we played pinecone and stick baseball. Anyways, we ran 3 miles out along the Jordan River Parkway and back the same way. When we got back, we stretched and did core work. After stretches, we started with our strides, then arms, leg lifts, reach for the stars, and lunges in that order. Then we went over to the pavillion for step ups and wall sits. On the last set of step ups, we had to make it to 60 step ups, (last one done is a rotten egg!) Good thing I wasn't last:) The wall sits were worse, since the walls there are really rocky. They look great, but they are also the worst place to do wall sits.

Today we met at Wheeler Farm for an afternoon workout. We did the usual warm up around the farm, it was pretty crowded. After that, we went over to our .4 loop to do fartlek. We did 2 sets of 10 1 minute off 1 minute on. For the first 20 minutes, I ran with Suzette, she timed while I counted. Pushing was difficult, especially through the sand. On the second set of 20 minutes, I ran with Suzette and Patrick for a while. I was pushing really, really hard on the last 10 minutes of it. When we finished fartlek, we ran a cool down around the farm. Wheeler farm is a fun place to run, but if we go there too much I'm sure we'll all be sick of it.

This morning Susannah and I went down to Liberty Park. We planned on doing 4.5, which is 3 laps around the park. But at the end of the 2nd lap, I was feeling really sick, so I continued on the 3rd lap half mile out and came back for a total of 4 easy miles today.