Recovery

Stayed up too late last night, and I had the pre ACT in the morning. I napped on and off through school, since we really didn't do much. Afterwards, we did a 9 mile run. Now we meet in the commons, so we ran along 13th to Sugarhouse, did a full lap around the grass perimiter, did another almost full lap but went up to 19th east on 21st south, over to 8th south, down to 14th east, and down 9th south to the teacher parking lot. We did 10 strides and 2 laps around the field at the back of the school. For the first few miles of the run, I ran with Susannah, Natalie and Bill. It felt great until I started to slow. I don't know why I always start with them for a few miles and die down, but I have noticed that it's becoming easier to stay with them longer. :) Vacation Vacation we're going on Vacation we'll go north we'll go south we'll go on Vacation! We are excited to go to Phoenix this weekend, we don't have to go to a full week of school for a month, weekends off!

Took a nice nap in AP World today, I wasn't the only one either. For our workout today, we ran from the commons to the stadium for speed. 1 mile warm up, 1 mile speed changes, 1 timed mile. For the timed mile, Caden, Ethan, and I were supposed to hit between 6:20 or 6:30, otherwise we would suffer the consequences. I hit a 6:27, and everyone else hit their time assignments, so we only had 3 400s. We did 2 laps recovery from the mile, then did our 400s, the first two with a lap recovery each, and after the third 400, we did 1 big loop around the stadium and ran back down to the school. My fingers were blue!! Thanks Delaney for letting me wear your jacket! After workout I raided the ZoBells fridge.

Today we did the Modified False Adventure Run.The original means that you went the right way, gosh Bill. Anyways, I ran at a pretty good pace with Dakota the whole way, and all he talked about was a learners permit, so fellow runners, do not run on the trails or sidewalks. Anyways, it was pretty cold yesterday, and the whole time I had the gloomy feeling "First Track Meeting tomorrow...Hampster time.........." I hate track!!!!!!!!!!

"In XC, I feel human. In track, I feel like a hamster."

Got enough sleep last night to last me through the school day, so no naps there. At 1:45 today we were excused from class for team pictures at 2:00. After the pictures, there was still half hour left of school, but since nobody wanted to go to class, we went on our 4 mile run so we could get it done before the track meeting. We ran along 13th east to 4th south and did 2 big laps in the cemetery and came back the same way along 13th east, then did 2 and a half laps around the softball field before going into our track meeting. I HATE TRACK.

"In XC I feel human. In track I feel like a hamster."

Spent 12 hours in a car with Mom, Susannah, Amanda, and Natalie. We got to Phoenix safely, and got in a 2 mile run before it got too dark. We just ran from our hotel on 17 Scottsdale road, 1 mile out (past Princess Blvd, and alot of car dealerships like Porsche, Audi, other awesome stuff...etc) And 1 mile back.

Well our car was dead this morning, and we had to get from Scottsdale to Phoenix, so we waited 3 hours for Bill to come jump the car. We finally got it running, and when we got to the race, Natalie and I had a good 15 minutes to get 1.5 mile of warm up in...we ran in our spikes due to lack of time When the race started, it was dusty. Either make dust or eat dust, I chose make it. Throughout the race, I passed plenty of people, and nobody ever passed me :) It was nice to have the big waterslides by the finish, because in the desert wherever I was drowning in my sweat, I could always see the rainbow slides. :) Our Sojourners team won by 1 point, we're so happy! Good job Natalie, Summer, Jordyn, and Rachel! After all the awards and stuff, Bill wanted to measure the coarse, so he took Susannah, Amanda, Natalie, Bre, and I on a cool down along the coarse. It was actually 3.09. Well, I would love to blog longer, but we just made it to Vegas and want to go swimming. It was a great day!