Recovery

Today for track we met in the commons and ran up to the track. We did 2 laps so we would all be at a mile warm up. Then we did our dynamic drills with Tim and then broke into boys and girls (ugly and pretty) for circuits with box squats, hill lunches, football field strides, burpies, walk out and in with roatations, and hills. We broke into groups for our runs, I went for a 20 minute adventure run with Patrick, Kevin, Sarah B, and Sarah Sa. We ran over to 9th south, up to 17th east, over to Harvard, and down to ZoBells. I looked through the window and stared at RJ for about a full minute before he looked up. It was funny. Then we ran down to 15th east, over to Yale, down to 14th, over to Gilmer, down to 13th, and back to the school. We finished at exactly 4 miles for the day. We then did wall sits as the 5 of us then I went back up to the track to give Bill the rest of my Footlocker stuff and get my sweats from Savannah.

Today was speed and we had a bigger group than we normally do. We ran up to the track and did a mile warm up and a mile speed changes. Then we stretched and did 4 sets of 400 200, with 2:30 and 1:30 standing recovery. I ran a 1:17, 37, 1:20, 39, 1:26, 38, 1:22, 37. My legs felt really heavy for the first 2 sets, but then on the last 2 sets my whole upper body felt really heavy and I almost tripped over my legs because it felt like I had no control. It was wierd. We did 2 grass loops cool down then took down out discus net, which I'm not sure why it was even up... Then we ran back down to the school and went home. We're scheduled to leave for Footlocker at 6 AM on Thursday, and from the second I post this we're scheduled to leave in 36 hours 44 minutes and 30 seconds.

Today for track we did 2 vertical laps warm up and then went right onto dynamic stretching. We then did 3 of our circuits with the basic A skips, strides, burpies, down dog walk outs, box squats and box lunges with 5 second holds, and more. After all this we went on our run along 13th east to the cemetery, 1 lap, and back the same way. We went to the weight room and did some stretches for our legs and arms and then went home. I'm excited, 6 AM tomorrow we leave for FOOTLOCKER! 12 HOURS 39 MINUTES AND 30 SECONDS!!!

All day bus ride to Footlocker. :) Stopped in St George at the usual place to run on the trailway to the golf courses 2 miles out and back.

Went with the team for packet pick up and course walk through. After course walk through I took my shoe off and we did 8 strides by the start then headed to the beach. As soon as we got to the beach Sarah Sa and I sprinted barefoot in the wet sand and back for funsies.

When we got to the course, I ran a mile warm up with Maggie because we're the only junior girls. When we checked into the start we did some strides. I did some high knees and butt kicks and the second I got back to the line from my butt kicks everyone else was in starting stance, heehee. As soon as the gun fired both girls on either side of be elbowed, so I fought back and ran harder than them. The corral was alright, I worked on getting into position for the first mile. For the second mile I worked up the switchbacks and they made my legs hurt really bad, but as soon as it curved into a downhill I leaned forward and passed as many people as possible. Going up poop out hill I focused on myself and not the others around me. It helped to have Taylor screaming at me to go because I hadn't heard anybody cheering for me. I went down the rest of the reservoir hard and worked up reservoir hill. I used the last downhill to give me the kick I needed to medal. Once I got onto the track I kicked it. But at the last 10 meters I got outkicked by a shorty (Not as if that's every happened before. eyeroll) And yeah. I ran a 1 mile cool down actually cheering for my teammates instead of messing around. Then we went to Disneyland! :)