Alli's running blog

Good news I got bribed into blogging again!! Had the Dixie invite today & I ran the 400. I just tried to take quick steps cause that's what coach was yelling the whole darn time & I think it helped. SO excited for the 800 tomorrow. & I don't even know what the heck my total miles was so I didn't put anything. The end.

AM- easy 30 with jushbush & el bel. Honestly, I don't know how I got friends with such weird names.

PM- 3x1000s with 2x300. We only did 10 minutes warm cause we didn't know we had 60 minutes instead of 45... But we got back on the track and had a solid 3 thousands. I didn't hit my times but I improved every one & thought it each one was a really good push. The 300s were rough, per the norm, my times were 53 & 52 I think. 20 minutes cool with Josie & we got delicious ice at harts.

AM- just 30 easy with josie & carli.

PM- 1 mile warm with 8x200 (decreasing recovery) and like 1.5 cool. These were hard for me to try & be mentally strong cause the last 100 I always wanna give up but I think I pushed pretty hard. Every one was in the 32-35 range which is right where I wanted to be so that's good. Running with meskerem on these is hard cause she's so speedy at sprinting, but it was a solid workout I think.

AM- 30 easy & we went very slow because all of our legs were very tired that's why.

PM- 50 easy with striders. We also went quite slow on this one & we took a little break in the middle of it to walk up the river & cover caroline in paintballs. Definitely one of the funniest runs of the year. I really just love our team a lot.

ps- props to God for making this earth a pretty cool place. HAPPY EARTH DAY

AM- morning workout. 1.5 mile warm to harts then we got back & did the coe workout it was actually real fun. My times were faster on the last ones cause of my 400 so I had to really push it with jacey (cause meskerem wasn't there) but still it was a good workout & I felt really good! 1 mile cool.

PM- 30 easy with 4x200. We did masterblasters & my team won.

Also I'm now holding tryouts for a new best friend cause preston isn't doing his job good. THe end.

Didn't have a race on Friday cause the 200 got cancelled cause of lightning so I had the 800, 200, & 4x400 on Saturday except for coach said I didn't have to do the 200 (hallelujah) & then after my 800 all the other 4x400 girls said they weren't down to do it & I was perfectly fine with that. For the 800 I just wanted to state qualify & I hit the first 200 perfect at :34. The second 200 I was one second slow at 1:10. The third 200 I was 2 seconds slow at 1:47 & I ended up with a 2:26. I was pretty disappointed cause I've just hit this big plateau in my running & it's super frustrating. I know I can qualify, my pr is only 1 second off I just need to figure out what the heck my problem is & fix it. Overall it was a pretty good day except for I hate wind & cold so that sucks. Hoping to kill it at herriman next week & qualify maybe even break the school record!

AM- 20 easy. We went faster than usual & it felt great.

PM- 1.5 warm then kosmin test. I was feeling pretty confident before this because I know I've improved a lot this year & my last time was so asinine (haha) that I was guaranteed a pretty good improvement. We started out & I just stuck with Alli B. She's so fast. But we went together & got like 350-360 meters then had our 3 minute cool & ended with 715. I felt really solid about this because it's over 60 meters improvement I think. After we had a 300, 200, & 100 a little faster than race pace & it was pretty solid. cooled to time.

AM- 20 easy. Nice & easy

PM- 40 easy with 4x60 second hard (except I am substituting one of mine for the 200 at the jv meet). Real nice run with jos, jacey & meskerem. Way good run. We saw a dog & meskerem legit freaked out it was scary. Excited for all the jv runners to race today!! 

AM- 20 easy with Ellie & meskerem. None of us had watches so we just kinda hoped we turned around right.

PM- 30 easy with striders. Went to green springs. it was very hot today. After we had the youngster track meet & I was clicker number 5. ALSO my mom went out of town today so my dad bought us pizza & I think that that is very fortunate of us. 

AM- 20 easy

PM- 40 easy with 4x200. Firestation loop backwards. We started out at about 8:30 pace & by harts I was dead. My legs weren't moving & I wanted to be done. While we were waiting at the light I started thinking how crappy this run was gonna be & that I might fall off the pack. When I started thinking that I decided that I wanted to lead this run & started thinking about qualifying at herriman & how having that attitude wasn't going to help me. When the light turned I just decided that I was gonna run with Ryan whatever pace he was going. As soon as I started to have a good attitude I started running way better & I felt so good! The rest of the run was about a 7:30 pace & me and Josie were both feeling so good. I think today was a really good demonstration for me of how important it is to have a solid mindset in your running. I CANNOT WAIT FOR HERRIMAN