Alli's running blog

PINE VIEW INVITE FINALLY. Best time of the year except we had way less people this year cause of the date change but oh well. I woke up feeling tired in my legs, we had a hard week this week, but I was determined to state qualify so I didn't let it bother me. I just stayed out of the sun and chilled all day. We warmed up around a bit and did our strides and everything else. Then we got to the line and I was seeded 4th, but it wasn't my actual fastest time but that's okay. I decided just to sick with whitney from cedar and this supposedly fast girl from skyline (except she didn't even place so it's good I didn't go with her). We got out and I felt good, I wanted a 2:20 and our first 200 was one second slow. I didn't let that bother me and I just kept going with that group. We were way slow at the 400 but my head wasn't really clear so I couldn't remember my split I wanted for that so I didn't even know lol. At about 300 to go Whitney pulled away and I think a park city girl kind of went with her. I wasn't paying enough attention to know they pulled away and so it never even crossed my mind to go with them. My finish was real good for me cause I generally lag but I passed 2 people in the last 100 so that's good. Overall it was a super duper slow race for everyone involved. No one state qualified and probably no one pr'd lol. I guess no one has that kind of speed in their legs at this point but once we get the speed workouts going we're gonna kill it. And I got a medal and that was the goal so pretty sick. I wasn't running this fast at pv invite last year and I still state qualified so I'm not worried. Overall super solid meet. We had loads of qualifiers and shoutout to rylee cause she is a complete beast. 

Dhells invite was today. I only was running the 400 & the 200 in the medley. I know I know, what the actual heck. Nothing distance. Today was just the 400 and I wasn't a very fast race but I liked the way I ran it because I ran it smarter than I ever ever do. I had a bit left at the end and was able to pass people & gain on people when they were all tired. It felt good. The track meet itself was really fun even though the weather was crappy, shoutout to Eugene cause I heard his name on the loud speaker thing and then sought him out lol cool guy

I have no idea how far I ran today. Not very. I had the 200 in the medley which I was terrified enough for cause I'm definitely not a sprinter. Anyway so they shot the gun and Lexi was off, then she got to me and a combination of the fact that maybe she was running slower than we practiced and maybe I took off faster than we practiced made it so she had to yell to me to slow down, well I did, but I was about to pass the exchange zone and I still didn't have the baton, so I turned around and as I did she went to put it in my hand and it totally fell straight to the ground. I didn't know that even if it dropped you could still go, I thought we were disqualified... so after coach yelled at me from 100 meters away to run lol.....(my mom said we stood there for a good 15-20 seconds..) I ran my 200 and got the baton to cierra kind of. Then Rylee ran and we actually ended up 5th in 2 heats so that's pretty good. We definitely would've state qualified but life happens so maybe if we get put in it again we'll do better.

Today we had 6x300s at 800 pace. Really not too bad of a workout. I ran with Brianna and Ellie mostly. Hit anywhere from 53-57 mostly. My 5th one I picked up it to a 53 because I need to work on hitting a faster pace when I'm all tired but it still isn't the end. Warmed and cooled down about 20 minutes. 

My current predicament that I'm in is that my coach is taking the top 24 overall (boys and girls and field and running through a point system it's kind of complicated) people  on the team to Orem this weekend. I missed it by 1 point & 1 spot but someone isn't going so coach offered me the spot. I just don't know if I would rather run at snow canyon or Orem and what the benefits of it would be because my season has been so utterly crappy. I know no one reads my blog anymore cuz I never blog but if anyone happens to get on it feel free to put in advice!