Alli's running blog

Warm-up to harts (1.5) then we raced 2 miles. I felt I did really good. I started out right behind Dani but after passing her caught up with Megan and we took turns pushing each other. I felt especially confident on the hills. At the last stretch Ali was a little bit in front of me and Megan and then I kicked it in and caught up to Ali. She barely beat me and I came in as 4th girl with a time of 14:45 I think. Maybe it was 14:24. I'm not sure except I think it was the first one. Then harts cool (1.5). I didn't do striders because my ride was leaving me, but I have soccer practice at 9:30 and were doing the beep test so maybe coach won't hate me. Overall I think I did good today.

Hol-y Heck! Quite possibly the worst run of my life. It was the farthest I've ever gone and I wanted to die the entire time. We ran 2 miles out then started our tempo, which was a bad idea. We finished our 3 miles out and when we turned around the river was right by us. So we took off our shoes and walked around the river for a short while until the rest of the girls finished going out 4 and turned around. We met up and it was all downhill from there. I started out with the girls ten fell back and actually ended up walking a little. I felt weak and my legs were dead. Hopefully long runs get better for me.

After practice I went and got a shot, AND I didn't even cry!

I think it was 4 miles. We ran at little valley park and ran around the field 5 times which was 3 miles. I ran with Macey and we had a grand old time talking of long-bearded men and some unknown video game I'm pretty sure Macey made up. It was hilarious. Then we ran around the corner and went to a small hill that turns into a big hill. We went up the hill for 30 sec. 3 times and up the hill for 1 min. 4 times. The hills were good. I felt pretty strong. Today was a very good run. Also me and Macey played on the playground and it was quite fun. Good run today!

Warm up to harts. 6k's around the stadium. I probably only went about 3 miles or something. It was definitely not my best run. My akelies (or however you spell it.) has been hurting me a lot and after 2k's it was hurting much. I went onto my 3rd one and it was on fire. It hurt so bad. I had to stop after 3 and coach told me to ice it. Then when I got home I iced it again and after soccer practice I iced it again. Each for about 20 minutes.

Oh and I wasn't supposed to hit 5:14. But my times were: 4:31, 4:59, and 5:07.

First 3 mile and first high school race. Holy moly. I will start from the beginning.

I didn't ride the bus because I had soccer and so my mom was just going to pick me up early from that and drive me up. So I was a little late for the warm up. I just ended up running around the track once with the girls but that was fine with me because I HATE warm up and cool downs. I seriously hate them with all of my heart. If I had a choice between running a 3 mile race without warm up and cool downs or just doing the warm up and cool downs I would choose the race because they are the worst thing ever invented. Anyway, we did our agilities (or however you spell it) and jogged over to the starting line. I wasn't as nervous as I though I'd be but I still had a little butterflies. We prayed and then got ready to start and Mia was giving us a small pep talk and I asked a question and when she turned around to answer it they blew the gun! So we all had a bit of a late start but it wasn't a big deal. We started running and I felt alright. The nerves had left and I just kinda started running. By the time I was on the other side of the soccer net thing I was in such a good mood! I was thinking "this is so fun!" And other lies like that however I was being positive so that's good. I felt great! I was passing people and getting up there with Megan and kaelie. When I got on the track for the first time I started passing people more and more it was a great feeling! I didn't really have any problem with any hills except for when I passed the starting place on the grass and those tiny hills just killed me. I kept passing people and kind of settled into the place I got, on the end of the second lap. The last lap was when my brain started asking me "what the heck are you doing ya crazy! I'm hurting over here!" But I just told it if you don't have anything nice to say don't say nothing at all! And the last stretch in between the tennis courts and baseball field coach was standing there and yelling at me saying "your the fastest one out there go get those girls!" I sorta sped up right there but once I passed him I didn't have a lot of motivation to kick it in at the end. When I got to the track there were two girls like 20 meters in front of me and I wanted to catch them but I just didn't. I got 14th overall. 3rd on the team and my time was 21:20. I pretty much died after. I was overjoyed and wanted to puke at the same time. After the race me and Josie went on a cool down and I'm pretty sure we are the only ones who did so because we were like last on the bus. My performance today made me really happy and I hope I can help the team win region or maybe even state.

Morning practice could not have gone better! It was the 1st time I went to morning practice before school very early! I felt really really good! It wasn't hot at all and was a way fun run! We had a group of 6ish. Me, Mia, Liz, Josie, Ali, and Kealie. We did plyos after. Today was a good run!

Morning practice was not super great. I did 2 K's and my Achilles started killing me. I stopped and stretched it. Warm up and cool down of 1 mile. Not a lot to report. I had soccer practice this afternoon and my Achilles was hurting me again so I took it easy and didnt run too much. So yeah.

I got tendonitis in my Achilles and so I haven't been running in races or practice but I might be able to race this Saturday so I'm pumped for that and yeah. I felt like I should kinda update today...

Grass relays! Yay! My first varsity trip! We drove up Friday and stayed in the holiday inn. When we 1st arrived at the course it was Josie's run. Then Paul and Preston, then Nicole and then Colton and Reed. THEN it was finally my race. Everyone did way good. I was nervous for my race. Liz started off then it was Mia then me then Ali and lastly Megan. Liz started and ran very well. Then Mia ran and did good as well. I was quite nervous for the handoff cause I have never done one. It went well and after the handoff some girl was right next to me from East. I stayed with her then on the 1st hill right by the track I got in front of her but she got right back up with me and eventually passed me. I just didnt have it in me to get up with her so she started creating a gap and I never caught her. A utes girl caught up to me and passed me and when around the little circle part I caught her and she never passed me again. :) on the last half mile some girl in black booked it and passed me. I finished alright. It wasn't how I wanted it to go. I wants to have a lot more left in me I just didn't. Darn it. I did get 14:35 in my own though and not having run for 1 1/2 weeks cause of my Achilles I think I did decent. Yeah. It was a good race though. The haybales were my favorite!