Act like a horse, be dumb, just run.

Didn't run today, went on the Circle Island Tour and bought myself a pillow at Wal Mart, yay!

Ran with the BYUHXC team today.  We did repeats, (400m?) around the soccer field at 1:30 pace.  We did 8 and I was usually about a second behind on all of them.  It is nice to run with live people!

Ran by myself for 40 minutes easy, so I just guessed 4.7 miles cuz I felt like it.

We did 6 600s around the soccer field today.  I was way behind the other girls, but its all good!  Then we went and cooled down in the swimming pool, its like a scheduled part of our workout sometimes, its awesome.  So i met a few cool people today so today was alright.

Went on a run with Jonny T Watts!! We just ran around Laie and took random roads and ran into this crazy lady that was on.... something! She talked to us for about 1/2 hour about how mormons are evil and how humble she was and crap like that... so yeah it gave us a big break and i was kind of ticked but i finished my run, running time about 52 min. JT wants to marry the funny lady!!

Today we ran the "miracle mile" where we ran out and back for what we thought in our heads was 3:59, then we ran at what min/mi pace we thought we would ran at in the meet tomorrow, so i said about 7:30.  After that we did 6 striders.  Coach K gave me frickin sweet racing flats, blue adidas, they are the shiz!  Then we cooled down in the pool and drank chocolate milk. 

We had a race today, the BYUH invitational, it was my first race so i was kind of nervous!  It was a 5k and it was kind of hard... the course is good though, it has a big gradual uphill and two nice big downhills.  I ran in some adidas racing flats that coach k gave me yesterday.  I felt really good on the first lap (it is 2 laps) and on the second one i felt myself get a lot slower.  It was really hard to breathe the air especially when we went into the trees, because the air was so dense and humid.  My time was around 21:57 I think, which isn't great but it gives me a lot of room to improve once the season picks up a little. 

We did 5 800s around the soccer field today.  We were supposed to be hitting 3:06 each time... these were my times to the best of my memory

1- 3:06

2-3:00

3-3:06

4-3:07

5-3:07

So I did okay, i was behind most of the other girls but thats okay because i was hitting pace and they weren't!  Afterwards we cooled down in the pool and now i am locked out of my dorm. Gosh dang it.

45 minutes on the treadmill in the fitness center... i missed practice today and ate instead so i ran a lot later in the fitness center because i didn't want to go out alone because it can get scary around here sometimes. so i am going to have to learn to run during the daytime dang it.  i did a small cool down too, about .3 mi maybe.

warm up, then we did speedwork again today, 2 800s, 2 600s, and 2 400s.  Our group did ours in a pyramid - 4 6 8 8 6 4.  I was behind on a few of them which wasn't cool because I know i could have done better.  then cool down jog, pool cool down and then sauna time baby.

woops, decided to run later but the fitness center closed early for a v-ball game

Warm up, then red rover, then 10 100s. Pool cool down and choc milk.

Race today!  It was the exact same course as last week so it helped knowing the course I was running.  Today I went really strong on the first lap and again not so strong on the second.  I did a lot better than last week though, I don't know my time but last week I got 20th place and this week I got 13th and the race was against the exact same people.  I came in right behind Veronica like I did last week, but last week she swallowed a bug and spent some time on the side of the course trying to hack it out. so yeah i did better!

I'm putting in 2 miles because it was a 2 mile effort even if i didn't run that much.  It was hills today but I came to practice late so everyone had already gone off on the run, so coach k took me into the fitness center and stood by me while i ran hills on the treadmill.  it actually wasn't bad, i think i only did 5 in the end because I got wimpy.

I just found out my time from the race last saturday, 20:53!  That is a minute faster than the week before. Alright!

45 minute run by myself today, it was pretty okay... i wanted to go find the trails in the mountains but couldn't figure out where i should go... and the two places i tried turning into were private property and the first one had two vicious looking dogs, and the second place had a guy standing in his yard watching me.  SO, i guess i will just have to ask somebody.

We did hill repeats... I don't know how long they were, probably about .75 mi.  We did four of them and I kept getting slower on each one.  We ran up a huge hill and then it turned into a downhill, we did that front wards and backwards.  My times:

1-5:25

2-5:32

3-5:45

4-6:02

Thats so bad... ahh i need to stop being a wimp.  Cool down in pool and choc milk!

Just went on a run by myself... I tried to find the trail that goes up into the mountains and past all the guava trees but the trail I started running on went past a place that said beware of dog and then i saw a vicious dog coming toward me so i turned around and walked slowly away because i was scared.  then i ran back to the cemetery and walked around looking at all of the headstones... so today was just an easy day, it was just chill.

10 100s, we just did them as striders... after a warm-up... it was really easy because we have a meet tomorrow.

The course today was so beautiful, it ran right alongside the ocean. It was on a military base too which was even cooler. The other Hawaii teams, BYU Provo, and I think a team from California were there. I pushed it hard for the first 2ks but felt myself dying a little after that. I think I could have pushed a lot harder toward the end but I wasn't sure if it actually was the end or not. I was way tired from staying up until 4:30 the night before (I had to wake up at 5:00) but I think that I ran well despite lack of sleep... but I still think I could have done better.

skipped this day

Did a loop from the school through laie park and some trails and a cemetary and back to the school.  Ran kind of fast because I was so freakin excited to go to BRAND NEW!!!! I went and it was off the hook, the highlight of my week.  My feet are bruised and skinned because i wore flip flops... but they are still in running shape!  

i am just guessing on mileage.  we did a course repeat, it was an uphill, flat, downhill, flat.  Working on short quick strides on the uphill, going for speed on the straights and long strides on the downhills.  We did six overall but i don't remember all my times.  It usually took about a minute thirty something for each one.  

I am getting sick and that sucks.  Today I went for a long run by myself on the Laie Falls trial, I didn't get up to the falls but I took a loop trail that I actually didn't know was a loop and I was just hoping my heart out that it was so I wouldn't pass out in the woods and die and get eaten by wild boars.  It was a really good run though.  awesome. beautiful.