Aubree Gailey

We have been on break since we last ran the vertical mile so it's been real great! I did run just a few times though..  a few turkey trots and running in fitness for life (1.5 mile test) but other than that.. Nothin! Feels good and bad at the same time.. I love not having to do anything but workin out is just part of my routine I need it.. weird weird!
Well today I took a little trip over to the gym and  biked for 25 minutes and did a core workout for 10 minutes and my 50 push-ups and 10 pull ups (pull ups were assisted of course! Me being the weaky that I am)
Real Practice Starts Up Again Tomorrow!!! Ah Yeah! Oh No! --Not sure which one..Hmm... Both :)

The Running Has Begun Once Again!!
Today for practice we ran down towards Utah Lake on this dirt trail. It was just an easier run so we just had to do 40 minutes. Just a fun 20 min out and back with the team. I can't say how much easier it is to run with the pack. It forget so easily how much harder it is to run on my own and how the group of girls just pull you right along. Today I felt absolutely great  at the beginning.. I was probably on some high from not running in forever and actually being with the team again. It was harder on the way back but I did stay with the top girls the whole time.. not harder in the sense that my leg started hurting.. because it didn't hurt at All but harder because it is so hard for me to breath. I never worked my lungs as hard biking as they get worked while running. I hope I get back up there soon.

No Run Today--

I just didn't even get a chance. I had class in the morning and went straight to my brother-in-laws office in Spanish Fork, Apsen Dermatology, to do my job shadow for my career class. Boy that was awesome to watch.. I got to see my brother-in-law, Dr. Chad Peterson, actually do the surgeries and see where the samples get taken and how to make the sample only microns thick so you can look at them under the mircoscope and see what cancer cells look like and oh my.. so much stuff goes on.. it's crazy!! He gets like 100 patients in a day sometimes..
Right after that I had to go do a mock interview and also look over my resume and cover letter and then headed straight to our uvu xc team dinner for the end of the season. We had a good dinner and handed out funny awards.. For me they said, "this girl is always hangin with the guys on the team.. so she gets the award for most likely to marry someone on the mens team award." pretty funny actually.. well the first part of it is true cause I have more fun with the guys than the girls but I can say that I'm most likely not going to  marry one of the guys on my team :)
Crazy Day... but No run

Today we just ran up and around orem... any where you go around orem you are bound to go up at least one hill no matter what... We just did a 40 minute jaunter around and averaged about 7:50 pace overall. It was just a light day today. Sure am glad to run with the team :)

Today... Yep Freezing! So I layered up and got hot and cold the whole time.. just depending which way I was facing ya know. So I went about 45 minutes just on a little jaunter by myself and went up by the gigantic house in orem and it is decked out with christmas lights too! Well I was rushin this run so I could get back in time to do my many things of fun today eh!

Today there was just a bit of confusion between a few of us and my coach.. he sent out a text to all the track kids to let them know that we will be practicing at the PE facility inside the school but a few of the xc kids got the text.. so me and bug went to the pe facility and only sprinters were there so I call up my coach and he's like oh sorry you guys run outside rain or snow we'll have the girls wait for you guys. So they started to leave and I went running out there to tell them to wait for bug and they took off so I turned back so bug wasn't running by herself. So it was just me and bug on our run today. We didn't even know how long we were supposed to run or nothin but we just did some good guessin. We went out into the blizzardy weather for about 55 minutes and boy can I just say that it is way hard to run  in slippery snow! you can move forward very well and the wind and snow in your face doesn't help. Well I still had fun out there even  though it was freakin Freezing and my shoes and bottom my my pants were sopping wet and ears and legs and knees and face frozen.. but other than that.. good little jaunter in the first real snow :)
I had also run a mile or so earlier on the treadmill for fitness class this morning.. bonus there eh!

Today was a Great Run. I just felt great throughout the whole run! I was perfectly dressed for the weather and I ate a simple snack (not a full lunch today) maybe that helped!? Well today we just did a big loop up by golds gym and the university mall.. and of course a few of the girls had to take a bathroom break so the rest of us just ran circles outside the store till they came out and when we were headed off again this guy pulled over and rolled down his window and asked who we ran for and we were like UVU-- Utah Valley University and he said.. well i have something for you guys. He handed us this envelope and inside there were coupons to eat at Pier 49 for Free! Ah Yeah :) Just for doing a little jaunter outside eh! So that was a good booster on our run!
I think we went about 6.5 miles or so we went about 55 mins to an hour today
And another plus for me.. I stayed with the good top people the entire run today!

Today we ran on the road that goes right by the railroad tracks.. down by utah lake. For some reason today just didn't feel as good as yesterday.. I just felt way good yesterday and today i felt like a was working extra hard to go the same speed. Also to add to already not feeling like I couldn't go as fast.. the bottom of my left foot was hurting the entire run. So I'm not sure what that is all about. Well at least one good thing was that the time just flew today.. we ran about 55 minutes

Today was another difficult day for me for some odd reason.. I feel like they just go fast everyday and I think I'm really not supposed to go their full workout but I have been so maybe I'm just not ready to be running that long cause I am fatigued every day. hmm
Well we just did a big the big loop like we did on tuesday but just kind of backwards. We went for 50 minutes. We did abs and a cool push-up workout.. I didn't think that the pushup workout would have hurt that bad but it sure did.. we only did 10 pushups but you had to hold it for 15-30 seconds between each one.. man that hurts. After practice we hit up Pier 49 pizza and used our awesome free pizza coupons.. Ah man it was amazingly delicious!!!

So basically there are only so many runs you can do around here ya know so we have run out of new ideas. So guess what... we did the same loop as we did the other day but just backwards. We went down by the lake. We always seem to break up into groups.. super fast, fast, and regular. Today that is what happened. There was Karrine and Shelise up in the super fast group and Stephanie C, Aleina, and Katie in the fastish group and me Bug and Stephanie T back in the normal regular people group. It's not like we were going slow today or nothin... we were averaging 7:50 ish miles.. I mean we had to go for almost an hour so I felt like that was a good pace to be goin and that is what felt right so that what I did. I didn't go kill myself to keep up today I listened to my body :) On the way back we stuck with steph, aleina, and katie  so.. We had a small group today and I kind of liked that.. it was more fun with our smallish group

Today was freakin Great!! Me, Bug and Katie Rowe went and drove up the canyon to run in the freakin BLIZZARD!!! It was snowing like crazy and we went up this steep trail and then it leveled out and the snow was like a foot and a half deep! It was insane! I loved it. It was probably one of the most difficult and tiring runs trying to run through that stuff but it was a blast. we kind of had to turn around after about 10 minutes out and go back to the parkway trail instead of the "dirt" trail because it got a little too narrow and we didn't want to slip of the mountain or nothin so we headed back to the real trail.. it wasn't as deep of snow but it was still difficult. We ended up going a total of 45 minutes with the snow pelting our faces.. we even stopped half way through and made snow angels and more when we got back to the car. Fun yet Difficult day. We were only running for 45 minutes but we were out there for like an hour and a half.. Good little jaunter eh!

Today we did the same freakin run we have been doin a lot lately.. down by lakeside park. It is just running down on this road that goes forever so it's not that exciting but we really have no where exciting to go in orem so what can ya do. Well today we ran for 50 minutes and did 8 strides throughout the run. So we were averaging 8:04 minute miles. I love the days when we can actually take it easy. Tomorrow is supposed to be speed.. the first speed day for me in a long long time.. let me just tell myself now.. it's going to suck but that's usually how track goes.. it sucks but I somehow love it!!!

We went just under 7 miles in our 55 minute run today probably averaging about 8:10 miles or so. We ran toward the house that was on fire in orem but there were way too many fire trucks and cop cars surrounding it we couldn't even get close. so we just ran around orem and tried to hop over target wall cause we had a few girls that had to go ya know but the wall was way too high so we had to go all the way around. It was a pretty good run today.

Today was a 70 minutes run including hills.. no trouble finding hills around here. I went just by myself and I ran run the hill on campus then up and around to find some more hills.. I ran towards the house that got burned down the other day and yep sure enough it was burnt! Well I sure did work those hills pretty good today especially the big long ones on campus. Not sure really how many miles though

I think I did just a 60 minute run.. down on the trail by the lake.. not sure how many miles.. no watch today

Today when I started out.. yes it was cold, but no snow. Like 10 minutes into the 80 minute run It just started dumpin on me. I ran out to oquirrh mountain temple and back. Flashbacks of the "last run with my favorite running buddy" that day we ran out past the temple to day break lake it it was pouring rain the entire run. I ran past everything we did that day.. not meaning to but it totally made me think back to the good old runnin days.
I must say it was pretty hilarious when I got home. I had a sheet of snow covering my hoodie and my hair and especially eyelashes were caked in snow... the eyelashes were the best.. the snow was litterally frozen to my eyelashes.. little icicles!!
I actually was having a hard time getting myself to run a normal good pace.. I was stuck in the 8:30 min miles on the way out but on the way back I somehow got my legs to listen a little and sped up to 7:50 min miles.. still not where I wished I was but..  :)

Today was one of my first speed workouts in a while.. it was way hard because I was trying to go fast but I was running by myself so nothing was pushing me to go faster... but I did a 10 min warm up 6 800's with 3 min rest in between and a 10 min cool-down. I wasn't going as fast as I know I could if others were there pushing me along but I was hitting 3:05 for each 800 and 3:02 for the last one. Couldn't have expected much better for a speed day by myself but definitely wasn't what I wished.. oh well!

Today it was just too freezing cold to go outside and I just couldn't get myself to do it so I went to the gym we have here at my apartment and ran on the treadmill and biked for about and hour or so. Not very fun in the gym on a treadmill by yourself but what can ya do
I was doing like 7:30's - 8:00 min miles on the treadmill (incline 3)

I did the route down by utah lake in the blizzardy weather.. I got little frozen icicles on my eyelashes.. It was hard going out and running by myself (my motivation to get out there and actually run in the crazy weather is decreasing every day.. uh oh) Today once I got to the half way point I stretched and then headed back and I was able to run so much better and get myself to move my legs a little faster and it just felt so much better on the way back.. but that's how it ususally goes eh
I was out there runnin for like 75 minutes 

Run out in Herriman with my favorite running buddies ever.. my good old Riverton team with ole Barnesy. It was good running with them again.. even though it was just a few of them. They were going a nice and easy pace which was good for me I think. It just felt good to run with someone, cause I've had to go solo on all the runs over the break.. much better with people eh!
I think we were going about 8:25 pace
 -- I miss my Riverton team.. that's for sure.. running is just not the same without em eh :)