Aubree Gailey

Ran for 1:05 today.. yep all by myself.. and honestly the first 20 minutes are the hardest to get through.. I looked at my watch at 13 minutes and wanted to be done already but then I just kept goin and goin and I started to feel great.. I wasn't worried about the time at all I would have even gone longer but I had to head back and plus that was long enough eh.
I ran from my apartment up by orem target and that area. I had to take a quick gas station stop about 40 minutes in or I was done for but no worries I felt just great after that :)
I was hitting about 8:25 for the first 6 miles and then an 8 and for the last mile I averaged 7:40 pace.. not bad for feeling a little slow lately
 -I even got myself to do my abs and push-ups today .. I need to get on top of that!

I started out real good today and was going out for a 70 min run.. I climbed one of the biggest freakin hills in orem and tried to go a decent pace today and I was fine for about 25 minutes but then I started getting a little lightheaded and just didn't feel good whatsoever and felt like just walking back but of course I couldn't do that... that would take for freakin ever so I just tried as hard as I could to keep the semi-same pace and just get back.. so I ended up doing a 50 min run-- 6 miles around orem
I must say going down that huge hill on the way back.. man just felt great even though I felt crappy.. I love downhill! It was awesome there was a little speedometer as I was going down the hill and I had my garmin watch on which awesomely picks it up on the  speedometer and the car went flying past and it said like 45 miles per hour and then I went cruisin by and it said a big woppin 10 mph.. haha  That just made me laugh in my moment of hurty-ness :)

Today was a pretty good day for me I guess.. not as bad a yesterday! One thing that definitely helped was that I was WITH THE TEAM AGAIN!!! I love running with people (obviously..most people do but ya know) It just makes the time fly so much faster and you don't realize how much you are hurting or really how fast they are pulling you either! I ran so much faster with them and didn't really notice.. I knew I was going faster but I didn't hurt as badly ya know.. cause I have been going probably like 8:30's or 8:50's most days.. I don't know but today we went  8 miles in 1:04 which was averaging 7:53's so we hit 8:02, 8:00, 7:41, 7:36, (then we stopped at our half way turn around spot and streched  a bit..) then 8:04, 7:48, 7:44, and 8:02. That was really good for just after Christmas break for me :)

Man today.. what a Beast!! We drove to golds in provoish so that we could get out of orem and run somewhere a little different for a change.. So I loved it.. at first. We were going a pretty good pace.. probably like yesterdays and we went up by byu then by the provo temple and then into some neighborhood and then out even farther to 4th south by the freakin huge houses and onto some cool "secret" path and up some more hills.. and some more hills.. oh wait and some more hills. we had 4 people turn back early and I sure felt like it they turned back at like 25 minutes and went back but we did this huge long loop and ended with a .. huge hill (what a suprise) I stuck with bug, stephanie talbot, karinne, shelise, and angie.. I probably shouldn't have gone with karinne, shelise, and angie... they always do crazy stuff and go way long too... we ended up going 75 minutes and managed to make our way back to golds after a long while.. boy today was sure tiring!! but I made it through.. I was only worried to do that and go that long because we have a meet in 2 days (sat) It's not an important meet.. just byu indoor meet but still! Oh well.. what's done's done :)

Today was a pre-meet workout since it's BYU indoor invitational tomorrow. We ran to orem high's track (20 minutes) did 4 200m's (which were supposed to be our starting pace for the mile.. but of course they were like sprinting it) I feel like they always push everything more than we are supposed to do. Then we had the run back and we took about 25 minutes to get back. I sure don't feel ready to race tommorrow.. My speed seems to be all GONE!! I need it back! and we have just been doing distance distance distance runs which doesn't help increase my speed but I'm sure we will be doing some speed now. We'll see how tomorrow goes :)

Today was my first Indoor Meet and my first race since my injury.. I wasn't expecting anything good by any means. The last real race race was the wyoming meet for xc and cross country is a lot different than track.. that's for sure! I asked my coach what event I should do and they told me the mile and that has always been my worst and least favorite race.. for some reason I can't  get myself to pull out a decent time. I would have rather done the 800m but they said I haven't done enough speed to be up there with the others but in my head I figured it was less distance and I loved that one in high school. But sure enough I went ahead and did the mile and I don't know what time they put me in as (probably my PR from high school) cause I was #7 and we were put in order by times.. I was standing next to Bug and she ran a 5:08 in high school so I knew that that wasn't goin to be good..
Honestly I did as best as I could for not having done any speed work at all at all and just getting over an injury but it is always disappointing when you are used to hitting a certain time and you were no were near that time.. I used to run 5:30's and if I weren't injured I could beaten that for sure cause that's not the greatest (hence--worst race) but I think I ended up with a 5:45 or 48 or something.... What more can I say.. Mile is Just Not My Thing :) That pretty  much sums it up!
I just need to get back to normal and improve by outdoor. I'm not expecting anything during indoor season :)