Aubree Gailey

Today was the wonderful day for the Brutal Orem Hill Workout!
It consists of 5 wonderfully insane hills.. (well they are like 600m long) and boy to they tire you easily!! And me.. I was sick! I have been downin cough drops like none other and we get this workout. I ask my coach if I should still run it or run on the treadmills and he said "do you feel like you need to run inside" and so I just ran outside (even though it probably wasn't smart). So the first hill in this workout is the one up campus, going up past the institute to the top, then you always run back down the hill to cool-down. The next hill is 800 south's hill, then 600 south's hill,  then center streets hill. I did campus, 800, and 600 south's hills (so three of them) and at the top of my third coach was waitin up there and I was just dying.. couldn't breathe! I was like gasping for air and couldn't keep up with the team.. so he had me stop and jog around until they were all done. There were two other girls that did the same.. Brittany and Kalina. One reason for not being able to breathe today is that the air quality is so so bad-- Red alert.. so that could have been a factor but I don't think that was the only reason for sure.
Throughout the whole workout we ended up doing 6.5 miles :)

Then we met in the gym to do Plyometrics (boy to we distance runners look way out of place doin "idiot drills." We should hae been doing these a lot but we haven't done them and man we just looked ridiculous and silly).

Today-- yes another Red Alert so we went above the inversion and ran up on the trail where the "vertical mile" is. After the steep terrible mile it levels out and it a nice run. It was a little difficult because the trail was still snowy and icey but we got used to it and found many little holes that were too difficult to see but yet we found them :) Today was actually a good run for us as a team.. we stuck together and kept a talking pace.. which was great and unusual. (Our easy recovery days are supposed to be tuesdays and thursdays) It was a good run for me.. the hills were hard for me at the beginning and I couldn't breathe so well ... for some reason hills just make me mentally shut down although they didn't used to. Overall today was a good run.. I went 60 minutes.. I turned around at 30 with Bug and Stephanie Talbot and the rest  were going 15 extra minutes so I knew I had to take it easy today on our "Easy Day" so that was good for me (For once I didn't follow the rest just because I thought that going the extra was always better.. sometimes it's really not). Today was bad air and  I'm sick and have had a cold (sore throat, stuffy/runny nose, cough.. and who knows what else) since saturday night.
After the run we did Plyo Drills..... and I ate some lovely white "clean" snow-- man I was just so dehydrated and just needed some water somehow so I went to my good friend snow :)

Today... SPEED WORKOUT!
I actually liked this one too.. it wasn't like 1200,1000,800,600,400 and then again...no no no that is terrible! Today we did short distance stuff!
Float the first 100m (curve) and sprint the 200m and jog the last 100m (4x's)
Float the first 100m (curve) and sprint the 100m and jog the last 200m (4x's)
Sprint the first 100m (curve) and jog the last 300m (4x's)
(3 miles of speedish stuff) It went something like that well I just don't remember what we did in the middle.. that's all :)

15 min warm-up and 15 min cool-down

Now we are doing Thursdays on our own days-- Which I actually really love!
You have one day to do what you feel you need to do personally and go wherever you feel like going. Obviously everyone's schedules are all based around practice time and so people (including myself) just go at 12:00, normal practice time.. but we actually leave at 12 rather than meet at 12 leave by 1:00 so it is actually really nice to get practice done quickly so I have more time do get homework and everything else done.. So Nice!
Today it was me, Brooke, Kalina, Steph, and Krystal who just kind of met up at the same time so we went all together. We went down by the lakeish and looped back but we went out really slow which was very good for my body because it is just exhausted from this week and yesterdays speed and pilates class and man I just needed some slow.. on the way back we obviously sped up but that's a gaurntee.. it's the adreneline of almost being back plus steph and krystal had a class to get to so.. but today was just a 40 minute run

I had no time at all to run today.. I had a whole 30 minutes to get in a run before it was time to leave for work so.. I had to drive to the school because I left my shoes in the locker room and I took off going around campus.. which gave myself a few tough hills and I tried to plow right through them. I kept a rather fast pace the whole time (hence I was hurrying) I was only out for 16 minutes. 7:50 avg for the first mile--which had the hills and like a 7:20 avg mile for the last mile.. yep a whole 2 miles today. I stretched and then rushed home, changed, grabbed food and was out the door.

No real run.
I even got dressed to go out and run but my lower leg (same area that was hurting when I had my stress fracture) was hurting but on my left leg. I honestly didn't wan't to go out on a long run and just make it hurt more.
I did stay active that day though. I went to the gym and shot some hoops. I was tired at the end of that. The best running I got in during that was that I convinced myself to do lay-ups over and over again without stopping.. which was some sort of running speed workout I guess you could say. But playing basketball didn't seem to bother my leg so much vs running so that's what I did :)