Aubree Gailey

CROSS TRAINING--

 So since my left leg is strugglin a bit I have to take it easier this week. Today's workout for me was 15 minutes run then biked four 5 min intervals at level 15 with 2 min rest at level 8. That was tough. You forget how long five minutes really is! Quads were really burning. I couldn't do the entire 5 minutes on level 15 so I went down to 14 but made sure that my rpm's stayed around 100. Then cooled down on the bike. Then did abs
I ended up going 8 miles on the bike during the workout and 3 more during cool-down

Treatment: heat, massage calves because they are super tight which may be the reason for the other areas of my leg to hurt.

And I used my inhaler for the first time today.. It seemed to open up my lungs better :)

Cross Training--

Swam for 30 minutes straight... I thought I was done after 2 minutes, then realized how wondrous it is to switch up the strokes so it's much easier.. there is no way I could have swam for 30 minutes doing regular stroke (especially with no goggles). Then I went into the sana (or however you spell it) dang that is a weird feeling. that was only my second time in ever but i forgot what it felt like. I also, being as brilliant as I am, forgot a towel so I walked out of Golds dripping wet.. ah yeah what a great feeling eh.. umm no :)
cross training is a good change from running because it's not fun to just strictly run and run only.. it's good to mix it up a bit I think.

Cross Training--

Elipticalized for 30 minutes- Did the "Hills" workout and tried to stay inbetween speed 8-9 the whole time. It's not hard to hit the full 30 minutes but it's hard to maintain the same speed throughout the  whold workout.
I did abs after and like 10 "assisted" pull-ups :)

Treatment: Well Spencer (my trainer) thinks that I have shin splints but I really don't know what it is so he has me heat my calves (because they always get tight) and shins before practice and come in and ice my legs (ice bath or ice cups) after practice. Today I took an ice bath.. I always forget how freezing they are

Today I did half running half elipticalizing..
well i was supposed to do 20 minute run and 30 eliptical but I decided I might  as well run for 3 miles and 25 minutes so that what i did. I drove up to golds and ran around there and went in and elipticalized next to my buddy Kyle on the team and then did some abs and was done for the day.

Treatment: ice bath

Today was a whole bunch of different things for my pre-meet workout. Me and Brittany drove up to golds and biked for 10 minutes, elipticalized for 10 minutes, and ran for 10 minutes and did 4 strides down some street. Leg was hurtin during the run but during the strides but when I stopped in between them and also after doing them.

Treatment: I think I iced maybe I did nothing.. can't really remember :)

Left at 7am to drive up to pocatello.. I tried to sleep on the way there but not too much of that  happened.

Definitely not my best time but I wasn't expecting that. I had a lot of contributing factors that didn't help me to get a good time. I was sick, didn't get much sleep, drove up there and got there and hour before the race, shin splints, oh hmmm and sports induced asthma. Well I wanted to race anyways so i attempted it but I have forgotten what it is like to run the 800m and especially on a 200m track that is elevated. That is weird! My perception of what I thought my pace needed to be was not right because it freaked me out having four laps to go so. There were only 5 girls in my heat. a byu girl, a u of u girl, and me and two other teammates from uvu (stephanie talbot and brittany wilson) The first place girl got 2:23, steph took second with 2:24 and I took fourth with a 2:29and britt took fifth. I know for sure I could have gone a lot faster because i had so much energy the last lap and especitally the last like 50m but that race did exactly what i needed it to do. Tell me where I'm at and what I can do and just remember what it is like :)

Drove straight back home took a 10 min power nap then off to work til midnight. what a day!