Aubree Gailey

Technically I didn't do a run today.. supposed to go out and do a 70 minute run but my family was going on a hike up to Dog Lake and I wanted to check it out too so therefore.. bailed on the run but it's not as bad as it sounds. I was going to go hiking early in the morning (so i could still run) but when I went out to drive to Riverton.. my car wouldn't start. I had to wait for my dad to come down and charge the battery and we made it all the way to the Bangeter exit. I was in the front of the line at the light and the car just stopped again.. jumpstarting the car right off the freeway!! we had to jumpstart it one more time before we made it home. We left it charging and left on the hike, got back in time to get a few things done and head off to work in orem til midnight! (I had to take the good old family Tahoe.. cause we came to find out my car has a bad alternator.)
So.. no run! uh oh

Speed Work-- Intervals

1600, 1200, 1000 (all 5k pace), 800, 600, (3k pace) 400 (all out)     total: 3.5 miles
warm-up and cool down of course-- about 20min for each

I  did really well today.. not so much at the longer intervals like the 1600.. not so good but everything after that.. I just got better and better and closer to the top girls. I was like 11th girl for the first ones and by the 800 I was top 6 girl and 400, 4th girl in... it think... boy that felt good running up there with our best girls today.. that doesn't usually happen :)

Ran "The Pipe" It's a run in Provo and there is a spot on the trail that you can run on top of a pipe.. it's pretty fun. You start with a freakin huge uphill for about 3/4th of a mile but it feels like forever! It was steep. Once you got past that it was pretty flat for a trail run but of course still way rocky. Something has been hurting in my right leg.. not sure what exactly is wrong but I lasted. Me, Bug, Angie and Brooke turned back a little early and went back on the provo river trail and went a little longer than the rest not knowing it but we made our way back fun finding some wild apple trees and pulling off some pretty good stunts to get them :) 

Man today was Brutal!!!!!
Crazy hard Hill Workout!!
We went to the same place that we ran "The Pipe" and that super hard beginning.. yep that is where we did hill repeats 600, 500, 400, 300, 200 and then Again!!! I decided to get the long ones out of the way first so I did 600, 600, 500, 500 and worked my way down but the less meters.. the more steep it was. At the 400 meter mark it leveled out but the rest was completely uphill. I pushed it real hard today and did very well but I was dying cause it was extremely hot, no shade, and No Water! We didn't have any water until we were done and I was so so thirsty after the first two so it was hard to keep  going when you are that drained. I think this workout I honestly pushed it the hardest I have ever pushed on our hard days. I even did a long cool down afterwards and I drank like a gallon of water at the delicious drinking fountain on the provo river trail. But the best thing of all was that we jumped off a bridge into the Provo river and that was freezing.. it was great! It was our ice bath for the day.. that cold.. That good :)

 -Treatment after practice: heat, ultrasound, and bone stim on my right leg

We ran in Orem from campus up to Scera Park. I love that park.. I had never been there before but it was great.. there were grape vines along the whole fence around the park.. ate the best purple grapes ever while continuing to run.. there was this amphitheater playing music at the park and we ran through there around the whole park twice and stretched there and went back.
This run was definitely a recovery run.. today me and bug stayed back at a conversational pace that we could both handle and it felt great.. a real recovery day!
It was about a 50 minute run. 4 Strides after

-Treatment before practice: heat and bone stim on my right leg

Run from Vintage Park up to the Indian Trail Head.
Me, Bug and Nancy weren't sure what paths to take on the trail and we lost site of the other girls cause they were crusin up.. and I was freakin dead. It was some good steep hill for about 2 miles up then it leveled  off.. at least it was supposed to. We took the wrong  trail and that led us up more hills, higher. We knew we were  going a different way than them but decided to make our own run out of it rather than trying  to find them, cause we knew we would never catch them now. We saw this cool Gazebo out in the distance and decided to run out to that. That was an amazing outlook over the valley. The sun was just peaking up over the mountains. Man that was pretty. We ran back down.. which was amazing rather than brutal uphill. Downhill pain is way better :)
We ran for 1 hour 35 minutes. Long Run Today, but I actually enjoyed it... and it was a freakin Killer Week!!!!!

After our forever long run we treated ourselves to some All You Can Eat French Toast with the best carmel syrup, yes of course, at Magleby's mmmmmm! And after that we went to "Sliding Rock" in Alpine. That was way fun, I had never been there before. The best thing about it was watching peoples' face after they landed in the Freezing cold water. Good Times :)