Breanna's Running Blog

Today we went on a run that went through the U's campus and then up to shriners hospital and back to the school. It was a good run but it was really hot ( over 80 degrees). It took me 39:46. When we got back to the track we did 7x100 meter strides focusing on form. We have a meet tomorrow, I'm running in the mile and the 800 for the mile I want to try and stay consistent. I am planning on going out at 1:25 and keeping it there till the last lap, then give everything. Do you guys think this is a good race strategy?

The races today were not so good. It was really windy, which did affect the races but even considering that I ran really slow. For the mile I warmed up about a mile with some strides. I felt great in the warmup and was excited to have a fast race. That obviously didn't happen I ran a 6:44, my splits were

1-1:28

2- 1:43

3- 1:46

4- 1:44

That race wasn't good, but I figured I could make up for it in the 800, and that didn't happen either. I ran a 3:01. My splits were

1- 1:24

2- 1:47 ( the wind was really fierce on this lap)

So my races weren't so great today, and I won't be running in BYU, so now I just have to get ready for regions next wednesday.

AM- I ran a mile slow on the track, then I did a mile of speed changes, and then I did a mile slow. Felt good, I just ran easy to loosen up my legs.

PM- We ran with the team from east down to liberty park, 3 laps around the park and then back. My legs started to feel tired in the second lap but I just kept going and in the last lap I tried to pick it up. It felt good, but the hill on the way back up wasn't very fun, other than that it was a great run.

Today was a fun workout, practice was cancelled but we did two laps around the track as a team anyways. Then I went to the gym and did just over a half mile warm-up (5 minutes at 8:30 pace). Then I did 5 sets of 30 seconds at 12 mph and then 3 minutes at 6 mph. It ended up being with the build up and slow down 214 meters in 48 seconds and then 2:40 slow. It felt really good, my breathing didn't get up at all, and my legs only started to get tired towards the end of the pick-up. Then I did a half mile under 6:30 pace, and then a half mile at 8 minute pace. It felt good, and was nice and easy.

Today we ran from east, over to sugar house park, and then we did two laps around the park. It felt pretty good. My time was 50:11. My calves were tired. During the laps around the park I did a few surges here and there to try and go faster.

Today we did a nice easy workout, with only two days before regions. We warmed up one mile (7:53). Then we did 10x100, mine ranged between 16 and 17, then a mile cooldown (9:02). Just ran nice and easy, it felt good, but my right hip flexor kind of bothered me, I'm sure it's nothing to worry about, but we'll se how it feels tomorrow.

We had a really easy run today, just to loosen up before region. We ran from the track up to foothill. Then we turned left at foothill and stayed on that road till we got to guardsman. At guardsman we went across to 800 s. and back to the track. Ran really slow 25 minutes. My legs felt good. I think I will run well tomorrow.

After the workout I took an ice bath for 20 minutes. It was really cold! What are you guys opinion on ice baths? Do you think they help? How long do you think they should be?

Today, I ran really bad. I warmed up about a mile, then I ran in the 1600. I went out jut fine at 1:23, but lost it in the next three laps running 1:33, 1:44, 1:44. I was pretty upset about the race, but I knew I just needed to focus for the 3200 so I could go to state in at least one event.

Today was much better! We had a really odd schedule for today (a sprinter must have made it). We had the 800 then the 200 meter finals (one heat), and then the 3200. I was signed up for both. I decided to focus mainly on the 3200 because I was seeded higher and I needed to qualify for state and score the team some points. In the 800 I ran just what I wanted to. I ran a 1:28, and a 1:26 which is a 2:54. Lucky for me I was in the second heat of the 800 (there were 3), so I got a little more recovery than the other girls doing both. Pretty weird, but before the 800 I went over to my friend and told her that I hope they have really bad camera problems for the 200 so we get a little bit more recovery, they did, so in between my races I had about 25-30 minutes which felt like enough. Going in to the race I felt great! My plan was to stay with the lead pack as long as I could. Most of us had done both races and were tired, but Emma Saarel didn't and she took control of the race from the beginning, this kind of spread everybody out. However, I guessed this was going to happen anyways when I heard everyone complaining about how tired they were, and  I could see it in their faces and warm-up. So I decided just to run my race and stay in the top six so I could qualify. I also had to stay ahead of all of the murray girls, because our team couldn't let murray have anymore points than us. Also during the race it was very hot. Normally I chew gum so my mouth doesn't dry out, but even with gum my mouth dried out, and then having the gum was bad because it stuck to the roof of my mouth and just wasn't good, but these are my splits for the race:

1- 1:29 Felt good, I was in third at this point.

2- 1:32 At this lap two girls from East came up on me and Rachel Perkins from Olympus, I tried to go with them and did for about 250-300 meters and then I started to fade.

3- 1:37  I was back from the group about 5-10 meters and Rachel had fallen from them also, but was still ahead of me

4- 1:42 I tried focusing on staying in contact with Rachel. We stayed about the same distance from eachother for alot of the race, but each lap she got a couple more meters ahead.

5- 1:44 Now I'm focused on who's behind me, I'm told that there is a battle for sixth place and they were coming up on me.

6- 1:46 I was just trying to hold them off, I guess they were only 10 meters behind me and had been since lap 4, but I never heard them once in the race.

7- 1:46 I new I just needed to hold them off for this lap and then I could make it.

8- 1:34 I picked it up, but I heard they were closing in on me, I was told after the race that with 300 meters to go she was starting to get close, but since we had a head-wind on the back stretch she backed off a tiny bit and I put the gap back to 10 meters. Then with 200 meters to go I gave everything I had because I knew she would try to out kick me, and I was able to hold her off. So I took 5th and made state! East Girls won region! It was really exciting and lots of fun.

Ran easy 3 miles in 31:00. It was 90 degrees and really hot. My legs felt fine.

We went to this little 5k today, and nobody was their. I was the first woman by 10 minutes and I ran really slow. My splits were 7:23, 8:29, 9:17 (last split 1.1). I slowed down as I realized that there was nobody nearby. After the race we went to a really cool TOSH open house. They talked about the different programs that they offer. It sounded like it might be good to try. Has anyone tried TOSH, if so did you like it, did it help?

We had a good workout today. We did our regular warm-up of one mile slow and one mile of speed changes. Then we did 2x400's, and 6x200's.

We were supposed to do the 400's at 5 seconds faster than our mile pace so I did mine at 1:20. Then we were supposed to do the 200's at the same pace but I did those in 38, 38, 38, 39, 38, 32. The workout felt good. It was pretty easy. In the repeats I was able to breath just fine but my legs could feel it towards the end of the 400's and on the last 200. For our cooldown we did 6 laps slow.

We went on an easy run from the track up past the zoo, and on to wasatch, then across on wasatch till 1300 s. down on 1300 s. and across on 1900 e. till 800 s. and back to the track. My legs felt good. It took me 45:06. I ran alone the first half and with Ali Stephens the second half.

Then that night I went to the workout with Wasatch and did half of a lap around sugarhouse park, so I got another mile.

I did one mile slow, a mile of speed changes, a 400 in 1:15, then 8x100 meter strides, and one lap cooldown. It felt good but it was really hot.

The race went okay. I didn't run as well or place as well as I wanted to. My splits were 1:25, 1:33, 1:39, 1:47, 1:48, 1:50, 1:48, 1:43. Now I just have to get ready for USATF track and cross country.

Today I ran from my house, to the junior high and back. It was just over 4 miles. It took me 42:37. It felt good, but it was really hot on the way back. I was wearing a new pair of shoes, they felt fine but were really stiff.

Conditioning: 45 push-ups, 30 dips, 15 pull-ups, 1 minute hand stand, 30 leg lifts, 100 hollow rockers, 100 hollow crunches

This morning I went to the track, warmed-up half a mile and then did some hurdle drills to practice for steeple chase. Then I decided to see if I could clear the hurdle. I was too scared to do it till about the thirtieth try. After I cleared it several times I decided I should do the steeple chase in the meet this weekend, because it would be my only chance to do it before state. So I registered for it then I looked at the schedule to see when it was and I found out it was today. So I went down there and ran it, I was happy with the race because I cleared all the hurdles which was my main goal. It was a 2000m I ran it in 9:18. It was really hard, alot harder than a regular race, but it was fun.

Conditioning: 100 back arches, 50 calf raisers-forward, 50 calf raisers-inward, 50 calf raisers-outward, 3x30 second wall sits, 30 dips, 50 mountain climbers