Breanna's Running Blog

Today was the 1500. I wasn't excited for the race at all. I didn't really warm-up for it. I started the race, and my only goal was not to be last (that's what I was seeded). I ended up running 5:38. The fastest I've ran all season, and I wasn't last. I was happy with the race, but I think if I would have been more focused I would have went faster.

Ran with Wasatch Athletics. We did the usual warm-up around sugar house park. Then we went to the track and I did 3 laps of speed changes and one lap slow. Then we did a mile, I was supposed to try for 5:45, but I ran 6:05 instead. My splits were 1:26, 1:29, 1:31, 1:34. Then I jogged two laps and did 3x200. The 200's were about 33-35 seconds. I was happy with the workout, but I wanted to go faster in the mile. It was a little bit windy and raining on us during the mile. (Pegasus 177)

AM- Today for cross-country practice we did a run/bike up at Jeremy Ranch. We were in teams of two and one person would bike a mile while there teammate would run a mile. Then they would switch off. We did this for ten miles. So I ran 5 miles and biked 5 miles. It felt really weird to run when you got off the bike at first. I think I ran about 8 minute miles but I'm not sure. I timed my last mile and did it in 8 minutes but then my dad told me that that mile was really 1.1, my legs felt fine. (Pegasus 182)

PM- Tonight I went and ran at the gym on the treadmill. I did 4 miles. It took me 31:00 (7:45 pace). I had the grade at 2% for most of the time. My first mile was 8:23, then 7:53, and the last half was in 14:46. (Pegasus 186)

We met at cottonwood complex today. We did a warm-up loop around the block (2 miles), then we did 10 strides in the grass. The strides went well except for Ali Stephens, a girl on my team, cut me off on most of them, so I couldn't go as fast as I wanted to. Then we did a 20 minute cooldown. I was really tired because I didn't get very much sleep last night. My legs were tired too. (Pegasus 191)

Ran 3 miles easy at Liberty Park. It took us 26:00. My quads are sore, I think from doing strides yesterday. Other than that I felt fine. (Pegasus 194)

I was so excited about my race. I ran 20:35, which is a minute faster than Murray 5k and more than a minute faster than magna. My splits were 6:09, 7:03, and 7:22 (for a 1.1 miles). I could have went faster, but I didn't trust myself enough to run faster in the second mile. I'm excited for the 10k, and I want to find a 5k maybe next saturday to see if I can improve my 5k time (even though all courses are legitimate). Sasha's Predictor says I should run 42:36 at Deseret News, I want to see if I can go faster than that.