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Ran in the heat with the team!! Hahahaahahahahaha this was histarical! I can't wait till I can do like 8 EASY! :D I gotta get a program going! WAHHOOO!

Warm up and than 2 miles and then a mile on the grass!! My foot feels PERFECT! I am sooo happy! I felt pretty good on the first mile! Couldn't keep up with the girls on the second mile and then did the barefoots ... I'm pretty excited!! I just need to drive myself to stay consistant! Especially on the days that I can't come to practice cause I have to babysit.. I think I am gonna tell my mom to wake me up at 4 to run while she is getting ready at work! Cause I know that while I'm starting I'm not gonna be able to drive myself to get out there in the heat ALONE! Its all a mind game! hahaha I can doo it! :D

I LOVE RUNNING! :D I wish I could remember how muh I love it ALL the time cause sometimes I feel like its a drag but then I get out there and it is AMAZING! Got there a little late! The Boyer's always blame me  but they pick me up so darn late! :D Ha we got the Vernan Wirthin park... Ran the warmup and stretched.. Then we went out for a 4 miler for me.. At first I was dreading it.. Especially when he told us about the push section... But we started out.. I hung out with my old girls for a sec but I know I can't totally handle that yet.. So I set of with Taylor Boyer.. I really want her to start pushing herself more.. She NEEDS to get up there and put herself out there for some hard workouts! So I kept pulling her a long when she started to drop.. I wasn't going killer for her I knew that so I knew if she just put her mind to it she could stick with me easy.. And she did.. I think she was only planning on going 3 and a half but I didn't tell her we were going four! So we went to the 2 turn around and turned around.. But I am SOO oblivious when I'm running that when we turned around I had NO idea where to turn so we got a little lost.. Picked up some of the 3.5 girls and we all found our way back.. We took a little different route back cause we were lost.. But we got to the round about and I told the girls to pick a pace and don't let go of it..... I told Taylor not to leave my side.. I was suprised though cause some of those brand new girls stuck with me too.. It was a good push section.. We got to the Book store where coach said we COULD stop but that if we felt good to push a little past it... So when we got to the Book Store I said.. " every step past the store will make you better! :D and we pushed almost all the way to the park.. It was such a good run!!

What a good day! We had a family 5k! INTERESTING! Started at the PineValley resevouir and then ran all the way down to my aunt and uncles cabin.. Should have just done the Pine Valley 5k that was that morning! ohh well! I came in second to one of my cousins (It was a guy who does sports and is in shape so cut me some slack!) haha But it was good! It was really slow and reminded me how much racing hurts.. But it made me really excited to run! I finished off with a 2 miler after just to get some miles in.. !!

Woke up late! Met up with the team while they were doing stretches. Went out with the girls and did 5! My legs were SOOOO tight from the 5k haha.. But it felt good to push myself.. Stopped at the park to use the restroom... My legs were still hurting really bad so I slowed down a little bit.. At the top of the hill I looked back and saw someone coming so I kept running but I wanted someone to run with so I turned around and picked up susan! It was so awesome she told me she hasn't stopped yet! I was so excited for her! I told her to keep going and pushed her all the way to the end! The first time she did a 3 miler even was last friday so she did soooo good! At the end I told her I was gonna go hard from the fence. she said she didn't think she could.. So I told her Ok thats alright but just remember there is always a little bit left in the end! And I took off and heard her coming right behind me pushing harrd all the way to the fence!! It made me SOO happy! :D Then some striders with Kimi who did awesome today too!

Warm up and then headed out for a run with the girls! Its crazyy its all over!!! High school and XC and everything I loved soo much! ahh! But I decided to just go three to let my legs rest a little bit since I just started consistant like last thursday and I have been going 5 for a couple days.. Don't want to get too excited. It felt good on the way there.. Sorta lost the drive on the way back! Its hard for me to keep going when I'm alone for sure!

three with Kaylee and Sierra out in Coral Canyon before they went off to school! :( It was a good run. I felt good. There pace is still a little fast for me and I struggled keeping up for a little bit but I am starting to feel better and soon I'll figure out some lifting and workouts to start doing... Taking it easy still though!

2 miles in the morning up in Cedar with Angela! Just getting use to the altitude!!! Oye it was good though! I'm excited to have a running buddy!!!

Woke up this morning to go running. I was getting dressed and sitting on the floor to put my shoes and socks on. My nose started to get runny so I wiped it with my hand once. It kept running. So I started wiping it with my shirt. Then I decided to look down.. Red blood everywhere!! I don't know if its the altitude or the climate change or the dehydration but my nose bled and bled for probably 20 minutes with no sign of letting up. I really needed to get my run done though so I just prayed that it would stop long enough to do a run. So we went out on the short loop that we did before and I took a paper towel with me just in case. It was fine though. It only bled a little bit when we got done. I don't know if loss of blood affects you on runs but I definitely felt kinda groggy... so either it was the blood or just the dehydration but what ever it was I really need to drink water!!!! but no money + no water bottle + no good water + being in classes all day= no water.. But I get my check today so! :D

Didn't wake up like I told myself i would! What a slacker! But I ran a wheel barrow all day doing a service project and then when we got done I went back to the apartment and went running.. I don't have a car to route distance.. Or the internet write a running route out on there. or a running watch! hahaha So I am stuck with ruynning for time.. Even though I hope I am faster than a 10 min mile I just average it out so if I run for 30 mins it was a 3 miler! Doesn't hurt to do a little extra.. But today it actually probably was 3 because I went in the middle of the day and got stopped by every stop light known to man!!!! I will definitely be running in the mornings as much as I possibly can!

Went out a very very nice 3 miler at 7am. My first class starts at 9 so that is very nice to be able to run before but not have to wake up as early!!!!! :D It was a very nice run... Got faster on the second half so I feel like my breathing and endurance is coming back!

Busy week with school starting.. I gotta get a hang of it though so I can run EVERY day!!! But today was such a good run.. I actually learned a good lesson in my psych class that helped me tons on this run... He first told us "In life find something your passionate about, and then learn everything you can about it." So I've found my passion... Obviously its running.... and then he told us.. "Don't let your fear get in the way... You've got to lean into your fears, and dare it to give you its worst, and eventually it will get smaller and smaller." So on the run I realized one of my fears is the pain I associate with running.. So on the 2nd half of my run I was coming back and started to get close to the hill so I automatically told myself to slow down or it will hurt.. But then I thought about what he said and all I could think was "Lean into your fear, Lean into your fear." I got going and just kept going and it felt soo goood!!!! I really want to keep using that tool cause it worked alot! :D