"If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail"-PRE

am- 11.5 miles/ 85 min E with strong finish and striders. Dang I felt super crappy and I was really trying hard for the first time to stay with the group. I am going to go hard on the medicine so I can hopefully be ready to support the guys tomorrow at Cedar. Good run though, and great weather.

pm- 4 miles/ 30 min E. I ran by myself cause my date with Macey got over late. I felt bad cause I didnt tell Coach. It was really hot though. wow, really hot.

am- 4 miles/ 30 min E grass run barefoot. Wow so Coach was not very happy today but that is very understandable. Like almost the whole team had not done the registration and payed the fees. So we did our run without him and it was a little awkward cause we were all pretty chastened, I just i would say. I wasnt on the list to race so that is not good.

pm- 8.1 miles/ 55 min; Cedar All-comers with warm/cool and striders (.5 uphill, .5 downhill). What a day. Played some beast Sepa and then got joggin' around to warmup. We were trying to focus on packing it up. Well it is a good thing we were practicing cause it didnt go super well. It was good but the fact that All-comers races have lots of runners who dont even know what they are doing, didn't help us cause they got in the way. I got out good and was supposed to lead the first lap but with everybody behind me trying to get out of being stuck, it was kinda like a "what-ev" lap. The second lap was decent but everybody was getting tired from putting in a lot of effort to get around so they were falling off. So Nick took off after asking Coach if he could and I wanted to go with. So I did! And it was really good. The pain was definitely there, but it was good to get use to pushing hard and getting up in the top spots even though we really just snuck in at the very end. Fun time and I am pretty happy with how it went:)

RHR- 48

am- 6.7 miles/ 50 min, Long hill/old man hill workout. Wow I was pretty tired from the race yesterday so the workout was a little tough. I had a hard time pushing so I just sat in the pack. we ended up doing 4 reps of the hills and the second half I noticed that Skylar was struggling a little bit and so I would tell him to keep pushing and that actually helped me in return. Cause when I would tell him, he would speed up and get a little ahead of the pack, which would make me surge a lil'. And the process would repeat. It was fun! And so that kept the thought of being sluggish off my mind and to stay focused on how I could make the workout better. Did some weights after the run and that went good. Got my locker in our locker room today too.

pm- 4 miles/ 30 min E. I was able to make it to practice cause I snuck out of the HOPE squad training meeting, but it was okay cause they were just finishing. Nice run, and I got really sweaty and smelly:)

RHR- 48

am- 4 miles/ 30 min E. Nice chill run on my own out and around my stake boundaries, basically. It was honestly the best running weather at 7 this morning! School starts and thats weird.

pm- 6.4 miles/ 51 min E. The run was hot and I didn't hydrate so I was dying. I survived though. Got back and did some purchasing of liquidation items that Coach has from past spirit packs. I got a dope uni and it is like nylon so it was totally worth it.

am- 4 miles/ 30 min E. Nice run this morning. The girls went with us but I only knew cause I looked to the right at a corner to look for cars and Josie's face was right there!! Didn't see that coming!

pm- 2 miles/ 15 min E. Such a bumma, we didnt get to do our relay race vs dhills cause of the lightning. And I woulda don't some running on my own when I get home but my family and I took off to our cabin and so I didnt get any more minutes in. Oh well.

pm- 7.5 miles/ 55 min 5x4 min repeats @ hard pace with 3 min rec. Got back from the cabin and did some running at 8 when the sun was going down and it was cool weather. I ran down to the virgin river trail and did some solid pace stuff. I really worked hard on keeping my form solid when I was feeling sluggish. I thought of the Cedar all-comers when Nick pulled ahead of me on the last lap and then imagined me checking my form and keeping it together and going with him. It worked pretty well. My paces for the hard repeat things were 5:56min pace, 5:57min pace, 5:58min pace, 5:39min pace, and finished with 6:00min pace. It was fun. Now I will go to bed.

RHR- 48

WORD OF THE DAY: today's word is "sleep" because I got tons of it this morning/last night. I slept from 11pm to 9:40am, which was the longest time for me to sleep. It was crazy. And I woke up to a text from a babe so it was totally fine;) Sleep is when all your body, besides the brain, relaxes and enjoys some chill time. Ex: I am going to finish this post and go to sleep.

Goals for next week: Do my resting heartrate(RHR) everyday, do 20 sit-ups everyday, have fun everyday. And drink 100oz or more..... everyday