Just do it

First day of Cross Country practice!!!  We went on an afternoon run before dinner around Sugar House Park.  My calf was still feeling tight from Sat but hopefully it won't impede me during the retreat.

Went running with Ian (cross country teammate) up the canyon road for a couple of miles.  My calf was yelling at me considering it was a climb the whole way and then on the way back down it was feeling quite painful.  This worries me because tomorrow is going to be a lot of running.  Hopefully the Aleve will kick in.

Today was  beast.  We started the morning with a trail run by Weber State University.  Ian and I got way lost and couldn't find a trail that just kept going.  We ended up running for about 45 minutes though.  

A little while later we played a pretty competitive game of Ultimate Frisbee for an hour straight.  This did not help the calf muscles too much but it wasn't too bad.

 We then did a scavenger hunt which required a bit of running to find the dog we were looking for. 

 After that we had another trail run for about 20 minutes.  This was just a light recovery run for tomorrow's tempo run. 

Today was our tempo run.  We did a 10 minute warm up to start off on the trail.  After that we took off along the road for a 5 miler.  My first mile was at 5:55 and then we slowed a bit after that.  I stayed up with the teammates for the most part.  I ended up finishing less than 20 seconds behind the two in front of me with a time of about 30:25.  Considering it's the start of the season and all we did yesterday and that we were at altitude I was pretty happy with that time.  It was about a 6:05 AP :)

 Then we did a 15 minute cool down jog during which I felt like an old man.  

Best run I have probably ever had!  I started at 8 pm when it had cooled down a bit at an AP of 8.  I went down to 17th South and dropped to 7th East.  I followed that to Liberty where I looped once and then continued to 4th South.  I ran down 4th South to State Street and went up to Temple Square.  From there I ran up North Temple to 13th East and stopped at a gas station.  They charged 25 cents for a cup of water which I didn't have.  A skater kid inside was nice enough to buy it for me.  I drank most of it and then I emptied a salt packet into the rest because i had forgotten my electrolyte capsules.  After that I went the 2.5 miles on 13th over to my house.  

This was seriously the best run ever!  I loved seeing all the night life and it felt really good just going at a slow pace.  I ended up with an AP of about 7:40.  My legs were pretty tired by the end and I had a nice blister on my little toe but it was good times :)