Running Blog

Repeat Monday!  3 1000s at 4:13 pace.. except faster than that,  because my kosmin test was so slow that my 1000 pace went up instead of down. So the workout was super super easy. My splits were 3:58, 3:59, 4:05. I really tried to slow the last one down to hit my pace. It was pretty cold out there today and when we got into the weight room,  my poor frostbitten hands started burning.  Also,  my legs broke out in hives.  It is far far too cold outside these days. Weights felt good though. 

Trail tuesday. We went out by the water tank today. I felt super good. There were some largish hills, but even though we stopped to regroup at the top, I felt like I could keep going. The only annoying thing was when we went downhill, my hip kinda bugged. But not too bad. I had to drive out into the desert to find the half of the team that  didn't make it back.. they all got lost. There was a little scare when we couldnt find Hunter and Evelyn,  but after a few minutes, they came back the other way and all was well. The end.

Pretty eventful day today. Water was shut off at school til lunch so no bathroom for us! Then when we were changing after school, the automatic flusher thing on the toilet in my stall went off and kinda scared Mia and me.. shortly thereafter it went off again and BOOM! Explosion of toilet water everywhere. All over the floor and on my leg and on my bag and school pants. I screamed and ran smack into the wall of the stall and Mia started laughing her head off.. then BOOM! Hers exploded too. That'll teach her. Anywho, long run with tempo today. 8 miles with 18 minutes of 6:40 pace. Felt pretty good until the turnaround, then I just wanted the tempo to be over. When it finally ended, my calves were pretty tight, but I got to stretch them when we stopped to open a mysterious door in a mountainside. After a few other holdups, we got started again , and ended up being like the last people back. also, we saw the fattest dog any of us had ever seen. Ever. It was short and HUGE. Like a hippo in a dogs body. Anyway. Good run. The end.

Old man hills today! 4x400. It was kinda weird cause there were only four girls there.. and only two of us were doing the 800 people workout. It felt good though. It wasnt a crazy hard workout, but I really tried to push myself hard on the last one.had a lovely talk with aubrey and megan and liz on the way back about smoothies and senior ball. Weights after.. felt way good. Then stretched really good and rolled my hip. Lovely day.

Easy 4 with striders. We went to starbucks today with megan, liz, erin and roberts. We threw a ball around and had some lovely conversation. My hip was feeling fine. I stretched after and everything. Fun day.

Another run by myself. I woke up at 7:30 with a sore throat. I got a Ricola cough drop, concerning which I'm pretty sure the general concensus is that you should never eat them unless you're on death's door and all the stores within a 100 mile radius have run out of the Halls brand. Neither of those scenarios applied to my situation this morning, but my mom made me take one anyway. Anywho, everyone had 5 miles this morning, except the 1600 level three guys and for some reason, the 800 girls, who had 5-6. I just went 5 anyway. I took my dad's phone so I could track my pace for the tempo, but there were two very large problems with this: 1. The touch screen only responds to skin touching it, not a glove, so I had to keep one thumb out of its glove the whole time, until it got too cold, and then I started just smacking it into my nose so it wouldn't go dark and lock. 2. The GPS on my dad's phone is even worse than he watch we used on wednesday when it comes to pacing, and the times were ALL OVER the place. It would go from 5:30 pace to 9:00 pace in two seconds. Once it even went from 6:20 pace to 11:15 pace with no numbers in between. So it wasnt much help. But I think I was probably pretty close. I started to have breathing problems and my calves were tightening up by the end of the tempo. So I stretched and I might even stoop so low as to take another cough drop before the day date.