Running Blog

So mia and rachel and I arranged to meet at the school at 7 cause stoner had to be back at her house by 8, so I headed over there at 7:15 (I was late cause I needed to find myself some medication.. im dying over here) and no one was there.. not even a car. I waited and waited and finally just ran by myself,  kind of annoyed that they made me wake up at 6:45 and then no showed.. it actually turns out we all kind of no showed each other.. we lack communication skills, apparently. Anyway, it was quite freezing but I really enjoyed the run. It was nice to be able to just have a chill run with no tempo and just get to think. Stretched and bought myself some cough drops (the Halls kind!) and cold medicine afterward. Hallelujah!

Repeats today. I was feeling absolutely miserable all day, and it got even worse when we started. My stomach was killing me and I was coughing up a storm. But the workout went pretty well. I was supposed to be doing 4x1000 at 4:13 pace. Usually when we do repeats, I run the first one or two kinda fast then try to slow up and actually hit my time. But coach said that if we can hit a time consistently, then that's good, even if it's faster than what you're supposed to hit. I hit 3:57, 3:56, 3:55, and 3:54. So I felt pretty good about my times, even though I felt like poo physically. Weights after, felt good.

Bleh. No run today. Sickness and such. I'll be back tomorrow.

Oh what a lovely day! Six to green springs with 1x2min and 2x1min fartleks. But along the way, we had a couch party at my house (SOFA-N, SOFA-N), then crawled through a tunnel long enough to get us to China.. unfortunately, this one only led across the street. Then we creeped on McKennah, had a berry war, and I smacked into a tree. Then weights and striders while we sang and did handshakes. What a great day.

Am: easy 3.. actually felt really nice outside. Afterward, Mia and I sat in the locker room and talked about anything and everything (mostly marriage) until it was so late that the cheerleaders came in. 

Pm: Trail run! Chuckwalla trail.. super fun. I felt way good, but I hate the way our groups string out and some people end up running by themselves so I tried to be the link between roberts and Megan,  and hoped we would kinda group back together, but no such luck.

Went at 6:30 with Mia dear. We were gonna go 8 miles, so it's a good thing I checked the blog before we went. we had 20 minutes of LT pace, which was like a 6:20 for us. Again, we didn't have a gps because the only one we own is my dad's phone, and we weren't allowed to take it in the rain. But I had a regular watch, and I made a mental note of where I was at 6:20 and 12:40 so I'll drive over there later and find out how far it was. I dont think I was hitting my times though, and Mia was pretty far back, so I stopped us at 15 minutes. This tempo thing is really hard for me. I can do repeats and fartleks and old man hills.. but I can't keep a hard pace consistently for 20 minutes without stoner beside me. Which is dumb, cause it's just like an xc race, only no pressure. I'll keep trying though.  Also, we saw Mr.  Green running! Twice.. but Mia only saw him the second time.

So.. I just drove and measured. In the first 6:20, I made it .96 of a mile. In the next 6:20, I made it like .90 of a mile. so whatever that means.