Running Blog

Am: a very quiet run to Arctic Circle and back.. froze to death in the showers after.

Pm: repeats at 87%. We weren't really sure what my time should be, cause I was already beating my 87% time last week. So we decided just a little faster than last week's average, which was 3:55. My first one was 3:48 and I felt just great. Second one I was a little behind at first, but then I caught up to Josh and Dave and ran the last lap with them and I ended up at 3:49. I wanted to stay in that area, and I was nervous that on the third one I was gonna get slower than that.. so I overcorrected and went 3:44. Whoops. The last one I was just happy to be done and went 3:44 again. Harts warm/cool and weights after. We put a little more weight on the leg extensions and curls and felt a little sore after. But it felt good. Hot chocolate and cookies with Alli after. (:

Temple quarry trail. We got there before the rest of the girls, and coach just gave us the watch and told us to start when we got there. But then we felt bad when we passed the girls.. sorry ladies! Anyway, twas fun. We all slipped and slid and got a little lost.. and we encountered some leaping squirrels. Chilly out there today.

Am: I knew I should have just gone back to bed when I tried to brush my teeth and the entire blob of toothpaste plopped onto the counter before it even made it to my mouth, but I showed up at school anyway. Easy 3.. with the guys. Eh.

Pm: 8 with 24 min. tempo.. supposed to be like a 6:30 pace or something. I was told to stick with Mia, but things felt too slow so I picked it up a tad.. and I was feeling okay until the turnaround.. then I was just done. I felt sick and my calves were tight, and Stoner just kept getting further away. After the tempo was over, I still felt awful. My legs hate me right now, but I swear I'm stretching and rolling them. BIeh. Just one of those days I guess.

Old man hills today. 4x400 with Aubrey.. we're the only 800 girls who run together.. it's a joy. I like talking with her. Anyway, today they felt much harder than the last time we did them.. I think I was going faster today though. They also went by quite a bit faster. I felt way good, except my arch was in considerable pain, but I'm thinking that will be taken care of pretty easily. So no worries there. Just a lovely workout, if a bit hard. Weights after.. we upped our weight on the bench press to 5 pounds on each side! It was a little difficult, but we're pretty buff.

Oh. And good news. I saw a dead bird today. Which means that there's one less live bird.

am: easy 3

Pm: another easy 3 with striders. We wrote a song with kaelie g. Fun. 

I wasn't really sure whether to count this as a race or not, but might as well. Pretty much just the same kinda tempo stuff we do every saturday, but with other people around. Felt fine at first, just running with Stoner,  but my legs are just so so achy all the time now.. it was hard to keep them moving.  Otherwise, I felt good. Fun to see everyone come out and support this great cause. We warmed up 2 miles on the course, then cooled down 1 mile on the field and 1 mile looking for the little kids so we could finish Jake's race with him.