Running Blog

Okay, okay. I'm back. So.. because the guys are terrible markers, Mia and I ended up running farther than nine.. probably not ten, but whatever number we were short by I made up for at soccer. I definitely didn't want to run nine this morning, as I had stayed up late reading a book I've already read, and my leg got run over by an army tank on Friday. I was thinking of just cutting it short. But when we got out there, my leg felt slightly better than it has been and I was enjoying the run. The way out felt super long though, and I was kind of dreading the way back, but it ended up feeling way shorter after we turned around. I would get tight in places randomly, like my shoulder and elbow (yeah, don't ask about that one. I don't know either). But then it'd go away. I was breathing fine. It was just a good run.

Well. Today I wasn't particularly excited for a workout.. but I felt better than yesterday. We did 6 1000s. My splits went like this: 3:40, 3:40, 3:40, 3:44, 3:40, 3:46. The first three were just dandy.. Stoner and I did them together and they felt pretty good. The fourth one I kinda fell off a little bit.. I felt like I was pushing.. but obviously not as hard as I had been. The fifth I really felt like I settled.. but then halfway through, Stoner pointed to the ground right beside her.. and I think I surprised us both when I actually ran up beside her. We finished that one together, and that felt really good. The last one, my legs just felt dead. Stoner pointed again.. but I just didn't go. But this was a good workout.. It's the first one in a while where I actually felt like my head was in the game and I was doing well. So.. yeah. Good first workout. The end.

Ick. We ran 3x2 min with 1 min rec + 4x400 with 30 second rec. The two minuter things were fine (ish). But my legs are so so so dead. I could barely lift them up. The 400s were just not good. On the cool down, I thought I was going to collapse. I need to ice bathe and stretch and stuff.. but I just feel like I never have time. Tonight, perhaps.

So I typed out an entire entry about how angry I was that Stoner and Mia were late and I had to run extra with them and how absolutely exhausted my legs are and how they feel like they were run over by a small train.. and then somehow it disappeared. So here's a much shorter entry. I ran. I died. I came back to life when I found out the showers at the school had warm water. The end.

To Arctic Circle with the girls.. we did our little tradition thing and Nicole steamrolled over all of us. I skipped the 200's and stretched because my legs just hurt so so bad. We need to get that tub back to the school so we can take an ice bath.