Running Blog

Well.. Woke up late so I ended up running by myself. And I misunderstood the running blog, and thought we had 3 miles with 2 miles of Indian runs during it. Turns out we had 3 miles THEN two miles of Indian runs,so the team was nowhere to be found on the course to arctic circle. But I ran it pretty fast, cause I was kinda scared of running alone (which I later got in trouble with my dad for doing) When they got back to the school I finished the 200's with them. It was fine. Felt bad for sleeping in.. But I probably need the extra sleep, and it was my first time ever being late to morning practice (this year anyway) so I guess it's okay.

Easy 3 with some striders on the freezing baseball field.. we thought our feet were falling off.

Michigans w/ Pizza Hut warm/cool. So, this morning I woke up and couldn't keep my eyes open. I was honestly a little scared driving to practice. I had to stay up last night after the game to do my math. So this morning, I wasn't expecting to have that great of a workout. I was just so exhausted. My warm up was super slow. When we started our Michigans, Stoner, Mia and I were running together. Throughout the whole first set, I was just dreading the time the pace would get too fast for me to keep up. But it stayed fairly easy for the first set. When we moved onto the track to start our second set, I took the inside and we kinda started picking up the pace (it felt like that anyway.. we might not have been going much faster). The next 3 800's on the warm up loop just kept getting faster.. I was terrified Stoner was gonna leave me, so I kept going faster and she'd come with. On the last 800, we pushed it pretty fast. Then we hit the track and the only thing going through my head was "I'm almost done!" so I just tried to finish as fast as possible. My time ended up being 28:33. I don't know how that compares to years past, but I made A standard. It wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be, and I had a much more positive workout than I expected. Overall, it was pretty good.

AM: Arctic Circle as usual. Didn't run yesterday.. trying to catch up on sleep and get the sickness out of me. Ended up okay.

PM: Race!! Warmed up more than we usually do cause Coach kinda got on our case about it. I was kinda freaking out before the race, which is actually unusual for this season. But the coaches and my mom kinda calmed me down. Then we started the race.. and Stoner and I biffed it cause Mia cut Stoner off and we both tumbled. But we were okay and restarted and all was fine. I was nervous because I don't really like races that we have to start out fast. But it was okay.. except girls were throwing elbows and cutting us off all over the place. I felt like we were going a good pace though. Then all of a sudden six red uniforms passed me and I realized I was running behind the entire team of American Fork. My mom told me to pass them, and I was feeling okay so I passed three of them.. then Coach later told me that by the next time he saw me he wanted me to be ahead of the other three. But by the next time I saw him, it was like 400 meters away from the finish and I still hadn't passed them. So I started kicking and realized I had more left than I thought. So I ended up passing 5 girls at the end. But at the last 50 meters or so, all these people started cheering for this girl to pass me.. I could hear her coming and I started freaking out. Somewhere inside of me, I found the energy to push enough to beat the girl by .3 of a second.. anyway. Turned out to be a pretty positive race, which was nice. Happy with it.

Started out the morning with a workout at Sugar House. We began with a 3 mile warm up and then started into the workout which was 3x(2min hard/1min rec, 1min hard/1min rec, 30 sec hard/30sec rec). We were supposed to regroup during each recovery.. and some of the girls started falling off kinda far so we didn't cover much ground, since most of our recoveries were the wrong way. There are 3 big hills at Sugar House.. and we hit one of them on each of our 2 minuters. That wasn't much fun, and our feet were soaking wet, but other than that, it was a good workout. Then we ran over to the park to watch the JV race.. we got there right as they shot the gun, so that worked out well. Felt really good today.. but I was a little sore and my back still hurts.