Running Blog

40 minutes easy at like 10 AM. Two finals today. Bleh.

Gah. So this past week has been insane, but after three finals and two papers in two days, I am officially done with the semester. Hallelujah. Now I just wait for my math final score to get put in the computer. Pray for me.

Anyway, despite the craziness, for the most part, I got all my runs in. Also I found out last week that I've been doing the wrong 1500 N. hill the whole time (you'd think that would be hard to mess up, considering we refer to it by the name of the street it's on). But today I went and did it on the real one. I did 4xlong hill at 1:15-1:18 and 4x short hill at :35-38. I don't remember my long hill times but my short hills went :38, :36, :34, :31. Light core after. 

Home! Finally all the craziness is done. Got an 86 on my math final, which definitely qualifies as some sort of miracle.. Thank heavens for it though because I get to keep my scholarship. Anyhow, I went out to Chuckawalla today. It was fun to run out there.. lots of memories on the old Trail Thursday trails. At some point I'll call up Mia and we'll go run together. Light core after.

60 minutes. I did my long run today because I don't know what our speed workout is for the week. Started at mi casa, ran down GS Drive, up Telegraph, past the cemetery, under the overpass, past the fire station and through Quail Ridge back to home. It's the same loop I usually do for long runs in St. George. I always start out fine, but feel trashed by the time I get to Quail Ridge. I'm glad to be done with it. I'll probably do the track workout tomorrow, but Coach Spence won't text me back so.. guess we'll see.

Coach finally texted me back last night so I knew what the workout was today. 10x60 sec fartlek, 2 min recovery. I decided to do it on the track today even though it's an easy one to do on the roads, just so I could get more track time before meets start. Also it's easier to measure distance that way (although hopefully come Christmastime I'll have a watch to do that for me. Fingers crossed). I warmed up 15 minutes to Harts and back, then changed into my flats and started on the workout. It's not an incredibly hard one because of the double recovery, but it does get you tired and by the second half of the workout I was soccer jogging pretty hardcore during the recoveries (Coach Spence calls it a shuffle jog, but we all know it's the exact same thing). I cooled down 10 minutes on the track in my trainers. Super nice to have my workout done so early in the day. Kaylee will be in town next week so we can run together.