Life's Swell

Not as good as yesterday 

only 2.5, achilles was really bothering me today. way worse than yesterday

3 cheers for a good running day. all my drills and warmup stuff with the trainers and then 4 miles easy on the treadmill. it felt soooo good. no pain, and a good but chill pace. 

Elizabeth Smart came today and spoke for sexual assault awareness week. It was really interesting to hear her story and everything that has gone on in her life. 

4 miles on the track. Literally the only outside option we had. It has snowed so much today it’s rediculous. Achilles felt great 

6 miles easy. About 7:30 avg. really snowy on the roads. Luckily dikes was cleared. Felt good but hard. No Achilles pain until the last halfish mile, where it got really icy. 

weights- minus calf raises cuz i already did some in the trainers as rehab and minus lunge to stepups, just kept it at lunges beucase the jolting of stepping off the blocks makes my achilles hurt. lots of rolling and stuffff. 

7:24 avg

i think a little farther  just guestimating on the treadmill. 

6.25 pretty slow and crappy conditions. it was finally feeling warm, but everything was so wet and teh cars that drove by us, sloshed us sooo hard with their cars through puddles and it was the worst. but achilles felt good

welp, attempted a workout today and that was pretty crappy, so i ended up just mostly running distance. 8 miles total, which was nice. Just disapointed that every time i start to get heatlhy, fit, and fast, and coach starts believing in me, I somehow start sucking again. At least my achilles was feeling ok. 

6 miles. mile warm, 3@ 60%, around 6:27ish pace i would say. then cool to 6. it felt decent but i am not in awesome shape rn so it was hard. definitely backed off the pace of the other girls cuz they were hauling at the beginning, but i ended up staying the same distance behind basically the whole time and gained (and passed) some by the time we were finishing. Just happy i was able to push the whole time, even though i was alone. that in itself is a win cuz im not the best at that

lol coach houles car got stuck in the mud on the side of the road while he was following us

best run in a hotttttt second. 8 miles with julieta and brighton. 8x60 second pickups with 2 minutes between each one. it felt soooo good. all were at 5:45 pace and it felt so good to get going a little bit during the run. 

6 miles with brighton, julieta, and PESTO! he was crazy but it was a rlly good run

slept a really lot last night. like one of those nights where your head hits the pillow and your out til morning. woke up at 8 cuz i was supposed to go get taped by drew, but it snowed, alison bailed, and i was tired, so we pushed taping back til 12. i fell back asleep until 11:30 and honestly probs could have slept wayyyy longer. then martha and my bros and her kids all were up here and came and visited for a while so i didnt get out til like 1:30 and holy hannah, it was an awful run. I felt so tired and my legs were heavy and i kept it so slow and still felt AWFUL. about 4 miles in i just stopped on the trail for like 10 minutes contemplating why the HECK i was torturing myself lol. anyways, finished the run and im tired. 

8.5. First few with Sarah up canyon really chill. Flipped and found the girls racing at conference heading up so I snuck and joined them. Then added a few after to 8.5. 7:33 avg. felt really good. Super stoked 

8.5 7:39 avg. part with haley and jiraa but they decided to haul the last few miles and i am just trying to run normal mileage at a normal pace at this point. probs will run early tomorrow at least most of my miles since its supposed to snow and be fetching cold all day. 

6 in the am beofre the snow hit bad

2 on the treadmill to finish up miles

8 miles. One alone to the track and around a few times for a mile. Then 7 with Haley and Julieta on the old hw next the freeway. It was a really nice run. The uphill back sucked but not actually that bad. Felt good. 7:30 avg 

8 with Haley at 11:00. Starting our run I felt ok, but legs felt kinda heavy. Haley said “I’m tired we can go your pace today”. Hahaha That means A slow pace, but it’s fine. Anyways, the whole time we both kept saying we were kinda tired and we were just gonna chill. Which I honestly felt like we were going pretty chill, I was just tired or somethin. Anyways, got back and checked my pace and we definitely were going like 7:20 avg. our downhill miles were 6:40. That’s the fastest I’ve ran since my whole Achilles ordeal. No wonder my legs were tired haha 

8 miles with haley on cross hollows. felt good and kinda quick. 7:22 avg. kept it steady on the uphill, but the wind at our back on the dowhill didnt help keep it chill haha

am- 2.3 miles with sam before heading to st george for the dentist and eye dr

i have to get glasses cuz my eyes dont focus from close to far very good cuz my eyes strain really hard while reading close up. They are red and they will be here in a few weeks and i actually like them. Ive never found glasses that i have really liked before, so thats lit. 

i also have 2 cavities so i have to go to the dentist again on thursday. yipee

pm-7.7 miles on the river trail. forced myself to chill cuz i need to chill sometimes. It was a dope run and it was sooooo warm. like almost hot haha

holy cow! my body was tired today. me and sam were gonna do daisy to dikes, but my achilles was bugging a little and so we just did mainstreet to be safe and then i went and had drew tape it cuz i havent had to tape in a little. then we added to 7 but i was DEAD. 7:45 avg but pacing was off on my watch again.

weights was hard

2.3 in main street loop. Kept it chill

7 after the dentist in st George with Sam. My mom dropped us off far up telegraph and we ran Dow. Through hell hole. It was a rlly good run.