Life's Swell

kind of kicking myself for how the day went. I woke up late at alisons house cuz i stayed up way late for new years, and then i packed up my stuff and drove to cedar. When i got here, i fell asleep and when i woke up it was almost 6:00 and dark outside. it scares me to run in the dark alone, and i almsost didnt go out at all, but i went an easy 4 which was not nearly as far as i would have liked to go. Oh well.

AM- 8 Miles. Ran from my house to Home Depot and on the trail that we normally do whistle hills on. I wanted to keep following that trail cuz I’ve never been that far. It was nice and hilly so that was hard, but it was actually really a cool place, I definitely will go up there and explore more cuz there were lots of turnoffs and it was pretty. 

Excited for people to come to cedar. As much fun as being here alone is, it isn’t. Also I miss everyone 

PM- 2 miles down main street. Pretty chill miles. Some lady was walking the absolutely most beautiful Huskey I have ever seen. I want one

7 miles. i was very unmotivated to get out and run today. I watched way too much Friends and finally got out at 2:00. 7 miles chill. and then my mom came up to help me with some stupid scholarship stuff. I didnt get a large chunk of my scholarship from this semester and last semester and ive talked to the school multiple times but nothing has been fixed. Its amazing how much help a parent is. its finally all figured out now, so thats dope.

After, my mom had the marvelous idea of going to sushi burrito which i was definitely okay with cuz i love that place so stinkin much. We just chilled and talked about ellies life. it was a good time.  

AM- 7 Miles. I ran down main to canyon view looped around by the hospital and to mi casa. I threw in 10x1 minute pickups to get the legs moving down the hill and on the way back up the hill,  my goal was to stay under 8:00 which wasn’t near as bad as I thought it would be. It was a good run. 

I had oatmeal for breakfast and I threw in some banana and it was so good! I’ve never been a HUGE fan of oatmeal but I think I’ll be eating a lot more of it now

PM- 2 mileage chill. 

Drove home for a dentist appt and to pick up someone from the airport. When I got home my mom was in a conference call but all the people were on mute except one so she told me I could play the piano. Anyways, while I was just playing away, he unmuted everyone and apparently I sound really good (hahahah not really)  cuz they thought my mom was in a piano bar. So if you have any piano bar music playing needs, hit me up 

PM- 7 miles pretty chill averaged 7:34. Pretty gloomy day today. 

PPM- 2 more miles at like 6;00

AM- 8.5 with sam and kasey. I went over to sams to run and tour their house and it’s so cute. And when we went out to leave, kasey came out to run so he just ran with us. It was a good time. I have missed running with people and sam. I love her. 

AM- very easy 2.  Happy first day of school again!! I’m so excited for practice this afternoon!!! I’m tired of running alone. Also I’m so excited to start racing soon!! 

Last night I made cupcakes at Sams. They were delicious. 

Also I learned this card game called bang. It’s a good time and I highly recommend it. 

PM- 6 Miles with 15 striders after. We were hauling and averaged about 7:10. It was a good run and nice to be back. 

Hot tubbed with the freshman and we also had a recruit and played games with him 

Am- 2 Miles chill 

6 minute test this afternoon 

Pm- yayaya for the 6 minute test!!! I was nervous out of my mind! For some reason I kept getting this wierd fear that i was not going to make it passed the 1600 meter mark. Anyways, we warmed up 2 Miles and then did the 6 minute test. I wanted to just go a good pace and see what I could do but after 2.5 laps I was feeling good and was running near girls I haven’t ever really ran by. I ended up finishing 1700 meters and close  to Julieta, Madison and Brighton so that made me happy. I also feel like there was more there at the end and I’m so excited to race and get into faster stuff again!! 

Pumped for Idaho this weekend! I’ve never ran indoor and I’m pumped for that and I also am just excited to race!!! 

Missed my alarm this morning so i did all my miles in the afternoon. i had looooots of classes today and im slightly stressing cuz im gonna miss ALOT of fridays. 

We all have "biweekly" meetings with coach, but actually he means bimonthly but still keeps calling it biweekly. I apparently am going to be a steepler now. Im lowkey realllly scared cuz i dont think i will make it over them without dying, but hopefully ill catch on.

Pm- 5.25 in the canyon with a group of girls. Felt pretty decent. averaged 7:19

Team meeting to discuss lots of team stuff. it was long, but i missed part of it cuz i didnt know where the heck i was going. 

PPM- 3 miles with alison, christian, and maximus. it was a good time and a really fast pace, so i chilled it out a little. averaged 7:06

We got a new weights coach, and although he is cool and probs knows what he is talking about, i miss the old one and the actual lifting. all we have done is core stuff, and although that is great, i wanna actually lift or else i need to buy a gym pass. Hopefully we will actually lift in the next few times.

AM- steeple practice this morning. Mostly we just did some drills and flexibility stuff. And then we jumped one hurdle and videoed it so we could compare the first one to what we look like in the Future

2 chill miles after 

PM- 7.25 Miles total/// so we had a 60% today. Coach split us into 2 groups and of course he stuck me in the slower one... anyways, me and KaSandra and Sarah were way in front of everyone before we even hit a mile of the tempo. So coach stopped us for a sec for the other group to catch up (cuz they started behind us) and then we got to run with them :))) I hung in there pretty much the whole time!!! I lost them on then uphill, but I got back up on the downhill!! I would fall off a  little but everytime I caught back up!!! I have never done that before and coach told me I always get tor in with the A group!!!!!!!!! Also Angie is seriously the nicest and was helpin me stay in there and everyone kept yelling at me to keep coming and it made me feel so happy and needed. Yayayayayyayayayayayayayya!!!!! Also 15 strides after. Then rolled out and jazz 

I wanna travel so bad next cross season. Ill literally do anything 

AM- 4 Miles for practice. We had premeet so 2 Mile warm then A 400 at mile pace then starts and strides and a mile cool 

Just chillin in the bus for 7 hours on the way to IDAHO. Can’t wait to race tomorrow. I’m running the 4x400 and the mile. 

PM- made it to Idaho!!! Ran 3 Miles chill with alison and then Christian joined us the last half mile. It felt really good and we went a gooooood pace that wasn’t too fast. Then we went to dinnner with the freshman. Alison lost all her travel money so we had to backtrack to try and find it. We never did. 

8 Miles today all around and kinda choppy but it’s fine!! First indoor meet of the season! ‘Twas a good time. I ran the mile and it was pretty decent! Best I’ve ever started out a season. I lost track of the laps real quick cuz it was so many but it was fun! I also don’t love the wood track or the bank. I almost fell off on the 6th lap and it scared me a little. Ended up 5:24 which would be about a 5:17 (they always convert everything and it’s so wierd to me lol) but converted that’s faster than I’ve ever ran before and I felt real good about it. Also I ran the 4x4 which was a good time lol. Nothing spectacular but it was fun. Coach said we’ll probably do it again at NAU, which hopefully means that I get to go there which would be dope!!! 

8 Miles with ellsbells!!! She came to cedar yesterday and we went hammocking and went to a devotional and then some people came over and played games. It was a good time. Then she went to bed and everyone else watched hitch at josh’s (quality movie that I think I’ve watched 5 times in the last month). Anyways, she was gonna just come up for the day but she ran out of gas lol and didn’t want to fill up (also she didn’t bring any money) so she spent the night and we ran this morning. 

Ran out to Home Depot and on the trails behind there. 8 chill Miles. She got this wierd pain the last mile in her abdomen and couldn’t breathe. It was really wierd. I hope she is a-okay

Hiked angels landing. Mile shakeout after

Am- steeple practice at 7. Getting a better hang of things so that’s good! 2 Miles chill after

Pm- pretty much the toughest workout of my entire life. Coach also stuck me with the A group. So we did a mile warm and then a 3k at 85% hitting 88’s every lap. Which for me, is barely slower than my 3200 race pace last year. I hung on pretty well until the last 2 laps then I fell off and Morgan also fell off and we worked together for a bit. Then we had 90 seconds rest and did 14x400. The first 6 were supposed to be at 5k pace, the next 5 at 3k pace and the last 3 at 1500 pace. To say the least the first 6 were decent and the next 8 I played a game called see how long you can stay on the group before you die and fall off. Usually that was about 200 meters. The last 8 were very consistent tho. I hit 85/6 almost every time lol which was way slow but it was fine.  At least I did the whole thing without dying.

Coach had on this cologne at practice and every time I ran by I thought I wasn’t gonna throw up. It wasn’t a gross smell, but it definitely did not settle my stomach well while running lol 

Tried to ice bath after and made it a whole minute. I had enough pain for the day.

Also found out I’m racing the 3k and the mile this weekend at NAU so I’m stoked for that. 

Also I had more important news but i forgot it so I’ll keep you posted if I remember. 

AM-  1.5 miles very very very chill.

Also Maceys boyfriend dallin scraped my windsheild this morning before my class. Literally the nicest person i have ever met. 

PM- 5.5 Miles. Actually at 50%. Definitely didn’t take that for granted cuz that doesn’t happen a lot. average 7:18. My legs were sooo sore. Rolled out after. Then smoothies and now weights 

2 Miles and then steeple practice. Getting much more comfortable going over the hurdles. If anything practice is helping me regain a little flexibility which should help my piriformis continue to heal cuz most problems from that come from a loss of flexibility. Which all makes sense cuz I have lost lots of flexibility after I quit dancing 

6 Miles pre meet. 2 Miles warm, 2x400 and the starts and cool down

Happy birthday to my good friend Maximus. He’s a cool dude and we went bowling for his bday. I bowled two strikes in a row, and bowled the top score of our first game. But our team (me josh max and Julieta) lost miserably both times to the other team 

On our way to flagstaff for a meet. Way pumped. No shakeout this morning cuz we will do one when we get there. A little sad cuz I was asleep when we passed lake

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Mile shakeout once we got here. I forgot how beautiful flagstaff is 

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Mile warm and drills and stuff. Then the mile. I was the last person in the fast heat so that’s always fun. We started sooo fast and I was ok through 3 laps and the last 2 I really died hard. My legs were so tired and felt kinda like noodles. I’ve never felt so tired after a mile. Ran a 5:36 which converts to a 5:26 which is decent. Only one person in the slower heat beat me so that’s good. Definitely not as good as last week but I’ll get there. Mile cool down

Mile warm and then the 3000. We were supposed to do it as a good workout. I was really strong through 6 laps, and ok the 7 and 8 one. My last 2 were a little strugglish but they were ok  I’ve got to work on opening my stride. Ended up 11:20 which converts to about 10:55 which would be pretty similar to my pr in the 3200 so I’m pretty happy with it. Excited to keep racing and see what I can do. Can’t complain about how things went considering the higher mileage and decently hard workouts. Cool to 8.5

7 Miles on the trails in flagstaff. They have the best trail systems and I wanna dig them up and put them in cedar. I also wouldn’t mind living there. It’s beautiful.

2 Miles of torture through the snow. Lived in the snow for like 45 minutes and I’m already struggling with it lol. My face was sooooooo coold. It’s so sloshy and wet 

Shout out to Dakota, who doesn’t blog anymore but used to, for scraping snow of literally every person on our team that traveled windows so that we could drive home when we got to the school. Seriously the nicest guy 

Also new high mileage week!! 

Mile shakeout b4 practice and then practice. Well, becuase of the snow, we couldnt do our workout on the track cuz it was super went and kinda slushy. we got split into groups today and im a little confused about all the workouts but yeah. I was with the 5k group today with angie, julieta, sharlie, morgan, madison fruchey and ashley. We did 8x 3:30 minute pickups on the road with 90 second recovery. I was fine the first 3 and slowly got a little more behind. Its a good boost that coach believes i can run with the fastest girls on our team, but also a little discouraging cuz i am not quite as fast as them and get dropped alot. ill get there. finished to 9 miles after. 

I definitely need to be doing hw rn, but i stink at accomplishing anything. if worst comes to worst, ill just drop out of college and live in the library. no one would notice.

Am- Mile at steeple practice and mile afterwards. 

Pm- 7.75 miles: 6.75 miles @ 50% pace. honestly, one of the BEST 50's i have ever done. I felt so great the whoooole time. we did cross hollows and we averaged 7:10 pace even with the long hill at the end. I was cruising up the hill with maddy and it felt so AMAZING!! i can honestly say that i have never led the main group of girls, but i was today and it felt so great! after wards, we had 15 strides and i did mine with Sam. Ive been focusing on form (mostly arms) alot when i am running fast and i feel like i am getting decently better at it! 

Ice bath after with sam and emma. It was so cold but they have these cool feet warmers (like wet suits for your feet) and they are the most amazing thing ever invented cuz honestly the only bad thing about ice baths are my cold toes, but its wayyy more bearable with them on. 

I am honestly beyond sore today and I have no clue why, started the morning with some yoga to try to loosen up. I may hit a mile shakeout before practice. We’ll see how the after noon goes 

Pm- 8 Miles total, 2 Mile warm, 5x500 meter repeats with 3 minutes recovery, and then 3 Miles cool with sam. I felt actually sooo good today! I was consistent and felt great. 94,95,95,98,95. He had me go with the 1500 group today and It was a good time. It’s a good confidence booster to go with them. 

WEIGHTS WEIGHTS WEIGHTS!!! gotta love em

Just one mile this morning after steeple cuz my left shin was hurting me.  Iced for a long while after. I really don’t want to cause an injury

PM- we did the best thing ever today! we had just a 50% and it was so windy, and we wanted to go down hill, so we decided we wanted to run allllll the run down hill and with the wind. me and kasandra and sam each drove a mile and then sierra and marlee drove the rest cuz there were at half miles. It was a perfect mini ragnar!!! it was sooo fun!! shin felt a little better but still hurt. keepin it chill for the next few days. 

I fell asleep in our tiny chair and it was sooo uncomfortable, idk how i even feel asleep

6 Miles total. 2 Miles warm, 10x45 second pickups with 90 sec recovery and then cool to 6. My whole body was sooo tired  today which was a little frustrating, but I just keep having to remind myself that I can’t have a good run every day and I hadn’t had a bad run in a while. I ice bathed after. Also my shin stul hurt but not in comparison to yesterday. Kept the run to 6 cuz I felt so lousy and the 7:15 pace was killing me. Definitely haven’t taken a short easy run in a while. 

11 Miles with Sam and Marlee. Kept it real chill which was super nice, maybe even a little too chill but it’s fine and I needed an easy day. Averaged 8:15 which is slower than I’ve gone in a loooong while but it’s still fine. Ran 8 Mile dikes, which is wayyyy better than 6 Mile dikes tbh, and then dropped off mar cuz she was doing 8 and then added 3 with sam. Overall good run. Nice to chill it out. Felt way better than yesterday. Ready for 4 days of speed next week

Gonna start blogging my goals of the week on the Sunday date for the next week 

-be better about doubling even in the freezing

-drink 100 oz water

-bed by 11 ASLEEP 

-hit the workouts all the best I possibly can 

-continue taking care of the shin

AM- 1.6 Miles in the morning. I was feeling really good. Hope our workout goes well today! 

PM- yayayayayayayay for workouts!!!! So i get to travel this weekend which is YAY, but since im racing this weekend, im not doing 4 days of speed which is a little sad cuz i was sooooooooooo pumped for it. So the group that is traveling did a 2 mile warmup, and then 2x1000, 2x800, 2x500, 2x200. It was seriously so good!!!! i felt pretty good the whole time except the 2nd 8 was a little rough. Anyways, cooled to 8.4 so that i could hit 10 :)

Also Kasandra had a bee on her and it scared me alot. I hate those things.

Also Anatomy might kill me over. I dont know what possesed me to take it during track season cuz we are already traveling alot and its only worse in outdoor. Its fine, ill get over it

I am really hoping to hit a 5:10 (or close to) converted so that i can go to the Husky Classic at UW next weekend. 

AM- 2 miles and steeple

Pm- 6.5 miles. It was seriously so nice today, the perfect weather ever! it should stay exaclty like that allllll year. 60 degrees, minimal wind, perfect!!! anyways, 50 percent. I did 8 mile dikes, but cut back to make it 6.5 since i went 10 yesterday and im racing this weekend and i didnt want to go 10 again. 

We are leaving friday morning, racing friday night and then alllll saturday we just get to chill and go on a nice long run through the dope dope dope trails of flagstaff while everyone else gets to race. Think i might move there someday for the trails. 

Yayayayayaya for finishing freaking hard workouts and feeling amazing afterwards!!!!!!! so today we did a mile warm and thennnnnnnnn 15x400 with an all-out mile after. we kinda split the 400's into different speeds. the first 5 i was consistently around 87/88 and we had 45 second rest. i could have gone a bit faster, but i didnt know how my body was going to feel on the last ones, so i kinda chilled and just wanted to hit the back end of the pace window. im glad i did. the next 5 i hit 84/85 which was right at the tail end of pace again. i hit 85 twice, which was a second slow, but it was still ok. we had 60 seconds recovery on these ones. The next 5 we had 90 seconds recovery. i hit 83's pretty consistenly which was good and once again at the tail end of the window. but im glad i chilled the first half of the workout because even though i was a few seconds behind the main group of girls the first half, i was still in the window and by the last ones i was with the group the whole time and picking off some of the girls who started too fast. Then we had 90 seconds recovery and then an all out mile!! i hit a 6:20 which isnt awful, but not great. then i cooled to 9 with sam. 

Shoutout to Angie for literally hitting my pr in the mile after 15 400's haha. shes so fast i hope i can be as fast as her someday. 

Also props to me for being one of only 5 girls to finish the whole workout. that made me really happy actually. I know im progressing and im so excited to see what i can accomplish with running. 

1 mile, steeple, 1 mile. Steeple is fun but lowkey killing my left shin. Idk what to do. Incorporating steeples into workouts starting next week   

Pre meet. 2 Mile warm, 2x400 at race pace and starts s strides and cool to 6. My legs were so tired today. I’m glad the race is tomorrow

AM- 2 Mile shakeout in page AZ. Speaking of az, ready to kick some tonight

Yayayayaya for racing!! Warmed up a mile and did our warmups. Then the race! I got the worst start ever but it ended up being ok. I felt smooth and got back up with KaSandra and just sat on her shoulder for most of it. I was with her through 4 laps and she kicked a little better than me. Ended up 5:14 converted and I am sooo beyond stoked!! That’s a pr and it felt sooo good and that’s off of a tough week of workouts and I felt like there was more. Definitely keeping the avocado socks cuz they are lucky. Excited for the rest of szn  

Cooled 4.5 with sam. She’s my favorite. We ran on this road that I ran on with my high school team once when we were going to nxr  I remember it real good cuz we were screaming Christmas songs at the beginning of November the whole run and everyone was laughing at us. It was a good time and a good memory to remember  

My shin is hurting from steeple. I need to ice it and take care of it ASAP 

Also shoutout to my parents and family for driving to come watch me race for 5 minutes. They’re the realest 

10 Miles in FLAGSTAFF with sam! Still have the best trails. It was a good run, but the last 2 my legs were sooooo tired haha. Good thing I’m done and just get to chill til Monday. 

Also it’s crazy to me that 10 Miles doesn’t really even feel long anymore. Like it used to be this huge long run that I dreaded every Monday morning cuz it was so long but it seems so normal now, and it’s also faster. Love how that happens. 

Excited to chill at the meet today :) 

PM- mile shakeout with sam at the meet before our bus ride

New high mileage week 

no shakout this morning. not gonna hit quite so many miles this week, so i took this morning off. my legs were so tired today and i thought for sure we were gonna have a 50, but we didnt. 

2 mile warm, and then 3 strides. 5x800 and then 4x400. each of my 800's got slightly slower each time, and then the 400's were ok. the last 2 i got into it a little better, but not great. i was struggling a little today. my body was just tired, but it was still a decent workout. cooled a mile. cant complain about how it went. I finished the workout which is more than alot of other girls on the team, and ive had some great workouts the last few days. 

weights after was so hard! i was going a decent pace at everything and everyone was done soooo fast! i dont even understand!!!!

today was bread and soup night and i went with sam after weights. it was soooo delicious.

I have 5 tests this week. will see how this goes lol.

yesterday was the best day of my entire life. Went to church with macey and then she left before 3rd hour but i ran into julieta and maddie in the bathroom and so i went to their sacrament and it was a good time haha. then ate breakfast with julieta and max, cuz they only go to sacrament meeting. then i went hammocking with them and then i went to a dope superbowl party at francis's house. go eagles. then i went with sam and kasandra and nicole to this weird rock pile and we laid on it and looked at the stars and it was a good time.

I sometimes forget that the world doesnt revolve around me, and then sometimes i  just look up into the sky and it makes me feel so small and it humbles me a little cuz there is sooooo much more out there than just me

I almost forgot!! Adidas sent test shoes to some ppl on our team to try out and I got some and they are so dope. I wish I could keep them but I have to send them back in a while 

2 miles and steeple. we did the pop out hurdles again today and im not sure why they are so much better, but they make my shins hurt way less. so i think im gonna stick with those for a while.

6 miles @ 50% pace this afternoon. coach set us at a very slow 50 and we failed. He told us we couldnt average faster than 7:25 and we failed lol. we hit a 7:15 which still felt pretty chill so that was nice. My low calves were soooooooooooooooo beyond tight i was dying!!!! when i got back my feet were asleep from them being so tight and it was the wierdest thing of my entire life. Rolled out and Rapid Rebooted and iced my shin. 

Went to dinner at Pastry Pub with macey and it was real good. good to sit and chat with her for a while. Now that we are roommates i feel like i see less of her than i did before which is weird, but it happens

6 Miles at 50% and then a mile of steeple jumping and then another mile after. My low calves were way tight again and my feet like fell asleep again. I talked to to trainers but they didn’t help much. We’ll see if it does it again tomorrow. It only did it the first 6 and then I took like a 2 minute break before the steeples and then I was fine. I’m real confused 

8 Miles again. I accidentally slept through steeple today. I feel awful cuz I have nvr nvr nvr slept through practice before. 

Pm practice was good. We had 2 Mile warm, 3 sets of 5x400 with 30 seconds recover (sometimes they were a little long tho). Each set had 2 minutes between. The first set was very mentally tough, and I was struggling. But the next sets were solid. I felt smooth and strong. My average for all of them was 83.7 which puts me to run a 17:20 5k. So that’s dope. 

Rolled and am currently freezing my butt off in the ice bath. 

8 miles again! haha its wierd cuz last week i ran more miles but i felt alot better, this week i have been pretty tired.

we had a workout again today and it was a 5 mile 60% on the track. it was very hard and my legs felt heavy and tired and i didnt feel very smooth. We did a warmup mile and then 2 miles on the track and then a mile on the mile loop and then 2 more. the first mile sucked rlly rlly bad and then it just progressively got better. the first 2 miles it was sam and me and sierra. the next one was me and sam. and the last two were good but hard cuz they were by myself. feeling good that i felt awful but still hit faster than the times i was supposed to be. averaged like 6;35 for 5 miles. not bad. 2 miles cool. 

Cant wait for this weekend. going camping and to the gymnastics meet and having a good time!

Oh. Also Mike Tait is so cool. He broke Cam Levins school record in the 5k and currently has the number one time in the ncaa for the szn. He’s so fast 

10 miles on southview with sam. My legs were real tired and the first five miles was graudually all uphill and I was dying. It was sooooo muddy also. I had like 20 pounds of mud on my shoes. It was a beautiful run but I was tired 

6 pretty chill in the freezing cold snow. It was cold and my legs were tired. Rolled real good and weights and rolled some more. 

One mile and steeple. My shin has still been bugging me so coach is having me back off the jumping a little. I jump a few times and then work on form stuff that doesn’t hurt as bad 

Cutting my mileage just a bit this week cuz it’s 4 days of speed and that’s the rule 

PM- mile warm, 8x1000 with one minute recovery. man, this was a frickin hard workout but i did it and i am getting closer to the group and it makes me soooo happy and all the coaches are noticing that i am getting faster and closer and it makes me happy cuz hard work really does pay off. Just gotta keep the PMA. 3:38,39,41,42,47,48,58,51. first 4 were pretty consistent and with the group. Now i just got to keep a solid pace the last half instead of dropping, but ill get there. The last ones are always hard cuz i always get tired and slow down a little, and the last ones, the fastest girls speed up alot and it makes the gap seem huge, but i only had one out of the time range so thats good. 

Good rolling and rapid reboot and stretch and ice and stem sess after 

Today was a harder workout for me. My legs were very tired. Mile warm and then 3xmiles with 2 lap jog between. 5:53, 6:09, 6:15 were my Miles. The first one was a little fast. I think if I would have chilled it out a little they would have been more consistent, but I wanted to hang with the group as long as possible. After the miles we had 9 whistle hills which were actually not bad. I felt better on them and I led a handful of them so that was dope. If I didn’t lead I was in that front group. I love hills and idk why but I do. Mile cool 

Half done with 4 days of speed. Also happy Valentine’s Day :) 

Ps I’m pretty sure the point of anatomy is to see how many Greek and Latin words you can fit in your head before all the English ones disappear. Also it slowly kills you with stress. It’s fine 

Wellll, I ran to steeple this morning and did drills and jumped like 7 times and then my shin hurt so I did some more drills and shin exercises. Then it was snowing crazy so I walked to Sams and she drove me home. Not much of a run but it’s fjne 

I went hiking in st George last weekend and I picked some creosote and put it in a bag with a wet paper towel and left it in my car and it still smells so good  I’m gonna leave it forever and keep making my own air fresheners cuz it smells so much better 

Pm- mile warm and then mile at 5:46 pace and then lap jog and 12x400’s  we were supposed to hit 78-84 and the first 5 were real good! I was with the top girls AND even led some repeats. Hit 81 on most of them. Then I missed the 6th one cuz I had to go to the frickin bathroom. 6,7,8,  were really good! 9 was a little slow but still an 84  10 and 11 were struggling, 86,88. The last one was on my own and a 84. So only 2 we’re out of range. Mile cool with Julieta. 

It makes me so happy when Paul or coach tells me good job cuz they don’t say it a lot, and when they do they mean it  

GUESS WHAT?!?! I GET TO RUN AT CONFERENCE AND I HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE EXCITED IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!!!!! I did not think I would get to go. I thought I would be the first person to get left here

Last day of speed!! Yayayaya. Finally! 2 Mile warm 4x400 with 4 min recovery, 4x200 with 2 min recovery, 8x100 with 30 sec recovery. Honestly I didn’t know how the workout would go cuz my legs were soooo tired but it went better than expected! I was in range for everything and was with the group the whole time!!!!! 72,75,72,74 were my 400’ s. Led the 200’ s and hit 31’s. I looooove 200’ s so stinking much. They are my favorite thing EVER!!!! Hundreds were good. Cool a mile.  Coach told me I am a “sandbagger” cuz I did so well today haha. He said I was holding back the other days and that I need to stay confident in myself. Glad he is getting more faith in me. I definitely didn’t think I was holding back any of the days, cuz I have been doing better than I ever have before and I’m so happy about that, but I know I am getting faster and that I actually can run with the top girls, I just have to remember that 

Also coach decided to enter me into the 3k at conference too!!!!!! Yayayayaya!! I’m soooooo excited!!! 

Also Ellie and Caroline are here and spending the night at my house. Yayayay 

Holy cow. My whole body was sooo tired. I ran the hardest 5.5 Miles of my life. Went slow and not super long 

Happy Presidents day! It is verrrrry snowy so i will run later probs at the gym cuz im a wuss.

its seriously snowed most of the day. hung with sam and julieta and max and josh and koy and mike, the regular crew,  and made french toast for brunch and watched another cinderella story for the third time in two days lol, also watched wild hogs. its been a productive one. 

going to run rn 

8 on the treadmill at the gym with sam. It was surprisingly not as bad as I thought. Watched friends while running 

Welp, steeple was canceled but no one told me so I ran there and chilled for a sec, realized no one was coming and then I ran a little more and ran home. Wish someone told me so I could have slept in a little. It’s fine lol 

PM- at 12;00 coach cancelled practice and we just had a 50% with 6x40 second pickups with 90 second recovery. 7 miles total. ran cross hollows with sam sierra and kasandra. my legs were so heavy the first couple miles and the first few pickups were rough but then i started to feel good and finished the last 4ish miles pretty strong so thats good. rolled out after

6 Miles, 10 strides, .5 miles cool after.  Good run. Legs were still a bit tired but much better. Also weights after. The weights coach had me sit on a roller on my calves with 130 pounds on my legs to get out knots and it seemed to help soooo much!! Leaving for flagstaff tomorrow and I’m pumped. 

Low key sad cuz some how I didn’t get entered in the 3k and I thought I was but now I’m just in the mile  oh well. Way excited to get to go at all 

Also last night I was in bed by 9:00 and I can’t tell you the last time that happened 

2 miles with Julieta before we left. Sam and Julia joined us for the last little bit. 

Loong drive to flagstaff and then we went to the track for premeet. We ended up running 2 miles to the sky dome, and then a mile on the track and then drills. Since I am not racing til Saturday, I just finished 3 more miles on the track while everyone else did their premeet and I’ll do mine tomorrow. I’m pumped and finally feeling good again! Four days of speed is honestly sooo hard on the body, at least the first few times. 

Am- 2 mile shakeout in the freezing snow. It’s cold. Ps, our hotel has the best potato’s 

Pm- came over to the track at 1:15 for premeet. i had to do it by myself cuz im the only one just racing saturday. Idk why i had to come so early, cuz i still wasnt allowed on the track and had to do all my mileage up top in the dome.  now im just chillin until the meet starts haha. 3 mile warm, and then 4 pickups along the straights in the upper part of the dome, cuz its hard to do pickups around the corners cuz there is a blind corners and you never know who is there haha. finished miles to 6. Rapidrebooted afterwards. 

It is very snowy here. I hope we make it home alive. also sad day cuz my dad cant come anymore cuz of the snow. stupid inclement weather. oh well. 

Also, i love our jumping coach so much. he is so cool. he is kinda old and went to the olympics and paces around with his hands behind his back all the time and makes funny jokes and his name is uzzie and it doesnt get better than that haha. 

Also my dad and Ellie are gonna come now cuz ellie told my dad that they are going! Hope they are ok 

AM- 2 Mile shakeout 

PM- 1.5 Mile warm and drills and then race. We started out very very slow. Like I was leading the first lap and then with 3 laps to go everyone went. I felt ok, but it wasn’t the best ended up 5:19 converted, which isn’t bad and Is pretty consistent so I can’t complain.  Ps i wasn’t last and I was seeded last out of every person so that was good. Can’t complain for my first indoor szn ever. Cooled a mile and will finish mileage in a bit  

Ps roberts, we are currently at oreganos. We are waiting for our food 

3 Miles after I got back with max and Alison 

Since Conference is over, practice is on our own til Friday. Most people are taking a couple days off if they raced at conference. Probs will take off Monday and Tuesday but we’ll see 

I hate days off. I feel so unproductive. Good sleep in tho and I got soooooo much done so that’s lit. 

another day of nothing. super wierd.

last night me and max and christian and alison and nate played this game called munchkin and it took soooooo long and they wouldnt let me leave til we were done so i slept on alisons floor for 20 minutes in between my turns lol. it was a good time. i have 0 patience for long games, actually most things. 

yayayay i ran today! 4 whole miles with alison. we just chatted and ran and it was good. i felt like we were going wayyyyyy slow but we were going 7:30 pace which isnt bad. felt good to get out even though it was only a two day break lol. ready for outdoor!!!

planning on, 6 the next two days, 8 saturday and then back up to full mileage next week rotating 8/9. 

i went on a d8 last night and it was a very good time. 

also the walmart photo center will not work for some reason so i had to order pictures from costco and meet my dad half way. 

last night i went to sams for movie night and i fell asleep like 2 minutes in and slept the whole time and i didnt want to go home after so i stayed at her house and me and her and nicole all shared a bed and it was actually super comfy haha.

anyways, ran with sam when we woke up and it was cold and windy and my head hurt, but other than that it was actually a good run. we were definitely going a decent pace so thats dope.  

We had a team meeting today at 2:00 just to talk about stuff and coach houle is seriously so funny. i like him alot.

also happy birthday to paul yesterday

also im so pumped for outdoor. like so pumped

Wellll, I'm not complaining, im just.... complaining.  Lets just say today was definitely not the best workout ever. it was the first day back since conference and We had a 2 mile warm, 4x400, 4x200, 8x100, which doesnt sound bad, and ive done it before and really liked the workout alot. So i thought today would be good, but it was so unbelievably windy. i have never actually thought i was going to blow away until today- like for reals. My legs were so tired and heavy, and all the great workouts ive been having made me very discouraged cuz today was not one of those days. 

I know its partially my own fault, cuz i havent been great at sleeping this week, or drinking alot of water or eating super healthy cuz i tend to slack a little when we dont have organized practice. i also dont think it helps that i took a couple days off and only did easy runs, cuz sometimes it takes me a sec to get back to the speed- hopefully thats just the case.  

And to top it off, apparently my form sucks so bad that i now get to do this super sloowwwww robotic walk alllll the way around the track after every practice now, which honestly takes like 20 minutes. On a normal day, this probs wouldnt have discouraged me, its just been a long one. 

On the bright side tho, Cam Levins is in Cedar for like a month and he told me good job (which was a lie) but ill take it cuz an olympian told me good job so thats cool. 

7.5 with alison in the awful wind once again. at one point i think we were probably going like 14 minute pace and i was trying so hard haha, it was a hard run but it was fun. after we went to tropial smoothie and got smoothies. 

Well, the time has come once again for another 4 days of speed. this time is better tho cuz we got to start on monday and friday we just have mileage and no practice. 

2 mile warm, strides, 2 laps slow right into 3 miles at 80% on the track. coach split us into 2 groups and he couldnt decide which group to put me in cuz im still borderline. he ended up going with the slower one which im honestly not too sad about cuz 80's are a real struggle for me and it was a good confidence booster. my time was right around Kasandra's and it was the best 80 i have ever ever ever done so thats lit. i felt pretty darn good today and i felt consistent and strong so i am very happy about that. 3x whistle hill sets afterwards. i love those things so darn much. they are the best thing that has ever happened to this world tbh. 

ALSO made spring break plans!!!! me and sam and koy and max are going to san diego on saturday wayyy early and staying til wednesday for koys birthday and im pumped. only problem, poop hit the fan last week and some wierd stuff happened and it could either be the best week ever or a super weird and awkward experience. well see what happens cuz i really wanna have a good time lol 

mile warm, 7x1000 and then steeple barrier practice, my wierd robot walk around the track, 1.5 mile cool, and roll and stretch stuff.

The workout was decent. coach stuck me with the fast group today which is good! its just hard cuz he wanted me to do 8 repeats cuz im a 5k person, but the 1500 people were doing the same workout just cut in half and at a slower pace. I can do 8x1000's just fine, the hard part is doing 8x1000 at the same pace as angie. if i start a little slower i can hold on a little better at the end, but coach wanted me right with them. i did 2 right with the group just great the next one was still in range, just a little slower, but coach had me drop and do the next one with the 1500 group, which was good, only problem is they were finished after that one with their workout, so he had me sit one and jump back with the faster group. 

I hate cutting workouts but i think that i had a much more beneficial workout than i would have if he had me struggle all 8 with the fast group. 

Jumping the water barrier is the scariest thing of my entire life and coach houle just makes fun of me haha. its a good time.

2 Mile warm, 8x600 with 90 second recovery and 2 mile cool

It was honestly such a good workout today. I am supposed to be on a rotation of 2 5k workouts and a 1500 workout but today was the first time I’ve ever done a 1500 meter workout cuz coach always switches me. Anyways. KaSandra and sam didn’t do the workout and i dont know where everyone else was so it was just me and Alison that did the whole thing. We started at the slower end of the pace zone which was nice cuz it makes it sooooo much easier to keep the paces at the end. 2:03-2:06 on all of them which I’d say = consistent. 

I get that it helps to run with the fastest girls for as long as possible but I also feel like it is very beneficial for me to be able to complete a workout with consistent pacing  so today was very nice  

Botched my anatomy test today so that’s cool  never have i studied so hard and done so bad. We’ll see how the score turns out lol 

Ran to steeple, steepled, ran home. 1.5 Miles 

Pm- mile warm and then a 60% on the track for 5 Miles. We were split into 2 groups and I was the first of the slower group. It was nice tho cuz we started like 200 meters in front of the faster one so after about 3 Miles the leaders caught me and Emma and we finished near the group. Honestly not my best 60% but I’ll take it for it being the last of 4 days of speed. Averaged a 6:37, which is still in range. Looooots of girls dropped this workout so I’m glad I just finished. 

Yayaya for spring break. I need to get more running socks. I have been developing some blisters and they hurt like the dickens and I think my 2$ Walmart Christmas socks aren’t helping 

Am- woke Up and ran 2, and then met up for 4 more with Julieta right after. Yayay. It’s spring break and I couldn’t be more excited than I am rn  

Pm- 2 Miles with alison. 

Ps I got 20% better on my anatomy practical than I thought I would so life is good. 

Also went bowling with the freshman and some gymnastics girls yesterday. It was the most awkward thing ever lol but it was a good time 

7.4 with Sam around our hotel. Kinda sketch tbh. Need to find some less creepy places to run haha 

Am- got up and ran 4 miles before we headed out for the day

Pm- ran at balboa park and it was not quite what I expected haha. It’s not really a park, but it was cool nontheless. 

Wandered around downtown and perch park. It was a good time. Also Beached today and that was dope. We saw Michael finch there and we chilled with him most of the day. It was a good time

7.5 around the harbor 12x45 second pickups with 90 second recovery. i think i have some kinnd of a pinched nerve in my butt, it hurts like one.  also im sad we are leaving san diego but at the same time im kinda glad cuz i have all these wierd bugbite looking things all over me. i thought they were bed bugs but sam didnt get any, but i made max and koy switch us cuz i was not about to get more. but i woke up with wayyy more anyways and still, no one had any so i think its just some kind of rash. maybe from the heat. It itches soooooooo bad tho. im dying. 

Very good trip!! i had a blast. also we found 43 license plates plus 9 from other places that arent states so that was litty

Pm- last minute practice got cancelled cuz of the snow so I ran 3.25 with Julieta

Ppm- 4.5 more with Sam when it cleared up a little more 

No running today cuz there has been this weird pinch in my lower back/upper butt. Coach  thought I maybe needed to go to the chiropractor so I went. It was weird. Idk how I feel about the chiropractor, but before I even said anything he just looked at my back and knew exactly what was hurting and it was cool. 

All i know is that if it keeps pinching and I don’t get to race next weekend I’m actually going to beat someone up, so watch out 

I woke up and it’s still pinching. I’m in st George so I might see if I can get in for a massage today 

welllll... i got to go 3 miles today. it didnt feel awful but it really didnt feel great either. i got a massage on saturday. i went to the chiropractor again today. ive talked to literally everyone who knows anything about anything here so i can get better asap. 

i went to weights but didnt lift cuz i couldnt. i just did some weird stretches.

Went to the pool and aqua jogged for 35 minutes afterwards.

I was so excited to get to race the 1500 and 800 this weekend but by the looks of things i probs wont get to go, which is sooooooo beyond frusterating cuz we are finally into a season that is important and i hurt. 

welp, back to 0 for a couple days. went to steeple this morning and did all the stretches but my butt/back was wayyy worse this morning and i couldnt run. coach said to work it a little by rolling and stuff, but to chill out a little so it can heal, cuz ive been working it alot and now i need to just rest. 

As the day has gone on it has started to feel better, so that is a definite plus. hopefully i can get feeling better and back to running asap

11 miles on the bike. 50 minutes 

2550 meters aqua jogging  50 minutes total: 15 min warm, 12x85 seconds with 60 seconds recover. Simulation of the workout today on the track 

Ooh ooh! Also my liquid iron came today everyone’s been low on feritin and liquid absorbs better than the pill so now I get to take that. It’s disgusting ps. 

Also I got this Bluetooth converter and now I can listen to real music in my car that’s not the dumb radio stations here 

My butt back situation has gotten looots better since yesterday morning. Still no miles and I don’t get to race this weekend, but it feels better and I get to run a mile tomorrow!!! 

30 minutes on the bike. Doing some sort of something similar to 9x400’s and a 3 mile 80% in the pool later 

Later: 7 min warm, 9x90 seconds at 3k effort. 20 minutes at 80%. It’s hard to judge everything in the pool. 

Even tho I don’t get to race I at least get to come watch ell race, which will be nice cuz this is (or should be) my only chance to

I GOT TO RUN ONE MILE TODAY!!! and it only hurt a teeny bit!!! rolled quick and then 30 minutes on the bike. iced afterwards and then headed to the pool for 35 more minutes at 60% effort in the pool :)

1.25 with el and add in st George at the pv invited. Everyone did so good! 

50 minutes in the pool with Maximus. 5 minutes warm and then 40x 45 seconds hard 15 easy. That was a tough one! I like the shorter reps in the pool it makes it feel more like an actual workout. long repeats get really hard to push and gauge in the pool

not allowed to do anything- not even bike or swim for 2 days. might die

Dr. Appt this evening. getting an xray tomorrow to see if its a stress fracture. i dont think so. i think its my SI joint. no running for 2 weeks, but the doctor told me i could swim and bike again so thats a relief. 

I get to run today! I get to run today!! 

Ran our warmup and normally I don’t count that as mileage but I am. And then 5 minutes!

Bike for an hour.

 Pool workout of the day: 5 min warm, 5x4:00 3x3:00 2x1:00 all with 1 min recovery. Actually a fun pool workout. Me Koy max and Sarah talked to Paul while he walked up and down the side about Star Wars and lots of movies. It was a good day :) 50 minutes total :))  

1.5 miles and 90 minutes on the bike. It was awful today. I was on the stupid bike that the seat randomly falls down and scares the poop out of me. 

Ice bathing now 

100 minutes on the bike. 1 mile cuz no running warmup today, just 10 extra on the bike. Feeling  real good today. It feels so good to be doing something again. I missed being sore lol. I just feel like a useless waste of space with nothing to do when I sit and do nothing. 

5 minutes and a hike with this kid named noah from one of my classes. then i went on a hike with nicole in zion. im sososososososo sad that she is moving back to Kansas. Shes seriously the coolest and im gonna miss her alot

Meeting with coach and figured a bunch of stuff out so that’s good. 5 minutes of running and then weights. I can’t do a lot of lower body cuz I’m not allowed yet so that’s annoying so I did what I could. Then 40 on the bike and 50 minutes in the pool at 60%

60 on the bike. My goodness I hate the biking room in the trainers. It is sooo sooo sweaty.   Then I drove to st g for my last pt appointment!! 40 in the pool. 6x4 minutes hard with one minute between. I don’t mind the pool especially if max is there. It’s always fun to talk to him. 5 minutes of running after 

40 on the bike and 45 in the pool. 25 minutes at 80% and 6x90 seconds hard with 30 seconds of recovery

weights and pt exercises

5 warm 10x90 seconds hard, 30 seconds recover. 10x30 seconds hard, 30 second recovery. 10x90 hard with 30 second recover. 5 cool. In the pool with Maximus. It was a hard one

10 minutes of running!!! I didn’t run the last 2 days cuz I went to the pt and did these exercises and it made my butt hurt again but it is feeling a lot better. I think it just made it way sore but I didn’t wanna risk anything. 

60 on the bike after mostly with max but Jiraa and Sarah were in there for a while too 

its been quite the productive day actually! i did my laundry and washed the dished and cleaned my room and did alot of studying and went on my ten minute run and showered and did some more home work.

My 10 minute run was lovely. the weather is great (the weather is so so bipolar here and its annoying) 

Last night i was just chillin watching a movie and max told me to hurry up and come to the foam dance cuz it was "lit". well he was a liar and just wanted me to show up and i showed up and there was maybe 50 people there, and that is being generous. it was the stupidest dance of my entire life. so me and max and josh hung out and it was actually so fun. probs one of my best nights of college. 

1.25 with alison

55 minutes in the pool with max- 45 min at 60%

Abs, PT exercises

10 minutes of running. I know its only 10 minutes, but it is feeling much easier to run again. 

70 on the bike

45 minutes in the pool- 7 minute warm, 3x4 minutes, 3x2:30, 2x90 seconds, cool.

team meeting. pumped for xc

run 10 

bike for 35

swim for 50- 20 minutes @80, 3x (15, 30, 45) it was a hard but good one today

i hiked 10ish miles with sarah today. idk how far it actually was cuz we started from a house not the trailhead. 

50 minutes of the pool with maximus. it was the best day of pool in my entire life. it was so so fun. we just swam and talked and laughed way too much but it was a good time. 10x3:00 with 60 second recovery

20 minutes

20 minutes with my dad

I finally made it to miles instead of minutes! 3 miles today with my mom on the bike. It was a lovely day today! i get to move in to my house in cedar this week! woohoo!

3 miles around good ol cedar today. finally moved back in and my room is soooooooooooooo cute and i love this house. its the best one yet! now i need all my homies to come back so we can all be friends again!

4 miles!

4 miles again. slowly getting back into shape! lifiting afterwards!

3 and no weights. so unbelieveably sore. Still did some abs tho

four with sam and alison. weights after

four with my daddio

4 miles with alison sam and a recruit that stayed at our house. I was dying today

FIRST FIVE MILER SINCE SPRING BREAK!!! it wasnt fast but it was 5! aveeraged 8:00 with sam. Its been forever since i have ran real mileage and it makes me so happy! 

Also idk why this week has been so fun but its been a good one! all the days so far have just been a good time. me and sam went to her condo and swam and her grandparents made us dinner, i visited my fam, me and sam and the fam went to the sequoia tree in browse, me and sam and Jamie went on a dope secret hike up the canyon that was beautiful, I watched an outdoor movie with a few friends, and me and Ryde went to Sand Hollow today. Its honestly been such a fun week.

Me and sam and Jamie tried to go camping in st george after i got off work but both the camp sites we went to were full so we ended up on my trampoline at like 12:00 and then i woke up feeling gross but still tried to run and threw up all my breakfast. It was a good time. only made it 3

I helped christian move all day and didnt get the chance to run before work so afterwards me and sam and josh and christian ran. It was definitely my best run in a while. I was actually moving and felt good and didnt feel like i was crawling so thats good. 

I wasnt planning on running today cuz I threw up 3 times this morning. Im not sure what the heck is going on cuz i threw up last week right after i ate and tried to run (that one was definitely my own darn fault), but I felt better around noon and I had the day off and so i went home to hangout with the sibs. played alot of super smash bros, and if i do say so myself.... I suck real bad. 

in the evening, me and ellie and my dad ran to sullivan and played pickleball. it was a dope time. 

today I slept through my alarm and I dont think I have actually ever done that before, anyways I only went 3 again at like 9:00 and then me and scottie and bentley went to the lake. Then i played some more super smash bros and won my first round ever so that was also very dope.

4.5 with alison. I was feeling really good today and alison was apparently feeling so awful she couldnt finish the run. i tried to run to her house to get a car so i could pick her up but we went back a different way than we went and i got lost cuz she just moved and i had never been to her house before today. Anyways, i went way the wronng direction and by the time i found it she had walked back. 

Lifting and abs after

5 miles!!! it was also my fastest run of the summer, we averaged 7:24 which was good and fast. I was slightly dying but it was fun! i ran with morgan and sam and we just did mainstreet loop, I am finally up to a normal amount of miles i just need to work on not dying, but i also dont wanna kill my summer runs cuz we already run so many workouts and fast paces in the season

Also lifted today. i really am so glad i stayed in cedar for the summer cuz there are just alot of free recources and its way niceeee

Also me and sam are going to her family cabin at causey reservoir today when i get off of work and im sooo pumped!!

I had a dr appt in st g today and so i ran there. I am real tired of driving back and forth, tbh and im real real tired of paying for stupid gas so i am staying here in cedar until further notice. 

Anyways, my mom left me at my appointment and then i just ran home. it was about 4.8 miles so i added on to 5

6 miles today! i felt pretty cruddy but still hit 7:47 pace and most of our run was uphill so i cant complain. ran with alison and then lifted and core. I need to drink more water

5.5 with sam and morgan. Finally getting back into the running groove. i enjoy running real early, at like 5:30 cuz im not quite awake yet so i sleep run through half my run and it goes by wayyyyy quicker haha. 7:47 pace and it felt really good actually. 

5 miles with sam this morning at 5:30 again. gee i hate running that early but it also is really nice! my legs were deaaaaad though from my run and10 mile hike from yesterday. we ran up the canyon and then i ate a good breakfast and went back to sleep for a little while. 

6 with morgan. holy moly! that was a harrrrd run. We did walmart canyon (i forgot the real name). we cruised the first 2 miles up the stupid long gradual hill to walmart and it felt good but i was tired and then we had the next 2.5 to just chill and go down the hills on the trail, thats my favorite part. then we went up the hill and i was literally dying. like i normally get tired up this hill but i just keep goinng cuz its fun to push it, but not today. it was harrrrrd but i did it and now i feel great and i fell asleep for a couple hours after, and i need to stop napping so long cuz then i suck at sleeping the next night. averaged 7:42 pace which is good considering the last mile was way slow up the hill haha. 

6 miles today with morgan. we ran mainstreet and it was a little slower than the usual pace but it felt good. averaged about 7:50. our loop ended up being about 5.5 so we added on on the grass.

worked, ceramics, work. good day haha

gonna stick at 6 miles for next week and throw in a few days of speedish stuff 

5 with alison. she just got her wisdom teeth out and so i ran a little before i met up with her. 

Lifted after

6 with sam and morgan at 5:30. we threw 10x30 second pickups in there so that was fun to throw in a little speed. and then i fell asleep again and then i hiked with alison julieta and mike. lowkey not fun to hike with them, cuz one of said people kept running and another was driving me nuts.

One mile shakeout later 

i strung lights in my room and they look LIT!

6 with julieta and morgan. we ran up towards the temple and then down the other side. it was good the first 4.5 and then the last half mile was really hard. then we did some strides and added to 6

6 with sam and morgan in the morn, we did park loop and then added some grass loops. it was a good moring, where we ran and didnt push the pace so that was nice!

Fell asleep and then got a bunch of stuff done and then went to lunch with Kolton. we went to charlies and go these frychos and they were soooo delicious. 

also hiked ash town gorge again today and actualy found the waterfalls today so that was lit

6 with alison. we didnt go til 9:30 and it was soo hot and so awful. i was dying. oh well. ok run nontheless. 

heading to lagoon with bell and add today! Im so pumped!!! AND MAX is back!!! heck yes!!! and christian will be back sunday and i literally cant wait!!!

3 miles at lagoon! 

AM- 2 miles. Wellll, very early this morning/very late last night we were playing night games and we played fugitive. Our spots were 2 miles away from each other and me and Alison ran the whole way. Not the ideal time to run haha but I was gonna split today’s run anyways. 

This week I’m gonna start moving up in mileage :)) 

Later AM- wow I felt awful today. I definitely am dehydrated cuz I have been gone and stuff and not drinking. Anyways my legs felt so tired and I thought we were running like 9:00 minute pace and I felt so bad for Alison cuz I was running awful. Ended up averaging 7:58 which isn’t great but was definitely not as bad as I had anticipated so that was good. 

I chilled a little today. my butt has been hurting a little and i am not letting the issue come back. it was so fetching hot

Am- i went to incredibles with sarah when i got off work so i didnt go to bed til almost 1:00, then me sam and alison ran at 5:30. we did 6 and it was hard but good. 

got in my second sleep cycle in after the run lol and slept for 4 more hours. not usual and definitely not gonna make that a habit

Pm- 2 mile shakeout on my own and then some spikeball with alison max and christian!!!

im at work and its so boring so im blogging. no one has come in in 3 hours. 

i ran a mile and a half and then met sarah at the track, ran 5 more and then i ran home.

idk whats wrong but my legs are soooo tired alllll the time. i feel like for the most part i am getting the sleep i need, and im getting out and going everyday but i am struggling so hard to hit below an 8:00 pace and its so frusterating! 

Anyways, after my run i watched a movie and chilled and now im at my boring job where i do nothing. i feel so bad getting paid to do nothing but there is never anything to do. 

Today honestly was my best run of the summer. it wasnt neccessarily fast or anything, like 8:20 average but i just slept in and chilled for a sec and just went out on my own which i havent done in a while. i didnt worry about pace and i ran to bicent and did some grass loops barefoot and some strides and it felt soo good! I definitely needed one of those days because i havent just felt good on a run in sooo long. it was actually a good motivator and reminder of why i like running so much. There was no one there pushing the pace or making me feel bad for not being able to run 7:00 pace and it was nice. 

A very good run! me and alison drove up the canyon 8 miles and then we ran down. we just kinda chilled and talked and it was a very great run, i enjoyed it alot actually! 7:37 pace average

quite the day.

4 miles and some world cup soccer. it was soooo lit. we each were a country and all played for ourselves. i lost miserably cuz i suck at soccer sooooo bad. then we played on teams so that made everything a little better haha. 

i headed to st george cuz my grandparents rented the pool so i went to that and it was a blast. we also made the longest chain on record at that pool down the hydrotube. 13!!!! it was fun to see a lot of the pv team that i havent seen in a while as well. 

also idk what happened but as i was driving home i got super sick and pulled off the side of the freeway to throw up. ellie wasnt feeling great either so i think that we must have ate something weird. 

also i watched the scariest movie of my entire life

6 miles with alison on the grass at cedar high. we had a good chat and a good run!

3.5 in mesa verde. it was quite the day and once we got there i was so tired and were trying to make it to the firework show, so i did what i could but it wasnt alot

4.5 on the most absolutely beautiful trail ever ever in our camp ground. it was amazing!! it was up this mountain that overlooked the entire city of cortez below us. it was the best view ever and the prettiest run ever. honestly one of my favorite national parls

honestly dont remember what i did today so im just not counting it

slept in pretty good but it was ok cuz it was a beautiful day. i love that its not too hot to run here in the day time. ended up going at around 10 by myself. just kept it pretty chill and it felt great

spikeball sunday!!!! those are my favorite days where we all just chill and have a good time. it was beautiful outside as well. i brought my hammock to just chill when we werent playing. me and koy were a team for a little and i will say, we did much better than the last time we played. then me and max. hes good, as always so we made it to the championships and lost to josh and mike. then me and mike were a team and we sucked real bad (but it wasnt my fault)

we bbq'd after at the guys' house with a bunch of ppl. in the end, as usual it was just me and mike and max and koy and josh. we just chilled for a long while and it was actually a way good time.

Am- we started official team lifting today and it was actually way fun. me and alison were partners and its fun to be with her cuz we can be serious about something but also have a real good time.

5 miles afterwards, it was quite hot today. me and alison tried to do this loop up by the temple but i forgot where to turn so we got real lost and ended up at this real weird spot. it was a good time though. a few laps on the track afterwards. 

Pm- 3 with Sam. it was soooo nice cuz i was just taking a short nap on the couch and sam came in from work 3 hours earlier than normal so i got to run with her. it was also raining(thats why she came home) it was the best run ever! i love the rain so so so much! and its rained saturday and sunday AND monday!! its amazing!!

then my aunt caroline drove through cedar today so we went to dinner and it was a very good time

today was honestly the best run of the entire summer. something just clicked and it was so good. i didnt struggle to hit pace at all, in fact it felt so easy to even just go 7:15. i ran 3 and did a mile ana half barefoot on the grass. and then ran home. aside from the grass mile, my average pace was 7:15 which was wayyy faster than i have hit all summer. 

Me and Sam and Alison and mike and Nate and Christian met up and ran razor backs. It was very hard but very fun, and definitely kinda slow. But was good to get out and just go because as of late I keep telling myself “I’ll go farther when I’m in better shape” and keep forgetting that the only way to get in better shape is by pushing myself. I’m going to be doing a lot more of that this summer because I do want to be good and I want to be committed but I have not done what it takes to be those things. So starting right here, right now I’m going to be better. Especially about eating and waking up and not pushing everything important to the side. 

Also mike is moving back to Canada tomorrow. It will be way wierd to not have him on the team

AM- 2 before work just by myself. felt pretty good, just nice and chill. just below 8 pace

PM- 6 with alison after work. it felt really good acctually! we averaged about 7:35 so that was good. running has been good this week and everything has started to click so im super pumped about that! 

5.5 with Alison. And then we did some strides and ran back to my house. We took it pretty chill. My body was feeling so tired. Averaged about 7:40 

At 11;30 I went to the pool with max and aqua jogged for a half hour. We did 45 seconds hard 15 seconds easy. It feels good to go on occasion because I feel like I can get in a good workout with out putting so much stress on my body. I’m gonna start going a few times a week. 

Me and max and Alison and Nate went and played pickle ball for 3.5 hours and it was seriously so so so fun. It’s been a minute since I’ve played 

Am- 8.5with the high school today. It was soooo good to see everyone today. I have missed alllll the girls so much. We did the sand hill. It definitely wasn’t as bad as everyone made it sound. It was actually kinda fun. Made it up in 11:53 and down in 7:40. Me ell jess and Ry all ran back together

AM- i ran to the high school and ran about 2 miles of some grass loops and then some strides and looped back to my house to make 5. it was an ok run. nothing crazy but felt good. 

PM- 3 with alison. i was feeling so great. it was actually wayyyy nice. 

i ran to the track to meet up with alison for a few miles before weights. I went 1.5 and then we went about 4 so that was way nice to get most of it done. 

weights was hard today but way good! we did sooooo many jumping things and i am gonna be so sore in my butt,  i can already feel it. 

2.5 more afterwards, one of them on the grass. sooooo nice getting it all done early. i need to be better about that. 

Today is Christians birthday so we are  going to brian head. me and alison got him a funny present lol. 

4 easy 7:40 avg and weights

Today was literally the best day of the entire summer. it was soooo fun. so i woke up and drove to enterprise for the 10k. literally no one was there, but its fine lol. I ran 42:00 which was a good tempo. 6:50ish was the average pace.  then me and scottie and my dad and bent and mikey ran around and I got to 8 miles. Then we ate breakfast in the park with my grandparents. My fam went for a drive up ox valley and we saw so many baby deer. they even still had spots on them! they were sooo sooo cute! We watched the parade and got so much candy and so many shirts and frisbees and ice cream sandwhiches and they even threw fidget spinners lol. 

Afterwards, i drove back to cedar and me and alison and max and nate went to toquerville falls and chilled for the afternoon. it was sooooooooo scary driving on the bumpy road but i didnt kill anyone. then we went to the park and played in the splashpad and some spikeball til max broke the net. 

Then we went to my house and changed and played a bunch of games until all my fam came over for a bbq, and Sam and Koy met us there too. afterwards we played the best game of ultimate of my entire life. I always love ultimate but that game was seriously the best game ever!!!!! then hommade ice cream and fireworks. It was the best :)))

3 miles by myself before lifting. Lifting was soooo hard but so fun today. we did like a zillion jumps right into squats and im definitely gonna feel that one in the morning. 

Last night was the best sleep i have ever had. i slept on alisons couch because i am so sick of sleeping in my hot stuffy no air condidtioned room. then we ran this morning. we just did canyon from her house and it ended up about 5.5 and then we did 10 strides. 

PM- 6 more- 2 with sam and 4 with max. it honestly felt soooo good to get out again. my body was feeling so good and it was just all around and good run. definitley wasnt planning on going 6 more but since i felt good and only went 3 yesterday cuz i was at the dumb instacare for forever, i just kept going and it felt nice

4 miles with sam before weights. it was a decent run, my body felt good and then we lifted and it was a good time as always.

 Went to the grind and to this dope bookstore and a game place with max and it was dope.

This is the longest shift of my entire life. I wanna go home and finish my miles and go to bed

I didn't set an alarm last night and was just gonna get up for work and do my run tonight, but my body woke up and its a good thing or else id hate myself for not getting up. anyways, sam had alread left so i was just gonna go do daisy loop to dikes before work by myself. A mile in i had to go to the bathroom and there was a portapotty and so i went and when i came out sam was running down the road!!! so i did most of my run with sam which was very nice cuz i did not want to be running by myself.7:55 was our average pace, and it felt good. the first few were real slow and by the end we were going pretty quick which was way nice. I still need a few more; ill hit them before the RODEO!!!

6.5 miles chill before weights. part alone part with alison. good run, my body was tired

8 miles before weights

4.5 chill. I didn’t get it til a little later and it was HOT. it was so hard 

am- 7 miles and weights. I had to leave a little early cuz I had to work but it was a great workout. I love weights so much. I was so tired this morning  my legs just wouldn’t move  like at all  

Pm- 2 miles with Sam. Much better than this morning 

AHHHHH! its the best day ever!!! Me and Alison and Madison and Maddy met up with one of the new freshman today, Haley to run before weights. She is so so nice and sweet and i like her so much! and everyone is finally coming back!! 

I also got new running shoes!!!

Also me and alison and christian and nate went to pastry pub for lunch and it was delicious. 

also we played scum and i finally dethrowned nate!!!

On a more solemn note, one of the supposed to be new freshman got in a car accident on thursday and she passed away. Its so sad to me that that happened literally like 2 days before moving. 

6 on cross hollows and then strides and some grass. Good to run with jace again 

8 with the girls 

AM- progression run. I’ll talk about that later 

Pm- 1 mike shakeout at camp 

AM- 1 mike shakeout. there was a deer and it ppl pet it. I didn’t cuz limes disease

Pm-  Navajo lake run. It was reallllll rainy til we got out to run and then it stopped so rip to that. 7 miles at 7:10 pace it was AMAZING. I felt great and it’s so good to be back with the team 

Lots of pool today. Me and Christian won twice so we are basically pro  

8 on marathon. It was such a good run actually. I felt great and we all ran together :)

7 easy on farm run. 7:15 average and it felt great. It’s finally actually easy to run easy runs. And coach actually complimented me about how great i have been doing so far :)) 

1 mile warm and then 3 miles at 80%. It was hard but felt good. 18:59 was my time which was my goal so that’s good! And then 3x15,20,25 second whistle hills. I hung on the group for about a mile and a half and then slowly fell off but that’s better than I have ever done before so I am very happy with how our first workout went 

6.5 on cross hollows then 10 strides with 15 seconds rest. And then a mile on the turf. It was a swell run today. We actually kinda chilled and it was So nice

6 miles on dikes. My body was tired today, we went about the same pace as normal it just felt so fast today. at the end i just kinda went on my own and chilled. 

AM- today was  the road race. I couldnt sleep for whatever reason last night. I wasnt nervous or anything i just was having a hard time. Anyways, we got there and warmed up and everything and i was feeling good about it. I was super excited to go. I hung with haley/was pretty close to her for about 2.5 miles and was feeling great and then i hit a wall and everything was spinning and i was having the hardest/weirdest time running. I slowed down so hard so i could at least run and by the end i was barely running. it was so weird.

i ran a 26:36 which was over an entire minute slower than last year and there is no way in heck that i got that much slower.

Im so frusterated becuase i have been doing well in workouts and runs and the progression run was good, and to get basically dead last in the road race is just really annoying, but im not going to dwell on it and im going to kill it at UVU next week and prove to everyone, including myself, that i deserve to be here running.

Im so excited for the season. our team is seriously so good, and im excited to see what everyone ends up doing.

6.5 with my dad. Honestly not the run I was hoping for but at least I got out cuz today is crazy. Just kept it chill cuz that doesn’t get to happen a lot. Also my body is just tired  

So on our run coach split us up into 2 groups and he put me in the slower one and I was so frustrated. But I talked to him and he just wanted me to take the 50% easy so the workout is good tomorrow. It was the slowest run I’ve done in quite a while and by the end everyone had fizzled out and gone back but me and yolidan. 10 strides after. 

Yayayayay!!! So we split into morning and afternoon groups and for whatever reason I wasnt on either group but coach let me go with the fast group. We did 4x2k’s with one minute rest. From the beginning I told myself I was just gonna gonthe slow end and maintain the pace with Brighton. The range was 7:15-8:00. I hit 7:28,7:42, 7:41, 7:37. Im seriously so happy with it. It was the first XC interval workout I have finished in college!!! And I was in the range and on the last one I was passing ppl that were ahead of me the whole time. AND I RAN GOOD IN THE WORKOUT SO NOW I GET TO RACE AT UVU!!! 

Today was a weird run...So we all started together and at the beginning angie and sharlie and brighton split off and went a different direction, and then a few miles in maddie and sam and alison went a different direction and then with a few miles left julieta and haley went a different direction. so by the end of the 8 miles it was just me morgan and madison. It was a really good run actually! We did dikes to canyon and we werent killing the pace and it felt really good to go 8. Ended up averaging 7:33 pace. tomorrow is on our own

6 miles this morning. its amazing how quick you can go from feeling good to feeling not so good lol. yesterday was the best run ever and today i was dying a little. me morgan haley alison met up to run. 8x30 second pickups with 90 seconds rest in the middle. it was hard cuz we did it up canyon, then a few laps on the track afterwards. it was overall good, gonna shake out a few more in a little while. 

PM- met up with Haley to shakeout. it felt much better than this morning. just did the 2 mile loop and chatted for a while. I really enjoy her company

3 miles warm, strides, k at race pace, 3 starts, 2 mile cool. excited to race tomorrow!

Uvu race today! 

Woke up and drove there at 5:30 in the van. Warm up and then race! Not gonna lie it wasn’t the best race I have ever had but it was definitely better than the road race by a million. They changed the course so we had to go up a hill 3 times rather than 2. It was a hard race but it was a good time. I’m glad I got to go. Shoutout to my teammates who freakin killed it. 

Currently driving home with Christian alison and Nate. We went to the hot pots in Filmore. It was a good time 

well i was gonna meet and run with alison but she slept in for freakin ever so i just left. i went canyon to bicent and after i ran up the canyon i was following thomas for quite a while cuz he was on the dirt trail which was a little longer and i was on the paved one. once i got into the park he had stopped cuz koy was coming toward us. we stopped and talked for a sec and then thomas ran with me the last 4 miles. he is sooooo cool. we havent talked alot til today and i wanna be friends. he is from france and walked on to the team this year. it was way fun to talk with him. 

2 mile warm up and then an 80%. this is such a tough workout for me. as soon as i lose contact with the group i struggle so hard to stay focused on running hard. it was at least consistent today. 18:54 was my time, which is 5 seconds faster than last time. I need to start working on staying in contact with the group in front of me for as long as possible. today was barely more than a mile. next time will be better! I can feel myself getting stronger in workouts and i love it so much, even if it is just in small increments. cooled with angie morgan and haley. did a few laps on the grass after to get to 8

7 miles, park to bicent with some grass loops, not everyone did grass so it was just me alison haley and julieta. then we ran back and coach biked with us. i seriously love it when he bikes with us, hes a funny guy. 

then 10 strides and then a few laps to get to 8 miles with haley.

Practice on the mountain this afternoon 3x50/80 Miles. 7:21, 6:19, 7:34, 6:59, 7:50, 6:37. Oh my gosh this workout was way hard, but I did it! The second 80 was a little rough. Cuz it was literally alllll uphill. Coach split us in to groups. I was with Brighton and Sam. I hung great with them the 1st and last one. Mike cool 

Easy run with strides after. Pretty chill I just did mainstreet with Sam and then added to the grass. Most of the girls did dikes. Then strides with Alison and haley

I was dying today. Me and Alison came up north for maroon 5 (which was very lit btw) and then met with Julieta for our workout. I am freakin sick and couldn’t breathe like at all and kept coughing. So I did most of it but it got to the point that the workout was doing me no good so I just stopped and jogged. 15x400 is what I did. It was good the first 10 and slowly just got worse and worse the last ones. Cooled to 7

50% today on dikes. Holy cow my body was so tired. I’m definitely getting feeling better but not 100%. I ended up only doing 5.5 and then strides after. Meeting up with a few girls later to finish mileage 

2 mile warm up, 8x800 with 60 second rest. coach started us at 2:50 and then slowed us down to 3:00 after one beucase the faster girls said their pace was too fast. I still ended up averaging 2:57 which is great. it was me brighton and sam and haley in a group, the last couple i fell off a little bit, but i was doing pretty good! by the end my legs felt way tired, kinda like noodles. started at 2:53, and had a few that were pretty similar to that, my last 3 were 3:00/3:01. cooled to 8

pumped for riverside this weekend

8.5 easy. coach decided to split us into "equal groups" today but it was me and sam and brighton and then everyone else. he made us wait 90 seconds before we could start running. we stayed the exactly same distance behind them the entire time lol. it was a good run. i enjoy running with those two because they are fun. 7:45 average. we did a new run today and it sucked. the last 4 miles were allllll uphill. just slightly, but enough that you could definitely feel it 

Brighton might quite possibly be one of the funniest and coolest people i have met. i never really talked to her last year but i really really like her alot.

Am- mile warm and then a 60%. It was definitely my best 60. I averaged 6:26 and I felt decent. I was with my group but I kept having to blow my nose so I had to slow down a few times. Everytime I would catch back up except the last time and I stayed the exact distance behind the whole rest of the 60. Mile cool 

Pm- 1.5 mile shakeout. My body was tired

Am- 3 miles with Alison. My body feels so good today 

Pm- little shakeout on the course with a k at race pace with strides. Holy moly. It’s hot. I forgot about running in the heat lol 

Aam- mile shakeout 

OH MY GOSH. This was the best race I’ve had in a hot second. Lately I have had a really hard time staying focused when I run but today I was doing really good at telling my mind to knock it off and stay focused. I ran 35 seconds fast than last year and a 18:21 for a true 5k. Not exactly sure yet. I’m seriously so happy with it and I’m so excited to keep running. Cooled some with Alison and some with Brighton. Seriously so so so happy. 

And for the first time i think possibly ever coach houle acted like he was 1000% happy with me. like actaully. He always says good job but this time you could tell he actually meant it. 

Also if i was in the championship race i would have been right with Haley!!! AHHHH im happy and there is still so much more. i know there is. I have so much potential, i just have to keep racing so i can figure out how to tap into it. 

AM- 7 miles at 50% took it pretty chill with alison julieta and brighton. 

PM- I accidentally fell asleep for 2 hours while reading my book for english. it was definitely a well needed nap but i was not very productive. 1.5 on the treadmill at the gym

1.5 mile warm, 7x1000's with 3 min recovery. 3:58, 56, 57, 4:00, 4:04, 04, 04 were my times for each one. we did them in the grass today and it was hard but good. my legs were really tired today. coach was having me work on opening up my stride. i think i was doing a good job of it. 

cooled a half mile with sam

7 miles easy to bicentennial. me alison sam and haley tried to do some bare foot grass loops but the grass was FREEEEEEEZING. 

AM- 3 mile warm, one mile hard (5:43) 4x400 at 78, 83, 85, 84, cool down 2. the people traveling this weekend didnt do the whole workout, and it is a dang good thing. holy cow, my legs were sooo tired today. 

weights after cuz i cant do wednesday weights cuz i have a class.

PM- 1.5 on the treadmill with bell in the gym. idk what possessed me to sign up for a weight class, but something did and i dont reccomend it. i have gone a total of 3 times and i still have to go 32

2.3 with ells in the morning before we left for idaho. 

im tired

Long drive and then we went to the course. It is hard. Mileage and a 1000 at race pace. Then strides

weelp, so i got ready to run and then we didnt even have practice this morning so i went back to bed with the intention of waking up at 8 and running a few miles before class, buuut i slept til past 9:00. then brighton sent out a text saying that some ppl were meeting at 3:00 to run so i ran to the track and waited. and waited. and waited. and then right when i was about to leave to just go do mileage by myself, sam finally showed up and told me that brighton was on her way. then brighton finally came at like 3:20 and told me she forgot to mention that they werent meeting til 3:30. then we waited and waited and waited til 3:40 when ashley hawks and angie came to meet us. 

it honestly was a good run, even though i waited for 40 minutes lol. we just went up canyon to get 6 and then we did strides and then i ran home. 

AM- 1.5 warmup, 7x1000's with 90 second rest. my average today was 3:44. definitely one of my better workouts i was with brighton the first one and then passed her the next 3. she had to go to class so she stopped and then coach pushed sam and haley back with me becuase we were doing more than the girls who are traveling this weekend. but they were going faster than me. overall, good workout. mile cool with haley. we ran to my house and got a notebook to study for our test lol

PM- 2 mile shakeout with christian

AM- 2.5 in the morning at the gym

PM- 5.5 in the afternoon with sam.

Im sad everyone is in wisconsin cuz its hard to run when we dont have practice. 

Haley and ellie came over and we watched cool runnings this evening. Quality movie, quality company

7 with Haley on Walmart canyon. It was a super chill run, 7:35 pace. Stopped at maverick to go to the bathroom, finished to the track and then did 10 strides at mile pace and cooled to finish the rest of mileage

Weights. And then I went to the trainers and had them release my piriformis. It feels so weird but it helps sooo much 

mile shakeout

i learned racquetball today with max and it was actually so fun! i hit myself in the elbow and it hurt alot

10 mile long run with 10x60 second pickups with 90 sec rest. We did 8 mile dykes to canyon. It was actually a way good run and felt nice. My legs were tired and the first few pickups were hard but all in all, ir was good. 7:25 pace 

wowie wowie wow. my body is sooooo tired today. chill run, 6 miles and i actually kept it slow. 8:00 pace

8x800 with 1 minute recovery. It was good at first and slowly got very hard. It was rough for everyone 

6 easy on canyon. I was dying. Quite possibly the worst run on the season

7 miles on Walmart canyon. I learned a new way to do it and it’s on a dirt path and it was soooooooooo nice. Strides after. I was gonna finish to 8 but I’m literally dying today. So I didn’t. 

Oh. My. Gosh. 

This week running has seriously been so hard. my body is exausted and today was honestly the worst one. Im not entirely sure whats going on, but i just felt really tired. 

mile in the early afternoon.

5.25 and 15 strides later with haley and morgan. it was rlly rlly hard.

Its a really good thing this is the down week of the season because i am tired.

AM- 2 miles chill. it was cold today

PM-premeet- 3 mile warm, strides, k at race pace, 3 starts, 2 mile cool.

today is the first day this week that i have actually felt like a normal runner. it was amazing. 

i have been sooooooooo thirsty today and idk why. like unbelievably thirsty. ive drank like 150 ounces already today and that is a very lot for me. 

suu race and then 3x3 20,25,30 second hill repeats. coach told me not to do them cuz i wont be traveling to prenats, conference or regionals buuuut i told him i was doing them anyways. they werent too bad. it was so cold and rainy

6.25 miles, strides and a few laps on the track. it was such a freezing run but it was way good. its been a sec since ive felt that good

Best workout of my life!!! 

Mile warm, 7x1000 w/ 3 min rest. It was AMAZING! I was so consistent and I haven’t been for a hot sec. I stayed with Sam the whole time and my splits were 3:44, 38,39,40,42,42,41. Ahhh!!! I’m sooooo happy!!!! 

7 miles at 50%. we took it chill today and it was way nice. i ran 6 cuz i had to go to the bathroom really bad, then i added a mile. Weights was hard today but good. 

1.3 miles on the treadmill later. it waas boring as always

AM- showed up to practice and i was the only girl cuz im the only traveling person to not get to travel this weekend which is a bummer. anyways, did drills and then paul told me i could just run on my own so i went to put my bag in my car and luckily i ran into julieta and alison who were getting ready to leave which was the best thing ever cuz i did NOT wanna run alone. it was nice. we did canyon.

I get to dogsit pesto this weekend and im pumped!!!!

2.5 with pesto the besto and ellie. it was hard to run with him haha. he was kinda alllll over the place. but i love him anyways. hes rlly cute.

7 with scottie

7.5 miles with alison before weights. it was way nice to run with just alison again. its been a sec and we always have some good ol chats

2 mile warm, 12x400's 4 with 2:30, 4 with 2:00, 4 with 90 rest, at race pace. then 4 more at faster than race pace. it was a dope on a rope workout. the best one i have EVER EVER EVER had. I stayed with sam and haley the WHOLE time (except the last 2 they went a little crazy cuz they are FREAKING fast). averaged 82's which was as fast as alison and julieta so that was the best!! were were supposed to hit 84-87's and we hit 79-83's. it was the BEST

1.5 miles on the treadmill  

Am- 2 in the morning on the treadmill at the gym

Pm- 4 with Ellie and then 1.5 at sugarhouse 

Tbh I never thought that this would be the group of boys to win state out of all the teams at pv. I always looked at older runners and thought they were so so fast (and they were) but I never ever realized how fast some of these younger guys would get. but they definitely proved me wrong and it was seriously soooo fun to watch. Congrats to Scottie the coolest brother ever ever. 

Am- weights and 1.5 on the treadmill 

Paul texted all the people who are in the traveling group who aren’t traveling anymore and said we just had a 50% and I knew that the people who are traveling to conference had a workout so I texted Paul and asked if I could please please please go to practice and do the workout and he said yes. So that was dope cuz I really wanted to do it 

Pm- 8 miles. we had 3x2ks today. It was so good! We were supposed to hit 7:40-8:00 for all. Anyways, me Haley Sam and Brighton started together and Haley was killin the pace but we all just kinda hung on. Finished with 7:15. The next one me and Brighton lead. Once again the pace was fast so the last 2 laps I chilled it out a little. Finished 7:32. The next one sam was dying and I chilled for a sec with her to control the pace a little. But I also was feeling good so I just kinda let go and ran a little faster. I ended up passing Haley and Sam and was behind Brighton and finished in 7:45. It was the best! Never have I been In front of them at the end of a workout and it felt good! 2 cool with Alison. 

Another quality day. So excited to reap the benefits of hard workouts 

6 miles easy with Alison. It was hard this morning. 7:37 avg. 

10 mile long run by myself. It was actually wayyy nice. I started it pretty chill and slowly worked into it. I did the 1.5 miles loop into 8 mile dikes. It was beautiful weather and now I’m glad I’m done for the day 

Wet on wet on wet this morning. It wasn’t too cold but pretty rainy for the first mile. Then it chilled out there for the rest of my run. Then I did 15x strides on the track and that got pretty rainy again. Ran home and finished to 8.

Something is wrong with my watch and it’s making me mad. It kept telling Me I was running 13 minute pace for the first half of my run. Which I WASNT. And that a loop I’ve done like 100000 times was only 4.5 miles when I know for a fact it’s 6. After about 3 real miles it fixed itself and said the right pace but the distance was way off. Figured it all out and for the mileage before the strides I averaged 7:27. So that was good 

AM- 2.25 super chill 8:06 avg. 

Coach has put me in 3 group messages telling me I was going to mesquite for the workout today, one of which was a group of 3 people who are in the same boat as me-borderline travel. Then yesterday he sent a message to a huge group of us saying we are practicing on our own today. I probably should ask to see what I’m supposed to do, but I really really really want to do the workout so I’m just gonna show up and hope for the best. I do not want to be pushed into the group again that never has practice and never gets to do the workouts, I don’t feel like that benefits me at all. I start to get discouraged and tired of easy runs all the time. I like doing workouts. I’m starting to see improvements and even though I’m not racing, I want to keep trying and doing my best so hopefully I can kill indoor and outdoor. So as long as I can push to be in the practice group, I’m gonna. 

Pm- got to go to mesquite. It was freakin hot. I was melting just in the warmup. 2 mile warm, 2x1000,600,300. We were supposed to do 3 but I was dying. Just jogged with Brighton and Alison afterwards. A lot of people dropped early, so I feel less bad about it, it was just stupid cuz I have had 3 really good workouts but coach wasn’t there for 2 of them and then today was awful. But that’s the first workout all year I haven’t finished and every day can’t be great. Got to 7.75ish

Buffet after 

Am- 6 miles easy with Sam and Alison. They aren’t so easy. I was tired

Weights

Me and Sam and Haley are driving to Sacramento to watch conference and I’m pumped. It’s gonna be a realllll long drive but it will be a good time 

Pm- 2 mile shakeout with Sam. Ice bath after 

AM- 7.75, ive been told the loop i did today was 8 miles but ive never clocked it before. my watch was being stupid again today the first few miles and said i was going 13 minute pace again so idk how long it really was but my watch said 7.5. ill compromise and put 7.75 cuz i was hauling at the end

PM- 3.25 and the gym. 

5 with Sam in Bakersfield before we hit the road to San Fran 

San Fran was a dream yesterday. It was seriously so lit. i went to the full house house too.

SHOUTOUT TO MY FAVE GIRLS FOR BEING THE FIRST GIRLS TEAM IN SUU HISTORY TO WIN CONFERENCE!!!! It was seriously soooo fun to watch. I love love love my team. Also Christian killed it and was the first guy that wasn’t nau so that was dope on a rope for him too. Hes so fast. Overall, great weekend <3

AM- 6 miles @ 50% on my own

PM- 2 miles at the gym 

Good bday run on my own. Coach is taking all the ppl traveling to regionals to do a workout on the mountain today. I wanted to do it but I can’t so I just did a 50% with each mile a little faster. Started at 7:50. Ended the last 2 at 6:40 and it was nice. 

7 miles easy with alison. we went way too slow lol. alison felt like poop and i just kinda chilled but i shoulda just gone faster. 

Pm-2.5 with ell pretty chill 

10 miles and it’s only 9:00! Heck yeah. 8 with Sam on dikes. Added 2 miles to get to 10 for my long run for the week 

Sooo, Coach lately has been letting the top 10 girls go to practice and I’m 11. I keep up in the workouts with Sam and Haley just fine but I still am not allowed. I still have wanted to keep training though so I did the workout on my own today. 

Mile warm and then an 80%. I was planning on doing 3 miles. And I ran down to canyon view and was gonna finish the last mile on the track. There was this guy there with these stupid little yapping dogs and they kept chasing me and jumping and trying to bite me and he did absolutely nothing. None the less it was making me mad so I stopped at a little over 2.5 miles and just stood so they would leave me alone. After about 5 minutes the guy finally made them go a way and at that point I just kinda kept jogging cuz I had been standing for so long. Finished to my house and had to add 1.5 to get to 8

Week break. I was gonna wait and take it after nationals when everyone else does, but I’m gonna take it now so I can have a longer winter base for track 

I have successully made it through an entire season healthy. Its amazing. Im slowly gonna try and build miles over the break. just a little. 

3 miles!!! Wahooo!! It was a good ol run with Sam. Then weights. Today is strssful

4 miles easy. it felt soo good today (and yesterday). i thought that after taking a week off i would feel at least kind of out of shape, but i felt like i could go a 10 mile run and id be perfectly fine. I didnt look at my pace the whole run cuz i didnt want to be worried about it, but afterwards, i looked and i averaged 7:20. 

4 miles on the treadmill this morning to kill two birds with one stone. i only have to go 8 more times before the end of the semester. 

Also i went to breakfast with christian at the caf and they had the best omelettes. 

3/4 classes were cancelled today and that was lit. 

I have an essay to write by friday that i havent started and i cant leave the library til im done

4 miles easy. It was warm this morning. 7:20 avg

Pm- mile shakeout  

The last few days have honestly been sooo crazy. Anyways. I ended up running on the treadmill again to kill to birds with one stone for my class. 

Side note. I get to see my aunt Ida today and I’m pumped! And I get to go on a real life airplane. 

6 miles easy with Haley. Idk pace. I didn’t have my watch. 

I got to go on a plane this weekend for the first time and it was sooo dope! 

5 on turkey town with the fam. It was fun. I accidentally mooned someone when I went to the bathroom so that was dope

Family turkey trot mile. I was 4th. Didn’t run anything crazy lol. Like 6:00

6 miles with Ellie on the bike. Apparently everyone and their dogs saw us lol 

6 chill again. I’ll start bumping up next week. 

A little ultimate, some cards and a dope hike today. It was a good time 

6 with haley this afternoon. 7:16 avg. and it felt nice. we kept having to slow down cuz we were going way too fast. 

team dinner at the presidents house today

5 miles today. im a litttttle bit frusterated beucase i have felt sooooo good all week and last and finally starting to feel good and not hurting (cuz my butt and hams have been bugging me i think from a combination of sitting so much for school, it being colder outside, and rebuilding for mileage). But i think a combination of hard weights and a faster run did it for me. my hamstrings hurt so bad. like my lungs felt amazing and i just wanted to go so fast but my legs wouldnt let me. i know if somethings going to be wrong, now is the time for it to be so beucase i have 6 weeks until the season starts, its just annoying. i was going so slow and my legs were just hurting to even move. 

stretch and pt exercises really good. ive been doing my pt every day and its seemed to be helpinng my piriformis not tighten which is soooooooo good. im grateful for that tremendously. my hamstrings on the other hand, i need to figure something out. 

i was gonna try and bump up mileage a little this week, but i think im just gonna keep it at 5-6 for now. 

today has been a long one. good news tho! im finished with 2 of my classes already and after this week ill be finished with another and then i only have 3 to worry about!

i was supposed to run with alison and julieta but i was rlly annoyed so i just went alone. 6 pretty chill cuz my hams are still reaaaaallllly sore but much better than yesterday

3 miles with el and 3 on the treadmill. it is snowing. alot alot alot. its so cold and our power went out. but the ppl across the street still have power. i was the only one home when it went out and it kept flickering and it crept me out. but then sam and sierra came home so it got better. 

am- 2 miles shakeout. it was cold 

Pm- 5 miles with alison. It was nice to talk. 7:38 average.  It was colder. 

7 miles with Sam on cross hollows. I felt really tired for the first mile and a half and then we got goin and it was way nice. 

I slept in a lot a lot a lot this morning. I woke up at 6:30 and went to the bathroom and then slept til 10:45. I haven’t been sleeping Super great so it felt nice to actually sleep good. 

Also sometimes it worries me that This week I went 6-7 miles every day and I feel so tired. And I’m supposed to get to 10 a day.  But at the same time I thought this when I was at like 4 miles a day haha so I’ll be fine. I’m getting fitter and I can feel it. I just gotta keep weird tight muscles and body aches under control.