Life's Swell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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