Life's Swell

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