The Shadow Racer

Easy three to Spectrum and back.

Just before our run today, my Coach gave me my official result for Saturday's meet. Goal/BYU Qualifying Time: 5:52.00.  My time: 5:52.01.  Never in my life have I so badly wanted to swear! Fueled by frustration, I took off really fast on our run.  I stopped to use the bathroom, and Gi had just caught up to me when I finished, so we ran the last half together. 6 miles around Webb Hill at 8:09 pace (except the first half was much faster than that, so the last was probably quite a bit slower).  Weights after.  I wanted to be mad and throw a temper tantrum about my time, but that wouldn't do me any good. I decided to just use the anger to fuel the fire and blow that time out of the water at the Cedar Invite!

Easy 3 down to the bridge and back. Ran with Staci again.

Speedwork this afternoon!!! 2 mile warm up, 4x400s at 1:28, 3x400s at 1:27, and 1x400 all-out: 1:18.  All this was into the wind, so I'm pretty proud. 4x200s at :40 with 200m recovery jog. One mile cool down. Coach ran with our group today.  Me and Gi pretty much stuck together for the whole workout, we've been doing a great job of pushing each other.

Easy 3 in the morning to Spectrum and back. Ran with Ben and had fun talking!

Another easy 3 to the Spectrum in the afternoon. It really scared me because I banged my knee up in the computer lab today and actually bugged me a lot on the run. It was a little swollen. Weights after. Today was another crazy day like yesterday where I left the house at 5:45 am and didn't get back until 10:00 pm. Gotta love working, running, and going to school!

Since we had this meet today, I decided not to get up at 4:30 am to run before me and Jake did our thing.

Raced this afternoon! The wind was REALLY bad. I had a lot of fun watching the other races before mine. I think my highlight was listening to Darian and her mom talk to each other--they were hilarious! Watching Brigham do the high jump was a blast, too. Good memories.

They combined the Girls and Boys for the 3200. When we first started out, there was this boy running right at my hip and I couldn't decide if he was messing around, or trying to be nice and break the wind for me. Either way, I was bugged. I didn't want extra help or to have someone run with me as a joke. But two laps into the race, he got right behind me and started drafting off of me. I realized that this kid was really out of breath--he was actually trying! When I heard how hard he was breathing, I knew that I could drop him, so I did. It always feels good to chick someone! I probably ruined the kid's whole day. His parents were taking pictures, so he'll always have the memory of trying to draft off of a girl. I also beat one of the boys from our team. The time wasn't fast, but I'm okay with it because of the wind.

Worked a long shift at the Sno Cone booth at the Arts Festival today...no fun!  I saved the run for after work, knowing I'd want to unwind a little bit. Easy 6 on an extension of the Farm Road Loop.  Had to go back to work after the run.  Long day, so I'm super grateful for the run!  No Garmin, so I don't know my pace.

6 along 2450 S. and back.  2 easy, 2 hard, 2 easy.  Still no idea of my pace!  Felt good to get the heart pumping, though.

No school today because of Easter Break. Slept in a little and felt great! Easy 3 to Stone Cliff and back.  Good run, but felt a lot of pain in my right achilles/lower calf area.

Speed work out with the team this afternoon.  It was HOT!  2 mile warm up, 4 200s at :40, then 5 minutes at T pace--went 1200 meters. 2 mile cool down. Ran with Courtney and Lauren until the cool down, where I kinda did my own thing.  I noticed that I've gotten over my obsession with always being fastest in the work outs and have been really good about just hitting the times Coach expects. Hopefully it helps!

Easy three this morning with Court. Bridge and back. She brought this little water boiler into the locker room so we can eat oatmeal for breakfast now. So Happy!!