Cool Runnings

Slurpee run. I ran with Taylor at first, but he passed me before the 2nd 7-11, then I got there downed a Slurpee and beat them out of the store. That pattern--they run faster, but I drink faster--continued the whole run, and I finished like 6th or 7th, beating Taylor Amanda and Natalie :) Then we did two laps around liberty--I couldn't keep up but I still ran them, and then We went back up to Sunnyside. I was the slowest person to run up, but I ran the whole way. Plus I got an 8th Slurpee so I could at least win at something.

This was more than twice my longest run ever before, too bad I can't keep that up, or I'd do an Ultramarathon in a month.

We ran at Wheeler Farm. Soreness from yesterday plagued me, but I feel like I did pretty well, keeping up on the second lap of the warm up (which meant catching up on the second half of the first lap), then running the fartlek with Natalie and Bill (10 off 10 on), and being on the winning relay team.

Daily claims to fame: beating Natalie :P, almost catching Scott, scaring people with the weird Krav sittups, etc.

Thanks for the watermellon!

So I thought it would be a good idea to try and loosen up early and run over to the JCC because I was still really sore from yesterday. I walked/jogged/ran for about 45 minutes through the U of U trying to find my way... an RJ worth situation to be sure.  When I got to the JCC I didn't think it had helped at all, but once we got running I was glad I had.

 Bill told me to go 3 or so and see how I was feeling, but at about 1.75 my left foot expecially the top of the bridge and right ankle were starting to feel funny. So I had Tommy tell me when we got to 2.25 and I turned around.  I felt kind of wimpy doing so, but I really don't want to do something stupid and hurt myself.

 I ran back to the pile of rocks and found about 10 others there, having just got up. I tried to talk them all into running another 2 miles, but only 3 or 4 did. The rest walked down, and I ran away from them saying something about a "hog(?)" or something I'm not really sure.

Bill said that the point of today was a muscular workout, so I think later today I'm going to do some pliles, squats, and maybe wall sits to get the work out with less fear of hurting myself.

Good news, I saw a dog today.

I'm diligently striving to stay under 40 this week... but I don't think I'll make it. Unless  really do sleep through practice tomorrow and don't make it up--unlikely to be sure.

We met at Sugarhouse and I ran an inside lap with the "newbies." By the end my shin splints that started to re-manifest yesterday were really starting to hurt. Then we went to the hill below the segolily pavilion and played 21. We ran 3 400s and 6 200s I think, plus the returning jogs. I raced a couple of times, but  never came close to getting the 21.

After I ran back to the cars and waited while the others did a longer cool down. I tried to make core extra hard today, but I still don't feel like I got a great workout. Another difference I'm noticing between swimming and running is that when swimming it's a lot easier to push hard with a smaller "foundation." Like monday and tuesday were good hard days, but I'm backing off to not hurt myself and now I still feel antsy after a 5 mile run. With swimming every day would be that hard (and I'd be feeling dead, which I guess is less preferable haha.)

I slept through practice today. I felt really bad about it until I realized that it was the perfect solution to my 40-mile-limit quandary. This way I wont have to worry at the 5k tomorrow.

 Instead of running today I did some low-medium intensity cross training and strengthening stuff in the evening. Embarrassingly enough, Taylor (my savior of the day) came over with my race packet about 10 minutes into it. He deserves some chuckles if he hasn't taken them already.

I was going to do 20 minutes of trampoline jumping as part of my work out, but about 13 in my right ankle started hurting like it did on Wednesday and Thursday, so I only did 15 minutes. Hopefully that'll be enough.

I'm still feeling sissy, but I don't know really what else to do but wait and get more miles next week.

Ran the 5k this morning. Taylor and I probably went just over a mile(?) warming up, then somehow were in the VERY front when we all lined up. That was scary.

The race started and I didn't really know how fast to go. I shadowed Bill for about the first .8 miles, but it seemed like he kept slowly excelerating so I let him get ahead, maybe I was just getting tired. I finished the first mile at what I though was 6:12.

The second mile was competitively my worst. I think 12-15 people passed me. But coming out of where they were handing out water I picked it up and passed/held anyone who caught me between there and the 2 mile mark. I went 6:30 I think.

The third mile was great. Hardest one (glad I didn't eat anything!) but my favorite. Of the 12 people who passed my I passed 5 or 6. I think it was all a little uphill with a small hill towards the end. Ben always mocks me for it, but I still like hills. At least in that I race better going up them than flat. I think this mile was around 7:00... but this is the time I'm least sure about.

The kick was also great. There were two people a guy and a girl about 15 and 25 yards ahead of me, they both started racing (the guy trying to catch the girl) just as the man behind me tried to pass me on a corner. I was feeling pretty good so I just started to sprint as hard as I could. I beat all three of them by about 2, 3, and 5 seconds respectively. Fun.

I finished at 20:15 ran another mile and a bit, and went home to nurse my shinsplints. A good day.