Today for Cross Country practice we met at Cottonwood Complex. The advanced group went for a three mile warm up. We left the park turned left and went from like 39th or something down to 11th over to 45th and back to the park. It was exactly three miles. But before we did that we did a lap around the baseball fields. Then we went and stretched and when we were done with those we had to do 8 strides at the starting line of the regions course. When we were done with those we lined up to do the Bessy's. The first one I went out I thought was a pretty good pace but to my surprise I was right with Bill and Natalie. So on every one of the Bessy's I was right with them. For the first one I did a 1:53 which is a 15 second PR from last year. The second one I started out the same pace and was trying to pass Natalie but then on the final stretch she out kicked me. For the second one my time was 1:53 as well. Then for the third one I started out with Bill and I don't know if he started out slower or if everyone did but I stayed with him and finally passed him and Natalie and finished ahead of them I think. My time for the third one was 1:54 so I slowed down a bit on that one.Then on the fourth and final one I was determined to beat Bill again so he started out a bit faster than we usually did to try to catch up with Dakota so I sped up and caught both of them. I eventually passed Dakota but then Bill was a bit harder. I passed them on the turn about to go down the hill. I was kicking as hard as I could afraid that Natalie was coming because I knew she had a faster kick than me, but then out of my surprise here comes Bill and he beats me by a half a second. I was so mad because I knew I had it in me to beat him but it was to close to the finish line to actually catch him. For the fourth one I did a 1:53 so throughout all four of then I was FREAKING consistent. Then we went and got water. We did the Regions course as a cooldown, I did the first half with Sam, Jesse, and another girl. GREAT JOB guys. Then the second half with Michelle. When I got home I am going to do my core and my leg weights thingies. Later tonight I need to go 2 more miles because I need 10 for the day but at the moment it is just to hot for me to go running and I don't feel like killing myself. TODAY!!!!!!.!!!!!!.
Here is MY Garmin Connect URL for today: On the URL I accidentally turned off my Garmin for about .7 of a mile on the Cooldown. BTW http://connect.garmin.com/player/97262744 When we went to my grandmas I took my Garmin and went out 1.25 miles and came back the same way. During this my knee was really killing me like someone was putting a knife or something to the bone all throughout the run. I was sluggish and starving and everyone was BBQing so that didn't help. Hopefully tomorrow is better and not painful. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/97375582
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