Today for cross country we met at Cottonwood Complex at the heat of the day to start getting used to running in the heat. So we started with a 2.13 mile warm up, then we stretched while waiting for bill to go out and mark all of the 800 spots. While he was doing that we stretched and went over and did 6 or 8 strides. I cant remember. So the workout was run the region course but break it up into intervals of 800s, if your 800 was faster than 3:30 then you get a 3:30 recovery but if they were slower than 3:30 you get a 4 minute recovery. My times went like this: 3:24, 3:14, 3:07, 3:27, 3:25, 3:14. I was feeling really good until about the 4th one because that one felt to me the longest because it didn't have as many hills and most of it was a long never ending line. The first one I was surprised with my placement because I was right behind Natalie and the only people in front of me was Scott, Ben, Tomy, and RJ. For all of the rest of them the placements went like this: Ben, Tomy, Scott, RJ, Natalie then me, so from the boys who are on the team today I got 3rd. My goal was to beat my region time on this, which I did and to stay within 30 meters of Natalie. I stayed within 30 meters on all but the 4th one. This workout didn't seem as bad to me as I thought that it would be, in fact it was one of my favorite speed workouts so far, and for doing them in the heat of the day I think my times were pretty good. Then for a cooldown we were supposed to do the regions course to learn it but Sarah and I stopped at 8 miles. So we did 2.15 miles of the region course, we would have finished it but the heat was getting to us and my left shin was really hurting. Overall a pretty fun and good workout. When I came home I did my core and my squats, holding my knee up for a minute thingy, and hamstring weights. Then I went for 2 miles, out one mile and back at a way slow pace because my hamstrings and pockets were way sore and stiff. Here is my Garmin Connect: http://connect.garmin.com/dashboard http://connect.garmin.com/dashboard
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