Today for Cross Country practice we met at the JCC trail. The advanced group did 8 miles. We went 4 miles out and back the same way. I started out slow and then I progressively kept getting faster, I think. When I was coming back I was feeling great so I could really push my pace and I started on going faster and pushing the pace. Going up the trail for about the first mile there was still flooded areas where we had to hop a river so that was fun. When I was coming back, I had about a mile to go I biffed it and I scratched my leg and fell down the mountain a bit but then I got back up and I think that I slowed down a bit until the pain went away then I picked up the pace again. Throughout the entire run I was within like 100 meters of Tomy then on the way back I don't know what happened but I lost him and never saw him again. Overall it was a very good run for me, my achilles didn't hurt at all which was nice. When I got back we did our core at the trail, I tried to do a push up but it stretched my achilles to much so I didn't do those. When I came back to my house I did the rest of my core. Here is my Garmin Connect: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/98917059 I went to steiners today after practice and I was going to run on the treadmill for 5 miles but the treadmill hurt my Achilles to much so I didn't. Instead I did the elliptical for 4 and then biked for 6 miles because those two machines didn't hurt it at all. Overall it was a nice little workout of cross training mainly because A) Tomorrow is the Harry Potter Midnight Premiere and B) I watched Mulan 2 for the first time while I was on the machines. Then I went into the weight room and did the abs, arms, and leg machines. A total of five machines. Then when I got home I took a 15 minute ice bath.
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