Before school, I did 2 miles on the elliptical while studying physics. I need to get back into that again because today it actually was a bit hard. So today at track practice we had a speed work out. So we started with the usual half mile as a team then the stretching. Today Ben actually came to practice so he was yelling at us during the stretching. So then the groups broke up to our groups. So my group started with 4 strides of total sprints, the 2 with our arms down then using them heavily, then finally accelerating and we did 4 of those. And today, one of Tony's athletes from the University of Utah came today to pace us, his name was Ely or something. So then we did the work out. It was 3 1200s. It sucked. So my first one, on the first lap about 200 meters into it my airway closed up or I swallowed a bug or something but I couldn't breathe so I stopped and rested that one out. But I did another 400 later and my first one was 70 and the second one was 71 which is on pace. Then we stopped and stretched and did the second 1200. This time since everyone did it way slow, Tony had us to it Fireman so I went first, then Ricky, then Ely, then Hussein, then Tomy. So we were just trying to come in under 5 minutes, I hoped we would other wise we would be going way slow. So we went in on the first lap at 71 seconds, I didn't hear the 800 split but I could tell we were picking it up. Our final time was 4:22. By the time we were towards the end we were basically sprinting as the recovery and then going even faster when it was our turn to run. Then we took a water break because it was really hot today. So then Tony changed up the work out again. Instead he had us do a lap recovery and get water. Then we did sprint a 200 jog a 200 and we did 2 laps of that. But our times had to be 35 seconds or under. My times were 33 and 34. I felt good on those and I could breathe way better so I could open up my strides more. Then we did a 400. By this time I was exhausted. My 400 time was 76 seconds which is slow but overall I did everything under a 5 minute mile which is what I was going for for every workout. Then we did 6 strides bare foot on the grass at about 60 percent total speed. Then we were at a little less that 4.75 so I did a mile and a half for 5.25 for today. Then Scott had to talk to me about stuff so as I was doing my crunches, push ups, and planks he was telling and talking to me about things. Then I came home and did my arm swings, leg lifts, and wall sits. Then I did some stretching before I did some major lifting helping my mom do some gardening work. Carrying that bag of chicken poop is very heavy :) | 