Today for Cross Country practice we met at the international peace gardens over by the Jordan River Park Trail. We started the run thinking that the advanced group was going to go 8 miles not knowing that the trail would be flooded 2.5 miles into it. So we started the run going on the trail for 10 minutes as a warm up as a team. Then after the warm up we did a short fartlek workout. It was 2 sets of 3 minutes on and 2 minutes off. During those my legs felt absolutely horrible!! Probably because of yesterdays workout. I tried to stay up with Natalie for those but I couldn't get my legs to move that fast. So I stayed in front of Sarah but kind of close to her so I could hear her yell Off or On. Then when we were done with those we were at the flooded area so we turned around and met up with everyone under some bridge. We decided to go 1.5 out the other way but when we got to about 3 miles so .5 out the trail ended so we had to turn around and go back the way we came until we got to 4 miles. But I was thinking and talking to Ben and we were saying how we didn't want to do half our mileage in 2 days and only have to do like 4 the rest of the week. So we were thinking of going 6. When we got to about one mile to go Ben, Dakota, and Voung or however you spell his name decided to run across the red light on that busy street,,, I didn't want to do so I didn't cross it. Then Sarah caught up to me and we decided to go 7 miles instead of 6. When we got back to the peace gardens we were at 5.5 miles so we decided to go until we got to 6.25. When we got out of the peace gardens again the trail ended so we decided to go back. Then I swallowed a bug so I had to stop and gag for a bit. When we got back to the cars we were at 6.5 so we stopped at the swings to see if anyone was back besides the newbies and no one was so we went out to the street around a block to the baseball fields then Taylor and then were just at the drinking fountain when we got there. By this time I was going to faint of dehydration. I am glad that I didn't do the full 8 because I probably would of fainted because I had no liquids before the run. During this I was trying to push the pace and stay under a 8:30 avg. pace but it was 8:47. Hopefully my speed comes back because this was a miserable run even when I was just starting. My quads, bottom of my knee, and my "pockets" hurt right from the beginning and they hurt the entire time. Then when I was finally done we did 3 sets of one minute step ups and arm swings. Then I did my crunches, push ups, leg lifts, side to sides, calf raises, and quad strengths. | 