I can do it. I will do it NINE times!

Only one more speed day before the WAC Championships! Today, we did 2x1200's @ 4:00 w/4:00 recovery, 10 minute break, a 600 @ 1:57, 5 minutes break, then a 400 @ 1:16. The 1200's were pretty tough, but times were on: 4:01 and 4:00. Then the 600 was right on as well: 1:57. We were so excited to be done and a 400 is just so dang short, that it ended up way fast: 1:13. Hehehe. Good workout though. Cooled down long way home. 

Coach told me that I'm doing the 5000m and the 3000m at Conference this weekend! Crazy stuff! I'm way excited for the 3k, but the 5k will be an adventure... kinda scared for that one. 25 laps!? Eeek. (DS 130.8) (M spike 69.7)

I've been feeling kinda worn out lately, so I decided to just do the 45 minute option today, especially with the big races this weekend. Ran into Vanessa on the last 15 minutes or so, it was fun to run with her for a bit. Then weights. (DS 136.4) 

Yay! Easy workout! Warmed up a bit, then we did a 1200 @ 4:12, a 8:00 @ 43 seconds per lap until the last 200m sprint, then a 300 acceleration from 5k pace to mile pace! So nice. Times were 4:10 and 2:44 for the 1200 and 800. Then I ran home. Shin is pretty sore. Excited/nervous for this weekend's races! (DS 140.6) (M spike 71.1)

Easy half-hour with the team. Tomorrow the WAC Champs start! Goals? Score lots of points for my team so we can win! PR in the 5k and place in the 3k. Run my best and be happy! (DS 134.4)

I'm so dead! The 5k is such a hard race, but I think I did reasonably well - I PRed by a lot and got 3rd place too. More details later, I'm exhausted and need to go to bed. 

So the coaches told me that the 5k is actually really nice because it starts off so slow. But the Nevada girls started it off way fast and I want to kill them. Overall, the race hurt a whole lot and killed me. The first 10 laps or so, there was a pack of 5 or 6 girls sticking on the stupid Nevada girls. I had to run in the outer lanes a bit in attempts to not get boxed in. For the most part, I tried to not look a the laps-to-go sign just so I wouldn't get depressed. It didn't work so well though. With 10 laps to go, I almost cried - realizing I'd only run 3k and I was already exhausted. For a couple laps, one Nevada girl kept stepping on my feet and kicking me and I got so sick of it that after one really hard kick, I yelled "Aarrgh, JERK!" at her and pushed to pass the next girl so I wouldn't have to put up with it anymore. I think she laughed at me... I probably would've if I hadn't been so mad at her. The last few laps were death. The Idaho girl in first was 15 seconds up on us by then, so it was a race for second with a NM girl. I gained a few seconds on her in the last two laps, but didn't quite catch her. Almost puked at the finish. Eew. So so so hard. Hopefully I have enough guts to do some damage in the 3k tomorrow! (DS 137.9) (M spike 74.2)

Well.... today sucked! My legs were totally thrashed from the 5k and I didn't really know exactly how dead they were until I tried to run fast in the 3k. The first half of the race went perfectly - I felt good, Kim and I were at the head of the lead pack and kept the pace down pretty well. Then people started making their moves with about 6 laps to go and I tried to do the same and found that my legs wouldn't go any faster. The pack just passed me up and I tried to hold on but didn't do so great at that. Ended up scoring one measly point and running a really slow time and being really really really frustrated and disappointed. And my legs hurt a whole lot. (DS 140) (M spike 76)