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

Warmup then Arctic Circle with Green, mostly relaxed, but kept legs moving. After, 8x100m striders barefoot on the football field (turf). Felt good to get my legs going faster in the morning.

Aftn-1.25 warmup then 6x400m repeats at 1600m pace with 150m jog recovery between. Goal pace was supposed to be 1:20 for a 5:20 mile, but I felt like running fast! So I did them faster for the heck of it.

1- 1:18-at this point I hadn't quite decided to throw away my goal pace, so I reined it in a little on this one.

2- 1:15-was feeling good, so I just took off, threw away the 1:20 GP and brought it in nice and smooth.

3- 1:15-getting a titch tired, but was looking forward to small rest to put on waffles after this one, a little harder to keep time down on it, but still pretty good.

4- 1:13-after a little break, ran with waffles right up on toes the whole way, way faster than I thought I would, knee feeling a bit unstable and achy.

5- 1:15-tried keeping time down low, but legs getting pretty tired and knee getting less agreeable, only thoughts of only-one-more-after-this kept my time relatively low.

6- 1:11-got threatened by coach with another repeat if this repeat wasn't faster than the previous one, so we went all out to keep the time low, by the last 100m, my feet were burning and knee was getting shaky and achy.

Overall happy with workout, could've been more consistent, but at least the times were going down not up. Felt nice to get in a fast workout of 400's. I'm slightly frightened to say that I really have missed them, they work me well, but don't drain me mentally as much. Whoopee! Sandstone loop cooldown.

Warmedup with a big grass loop, had many feelings of lack-of-motivation-ness, this meet wasn't a qualifier and there wasn't much competition to race against. Ran the Medley 800m. Legs really juiced out from yesterday, quite windy out, total time 4:43. Ran 1600m, legs still exhausted, freaking slow time of 5:39. Anger. Ran 400m for the heck of it, I think I could've run faster had my legs been less exhausted, but I got an ok time of 1:07. Then I ran the 800m, legs deader than before (duh) 2:34, crap-for-crap times. Mostly today my knee has been feeling weak and a bit achy and sore to touch. Anger. Paced Amanda in the 3200m.

Well, I've been sick today (puking my guts out). I lost 10 lbs in one morning! What a weight loss program. I think I'll be mostly better for tomorrow's meet, but I'm not hoping for any great races after not eating anything all day today. Yuk.

I really hadn't eaten much today because my stomach is still not agreeing with me, though I think I'm done puking. 3x on track warmup, then ran the 1600m, wasn't feeling too hot, but I kind of had the philosophy of "I feel crappy now and I'll feel crappy at the end, so I might as well run fast in the middle." So I took off with Abby who always starts out really fast and dies...ha. Then I just kept going strong the whole race, knee a bit lame after lap 2, but ok mostly, my splits were 1:16, 1:24, 1:25, 1:17. Total time: 5:25.62. State qualifying: 5:25.55. I missed qualifying by .07 seconds. In the mile. Seven hundredths of a second! .07 freaking seconds! Thats like leaning a titch more at the finish line for crying out loud! As I was coming up the last 60-70m, a Cedar coach yelled 5:11, so I knew I was close and I was pushing it so hard to make it, but I missed it by freaking 7 freaking hundredths of a freaking second. PR though.

Well it took me forever to recover after that race and I still felt really sick and nasty, so I decided that I probably suck if I tried doing the 800m and the Medley 800m, so I decided to only run the Medley. Pretty chilly out and windy. 1 mile warm up (2x around school), then went to run the Medley, when I got the baton, we were about 60m behind the leader (SC) so I pushed so hard to catch her, but I only gained about 20m on her. My legs just felt rubbery and lame most of the race, but I'm pretty sure I gave it all I had, though. I don't think our time was very great, but I don't know because I had to leave right after in a vain attempt to make it to my choir concert, so I didn't see our official time and nobody got splits. Overall frustrating, I guess I should be glad I PRed in the 1600m and that I'm "just that much closer to qualifying" in it, but dang this sucks.

Morning run, .5 warmup then AC like always. Judd and Green came out to run, too, but after warming up, they thought I left so they left w/o me, so I left a couple minutes after them. Ran great pace out, just smooth and fast, then I saw how far (about 1/4 mile or so) ahead they were when I got to the turnaround, so I kicked it in to try and catch them. Surprisingly, I caught them in about 3/4 of a mile, it was fun! So then I slowed it up and ran easy easy the rest of the way back for the heck of it.

We had a party day at afternoon practice, ran a lap warmup and stretched, then played duck-duck-goose, freeze tag, follow the leader and such.  Then we ate otter pops!

Someone randomly asked me to run the 'mile' leg (really a bit over 3/4) of the "Great Race" at DSC for the X-Club Alumni Team. So I did it, went there and warmed up about a mile, then ran the race, I was running against mostly male persons because it's a co-ed relay and most teams want fast starts and boys are generally faster than girls. I did come in all right place-wise, probably somewhere in the middle of the 18 teams coming in. I must've given them an ok start, since we ended up getting 4th place, which isn't too bad for a team put together in an afternoon. It was a lot of down hill, which my knees didn't agree with much, but it was mostly fun stuff.

From my house 1/4 warmup then out and back on industrial rd/AZ strip (8), kinda tired out, so I took it slow and easy, knee got increasingly sore over the last 4 miles. Then 1/4 cooldown and stretches back home. Iced knee thoroughly. Also, I'm still pretty tired out from Wed, and dehydrated, but I've finally got some of my appetite back, so I'll try to regain more of those lost pounds back. (I'm still about 7 under normal.)