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

Out again on the canal trail, I was glad I ran a similar route to Saturday's, since my watch ran out of batteries at 1.42 miles (6.5 miles is a guesstimate). It was kinda chilly out to begin with, which was quite odd for it being summertime and all. There were some people along the trail, so I had a fun time chasing them down and running fast again. My back and arms were pretty sore from repairing and painting my sister's fence all day Saturday, but it felt good to run around before riding home in the car all day.

Warmed up a bit, stretched, then ran up Webb Hill. I haven't done that in a long time, so it basically killed me, but I didn't stop running and it took me 10:26 to run it (it's exactly a mile). There's definitely room for improvement. Then I ran back down and around BH for 3 miles or so. It was really weird, I got this side ache like I get when I haven't eaten enough, except that after a while, my abs would sieze up and I would have a really hard time breathing. I ended up stopping twice because I couldn't breathe, after I'd stop it'd be better for .5 or so then would get gradually worse for .5 until I could hardly breathe again. Also, I decided that I still hate my NB shoes lots.

I ran to Wasatch Back practice, then we ran to the base of Webb Hill (how was I to know that we were going to run the hill today after I ran it yesterday?), then we ran up it (.93) and that took 9:27(10:08 pace - better than yesterday! which was surprising) and back down. Then we ran half of it (.5) and that took 4:52 (9:41 pace). After I attempted to get my legs and breath back (only the latter of which was successful), I ran back down, then around the BH loop and back home (2.5). The downhill running made my left knee ache a bit and my leg muscles are all totally shot, so I'll definitely take it easy tomorrow.

Got up early, ran out onto the industrial road until 3 mi. beeped and ran back. Pretty slow and easy (8:44 avg), tried to hurry on my way back home since I was running late to get to Youth Conference at 7:30. Legs mostly just worn out after the last couple days' hills, not a ton stiff and sore...yet.

Woke up early again to run while at Youth Conf. (in Cedar, which was kinda odd - enemy territory, y'know), didn't really wake up until I was a mile or so into the run. Sadly, it took until then to realize that my watch was out of batteries... so I don't know exactly how far it was - I wanted to go 7, but I think it went short. I went way slow and easy out (30 min), then had a party going way fast on the way back (25 min).

Oh man. 5:30 is way too early to get up in the summer. yuk yuk yuk. Good thing YC is over! Next week I'll get no sleep either, though, since I'm going to Girls' State the entire week - at SUU again! But the 8-miler I went on was pretty good, if a bit boring. I decided to up my mileage a bit and the 8 felt really smooth and nice without dying at the end, so 'twas successful I think. Avg 8:13/mi, first mile was way slow (9:09), but my last two were my fastest (8:05 and 7:29)! I really need new shoes.

I think that my WBR team is "Roadkill." We're starting at 11:00 am and I'm runner #5, so I'll be running legs 5, 17 and 29.