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

Ran out on River road and back on the Virgin river trail by my house, was a bit short so I ran around the park a bit to make it 4 miles. Was pleasantly surprised that my legs felt pretty good during the run - avg. 7:33/mi and negative splits for the whole run, my foot felt sore for the first mile (it hurt this weekend, especially before I ran) and after I finished. Legs a bit stiff, but overall a good run.

At XC we had a fun day, we warmed up and ran to Holt's house, then ran back to the school to play ultimate Frisbee for a while. I had to leave early to take Rachel home so she could get to work on time, but when I left our team was winning!

Right when I got home, I set off on an actual run since there wasn't one at XC. Randomly had the urge to go longer today, so I set off on my bloomington/ manowar 8 miler. At first I meant to take it easy, but I decided about a mile into it to try and keep all my miles under 8:00. The first 6 miles were really good, I felt really strong and didn't have to push hard to keep my pace quicker, but the last 2 were a bit harder - esp. with the vermillion and bridge hills to worry about. I did keep them fast and ate some gnats while I was at it - avg. pace 7:40/mi. This run made me happy.  : )

Woke up late and ran at around 11:00, and boy did that suck. Hopefully the weather will be nicer this weekend at Girls' Camp. Anyway, took it easy for the most part, my legs were a bit tired from yesterday's run so just kept my pace around 8:00-8:30, avg was 8:17/mi. Was harder than I thought it should be to keep that pace, foot and knee hurted a bit. Maybe I'll just get a brand new left leg. That would make life lots nicer.

Ran a shorter easy run out on the dirt road in the mountains by Zion while at Girls' Camp. The elevation was at 6750 or so, so it was a bit more tiring, especially with the last half mile completely uphill and sandy. Avg. 8:26/mi.

Had a great time on some fun trails this morning, the first half mile was uphill and STEEP, so I almost died and had to stop a couple times, but there was the most awesome view from the lookout point and I ran with some wild turkeys and it was basically my very favorite run ever. I am also happy that with all this uphill and hard running, I managed to keep my pace (barely) under 9:00 miles! With runs like these, who needs anemones? 

Evening run, meant to go long, but felt quite crappy and didn't want to die tomorrow fasting since I started my fast before running (bad plan), so I cut it shorter and still died on it, ran about 8:00 miles and had a sideache for the last 3 miles. Not so great on mileage this week, but I plan on doing lots better next week for sure.