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

XC practice again!! .25 warmup, 40c, 10p and agilites. We ran from the elem around in Green Springs and back, 5.42 miles. My first mile I was having a good time going lots fast, so it was 6:50, tee hee. Then I settled into a more reasonable pace, avg. 7:35. Foot was better for the most part than all of last week, so I'm hoping that by next week or so it'll be pretty much back to normal. In all my time in the balmy weather in Provo, I've gotten soft - I could hardly handle how hot out it was already! Sad day. (DST 104.5)

Later (7pm or so) it started raining, so I decided to go run again just before dinner. I was very angry that it stopped about 3 minutes into my run. But I clocked this loop by my house that I was hoping would be 4, but ended up being 4.72. When I finished, I noticed that my right ankle is a bit swollen and bruised from rolling it last week. Woo hoo. Not the greatest of runs, but all right for it being pretty hilly, windy and muggy. And not rainy. (Angry face.) Avg. 7:45/mi (Alchemy 39.8)

Ran Warm Springs out-and-back (2.5), out we ran as a team run, so it was quite slow (but fun to flank the road with all us girls :) ), then all my bottled up energy got let loose on the way back and I ran avg. 6:50/mi back to the grass field. Then 6x100m barefoot striders w/100m jogs between. After that we played Ultimate, but the teams were quite uneven (in the other team's favor, sadly) so we totally got pwned. We managed to score once though! Then back to the elem. (DST 107.3)

Holey bovines it's August already. I won't say it, but s****l is coming way too fast!! Aargh!

I finally increased my pushups/crunches from 20/40 to 22/44 - I'm going to try to make it to 50/100 by increasing by 1 more pushup/2 more crunches per day, we'll see how that goes. Wow, today is a day for tangents... anyway, we warmed up and all, then we ran to the Firestation and did some hills. I did 6 of them: times were 56, 54, 56, 53, 48 and 49 seconds. I haven't done repeat hills since track, so it took a couple to really get into it. On the way back, I ran with Haley and Ashleigh. I got a pretty crazy workout by pulling some extra weight back to the elem! :) (Alchemy 43.6)

It rained again, so I hurried to get out and run in it and, like last time, it stopped 2 minutes into my run. That is not fair. I think that the rain hates me. : ( Other than that, it was a quite nice 5-miler, foot wasn't so happy, but w.t.f., I'm sick of caring about it. I was afraid I'd be sore from hills, but I felt pretty good, 7:35/mi avg. (DST 112.3)

(23/46) Wash pkwy '5-miler' ran it mostly w/Jac, 7:41/mi avg, back of left knee hurt, other than that quite a good recovery run and foot was fine. (Alchemy 47.2)

Evening club run, wanted to go 5-6, but my knee was killing me - I went out 2.5 to make my run 5, but I stopped a few times on the way back. Also my guts were heaving lots the last half . Yuk. Basically one of the worst runs that I've ever done. Angry face. Avg. 7:21/mi on the way out, way way slow on the way back, total run avg. 9:02/mi. (DST 117.4)

Iced foot and knee before run, then met up in BH for our friday run, (24/48) ran out toward the strip to 'closet creations' and back. Knee hurt the whole time, foot only hurt for a little while and was good. It wasn't hard at all breathing and muscle wise, so that was a plus. (Always look on the bright side of life - listen to the song! http://www.mwscomp.com/sounds/mp3/brghtsd.mp3) : ) Avg. 7:44/mi. (Alchemy 53.4)

Today, I decided that since my knee's been hurting since Thurs. to take a break this weekend. However, I am a complete idiot and played some very intense indoor soccer for an hour and a half with my crazy brothers friends (2 on 3 as well). So this 'rest' day was basically wasted. Ruth = Total Dimwit. I guess I did do a lot of sprinting during the games, so I'll add a mile to my mileage. (DST 118.4)