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

Crap crap crap. Woo woo woo! Warmed up .5 grass loop and 2 backwards DI loop, then 4x800m grass loop repeats. They were no fun at all.

1- 2:40 - The first half of this one felt good. I think I was too excited and went too fast on this one.

2- 2:48 - Feeling ok, but kinda tired out and finding it hard to push much.

3- 2:52 - What the Fenja?! I suck.... eew.

4- 2:51 -  At least I got better than the previous one? Still uber-crappy and feeling lame.

After I cooled down on a backwards big grass loop, lifted and ran a lap barefoot on the track after to get the legs moving again. (DST 336.8)

There was a turkey trot today after school, so I ran in it. Pretty boring and I didn't race really hard at all since I ran 800's yesterday and am doing AT tomorrow. The only other people in it were Kalli J and Austin Smith, so I'm not sure if it really counts as a race... but what the heck. :) I won $10 to Durangos! Though I thought you were supposed to win a turkey...what is this world coming to?!

After that I ran the bank/mall run slow - 8:16/mi. My legs are tired/sore and my arms are stiff. (DD spike 36.5) (Alchemy 320.3)
 

Legs were feeling pretty sore, but I'm glad I didn't wimp out and go easy. Did the Dogpound AT run: 6:23, 6:12, 6:43.The run was pretty good overall, and it felt better than most runs have of late. I think I could've pushed a little more on the last mile's uphill, but times were ok and for the most part I felt like I was pushing well but not insanely hard. (DST 341.8)

It was colder than FREEZING this morning - 30 degrees! I almost died. My brother and sister-in-law were going to go with me, but they opted out/didn't wake up, so I went by myself. AP 6 miler, went easy and it felt great. 8:01/mi. (Alchemy 326.3)

Went on the GS/Desert/Middleton loop with Marcie this morning. It was so fun to run with a girl and talk and get a good run in. At the start I felt awful, but we went reasonably fast and after 3 miles I felt good for the rest of the run. The last downhill mile we picked it up lots and got in a 6:40/mi pace! Fun run and I'm excited for Marcie and her group to start coming to the club runs on Thursdays! 7:55/mi avg. (Alchemy 335.3)

Ugh. My guts were killing me for the first 3.5 miles so they were slow and painful with none of the planned fartleks. I stopped for a second and almost puked a bit, then got running again and started feeling a little bit better gradually from there on out. Weird. The last 3 miles were quicker and I put in 4x200m fartleks (2 of them were hills) and looped back for Gretchen after each. Watch ran out of batteries, so mostly no info for the run (first 2.5 were at 7:53/mi pace). The run was just the standard trail loop from my house with my sister-in-law. It was fun to have her along, especially to distract me from my heaving guts. Foot is pretty sore. (DST 348.3)