Sock tans

today we went to the track and did 300s. We went up to sunnyside and did a lap around and down to the track as a warm up and did speed changes there. Then the 300s began. Yet again, I was not feeling too good. I was usually behind the group. :( Maybe next week will be better. I don't think the races this weekend will go too well.

So the oval, and it was a race day. I did the mile. We did a 2 mile warm up outside, and then I did speed changes with Bill and Natalie. I wasn't feeling it. I did drills, and I ended up being in the 2nd fastest heat, and I just would like to say being in the front is so much better than being in the back. Ug. Well, it was okay. I just really don't like breaking the streak I had for setting a new PR every race. It's okay though. Maybe next time. 

Oval again, 800 and the 2 mile. I was in the fastest heat for the 2 mile and I was dead last. :( 800 I was in 2nd fastest heat, and I got a 2:47. I did a 3 mile warmup, raced, did lots of strides, and did a very long cool down to make it to 17 miles today.

Well, i thought that today was gonna be a good day. Well, It wasn't too bad, but not nearly as good as I thought it would. Maybe because it was speed. ?????.... Haha anyway, We did a 1000, 2 800s, and 4 400s. By the 2nd 800 or the 1st 400 I started feeling crappy. I had a really bad cramp. I think I should drink more water. I don't know why I struggle so much with that. I have to force myself to drink it. Is that weird? I did really bad on the 400s. But i'm just glad its over. I did a 2 mile cool down with Sarah. I was supposed to do 4 with the faster group, but man, my cramp was bad. So i did 2. 8 miles

Wow, I have never done a run over 10 miles before. This is a first. Well, saturday I went to 17, but that was different. It was all split up. Today it was all together. I was not feeling good during the warmup. I thought today was gonna be a bad day. We did track stuff before, and some circuits, which were HORRIBLE!!!! I don't like circuits. I know they're supposed to help you, but before a long run is a little much. My hopes were not up for this run. I was considering doing less. I was considering lots of stuff. I could've done 40 minutes out and 40 minutes back like Bill was expecting. I was also considering going with the front group until I fell far back an then just turn around. But then I surprised myself. I actually kept up with them until just before the cottonwood complex. I then realized that now that we were here, I couldn't just turn around. We were now around the halfway point. So, It would be counterproductive if I turned around. perfect. So I ended up pushing the whole way. Joy. Well, turns out they had sped up a bit, and it was when I was waaay tired, so I hung back. I had mixed feelings when they stopped and waited for me. Now that I'm looking back on it, I'm grateful. But at the time, I wasn't fond of it. But, at about the 2nd or 3rd time they stopped for me, they all made me go to the front. That way, I "wasn't going anywhere" as Tomy put it. Hehe. People were behind me, so I couldn't slow down. Tomy would push/pull me along when I started to fall back. :) Thanks Tomy. I had yet another cramp, so we stopped at store after store looking for a bathroom. Man, the stores need to step it up on bathrooms. "sorry, its getting cleaned" and "its out of order man" and "we don't have one" are very annoying. But we found a nifty little place. You don't even have to go in the store to get to it. :) I wasn't too happy when we had to run up the hill though. I didn't like it. But I'm glad I got it over with!!! Maybe I won't be so backed up on miles on Saturday.....:) 

At the beginning of the run, I was feeling great!!! Another long run. We didn't do the usual track drills, and I liked that and getting out of there somewhat on time. We ran along 13th and I was really happy for some odd reason!!! :) it was amazing!!! I ran with Bill, Tomy, Natalie, Chris, Abigail, and Kiley. There was an amazing smell at one of the restaurants!!! It made me super hungry!!! But then we went on some route I can't remember well. We went all the way to South temple and turned down until State St. and turned right and went to some road (this is where I wasn't paying as much attention to where we were going, so I can't remember lots of the street names after this point. Sorry) It was the street that the General Conference was on. We went down there some ways, and then I started to fall back. I got a really bad pain like right under my ribs that killed! I have never had a pain like that before. I really need to start drinking water and am trying to get into that habit now. Ug. By like the 6 mile mark it was hurting really bad. I slowed down a lot I could tell. Darn pain!!!! I wish pain never existed!!! Life would be so much better. Anyway, I got lost and hoped they would come back. there was a fork. Turned out they took the path I thought they would've gone down, and were waiting for me at the bottom. Well, they came back, and we all decided to go along a road (I think it was 400 West) to 900 South. That didn't happen. We zig-zagged up because we kept hitting all the "don't walk" signals. Then we zig-zagged back down, and I fell from the group. Bill stayed back with me. (Thanks Bill!!! It helped!!) I guess Tomy's pushing me along didn't work. It did for a bit :) Being in the front worked For a bit as well. But it eventually failed. I got another cramp when it was just me and Bill. ug. Bill made me do some speed changes to  prove that the speed didn't affect the cramp much. Not surprising, he was right. But it felt like when we stopped, it felt good, but then when we started again, it hurt worse. weird. anyway, when we got to 900 S. we ran up until 11th. I stopped there. I ran a bit after the hill. 10 miles.

Speed today. I felt really good for some reason!!! I don't really know why. We did 2 vertical laps, and did some new drills! They were really weird and confusing. We started in a different place and did mini high knees then high knees then jogged and on the way back did other stuff like walking quad stretch, step overs, and so on. Then distance ran up to the track. We did a warm-up outside of the track. It was up Sunnyside to Foothill and along foothill to guardsman I think and back to the track. I was up with the front group during all of this (or at least most) Then we did a mile speed changes. I was a little further back on these. We did 2 sets of 4 300s with 2 laps recovery in between the sets. I was feeling really good :) It was weird because I was in the mode for a lot longer distance when we did them. I think I was still in the 800 mood. So when we started really fast I thought I might crash at any minute, and that we were going too fast. But then on the last 100 meters I realized that we were going at just the right pace. we ran 100 meters to the starting line and started again once everyone was there. I always hit around 60-62 each time, except the last 2 on the 2nd set were 63 and 64. I felt like I did a pretty good job keeping consistent. Every time though I felt like we were going too fast when in reality we weren't. And in all of them it was the last 100 meters that I really had to push. I was normally just behind Abigail, but still a bit in front of Sarah. Abigail would go slow on the small recovery time, and not make it in time to start with the group. I can tell you, it really helped to have Abigail there with the group, because then I didn't feel too far behind from the group. I could also push with her and I had a little more competition. But when she wasn't there, I felt like I was too slow, and I had a harder time pushing myself. I did okay though. I went up Sunnyside with Bill, Natalie, Tomy and Chris to guardsman I think it was and followed that to the next street and came back to the track, and did a grass lap around when I fell from the group. I did a lap on the track, and then just went back to the school to make it 10 miles. The others did a bit more though. 

Oh man I loved the workout today!!!! It felt really nice after all of the 10 milers and 12 miler earlier this week. It was just super tiring for me because, well, there has only been 1 10 miler i have completed before this week, and that was a few weeks ago. 6 miles felt AWESOME!!!!! Anyway, we did our penny run! we flipped a penny every time we had to stop, and heads was one way tails the other, i can't remember which one was which. The only hard part of the run was really on the way back, and going up the STEEP hill. It was really warm outside!!! It has been a while since I have sweat that much!!! ;)

Today was the 10k out at Saltaire. on our way there, we saw what looked like a race at sugarhouse park, and why do we do most of our races so far away when there are a lot here? just a thought. Anyway, I did 3 miles warmup. I actually went over my miles for this week. I was thinking about only doing 1 mile, but I wanted to make sure I was warmed up. So we did some drills at the starting line, and then started. Guess what?!!! I actually started on time!!! :) (on the 5k 2 weeks ago I was in the parking lot when they started) So, I was feeling great the first and 2nd mile, but I didn't want to go too fast because I didn't want to crash. I just stayed at the same pace as Abigail, and just tried to keep up with her. At like the 3rd mile, I was getting tired. But that didn't stop me! I just worked to stay with Abigail, and pushed through it. By the 4th mile, I was starting to get a side ache, and I told myself, DON'T YOU DARE GET A SIDE ACHE and I did a technique thing bill taught me a while ago, and it worked and I didn't get one! :) But can I just tell you that drinking water while running is super difficult? Well, it is! Excuse me, drinking Gatorade. I think I splashed some people. :O I got gatorade on my leg the first time. second time I nearly choked. Ug. It is really hard. maybe I should just practice that and become a professional!!! ha! Anyway, fifth mile mark Abigail told me we were gonna do a speed change, and I was like NO! But I didn't want to fall behind, so I pushed really hard to keep up with her. At the very end, Either she sped up even more or I slowed down or both, but I still ended up right behind her!!! I am really glad she was there, or else my time would have been a lot worse. Thank you Abigail!!! I did a 1 1/4 mile cool down with Abigail. :)

Speed today. Much confusion on if we were going to the oval or not. Turns out we didn't. Yay!!! We did the usual drills with the sprinters. Then distance went up to the track. A few of the others dropped off their flats, and then we ran up to Sunnyside and did a lap in there. There was soooo much snow! It was unbelievable! It was so muddy, so instead of doing more at Sunnyside we went along guardsman to the crosswalk and crossed and went back to the track to make our warmup 2 miles. Then we did speed changes. I was able to keep up with the group (ish). I fell a bit behind. Then we did 6 400s and 200s. (400, 200, 400, 200....)

So, for the 400s I got them all 1:22 or under, except for the last one. the last one I had a mental crash, and then I got a 1:26. To "make up for it" Bill made me change the last 200 into a 400. He said that I needed to get it at a 1:20 or under, and if I didn't I had to do it again. He said that he would pace me. Well, on the first 200 I felt like Bill was going really fast, and I fell a little back, and then Bill yelled at me to catch up to him. The others dropped out t the 200 mark, and were cheering me on from there. I tried as hard as I could to catch up to Bill. I was getting closer, but it was too late. He had already crossed the line. When I crossed, I felt like my legs were gonna fall off. I was so tired. I really did not want to do another one. Then Bill and I ran the opposite way, and when the others caught up we turned around and went back to were their shoes were. Then I asked Bill what time I got, expecting a 1:22-1:24. He said I got exactly 1:20!!! Yay!!! He would've made me do another one if I had not made it, and he made that clear. Between the 400 and the 200, We did a lap recovery.

On the 200s I got around 36-38ish. I always just tried to keep up with Bill. It was hard, but easier than the 400s. Between them and the 400 was a half lap recovery. 

Then, for a cool down, we did a grass lap, but then realized it was muddy, and then did 3 laps on the track, and back to the school to make it 10.

My question for the day: Why do squirrels eat acorns? 

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!!!!!!!

I had an orthodontist appointment, so I couldn't make it to practice. I did my own run around my neighborhood. I went up Harrison, down 19th to St. Mary's, up St. Mary's to 21st, and along 21st to foothill. from there I went to Sunniside Ave. and down to Le grande St. to 900 S. to Military Dr. and along 17th E. to 13th S. to 15th E. Then i went to Kensington and went up and then to Browning and back home. Enough description for ya? haha :) Anyhow, I felt like I was going at about a 7 minute pace. I tried to slow down, but ended up speeding up again. Maybe it was my music. I don't know. It was weird. And then afterward, I felt like I needed to do more than 4 miles. But Bill told me 4 miles, so I did. I went up a hill along Kensington, and it felt a bit uncomfortable, but other than that it was a really nice run. A lot nicer than a 12 miler. :)

I kept getting random text messages from lots of different people. Some were from Sarah, and they were acceptable, mostly because she's a good friend. The others were from people I don't even know. I got one that said "Driving." Lots of random ones like these. All from people I don't know. It got very annoying. Sarah had long stopped texting me, and my phone kept going bzz bzz bzz in my hand. Why is it that I never get text messages, and then I get a million while on a run? 

It felt really nice to be such a short run.

Happy Valentine's Day!!!!!!! 

Haha yay!!!!! we're going light to get ready for Simplot!!! (It's tomorrow!) I am so excited but nervous, and I hope I do well!!!

 We ran up to the track, did a mile Warmup, mile speed-changes, mile cool down, and back down to the school. My legs felt great!!!! I got a bit tired on the speed changes, but I hope my legs will be alright tomorrow so I can do well!!!

Ice Bath!!!! Soooooooo cold! i got really paranoid, especially when water kept dripping on my arm from the faucet. It made me even colder!!! But listening to music made it go by a bit faster. Remember when we used to have ice baths at the track really often for Cross Country?

I'm excited for Simplot!!! 

 Simplot!!!! It was a very long drive. I sat around for most of the time. We took a great team picture at the green screen!!!! Abigail's body was gone!!! haha :P 2 miles warmup. Then Bill gave me a gu thing and it was DISGUSTING!!!!  Then I did strides and drills at the Bull Pen. Then more strides while waiting for my race to start, and im counting those for at least a 1/2 mile. I'm certain I did more than that. 

Race time! I was really nervous, and Bill told me to just not get lapped. He said to get a 5:40. Killed that! I got a 5:38, my new PR!!!! On the first lap I just didn't even pay much attention to running. I just went with it. Adrenaline going? I think so. On the 2nd lap, I was still not paying much attention. 3rd lap, started to get back to my senses, and I felt really good, which was weird, so I pushed a little more. 4th lap, I started to get tired, so I feel I went back to my pace before. I then felt like I was gonna crash, and I didn't want to, so I just made sure I kept up the pace. The last 300 I was told to go as hard as I could, but I was worn out, but I still tried to pick up the pace. It wasn't until the last 200 I really started to kick. Then, with 100 meters to go, I was so worn out, and tired, and my calves were hurting, and I was starting to think negatively, and then I let a girl go, WHICH I AM REALLY MAD ABOUT!!!!! I finished, but I feel I did well. Just really mad about those 100 meters. 

Well, I was really hoping to make finals, but unfortunately, I didn't. Why am I so mad about those 100 meters? Because if I had gone with that girl, then passed her at the end, I would've made finals. I was 40th, and they take top 36. Pathetic. I hope to do better next time.

1 Mile cool down 

So today was really light, But im still mad about yesterday. We went to the cemetery and did 2 laps, and came back and did 2 laps around the field and parking lot to make it to 4. My calves still hurt from yesterday.

Turns out I was 38th yesterday. 2 girls did not do all of the laps. That helps, but it still doesn't get me into finals, seeing as the take top 36. I might end up going tomorrow just to see if one or 2 of the girls don't race and the alternate ahead of me did not show up or something, or I don't know. I hope I can!!! I really would like to!!! (It was my motivation to run fast yesterday)

So, today I decided I would go up to see if there would be a place for me in finals. It was really weird warming up not knowing if I was gonna race. I ran around with abigail for about 2 1/2 miles and did drills. Then Bill gave us a gu thing to drink/swallow/eat I don't even know which one it was. It tasted disgusting!!! (hehe it was the same kind as thursday)

So it ended up being that the alt ahead of me did not show up. I bet she didn't think she'd make it in. Sucks for her. There was one girl who didn't show up, so I got to run!!!! yay!! It was the mile. I was so happy, but I wasn't fully prepared to race I don't think. I fully expected for me not to be able to race. I don't know why.

In the race, I felt great on the first 800. By that time, I crashed. Abigail passed me, and then lots of other girls, and then everyone else. I lost it mentally. I need to work on that. I started to think negative thoughts, and it ruined my race. I'm just glad I did race though!!!! I got a medal for being in the finals!!! :) It's only my 2nd medal!!! (well, okay I got two 1st place ribbons from the 5k and 10k, but those are ribbons so they don't count. Right?) I like it and am glad I got it!!! :) good day. 

Don't know my time, because I ran for someone else, and I don't know who it was I ran for. The last girl got a 6:04, So I'm gonna put myself down as that until I hear otherwise. 

6 miles cool down with Bill, Tomy, and Abigail.

Why is it that some days you feel really lucky, and others you feel super unlucky? 

Met Bill, Tomy, and Chris at the Jordan River Parkway thing, Susannah gave me and Susannah's friend a ride. We ran along that trail for 5 miles and came back. I wasn't feeling too good. I don't know why. I stayed up with them for 2 or 2 1/2 miles and then I completely crashed. What's up with me crashing? i don't like it. I ran by myself the rest of the time.

By the 4th mile I was really tired. My shoelace was untied, so I used that as an excuse to stop, and I tied it, stretched a bit, thought about just turning around there, but then I decided it was best if I kept going. So I did. 

Glad I did the whole thing. Well, sort of. The others did 12, but Bill really only expected me to do 10. So I count it as doing the whole thing. :)

The wind was blowing really hard throughout all of it, but it picked up on the way back, and we were going against it. Felt horrible. 10 miles. 

Long run. Nice and long. we did the cemetery run where you go through sugarhouse park and on tons of streets and do a lap in the cemetery and go back a different way. Like how i'm SUPER descriptive? haha yeah we were talking about this on the run. It's a hard one to memorize.

Well, I was feeling okayish today, but super tired. So I don't know how I pulled off this run. I was able to keep up with the group for the most part (very surprising! I suck at long runs) I started to crash at the 6 mile mark i think it was. Somewhere in the cemetery. Nice and muddy along one of those roads in there. I'm sad that it got my running tights all dirty. I just washed them. and i have only one pair. They are on my list for shopping. Along with a watch.

Well, once we got out of the cemetery, I started to fell a bit behind. Bill stayed back with me. I'm really glad he was there, or I would've let myself crash so much worse (Thank you Bill!!!!) He made me stay right next to him. I was able to do it all the way until 13th and a little bit along 13th. I was just worn out. Did I say that it was super long? Well, it was. I've never done an 11 miler before. I've done a few 10s (all within the past couple weeks, might i add), and a 12 (yes, within the past couple weeks), but never an 11. I fell back from Bill, and he and Abigail (who passed me along 13th) made a light that I didn't, and it was a lot harder without someone there to push me.

Why is it that some days you're ready for a shorter run, but it's actually a long run that day, and others you're ready for a long run, but it's actually 4 miles? This question popped up in my head along the run. 

2/22  today!!! lots of 2s!!! haha since there are so many 2s we should've done 2 miles to  make even more 2s!!! :)

Drills and stretching with track, then split off into groups. 

My legs were a little tired from yesterday, but not as much as I expected. :) 

Distance went down to liberty. Went the short way to the drinking fountain and then jogged over to the mile mark on the sidewalk. Then we did a fartlek. 8 sets of 3 minutes on 2 minutes off. The first one I felt great!!!! it was weird. 2nd one was straight into the wind, so I did not do well. I tried to stay with Bill. On the 3rd one I did really bad. Then Bill, Tomy, Natalie, and Chris turned around I was able to start a little ahead of them. I think that helped a bit. :)

So then I did okay on a few of them, and the last one I did horrible. I crashed really bad. I got cramps again. :( I hope I can do well tomorrow.

Cool down was long way back. I went really slow, and the cramps were really bad. The group got far ahead of me. I missed almost all of the lights, which did not help. Then ran up to 11th and stopped, walked up the hill, and a little bit before the top Bill made me run the rest of the way.  

Today track warmup. 2 vertical laps, then did step ups, wall sits, and circuits (3 sets of each.) then distance went for a run. 

We went along 13th to 21st, then up to 19th and along to sunnyside. then we went to guardsman and went from sunnyside to the next light and back. Then I lost the group and thought we were done and so I went down to east (tennis court way) and got back before them so I was confused. Then I did 5 big grass laps around the parking lot and field. made it to 8 for the day.

Then we went to KFC and got mashed potatoes and gravy!!!! Amazing!!! Dakota chugged a full thing of gravy and Natalie chugged probably half a thing of gravy. Abigail had her first taste of gravy. It was a party!!! Apparently Natalie and Dakota and Abigail are cool! :) (Of course they are!!!)

Today was a nice and easy run to rest up for the 15k tomorrow!!!! It felt really nice to only do 4 miles!!! :)

We ran up to the track, and then did 2 laps warmup and then did 2 miles speed changes. I ran with Chris, Natalie, and Tomy for a bit, and then I was pushing really hard to keep up with them so I fell back to Abigail and Kiley at a nice pace. Then Bill told me to come with him and Caden instead of staying back with them. Wasn't too hard. Nice pace. But a bit faster than Abigail and Kiley's. ;)

Then I ran 2 laps cool down with Caden. Pretty easy pace. I like 4 mile runs. we should do more of them. Then we ran back down to the school. 

This morning I was thinking about how in the summer when I saw people running way early in the morning, I thought they were crazy to get up so early just to RUN. Then I realized I'm now one of them. 

Today was the 15k. Well, the wind was out of control. Too much wind to race 9.3 miles. Or so I thought. Of course, my judgement doesn't matter when it comes to Bill. Haha. 

 We drove to the point where the water station was going to be. We did a mile warmup from there. It was hard to breathe when going out into the wind. I tried to draft off of other people, but it doesn't work for me for some reason. I guess im just not good at it. Ha.

Then we drove in Kiley's car back to the starting line, everyone crammed in. It was squishy. Then we did 2 strides, and I was tired already, so I did no more. Wind.

Guess what?!!! The guy actually had a siren to tell us to start! It wasn't like the other ones where they were like, "Okay, Ready? Okay 1, 2, 3, okay go!" they just did the siren. Although it was kinda quiet. 

I don't know why but i had a bunch of energy. I feel like I went really fast the first 3 miles. Ha i could've PRd. I started off at my own pace, but I felt like I was going a bit fast, but I didn't care. Not too far ahead was Bill and Kiley so I tried to get up to them. then I slowly fell back. I was on my own from there on. I was ahead of Abigail, so I thought something must be wrong. But I felt like I could've gone a really far ways at the pace I was at. I felt good.

At the water station I completely knocked the cup out of Dakota's hand and on the ground. Ha! Okay it was an accident. Then I just got another one from Kim. That gave me something to think about for the next 3/4 mile. :)

At the turn around point we were then running right into the wind. It had calmed a bit, but it still felt horrible. The 5th and 6th mile were the hardest for me. I had a mental battle. I wanted to stay positive, but it was really difficult. Then I saw the building, and I felt so much better and got really hyper. I was singing something like "We are almost there don't cut your hair...." random stuff and then got weird looks from other people.  I didn't care.

Then I decided if I was singing random songs I needed to go faster. So I did at around the 2 miles left mark. I kicked it at the mile mark. Speed change! :) Then with about a 1/2 mile I went even faster, and then Bill and Natalie and Tomy and Kiley were yelling at me to kick, so I sprinted to the finish line. I feel like this was a pretty good race. Well, for being my 1st 15k.

Cool down was .7 miles with Natalie, Tomy, and Kiley and then they went inside the building and I finished off my miles for the week. 

Bread and Hot chocolate after!!! Yummy! found a new yummy thing: the bread dipped in the hot chocolate. Delicious!

Panda after that!!! Yummy orange chicken!!! :) 

So, I didn't feel like going to the game, so I met Tomy, Bill, Natalie, Chris, and Abigail to go on a run. Long run. It was not one of my best days.

The others wanted to go on a 12 miler to get their miles up, but in my head I was thinking more of an 8-10 miler. But I knew a 12 miler wouldn't hurt. It would also help get my miles up higher, and then I wouldn't have to do so much at the end of the week. 

So we ended up doing our run to the Cottonwood Complex, with a small detour to Bill's old house or something I don't really know. To the Complex, out along kind of what we did a little while ago, then a huge detour back to the same house to pick up Bill's sweatshirt. Then we ran along 11th E. to 9th S. I was behind them, and Just caught them at 9th and was thinking YES I am done....but then I thought I must've taken a wrong turn or something. They had run a little down 9th and back up to make it even. I ran with Bill up the hill and did almost a full lap to make it even. The hill wasn't as bad as I thought.

 The first 2 or 3 miles I felt sick to my stomach. 3rd and 4th mile were just dandy. Then my legs decide to start hurting. They were so stiff!!! Natalie was complaining about her calves and mine were dying as well. We stopped at that green thing in the Complex and stretched. It felt good. But I wasn't all the way ready when we started. It was certainly nice to stop. 

2nd half was hard for me. My legs were just so tired and when I would try to keep up with them I felt like we were going really fast, when really we were going at 7:51 pace. I guess its about time that they start hurting, with all of the intense workouts I've been doing. Like long runs. I did my first 10 miler just a couple weeks ago. Maybe a month. And now I'm doing lots of them. At least 1 a week. Minimum. Ha.

I just felt dead. I was on my own all along 11th. And 11th went on forever. I thought it was never going to end. When I thought I was really close, it was actually more like a mile and a half farther. Very discouraging. 

Good smells and bad smells. Good: food!!!!!! and lots of them!!! Bad: Smokers, dirt, and so on.

Maybe tomorrow my legs will feel better. I hope. It's speed I believe. Yippee!! I get to look forward to that! ;) 

And lots of slugbugs, bingos, bingo houses, bingo fire hydrants, cars, and so forth. You can tell how bored we can get on long runs.

So today was speed. I did not do well. 5 1000s. 2 miles warmup, mile speed changes. Then we did a lap and started the 1000s. The first one was good. 3:41.5. 2nd one good as well. 3:41. Third is when I died mentally and it went downhill. I kinda just didn't wanna do it. I got a 4:13. 4th wasn't much better. 4:12. 5th I started too slow and then on the last lap picked it up a lot and STILL got 4:12. my calves were still really tight, but not as much as yesterday. I stretched them a lot during recovery time, and it helped. I got a side ache third one. I think having races on the weekend motivates me, and when there aren't any, i don't do well. I'll just have to act like there's a race i guess. 1 lap recovery, then stood for the rest of the time. 7 laps cool down.

It is officially outdoor season!!! 

Man, today the weather was just plain old crappy!!! The wind was blowing during the first part with everyone. We started at the track. We did 2 laps warmup, and then tons of drills. then we did our big lap drills where we go around the track to the other side, do a drill for 50 meters, then stride for 50 meters, then run up and down the bleachers until we get to the end, which brings us back to the starting place. We did that 6 times???? I don't really know. 

Then I went on a run with Natalie, Bill, Tomy, Abigail, and Chris. We went up sunnyside, to foothill, along foothill aways, then we went up by Red Butte Garden, and then some crazy way. I think we went through the U campus. I wasn't paying much attention at this part. I almost got lost several times. Then I was all alone because I fell back, and I did the shriners run back to the track, hoping that it was what I was supposed to do. The weather picked up a lot. It went from wind to hail. It was a blizzard. I got really mad at the wind and started yelling at it to stop. It didn't listen to me. I was bored. I think people thought I was crazy. 

 I thought I was done and I was covered in snow when I got back, but I had to do 2 laps and to the numbers and back to make it to 10. It was cold. Trying to text afterward was nearly impossible. 

I seriously hope it doesn't snow again. I'm done with it. Bill and Tomy called the hail something else. haha

I have been really tight lately. Walking was hard for me earlier, and then in my house I had a hard time walking, and going up the stairs made me super tired. My calves are really, really stiff and sore. Same with my hips. I think i did a bit better than yesterday, but I hope that tomorrow isn't gonna be as big of a struggle. 

I had a weird dream last night where the whole team was lined up and there were huge machines that had windows on them so you could see inside, and you would drop a coin into the first machine, and watch it go through the machine, and then if it came out on the other side then you'd move on to the next one. We all took turns doing this. I was in the middle of watching my coin go through machine 6 when I woke up. I think Bill's coin collection is getting to me.