Sock tans

Well that was fun! Started out as a light rain, then turned into a light snow, then heavy snow, then HUGE snowflakes and it was really coming down, then finished with a light snow again. Ran to the school, then up Emigration canyon 6 miles and back. Added to 14. When it got really miserable I sort of just stopped thinking and sloshed along. 8:00 Average. Did my core.

Went to the oval today. Warmed up 8 laps, 4 laps speed changes then changed shoes. Then long way to the 1000 start. Workout was 5x1000s, almost 2 laps recovery between each. Times were 3:28, 3:29, 3:31, 3:36, 3:36. I was trying to hit 3:32-3:37 so it was a good workout. By the end my calves hurt and my legs were so heavy, I have to get used to working through heavy legs. One of Bill's friends happened to be there and he said I stayed relaxed throughout the workout so I think that's good. Cooled down to 12 and did my core when I got home.

Ran to the school, then we went up to Foothill and took it to the cemetery, then a lap and five hills, a lap and five more hills, then finished the lap and back the way we came. Added to 12. My knee started killing coming along Foothill the first time, it was weird cause it was my right knee instead of the left (which is the one I have had problems with). When we got to the bottom of the hill in the cemetery Bill massaged it and man it hurt but quickly felt much better. So just a tight muscle like my left knee. Focused on form on the hill strides, I guess I really swing my right elbow out. It felt weird bringing it back close to my side, took a lot of focus actually. Legs were beat coming down 900 S at the end. I'm going to bed early tonight.

Ran to Sugarhouse, to the tree by Highland (we all know which tree- THE tree. Haha so specific) and started our fartlek. 20 x 1 on / 1 off. My legs were tired today. Averaged 7:29 for 5.51 so not as good as I would have liked but I guess for how I was feeling it was okay. I felt like my ons were somewhat fast, I'd guess 6:30-6:40 pace then offs around 8:20-30. I did recover quickly breathing wise, I'd have like 30 seconds left when I was ready to go. I guess I could have pushed a little on the offs when I was feeling recovered to try to get back to Bill but eh. Ran back to East and added to 11. On the cool down my left knee hurt. Rolled out and did my core, maybe I'll ice later.

Ran to the school, then we went up to the zoo and along Wasatch to Thunderbird, to the fountain on foothill and along Foothill to 1300 S, down to 1900 E and over to 900 S back to the school. Added to 11. I was in the lazy-and-dont-want-to-run mood (AKA my nap was delightful and I hated waking up from it) until we got to the zoo then the run was actually quite enjoyable. Did my core. Looks like I'm doing the polar plunge tomorrow... Brrr.

We got very little warmup, maybe a mile. Then like .25 we figured for strides after waiting forever for them to open the gate... We ended up jumping the fence while everyone else waited. I think that's how I cut myself...

Well the race spread out pretty fast, I was definitely not warmed up enough. The first mile practically was the warm up. Once Bill gapped me it pretty much stayed the same until the turn onto the trail. That turn was so sharp, it kind of annoyed me. But what can you do. Mile was 6:10 on my garmin (where they had the mile marked it was totally wrong.) Once on the trail there were lots of turns, I was pretty much alone at this part. One guy came up around the two mile and I stayed with for a bit, then he passed me. Two mile was 12:47 (6:37). Finally the 3 mile came, was a little disheartened when I saw it was over 19. Down to the finish my garmin said I finished at 5:31 pace...yay. Now because my garmin is very unreliable when it comes to the hundredths of a mile my splits could very well be faster, my garmin read 3.04 when Michelle's read 3.1 (we ran the course as a cool down to get a second reading and both got the same thing.) regardless, my overall time should be correct.

Overall I pushed myself and that's really all that mattered. This took the place of our tempo run. Cooled down until I hit 10 for the day. Afterwards, we did the polar plunge! Definitely a one time thing. They cut a hole in the ice at Utah lake, inserted a shark tank so that it's safe, and we jumped in and froze.