Sock tans

Drove up to Cedar City today and went for a run with Angie and another recruit. Calves were really tight, 7:31 average. The girls on the team are really fun and super nice!  

Late night practice when I got home (Bill is awesome like that- he arranges practice so I can make it) out at the oval. 8 laps warmup, 4 laps speed changes then changed shoes, another lap and to the mile start. Workout was a mile (not 1600), then 3 sets of 4x300s with recovery back to the start between each, a lap between sets. I was supposed to hit 5:40 for the mile but hit 5:44, then 60s for the 300s and hit 1)  60, 60, 60, 61. 2) 62, 61, 57, 59. 3) 57, 56, 58, 58. I sort of ate muddy buddies in the car, maybe not the best thing to eat before a workout. Really made me sick, on literally every repeat I felt I was gonna puke. I hate puking so I was holding back a bit, mentally I think it was getting to me the second set, then Bill made a comment about needing to hit these to break 5:20 on Saturday and I decided I didn't care if I puked anymore. I'm kinda surprised I got myself to turn things around but happy about it. And bonus- I never did puke. Cooled down to 12. Did core at home.

Ran to the school, then did Shriners run and down to city creek , following the road up past the Capitol building. Then went to Victory Road and down it, then along some other road to South Temple, then up a bit until we missed a light so we went through Temple Square and zig zagged a bit downtown and eventually got to Liberty, going up 900 S and added in the teacher parking lot to 15. I had never run down Victory road before or past the Capitol, and I've never run through temple square before. Kind of fun to run right by the temple though! 2 hours 9 seconds for the run, 8:01 average pace. Did my core.

Ran to Sugarhouse, did strides at the start of State, then did cemetery run with a lap in the cemetery, but kept going up to a coffee shop when we exited the cemetery so I could stop for a quick bathroom break. We ended up getting bagels too :) I can say I know how to multi task, running and eating a bagel at the same time! But that bagel was good and satisfied my hunger. Then took that road a while until we got to the bridge part and went down and up the hill, getting to 2100 S and going down to 1900 E, taking it to Harrison and to 1700 E making me want to go home. Then took 1700 E over to 900 S and back to the school, adding to 13. Did my core.

Ran to the school then we did VA loop + Cemetery run with 2 laps and back to East, adding a bit. 

When we got there we warmed up on the track for 7 laps, then did strides and such while waiting for my heat (7/7). I felt like I ate a bit too much, I have a hard time judging how much I really need to eat before a race/workout. We were in the bullpen for forever, I was able to do a few strides but even then they made us wait for like 5 minutes while the heat before us ran. Annoying. Another annoying thing: they made the faster people go on the back row. It actually worked to my advantage on the mile, but I was annoyed for people like Garek. I went out at 5:00 pace the first lap, slowed down to a 2:40 at the 800. I was with Mary at this point I think, I don't remember when but I passed her. Then she passed me back and so did a few other girls and I think mentally it got to me. I should have stayed up there, as soon as I was alone it was so much worse. Ended up with 5:37 (full mile), not happy with that. But you know I just said "okay that was awful but now I'm gonna focus on the 800." Went on a 2 mile cool down then later a 2 mile cool down with the team.

Can't remember how much warmup I did for the 800, but I did tons of strides cause they made us wait forever at the line again, but at least this time I had a straightaway I could stride on. I was on the back line. I had to remind myself this was an 800 not a mile. I forgot how fast it actually is. With like 300 left my arms were burning and I think I backed off a bit, I should have stuck with it. The last 100 I should have kicked it in more too and I let up a bit at the line like Bill has always said not to do. So those are things to work on. Was 10th overall with 2:28, was hoping to PR but for it being my first 800 of the year it was alright.

Did 1.5 cool down with Tresa and 2 with the boys, got back and took my time, went to the bathroom, then went back to our stuff and they called boys 2 mile. I froze for a minute, thinking I missed my race. I didn't but I missed the seeding. That was a panicked 5 minutes. Got it all sorted out and I shoved my spikes on and slapped my stickers on. I joined the girls just as they walked onto the track.

Was towards the back of the pack to begin with, but picked girls off the first 2 laps. Aubrey took the lead and had a good gap on us, Sam Hedquist was in second. I worked my way up to her and followed right behind for a bit, then decided I felt good and thought what the heck? So I passed her. Later Bill said that was a really good move because some other girl was coming up from behind and would have boxed me in. I stayed in second until 800 to go. Then it felt like everyone passed me. If I would have stayed in control I would have had a much better race. I need to get myself to be ready at all times to match. I did match well when Sam tried to pass me back a few times but it was like with 800 left I no longer had the Umph. Some freshman tried to pass on the inside the last straight, I went to the line so she couldn't but she went inside the line and still passed. I think I freaked her out a bit when I told her that was cheating, she went out to lane 3. I should have beat her but I wasn't pushing it in my hardest again. I was annoyed that the officials didn't catch her, but oh well she beat me fair and square. 11:55 for the full 2 miles, 7th overall. Was hoping for closer to 11:40 but I guess the 3200 would be closer to 11:50 so I wasn't that far off, and huge improvement from 2 weeks ago. And for coming pretty close to dreading the 2 mile after the 800 I'd say it was pretty good.

Cooled down 2 miles then felt nice so I went with Garek to finish to 3.25 (same with Bill and Diwas.) yay for being 6.25 miles over what was planned for this week :)