Sock tans

Double core and a small walk with my family, beautiful weather today!

AM:

3 out on Shriners run and back. I wanted to get 8 in but it was a struggle to wake up. I forgot how much I love morning runs, the only thing about them is it's dark until 7 right now (the sun rises at 7:45, or so google says) and waking up early is not easy for me. But I want to start up the morning runs again, I just need to find a buddy. 7:57 average.

PM:

Hurried home and did VA loop, 4 miles. 7:15 average. First mile was slow (8:22) but the next 3 were fast (6:40, 6:58, 6:57.) Felt good.

Workout at the oval, 8 laps warmup and 4 laps speed changes. It was odd not having the boys there, but it was alright. Workout was originally 4x800s but I didn't hit my time on the third one. I finished the 4th and thought I was done but Bill made me do another one. I got mad and took it out fast. Yay. No I was actually glad he made me do another one even though I was mad about it at the time. Coach just wants whats best for me. I was supposed to hit 2:45-2:50, I hit 2:45, 2:46, 2:57 (yikes), 2:49, 2:47. I was tired.

On another note, went to UVU for an official visit. Now I'm stressed cause I really don't know how I'm gonna decide where I go. I was pleasantly surprised with UVU. I can really only compare it to SUU and I liked both. I'm gonna weigh out the pros and cons and perhaps go on more visits. Maybe then I'll have a better idea or another one will stick out more.

Good run, we went up to foothill and over by the freeway and took the trail over to Tanner Park, then went to Sugarhouse and along 1300 S to East. Mile splits were 9:17, 8:20, 8:03, 8:01, 7:34, 7:47, 7:24, 7:22, 7:09, 7:14, 7:30. So 7:48 average. I'll do core later. Knee was aggravated on all the uphills, felt fine on downhills. If I drove my knee up it wouldn't hurt, but going up the small hill on 13th no matter how I stepped it hurt. I'll also roll that out later.

Ran a mile towards the school then Olivia drove by so I got a ride for the next half mile :) we went Shriners run for 4 miles and turned back. 7:49 average for the part with the group, I sorta had to reset my garmin cause the memory was full. Bill took a look at my knee and massaged it, it's a little inflamed and there's a nice little knot. It warmed up after drills, it had hurt the mile to the school.

We got to the oval and I was worried I wouldn't have enough warm up but I was fine. I got in 3 or 4 laps, not sure. I did a lot of strides and jogged on the curve for a bit while we waited for the timers to be ready. Calling it 1.5. Finally they started the first heat. I was in the second, kind of glad I was.

I had a crappy start, I was literally in the worst spot all the way out in lane 4 and on the back row. So I was in lanes 2 and 3 the whole first lap. I slowly made my way up, I was at the back of the pack coming through the 400. It was a 76. So a bit quick, but I liked it. Then made my way up to like 5th, we were all right there. Coming through the 800 it was a 2:37, all I heard was Bill yell "perfect." Then I really started to get pumped, I knew I was gonna get a good time. And I felt good. Mary made a move at one point, I saw her and did not want to let her go. I felt like the group was slowing down too, so I swung out to lane 3. That was actually kind of hard to do, I had to slip through the tiny gap between girls. Once I got out I took the lead, and I thought "Well, I'm just gonna go for it." I had a gap on everyone with 400 to go, by now I was starting to lose steam. 100 meters left the first girl caught up and passed me. Then the next. Probably 5 girls out kicked me in the last 100. I wasn't giving it my all, kind of embarrassing but I was trying to focus on not peeing my pants (I sort of had 2 waterbottles full of water during my last period and 3 before that in my earlier classes). So yeah I guess I "gave up." Man.

Overall I'm happy with it, I was hoping to PR but it's still improvement and the best I have done in indoor. And it's still early, and I was only 1.5 seconds off. I think I could have worked a little harder the last 200 meters, I started to back off around there. I kind of feel like I made a fool of myself cause I had a good gap and got caught. But it felt good to be in front. Did about 2.5 cool down.

In the morning I ran the winter series SLC Track club 5k out at Saltaire. It was really windy, so coming back absolutely sucked. I probably could have worked the last mile a little harder but gave a good effort. Used it as tempo. 20:15, 6:32 average. I think everyone's times were slow because of the wind. 3 miles warmup and 4 miles cool down. 

Then realized I had to do 10 more miles! So I went over to the oval and hopped into the 3200 last minute. 4 miles warmup and half mile of strides. By then I was getting tired and all I really wanted to do was take a nap. I took a 5 minute one until 5 minutes before the race started.

I was towards the back of the pack coming onto the first curve. First 400 was an 80. Then settled a bit, first mile 5:40-5:41. When Mary passed me I should have gone with and settled into her pace instead. I wasn't thinking very positively that last mile, I thought I was dead last and barely hanging on. And another mile just seemed so long even though it's not. But I made myself work through it, I was determined not to completely die. I thought for sure I would be over 12 minutes but I wasn't! The last 100 I outkicked Sam (thinking I was last motivated me a bit). I had picked it up a bit with 300 left but I wouldn't call it a kick.

Then did a 2.5 mile cool down, unfortunately couldn't finish the last mile because I had to hurry to work. It was a lovely 5.5 hour shift. And it wasn't an ice skating competition like I had hoped. It was 2 college hockey games which meant we were super busy and also meant standing the whole time. Yaaaaaayyy. Okay we did get a 20 minute break. That was nice.