Sock tans

We went to the cemetery and did 3 laps, then we did shriner's run. I kept up with Tomy and Chris until probably around our 2nd lap in the cemetery. Then when we were by the fire station we turned around and went by popperton and the JCC trail and then went Legacy bridge way back. Bill and I added a little to be safe, my watch died! he mapped it and it turned out to be 12.4.

Bill told me to be more positive when writing this, so here's me being positive:

Today was a great day! We ran to Liberty and went long way to the fountain. Then we did 3 laps and went back long way. Then we added on doing some loop and a couple laps around the school. I kept up with Tomy and Chris for most of the time! I fell off of them going up the hill on 9th, but I pushed through wanting to stop and walk up that. It was wierd to be talking while going that fast, I'm so used to silently thinking about hanging on for as long as I can. But I liked it, it was nice to distract myself from running. Our fastest mile was a 6:35. I feel pretty good about this workout!

I finally feel like I'm improving! I am excited for this track season, and I have set high goals and I hope to achieve them! I also would like to go to Arcadia this year, so I will have to work hard this next little bit but I think I could do it!

AM:

4 with Megan

PM:

So today I had an appointment, so I just ran from my house and met the team at sugarhouse. They had already started hills, but Bill was nice and ran my 5 hills with me :) then we went over to the other state hill right by the start, and we did 5 more hills. Then I ran another lap with Bill, Chris and Tomy. We tried to add as much as we could by going on the outside of parking lots, but they were snowy. Then we ran back to East. I pushed and tried to keep up with them. When they stopped at 10.25?? I ran another half mile to get to 9.5. I felt pretty good today! 

AM:

4 with Megan again. Today we did some unwanted hills and then had to pick up the pace at the end, so it was a little harder than normal :)

PM:

Today I was feeling tired and hungry, but I just worked through it. The first 2 miles kinda sucked because a lot of it was uphill. We went up 9th to Foothill and then up past the zoo, onto Wasatch and then to the drinking fountain on Foothill. Then we went along Foothill to 13th to 19th to sunnyside. Then Bill and I added on guardsman to the light and back, then a bit more at the school to get to 11. I started out with Bill then when Tomy and Chris came up on us I went with them, but then started to fall off of them at foothill. I missed the next light and so they got farther ahead. But I didn't let that affect me, I still pushed. I warmed up and it wasn't bad anymore. I started to pick it up a bit on Wasatch. Then around 13th Bill caught me. The last couple miles also were difficult, but manageable.

It still was a pretty good run, I feel like I'm getting faster finally! I'm flashing back to summer and I want to be as good as I was then. I'm excited to start racing again and see where I'm at! 

I crammed in the run today. I went to the temple, and I had to babysit later. So right in between I went on a run with Bill, Chris, Megan and Emmaline. We went up 13th to Wasatch, then over to sunnyside and up Emigration canyon. We turned around at 5 and came back. I felt sick to my stomach most of the run, but that's probably because of the fries and frosty I ate right before. It was still a pretty good run, the way back was fast.

Today we went to the oval. I did a little extra warmup with Bill because we both needed a lot more mileage. We did 10 laps warmup, 4 laps speed changes, then changed shoes and went to the line. We did 5x1000s. I was supposed to hit 3:30s. There were a TON of people there and several million things in lane 1. Just kidding, more like 2 bleacher things. But it was annoying and it probably slowed us down a lot. My times went 3:37, 3:38, 3:39, 3:50, 3:51. I lost focus on the 2nd to last one, then the last one I just wasn't focused at all. I didn't pay much attention to how I was doing, I was listening to Payphone on the radio and it reminded me of Natalie :) Then I realized afterward I should've actually tried harder.

Then Bill and I did like 22 laps to get to 14 miles for the day. This was a tough week but I feel good about it, and I'm excited to go to 80 next week!

I don't think I got the shoes thingy right, I just guessed.