Sock tans

AM:

VA loop before school

PM:

Speed. We did 2 laps warmup, stretching and drills, then distance did 2 mile warmup (to the gully, a lap, and back) and a mile speed changes. We changed shoes and did a lap then started our workout. It was 2 sets of 800, 600, 400, 300, 200, 100. The 800 and 600 were at mile pace and the rest was at 800 pace. I hit the 800 in 2:42, then the 600 was exactly 2 minutes, 400 I picked it up like we were supposed to but was ahead of the group so I started to slow down because I thought I was going too fast, until Bill said to stick it out to the end so I figured I'd be fine to go faster. I think I hit close to a 71. Then the 300 was a 51, and the rest of my splits I don't know. Time to get a watch. The second set I was slower, but I still pushed myself. In the 800 I had the biggest sideache of my life, it felt like I was being stabbed. Not that I've experienced it before but that's what I imagine it would feel like :) but I still pushed through it and was able to get rid of it for the most part before the next interval. The 400 was where I got myself to work a bit harder, I still am having a hard time with accepting the pain but at least I'm getting better at it. By the 300 I was working my hardest again. I also struggle mentally, when I told myself I could do it I found that it was a lot easier. This workout was a lot harder than it sounded, probably because of how fast the pace was, I'm used to trying to hit 80s. I worked hard, and even though my second set was slower, I pushed myself which is something that I haven't been able to get myself to do for a while. So I'm happy with this workout. My legs hurt now. 

15 miler today after taking the ACT. Long day. We went up Legacy bridge way and went to JCC and did rock run, then took JCC to City Creek and then went back along south temple and 13th. I felt like I was going pretty slow but it was even a struggle to keep going at some parts. Now I'm exhausted. 

Today I was really busy, I had an appointment that lasted pretty much all day, and included 6 hours of testing so that was a blast. As soon as I was done I went to the track and was able to watch the last little bit of the time trials, but had to be home by 5:30 to go to an awards night for my brother. So I didn't have enough time to do the run, maybe I should've just gone home and done my own run while it was light outside. But it was fun to watch the time trials anyway. When I got home from my brothers thing I went to steiner and did 3.5 miles on the treadmill before they closed.

My not-so-white shoes are drying after being washed. Tuesday was really muddy and my mom told me to wash them. :) Today we just did a long run. We went over to the cemetery and cut across through the cemetery, then up to guardsman and shriner's run to the end of 11th Ave. Then went over by City Creek, where I stopped by the restroom and then didn't know where the rest of the run was supposed to go so I made it up. I went up South Temple (even though we had already discussed how much South Temple sucks) to 13th and then over to the school, checked by the car to see if they were back yet, nope. So I went up 9th South to guardsman then came back, checked again, nope. So I went in the school, got a drink, came back out and saw them running a school lap so I went backwards to meet them. Then when we finished the lap I added with Bill, got me to 13.43.

Today we went to the oval. I ran 1.75 before we left. Then we did normal warmup of 8 laps, 4 laps speed changes, then did 2 more laps before starting the speed. We did 5x1000m and I was supposed to hit 3:26. I was slow on all of them and really slow on the last ones. It ranged between 3:36-4:06. I didn't feel like I pushed myself like I should have, I had a hard time getting myself to run fast. I also didn't like running in trainers. Did cool down until I was at 12 for the day. 

I ran with Angie today!! We went up to Foothill, Thunderbird and went down wasatch, then to the zoo and did VA loop and across guardsman, up to 1900 E and over to Kensington, then did a small loop back to my house. That got us to 10.25 and we averaged 7:49 pace based off of how long it took us to finish, which felt pretty good. I was glad we ran together, I know that if I was by myself I would have gone a lot slower. We saw Garek on his run too. And it's always fun to see some random runner twice on the same run! Weird. Anyway, overall I felt pretty good, it's so nice outside too! Legs were a bit tired, but it feels good to get my mileage up.