Sock tans

AM:

4 with Megan! This week we are gonna run in the mornings like we're supposed to! :)

PM:

Since the girls have a race tomorrow, boys and girls split up and the girls did mile warmup, 2 mile speed changes, mile cool down. It was nice and easy, and now I hope tomorrow will be a good race! My calves don't hurt as much anymore which is good :) Tapering will be great! (even though I didn't go as high last week, my base is good and I hope it will make a difference)

Today was the Girls Davis super meet! I did 1.75 warmup.

I just tried to stick with the front pack (yes they were all davis girls) and it actually worked pretty well to have people there to push me. It was nice to have a group to stick with. I knew about what I was supposed to be hitting and it helped to have Bill tell me what to do. The first couple laps felt really good. My mile split was 5:38. Then it gradually got harder, and I fell off of that pack with about 800 left. It got so much harder and I really wish I had stayed with them. I eventually was able to pick up the pace but by then it was too late. But I PR'd!

Then pretty much right after that I had to do the 4x800. I started it out. That pace felt so much faster (and it was) but I still quit on myself when I was fighting some other girl, so my last lap was probably a lot slower. My split was 2:42.

Then did probably a half mile cool down :)

Today I just went for my own run, it was the boy's meet. I went up to Foothill then to thunderbird and along wasatch to sunnyside, then down to foothill, 9th S. and went back home and added a bit to get to 7. I didn't mean to include so much uphill in the run, I just grabbed my watch and turned whenever I felt like it. It was windy too, I feel bad for the guys who had to race in it. Us girls lucked out yesterday :) I had to cut it a little short of an hour because I had to be somewhere.

Today we did the normal warmup of 2 laps and stretching and drills, then Bill pulled the ones going to Pineview aside and told us our workout. We did 1.5 warmup, 1.5 speed changes. Then we did 2 300s, naturally I was first to go on both of them :) Then we did 2 grass laps and finished to 5.

Today was Pineview! After a long car ride and going to Walmart, we arrived and found out that they were doing the seeded girls first, then seeded boys, then the rest of girls and then the rest of boys. So that meant I didn't have as much time as I would've liked to warmup. Emmaline and I did a mile warmup, then I had to do strides after getting confused about the bull pen... my hip was bothering me a bit.

It was my first race being in the seeded heat! It intimidated me a bit. But it really wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, sure I was towards the back of the pack but I wasn't dead last :) I got an okay start, there was a lot of pushing and shoving. The first lap felt alright, then I felt really sick to my stomach. I think I ate too much at Wendy's. At least I can learn from it. The third lap I just tried to push and not slow down too much, then the 4th I just gave what I could. I sort of slowed down the last 200 which I regret a lot, I could've gotten a better time. I just need to work on my kick, I think I just have a hard time accepting that it's gonna hurt, and it's time for that to change.

I didn't feel my hip at all during the race which is good :) 

Overall, I'm a bit disappointed with this race, I wanted to qualify for state, if not at least get close. But I PR'd, and I guess I should be happy about that.

Then I did a mile cool down on my own, then later went on a group run with the team. We did 6 miles. My hip started hurting on the last mile, so I iced it, and my knee hurt a bit when I stopped so I iced that too.

Today was the Running of the Leopards 5k. It was snowing and icy and cold. I got a mile warmup in. I was super tired from yesterday, I didn't get much sleep last night either so that didn't help either. I was a bit worried about my hip. I really wasn't prepared to race either, I was still in my sleepy mode.

I got out pretty good, but after like 50 meters I could feel how tired my legs were. My first mile was 5:41. I tried to fight a few people here and there. But pretty soon people were passing me. I was tired and didn't want to push very hard. Then I saw Bill and he told me to try to catch up to Abigail, so I tried again. Going along Sunnyside I picked up the pace, but somehow I managed to slow down again, but at least now I was going at the same pace as people around me. 2nd mile was 6:11. 3rd was 6:04. The 300 mark I started to kick, 200 slowed down yet again, 100 some girl started to pass me and I got mad and outkicked her. I think I elbowed her quite a few times, now I feel bad. Every time I'm aggressive I feel bad, but every time I'm not I regret it. :(

I was 2nd in age division, 3rd girl overall. I need to work on the last little bit of my race. I talked to Natalie this weekend and she shared some things with me, and I think it was what I needed, now I know what to do, and I have a bit more confidence. Thanks Nat!!

Then I went on a cool down with Bill, Chris and Tomy, we went up to guardsman then to the cemetery and did 2 laps, then to the school and Bill and I continued to Liberty and went the long way, then went along 6th East and back. 

I feel like a slacker now, I went home and took a 4 hour nap and then it was too late to go for my evening run :( At least I got some sleep. I've been sleep deprived for weeks now, and I think that's why it's been so hard for me to run in the mornings.