Sock tans

So since it's spring break, we all were to meet at the track, but I had to go to an orthodontist appointment, so I came late. I expected a lot more people to be there, but when I got there it was only Abigail and Sarah, so I was gonna have to do this workout on my own, which I REALLY didn't want to do. And I was already in a bad mood when I came. :(

I did a mile warmup and a mile speed changes, then changed into flats. The workout was a mile, then 4x400s, then 3x300, 200, 100 ladder. Did 2 laps after my mile, standing recovery for the 400s, then after 300s ran to 200 start, after 200s to 100 start, in between sets a lap and to 300 start. It was at 2 mile pace. Mile was 5:53, 400s went 84, 82, 79, 88. A lot faster than what I registered in my mind at the time so I thought I was doing a terrible job, might explain the 88. I think I thought the 79 was actually an 89 at the time, but my watch doesn't lie to me. :) It was windy too, which sucked. The last ladder part I didn't catch my times, but I worked hard.

Then I did a cool down with Tomy and John to get to 8.5 (they showed up a little later than I did) 

I would have run this morning, but I had to go to my great-grandma's funeral. (Love you Nani) I got the workout from Bill and ran to Liberty, then to the start line. Of course I got the treat of pouring rain for the first couple minutes, then it stopped. After that it was beautiful outside! But it got pretty windy when I got close to Liberty. Stupid Utah weather.

I got 2.5 warmup. It was tempo, I was supposed to run at 7 minute pace for 4 miles with a total of 28 minutes. I got 28:50, but because of the wind it probably slowed me down. I ate a ton of food right before, too. So I felt like puking the entire time, but other than that it was fine.

Then I ran back up to my house (yes up that huge hill on 13th) until I got to 8, then decided I was done because I didn't want to have to add another .25 once I got home. So I walked home from Uintah. :) 

A lovely 4 miles around my neighborhood, tapering for Arcadia! I leave tomorrow and am so excited!!! My IT started to hurt again on the last mile, so I'll ice it and roll it out.

I was going to run today, but I couldn't before I went to the airport, and when they picked me up in Burbank we went to Knott's berry farm! It was fun! So we ended up not going for a run, but Bill said he wanted us to rest anyway :) 

Today was Arcadia! In the morning I went for a 4 mile shakeout with Bill.

I warmed up with Emmaline for about .5 before her race at the Tiger's meet.

Then when it came time, I warmed up 2.5 miles. I started to get a little nervous when we got on the track, but not as nervous as I thought I would be.

I was in the 3rd waterfall. When I cut in at the 100 mark I was what I thought to be towards the back of the pack. I decided that today I was going to finish the race, and I was going to stick with the pack. My first lap was a 79, then for the rest of the race I focused on the people in front of me. When I felt good I threw in a couple bursts. It scared me a bit when I came through the mile mark at 5:30, a second off my PR. I think I raced smart, there was only one part where I slipped a bit. Then I decided to accept the pain and race, and I focused on those in front of me and didn't think about the race as a whole, but as individual parts. The last 400 I started to kick, then tried to do our 300 kick, and the last 100 a girl was coming up on me so I kicked hard and fought her, but unfortunately she beat me by hundredths of a second :( But overall a great race, I PR'd by 38 seconds and crushed the only competition in our region! I have realized how much stronger I am than I thought I was, and now I know how to race. I'm really glad I came, I have learned a lot from it :)

Then I did cool down with Tomy, Chris and Bill for about 2.5 miles

I did cool downs with Tomy and Chris. I believe I got about 5 in? Everyone did so awesome!!!