Sock tans

AM:

Went for a 4 mile run

PM:

Today I wasn't feeling so great, my stomach was hurting but I decided to push through it. I started with Chris, but after 2 miles at 6:40 pace I backed off to 7:20 pace. I stopped twice because my stomach was hurting, but I started again a minute later each time because I felt like a slacker. We went to Sugarhouse and I did 2 grass laps, I think Chris did 3. I slowed down a bit going back along 13th. Added some at the school to get to 8. 7:24 average. There was a light drizzle, but then it randomly started to pour which sucked because I was soaked.

We did normal warmup of 2 laps and stretching and drills, then a mile warmup and a mile speed changes. Then we decided to go to the oval because of the wind and coldness.

After driving to the oval, we did 8 laps warmup, 4 laps speed changes, then I finished another lap. We changed shoes and went to the line. The workout was 6x800s at 2 mile pace, except we all PR'd recently at Arcadia, so it was at a faster pace. We had a little over a lap recovery. I was to hit 2:50s. Bill said that if I hit my times I would only have to do 5! So I hit them. They went 2:45, 2:50, 2:50, 2:50, 2:48. The last couple were the hardest. But I'm glad I got it over with. Then we did cool down to 11, about 3 miles of it :)

AM:

I ran 4 miles, 2 of it was with Megan.

PM:

Today was a Tri-meet, but Bill pulled a few of us aside and gave us a workout. We were supposed to do 4 miles warmup, then a 10x30 second on 30 second off, then finish to 8. We really weren't going that fast, but it was all uphill on the way out. It sucked. I fell off of the boys, mostly out of not wanting to push to be with them, I regret it now. So when we lost track of where they went, Abigail and I took some dirt road that seemed like where they went, but then turned around and went further up the road, then started our fartlek-type part of the workout. I didn't like the downhill much more than the uphill. I felt like after the steep downhill I could've gone a lot faster, but Abigail and I had a fun little chat :)

Today was the Alpha Invitational at Timpanogos. I warmed up for 4.5 miles.

I raced the 1600 and then the 400 literally right after, they were right next to each other. I was in the fastest heat for the 1600. I feel like my 2nd and 3rd laps should've been faster, and I could've kicked better too. I'm disappointed with my race, I wanted to state qualify, but I guess next time will have to do. It felt too short. I think I might've been racing it like a 3200 instead of a 1600, odd enough. I wish it was a 3200 because then it meant I could slow down to a 6 minute mile and still qualify for state. Qualifying for state in the 3200 seems a lot easier to me now, I know I can do it. I just have to go out and actually race the whole thing. Then for my 400, it was the first time I have really raced it, and it hurt. A different kind of hurt. It was a 69.

Then I cooled down 2 miles. 

2nd day of the Alpha Invite. Today I was doing the 3200. I warmed up with Megan for 2 miles, then I just kept running so as not to lose my warmup. I didn't realize how long it was going to be until about mile 4. Then it was too late to stop running, if I did then it would waste whatever warmup I had. So I got 6.5 miles in. Yay.

I really thought I would qualify today, but I guess not. I am really mad about my race. The first part of it I was right on pace. Summer Harper was pacing Candace to qualify and I knew I needed to stay with them. The first mile was all a blur, but I know that on one of the laps the pace just felt too slow and I passed Summer and Candace, which probably wouldn't have been a mistake if I hadn't have slowed down so much the next lap. I had a hard time focusing after that, then when Summer and Candace came up on me Summer said, "you're right on pace to qualify." Then they moved around me. Summer's so sweet. I really wish I had gone with them, I probably thought it was too hard or I wouldn't be strong enough or something else that probably wasn't true. I was crashing mentally. I thought it would've been a lot like Arcadia, where I just had to focus on the group and go with them. There was no group to begin with. I should've focused better and I am so mad about it. The worst part is that if I would've just stuck with Candace like I knew I needed to, I would've qualified. I think there were a lot of factors that went into this race, I didn't prepare as well as I should have, I had raced the previous day, and I had gotten a ton of warmup in, and plenty more that I don't feel like sharing. I did a mile cool down.

Today I went for my own run, I went over to sugarhouse, then down to 13th, towards cottonwood complex, then when it started to go more downhill I turned up so that my last half of the run would be a little more enjoyable, found myself by the cemetery we usually run to in the summer. So I did a lap, there was a guy in there that looked like he was digging up some grave, or at least the stone, I didn't really want to know what he was doing so I shortened my original plan to do 2 laps to 1 lap and then headed back. I have the worst luck in the world. I thought the way back was going to be easier, I chose to go that way because of the wind, I thought I'd have it to my back on the 2nd half. NOPE. It picked up and then shifted when I was close to 13th East. So I was running straight into the wind, and it made it a whole lot tougher, and I had to hurry to get to a babysitting job. Of course they decided to cancel. When I got back to sugarhouse I continued along 13th to 13th, up to a little past 19th and turned back down 13th to my house and added a bit to get to 10.25.