Sock tans

I was kind of a complainer today, sorry. Last night was difficult because the friend in charge of senior trip said we don't have enough room for everyone to go, someone's gonna have to sit out. Thankfully I can still go to Great Southwest, I thought I missed the deadline. So I decided I'd rather go to GSW and let everyone else go on senior trip, it's not worth the hassle and I'd rather everyone be happy, I've got my trip and they've got theirs.

On the bright side, I'm going to Great Southwest and it's gonna be GREAT.

For the run we started at JCC and took the trail to City Creek then Angie and Jaden joined us and went to the capitol building, did a loop around it twice that I didn't know existed until today (granted I rarely go to the capitol building), then back to the canyon and up 2.15 and back then added .5 to get to 15. I gotta get used to hills so... lots of hills.

New shoes feel fantastic! Great run today, ran down to Liberty where we met Angie and Jaden, then ran to Granite's track. It started to pour rain right before we got there, so we hung out under a tree for a couple minutes until it was a light rain. It was literally showering. Anywho, then we did a mile of speed changes and then back to Liberty and up 900 S to East. It was at a faster pace, warmed into it going to Liberty then we gradually picked it up until we were hitting sub 6:30 pace. 6:57 average at 7 miles, then we slowed it down a bit, but ended up picking it back up again haha. 10.25 was 7:01 average. Then we took it easy going back up the hill for the remainder of the run. Good day! I'm happy that Angie has been running with us and will be for the rest of the summer, she's giving me the scoop on what to expect at SUU and is a great running buddy :) Also, because of all the puddles I so gracefully ran through I recieved a good amount of blisters. Yaaaayyyy.

Ran to the school then we did the Avenues hill run. Once at 11th Ave we went a little farther west to add then took Shriner's run back.

Speed today to get ready for Great Southwest! Actually felt good to do speed, weird. Anyway, mile warmup and mile speed changes then changed into flats. Then did another lap and started the workout. It was 1000, 400, 800, 400, 600, 400, 400, 400. We alternated the speed for each interval every other one, so I was supposed to hit for the 1000- 3:32, 800- 2:50, 600- 2:07, and 400- 85. The faster 400s were supposed to be at 78-80 and very last one sub-75. I hit 3:32, 77, 2:52, 79, 2:08, 76, 85, 72. I feel good about it, the 800 and 600 maybe could have been faster (I was stubborn when the pace was too fast 400 into it and slowed down, then had to speed back up the last 100. If I had stuck with Bill I would've hit my time, but still came pretty close. The slower 400 I had learned my lesson and stuck right on him, sure enough we hit it right on.)

Anyway, good workout, happy with it and I know it'll help me for Great Southwest!

Nice little run from the school to Fairmont, 8 strides and then down to Liberty, 1 grass lap and long way back to East. Then added to 9.5. I gotta get my head screwed on straight and get focused again. GSW is gonna be sweet. Jakob was trying to convince me I can run faster than 11:00 there (haha I don't quite believe that with the higher elevation and incredible heat, but he has the right idea. I think Bill said its like running up on pipeline or park city maybe? which we do a lot so now I'm not so worried about that.) I say elevation will only cost me maybe a few seconds, but I'm still gonna have a great race. The heat is gonna be tough, but it's gonna be pretty warm here in SLC so maybe I can get a little used to it :)

Squoze in a run today, I was so busy it was crazy. Had my little sister's last soccer game to go to, it was her very last one so sorry not missing that. Then I had work a little over an hour after that, then a party an hour after that. So I chose to be late to the party and get my run in. I did Wasatch loop from my house. Nothing exciting happened.