Sock tans

Practice was at Sugarhouse. We did a full lap warmup, my knee didn't feel good from the start. It bothered me when we were going up the hill and turning onto 17th, sharp pain again. Went away and was fine until going down 21st a little later. Really was bad going back into the park down the hill, had to slow down a ton to lessen the pain, which now came with almost every step. Stopped for a minute to walk, then continued to the fountain, the pain not so bad. Then we went over to the State hill and did 4 of those, only had one that was decent. The knee wasn't too bad, bearable but I was still careful about it. Then went over to the white tree and did that hill six times. I didn't go as fast as I could have because I was still paranoid about my knee. Maybe it was stupid of me. I wonder if part of the problem was that I stopped taking Ibuprofen this weekend, I just don't like taking it for a long time. Then ran over to another fountain and down to Emmaline's house for breakfast, Happy Birthday Emmaline!

Woke up at 5:30 so I would have time to run, man that's early. I did VA loop, youth conference starts today! Used my other pair of shoes cause my new ones are packed at the bottome of my bag :/ knee felt good. Rolled out last night and I think it helped.

I couldn't get up and run in the morning because we already had to get up at 5:30 to go to the temple, so I found time between lunch and the water games to go for my run. It was so hot but I was just glad to be able to run, my young women's leaders are the best! I went over to Snow College's track for my run. It's an asphalt track! I've never seen one before so it was kind of cool. 4 miles.

When I got home my dad wanted me to mow the lawn, which meant I mowed it while it was sunny and had to run in the rain. It was fun at first, then it started showering and it wasn't so fun. It was also super windy. I did VA loop and started to do Shriners run until I decided to turn around, went back along guardsman. I felt good, ran with my new Garmin. My first mile was pretty slow, 8:05 but I brought it down to a 7:23 average. Fastest mile was a 6:58 (mile 5). By then I was hoping to get the average pace down below 7:20, but I guess I got close. I like running with a garmin :)

Today was at Liberty, we did a wood chip lap warmup and then went to the mile mark and did 3 800s. I hit 2:43, 2:54, 2:45. Ran back to the mile mark for recovery. Then did cool down around the park. It's been a long time since we've done any speed work, so I guess it was okay. Knee felt fine, started to hurt a bit on the cool down but I rolled out. I actually found that rolling on the inner side of my thigh helps more than IT band, but I still roll my IT. There's a spot just above my knee on the inner side that feels like there's a knot.

Wet, rainy day in Island Park. When I got there I convinced my cousin to follow me on the four wheeler, quite an enjoyable run. It's beautiful up here! Then it started to pour and I didn't want to make my cousin stay out and get drenched, so we went inside.