Sock tans

It's amazing how fast you can lose it all. I was gone for 2 weeks, and now I'm at the back of the pack. Finally when I was doing well, doing what I wanted to, I go on vacation and go back to zero. We met at sugarhouse and did the cemetery run. Bill had told me to do a lap in the cemetery. So I did. But the others, I could tell, were going faster than they normally do, and for me who was struggling to even keep up with the normal pace, this did not help me one bit. I crashed earlier, and the rest of the run sucked. I just felt like I should at least try to keep up for as long as I could. Thanks guys. Really didn't help. I'm upset that I went from the front (ish) of the pack to the back of the pack.

Met the team in a parking lot, I think it was off of 33rd or something like that. I don't know directions very well...ha. Anyway, we went a half mile on the road and aturned around, then went on a trail thing and followed it to the foothill drinking fountain and then went along foothill to thunderbird and went up thunderbird to Wasatch Dr.??? IDK. Then went along that to the hill by the zoo, then turned around and came back the same way, and then finishing with another half mile on the road and came back to the parking lot.

I felt goodish on the first half of it. I started up with the whole group, then it soon split into the different levels. It was: Tomy, Chris, and Ethan I think in the front, Kiley and her friend a little farther back, and then Bill, Abigail and I a little farther back. Then as the run went on it changed a bit. I tried to stay with Bill for as long as I could. Abigail soon fell off, and then I was dying soon after that. But I forced myself to try to stay with him. I felt like we were going fast, but that was probably just me because I haven't that intense of a workout for over 2 weeks now...:0 A little before the turn around point I fell off of Bill, but they had waited for me. Thanks guys! I felt like I was going to puke but I got some rest, but then we had to start up again. I really just wanted to be done at this point, but of course we had to go back. Amazing how fast the groups formed again. I tried to hang on Bill. He was telling me a story about having to accept the pain, but I asked myself if I could accept it, and at the time I didn't want to. Then What Hurts the Most by rascal flats got stuck in my head, I fell off Bill, and then I decided that I WOULD accept the pain but he was already so far ahead I never caught him. But when I got back to the parking lot, I thought I was done, but no I had to go a half mile out half mile back to get to 10. But Bill came with me. Thanks!! It made it so much easier!

AM:

July 11th. What does that mean? our annual slurpee run!!! We met at sunnyside. Rules: go to all of the 7/11s listed on the paper (they were all addresses). You can go any way you'd like. It doesn't matter what order they're in, as long as you go to all of them. There were 8 listed. You have to go inside the stores and get one of the free cups and fill it to the top with a slurpee flavor and eat it all gone, whether you chug it or take your time it's up to you. It's sort of a race, just a very different one at that. If you puke, you're disqualified. If you don't go to all of them or eat all of the slurpee you're also disqualified. We end back at the Liberty Park drinking fountain.  

So my plan was to follow everyone because I had honestly no idea where we were going. If I really thought about it I could figure out where they all where, but that wasted tons of time. So I followed the pack. but then it split 2 different ways on guardsman, and I decided to follow Bill since he knew where to go. We got to the first one just a bit before that other group :) that one though didn't have the cups out or anything and they wouldn't let us get any, so we moved on. Apparently they're not supposed to give them out "until 11". people. next one gave them to us though! It was weird though because after I ate that one, after a little while I felt better than before it. I guess eating on an empty stomach isn't that good after all. then we proceeded to the next. By now Bill was way far ahead, and I was losing sight of everyone. I tried to be fast enough to see where everyone went. Then when we got to one we all finished our slurpees  at around the same time, so we all went in a group. I just followed once again. Then Caden pointed out to me that we were going the wrong way, and so both of us turned around and went the RIGHT way. :) We, of course, got there first. Well of course Tomy and Bill and them got the before us, but before our little group I mean. Right as Caden and I were finishing our slurpees they all got there and were like "we went the wrong way!!" hehe. We went to the next. and the next. and so on. Then we finally got to the one by Liberty park, and Tomy came over. then we realized we had to go to the drinking fountain to finish.

We don't know who got 2nd and 3rd (me or Caden) because we weren't really paying attention. We beat Bill and them because they went a different way and probably hit tons of lights. So I got 2nd or 3rd!!! Oh and I was the first girl! :) It was fun!

PM:

4 miles around my neighborhood. 

Left for trek today, so I didn't run with the team. When we got there, we walked 8 miles pulling handcarts, then I went and ran 6 with Abigail, a couple out and backs because of some scary cows that were about to charge at us, or so it looked. A bit scary. :0

So we were on trek still. We walked 11 miles today, and so it was quite tiring. Abigail and I went running in our moment of opportunity, after the devotional, when it was pitch black outside. There was a hill by our camp, so we ran up and down that 24 times to get to 2 miles. I'm counting all of the walking miles of trek (26 to be exact) as 5 miles of running.

Finished the 26 mile loop for trek today, so we did 7 miles I think. Later that evening I realized I hadn't run yet, and Bill had told me to do at least 7, so I just did 8 to get to 50 miles this week. 5 miles over!!!! :)