Sock tans

Today we met at sugarhouse. We did a warmup loop, then we did some hills. I only did 6 of them because my leg and hip area was hurting so much! Even on the warmup. It was so tight/sore/just killing! Then we did some strides, I was starting to feel better. Then did a cool down. I can't figure out what it was that hurt it so much! maybe it was from running on the road slant? I don't know. I'm gonna ice it and roll it out to see if it will feel better tomorrow. 

So I either slept through my alarm, didn't turn it on, or turned it off and went back to sleep. Either way, I missed my ride to practice, and my parents couldn't take me. So what did I do? I ran to Liberty. It actually wasn't as far as I thought, 1.75 miles. And it was downhill, so it wasn't that bad. When I got there, everyone was stretching, so I stretched with them. Then we ran to the start line and did a mile tempo followed by an 800. On the mile I was supposed to hit 5:35-5:40. I didn't hit it, I got a 6:11. I felt like I was going fast though! When Abigail came up on me I lost it mentally and she had said "we're off" and that's not exactly the thing I wanted to hear. I slowed down a ton, then right at the end picked it up a bit. I felt horrible, all thoughts turned negative. Then we ran to the start again and I was cut off A TON at the beginning by multiple people, which slowed me down a ton and then had trouble speeding up, got a 3:06. So I stayed consistent at least. I don't know, trying to think of anything good that came out of it. My foot was giving me pain on all of the slow parts, so Bill took a look at it, and I just have to ice it and get new shoes. Glad to hear it's nothing too bad. I hope it will feel better soon :) On the cool down I ran with Bill the first lap then Abigail joined and I fell off of them, once again negative thoughts running through my head. I guess I was just frustrated that I have been working hard all summer, and now she's doing better than me again.

First day of school today...:/ We met up at the track after school and went for a run in the gully thingy. I decided I would try to work hard today, even if I was sore or whatever. So I was chasing Tomy for the first lap and a half, then I fell back and ran the rest of the lap with Patrick, just a tiny bit slower. Then Patrick left, so I was alone for the 3rd lap. I had a lot of trouble getting myself to keep going all alone, but I managed. Then on the hill on the way back my foot started to hurt, but I didn't pay much attention to it because of how yesterday I ran and it wouldn't hurt too much. By the time I got back to the track and was running to where the team was, my arch, not the same place as yesterday, started to hurt even more. Then when I stopped it just KILLED!!! Whenever I put weight on it, it would shoot pain. We did team core stuff, I only did a bit. Then we did a bit of strides, I couldn't do those either. So then we went for a cool down, I made it to the hill and it just killed it so I stopped. Only 4 for today, I iced it and I hope it feels better tomorrow. It's weird though... change shoes from bad ones to broken down ones, and the pain switches to a different spot...hmmm

First time pool running....what fun it was. Not really. I kept getting really weird looks. Anyway, I did 5 minutes warmup, then 2 minutes on 1 minute off 5 times. Or more. I lost count and so I might've done 1 or 2 extra. I don't really know. I got really annoyed though because some guy kept splashing me time and time again as he did laps because he kept kicking so hard, but I guess that's what you get for running in a pool. Then I did 5 minutes cool down. I also biked 3 miles coming to and from the pool!!!

I went to the barbeque thing for the team, and it was really hard to watch people run and have to walk no matter what. But I was made a captain!!! So it was worth coming, and the food was amazing! :) 

Another day of pool running...

I went to cheer people on at the meet today and walked quite a bit. After I went to steiner's and did 5 minutes warmup, then a ladder of 1 min on 1 min off, 2 min on 1 min off, 3 min 2 min off, 4 min on  min off, 3 min on 2 min off, 2 min on 1 min off, 1 min on 1 min off. Then I did a cool down of 5 minutes. Then I talked to the janitor lady for a few minutes while waiting for my dad to pick me up... that was an interesting conversation. Oh and the lifeguards? I watched them put up a dummy on the chair thing they sit on , dress it up like a lifeguard, and position it with sunglasses and a floaty thingy they use. Now that was fun to watch!!! The weird thing was it looked real too...:) 

Today I met Sarah and did another pool workout. It was just a longer one. We did 45 minutes of medium speed. I've gotta say I hate pool running. :(