Sock tans

Today was a good day! We hit the pinata (well it broke before I could hit it but I still got some ramen and M&Ms! The M&Ms had Cam Levins name on them so you know that's pretty sweet, and the Ramen had a number which means I get a prize! I'm going to Brent's office tomorrow to see what it is!) Anywho, coach told us to split into groups today, those going to regionals and those who aren't. I wasn't sure what group to go in, I wanted to go in the regionals group but thought that maybe since I didn't run at conference I was no longer in that group, but coach says I can run with them tomorrow so I'm pretty stoked :) But yeah today I ended up going with the other group. We did canyon run, haven't done it in a while so it was nice! Wind was intense.

The wind kept me up all night which was annoying, but its ok I had time for a nap today :) we went up to the road above the C. It was a 60%, it was really hard for me. I fell off the group and was kind of discouraged but tried to stay positive and work through it. Clinton drove the van behind me so whenever I hit an uphill I had to fight the temptation to stop and hop in. It was even harder when Maggie got in but I figured that was because of her knee, and told myself to keep going. When we turned around Paige and Angie hopped in, both were having problems but man I really wanted to stop. Cause it was at the bottom of the huge hill and I was hurting. But I told myself I needed to push through it and finish the whole thing. Happy with the effort and pushing through the hurt.

AM: 2.5 before classes

PM: 6 miles with Jenny at 50%, 7:40 average. Felt pretty good, a little sore. I think from yesterday's core session.

First snowfall of the year!

Finally had a good workout! We drove to Mesquite today, we did warmups and warmed up 2 miles. Workout was 3x1600 with 4 minutes active recovery in between each, then 6x100 meter strides at about 80% of mile race pace but it felt like I was sprinting all of them. We had 15 seconds between each of those which made it extra hard, but I worked hard on them. I guess I just don't have as much speed right now haha. But the one that I started my garmin for (the first) was sub 5:00 pace so thats cool. Range for them was 5:35?-6:05, but coach said to try to hit them all? In 5:50. I hit 5:47, 5:45, 5:52. Was happy with the workout, finally felt good! I have my energy back, its just out of shapeness now. Time to build up mileage! Well, I'm not sure with regionals coming up, I'll ask coach what I should do. I'll probably wait a week or maybe just build a little bit.

Went to a buffet afterwards! Thanks coach :)

HR 56

10 miles, wanted something new so I explored a bit! Made it pretty hilly but I enjoyed it.

HR 60

Dikes + Canyon run. Felt good! Was gonna go to 10 but it got dark and i'm never running in the dark again. Almost ran into a pack of deer and some psycho dog literally chased me down the street. It freaked me out a bit!