Sock tans

Workout was 30 x 1 minute on 1 minute off fartlek. On our way to Sugarhouse I asked Bill what it was and he told me, I honestly thought he was kidding. No way were we gonna do 30. We got to the Park and went to the entrance by Highland and told everyone else, which was when I figured out he wasn't kidding. My mood dropped a ton right then, I already was thinking there's no way I was gonna be able to finish 30. We did them around the perimeter of the park. I fell off Bill maybe 10 repeats in. It only took 20 repeats for me to stop thinking negatively. Ha :) At that point I had the thought "What if I caught back up to Bill?" He had a pretty large gap on me but I could still see him, probably 200 meters. I caught him with 3 repeats left. Finished 8.61 miles in the hour so 6:58 average pace, and that's with 30 minutes of running slow! Then ran back to the track and decided to add to 14 because I hate uneven numbers, especially ones starting with 13. :) Good workout, but now my legs hurt.

Cold and windy today, we went along guardsman to the cemetery, did a lap and to the hill and did 5 hills, a lap, 5 hills, and back to the track along 13th and added to 7.

It's freaking cold outside. Super windy and freezing or a few degrees over. Run today was to the park on 13th and south temple, 8 strides along the grass and up the hill, then up to the cemetery and ran death hill (it certainly lives up to its name) then Shriners run back. Dallen caught up to me along the alley, which was awesome! Added at the track to 8. Knee has been bothering me a bit, started back up on Monday. Warmed up after a half mile, it's the same knee but hurts in a different spot than earlier in the season. Earlier it felt like it was deeper in my knee and rolling out ITs helped fix that problem. This time it should be easy to fix cause I've pinpointed the spot that needs rolling out, I'll do ITs too in case they're adding to it.

It snowed today... I don't like winter. I say let it snow the week of Christmas then bring back the sun. Ran down to Liberty, 3 laps on the grass, then back up to the track and 2 grass laps to finish to 8. Didn't have my garmin today so I don't know what the pace was but I felt like we kept a good one. Good run.

4 miles going down 900 S, up the weird 5th street at the intersection to 1300 E, took it to 1700 S and down to 900 E and back to 900 S and back up and added in the teacher parking lot. Short today because of the 5k tomorrow. I'm ready to race, time to step up my game. 

Got to the race and warmed up 2 miles total. Stomach was a bit full but not too bad. Right before the race my knee started bothering me, but I wasn't gonna use that as an excuse. Probably should've had a little more warmup cause it was cold but oh well.

The start was a bit rushed and it was kind of like "oh we're supposed to go now." I was with just guys heading to the road we turned onto. Stuck with Bill until the turn onto the trail where he gapped me a bit. At that point I felt fine I was sort of just saving cause I didn't want to go out hard and crash bad. My legs were numb though because of the cold (the high today is 34) which may have helped a bit cause I just wanted to get done. Going along that path the girl Bill pointed out to me as an ex BYU runner passed me, I should have gone with her but I just let her go. I was good with the pace I was at and was worried I'd push too hard in the first half. Dropping to the pond and going around it I kept working but not necessarily surging. Going through the forest thing there were tons of sharp S turns and that slowed me down a ton, on the last one I was almost at a stop and had to surge real quick to pick it back up. Surged a bit coming out and up the hill, probably the first time I ever just told myself to attack the hill and not let it slow me down. At the top of the hill my core was just burning and had to take a few deep breaths and tell myself to keep pushing. I wasalmost done and could see the finish off in the distance. Took me a minute to recover and start pushing again, got to the final stretch and knew I was gonna get a good time, I had worked hard. Finally started kicking (after a few of Bills yells) and finished with 18:40, a PR for both a 5k and a 3 mile.

There were a few things I could have done better, I could have stuck on Bill and worked with him, he and Jakob weren't too far ahead of me. Might've been nice to work with someone instead of by myself. I could have gone with the girl (She ended up winning, I was second overall women). I'm not sure what her time was. I could have pushed myself through the top of that hill and worked through the pain better and kicked sooner and harder. I could have even started a bit faster. But I am very happy with how this race turned out, it's given me a huge confidence boost. Finally had a good race (and I needed one, especially after the past couple races - State included). This means Arizona is gonna be amazing.

Cooled down a little under 2 miles.