We drove up to Pauline for our little backroad workout today. 2 miles warm up. The workout is kind of hard to describe. We went out and back 2 miles, which contained several solid hills, and during those 4 miles we would surge up the hills and recover on the downhills. Then we rolled directly into a 2 mile "tempo" on the way back of the 2 miles we warmed up to. That was almost completely uphill, so tempo is a relative term...it was more like tempo effort, because it couldn't end up tempo pace. The hills were pretty tough on the out and back portion. Coach Harris said he thought I was probably struggling with those so much because I don't pick up my feet then I run - I have a very miniscule knee drive. So they definitly were killing my hamstrings and butt. Not muscles I'm used to using. In hindsight, I wish I would have gone a little bit faster on the "tempo" portion of it. I wasn't as tired as I should have been (like as I was during the hill surges) when I finished. 15 minute cool down and stretching afterwards.
Weights & core later. At dinner before weights, I talked to Hunter about my frustration on why I am not getting much better yet. He said it's a process and they're training me to be my best by junior/senior year, not really the end of each season. But he also said that "the girls" need to learn to be more mentally tough. Part of me wanted to be offended but then the bigger part of me realized that if I took any offense to that, it's probably true. Maybe its my mental game that's lacking most.
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