You've got to want it to win it

I went running today!!!  My brother gave me a ride to Sugarhouse and then ran with me for as long as he could keep up.  He made it a lap and a half.  It was nice to have the company!  My legs hurt at the beginning of the run but as they warmed up they felt great!  And my hip was fine!  It is amazing feeling recovered :)  

Today I did the workout with the team :)  We got to run at the track since the snow is all melted!  And it was such a nice morning!  For warmup I ran around the bailiff with Giselle, Alyssa, and Alex so we could be on the grass.  Then we did strides and drills and changed shoes, then Kep told us our workout.  For the long distance group it was four sets of two 700s.  There was 100 recovery between the 700s, and a lap between sets.  The idea was to go 10k pace for the first set, 5k for the second, and 3k for the 3rd and 4th.  I was by myself, but still did alright pacewise... sort of, the first one was fast, 2:19, but then I ran a 2:25.  The next set was 2:17, 2:24, then 2:18, 2:23, and finally 2:18, 2:22.  The second 700 of each set was tough!  Before the final set I had the option of going down to 300s, but I wanted to do the last set and have to really push on that last 700.  So glad I did :)  For cooldown I ran around the bailiff with Hilary to bring my total miles to 9 for the day.  Afterwards I did my rehab and then had Tim work on my lower back a little bit since I think that might be a source of the hip pain.  And actually I didn't even think of my hip during the workout until Kep asked me how my hip was doing!  :)  When I got home I took a 15 minute ice bath.

This morning was tank top weather!  I ran along 1300e to 1700s and then down to 700e and over to Liberty Park.  I did a lap around the perimeter there, and then ran to 900s and down to 600e over to 600s.  I then weaved up 600 and 700s back to my apartment to finish at 7 for the day.  No hip pain at all, just some sore muscles from a great workout yesterday!  I had a nice long stretch afterward as I enjoyed some chocolate milk. :)

This morning after sleeping in I went and got my workout done with Giselle :)  Kep said I could do the mid distance workout so that Giselle and I could even work together :)  We warmed up to Liberty Park from the Trolley Trax station, and since both of us wanted to run on the grass we did our strides and drills over by the cross country workout spot.  We had a lot of fun talking about how fun cross country is going to be next year, but track hasn't even started haha :P  The workout was sets of 6 minute threshold with 75 second recovery.  Giselle did 4 sets and I did 5 (the distance workout was 30 minute threshold, so I didn't miss much).  The first one was a little fast (we felt great!)  But we slowed it down just a tad for the next few and those were all the same.  The last one by myself was hard but Giselle ran part of her cooldown to where I would be finishing to cheer me on.  Kep was really happy with our workout :)  We were too :)  We cooled down back to the Trolley station and then went to the training room to do our hip rehab.  Then I had Hanah scrape my calves, they were still tight from Tuesdays workout.  It hurt really bad :(  But they will recover sooner!  This has been an awesome week :)

Today I ran down 1300e to Sugarhouse Park, did part of an outer loop until I was at 3, then turned and ran back home to finish at 6.  

This morning I ran to Sugarhouse again, this time I went around the perimeter until I hit 4 before turning around.  When I got home I had a nice long stretch and then did my rehab and even a little foam rolling before hopping in the ice bath for 15 minutes.