You've got to want it to win it

This morning I went running with Hilary and Nikki.  We ran xarT, and took the capitol way and behind temple square and to the library trax station.  Got the last quarter mile running from the station on campus to the locker room.  Lifted afterwards.

This morning I had a workout at Liberty Park with Bekah, AuraLea, and Nikki.  We warmed up around the park for about 15 minutes, then did our usual strides and drills.  The LD threshold workout was 24 minutes, then five 30 second strides.  Kep told us to go easier the first 12 minutes, then make it about 100-200 meters farther the second 12 minutes.  Bekah and I started out too fast, at 2:50 for the half mile (just going off of the painted lines and dots, I didn't look on my Garmin to see if it was actually .5, but still...) We came through the mile line at about 5:50.  Bekah fell back at this point so I was on my own, but I kept the pace ok.  I was at 8:47 for the mile and a half.  Between here and the next mark, Bekah caught up and passed me, but I just focused on keeping my pace and not letting her pace distract me.  At 12 minutes my distance was 2.02.  On the next lap, after the 3 mile mark I started catching up to Bekah, and I did and ran with her for a bit.  After the 3.5 I could tell she wasn't feeling it so I continued on my own, finishing with 4.07 for the 24 minute total.  Bekah, Nikki, and I did strides the other way around the park back to our cars.  I cooled down half a lap with Nikki, then another 3 miles to get to 12 for the day. 

This morning I went running with Nikki in the rain!  We started on the fruit loop route and then took the zoo loop onto Wasatch.  Nikki was with me to 4 miles, then turned around.  I kept going along Wasatch and then on the paved Shoreline Trail just a little bit past the drinking fountain until I was almost to 6.  I ran back to campus along Foothill and finished with 10 total.  It stopped raining on the way back, and didn't ran again until several hours after we had finished :-P  We lifted afterwards, and then saw Tim.

This morning I went running with Hilary and Nikki.  We started out on Foothill and then took 2300e to 2100s.  They were with me until 1500e, then I was on my own for a lap around Sugarhouse and back to campus along 15th and Guardsman.  The team meeting afterwards was only 15 minutes long, which was lame because we had to cancel a distance runner brunch that we had planned during that time...  So looking forward to brunch after the workout tomorrow instead!

This morning I worked out with AuraLea and Bekah.  We did the usual warmup route and strides and drills on the track.  It was raining during our warmup, but settled down for our strides.  It picked up again just after that, but a few reps in it was sunny and awesome!  The workout was three 800s at 10k pace where for the third, second, and third 200 we were supposed to pick up the pace a few seconds and then settle back into the pace as before.  That was hard for me, I was able to start with 40s, get to a 39 for the "fast" 200, but came back in 42s...  I know it is something I need to work on if I want to be one of those racers that can breakaway like that.  My times were 2:43, 2:42, 2:42.  We had 90 seconds rest for those and 400 jog after the third one.  Next we had five 500s at 5k pace.  On the first one I hit 1:37, the rest of them were 1:38.  Recovery on those was 75 seconds, and we used that time to jog 100 meters back to the start.  I was having a hard time keeping up with Bekah on these ones, I think the few days of slower recovery runs as well as higher miles for two weeks again are taking their toll.  We finished with four 300s with 300 jog recovery.  We were supposed to hit around 52-53, but my body wasn't feeling it.  I ran 54, 55, 55, 57.  Took a full lap after the last one and then cooled down 2.5 to finish with 10 total.  After workout we finally got to have our pajamas and pancakes party!  Perfect activity for a rainy day :)

This morning I went running on Pipeline.  Right as I started my run, it started to hail.  I made it half mile before it was hurting my face, so I turned around and ran back to my car to get some sunglasses to protect my eyes.  I started back out again, and the weather got better.  But it was still cold.  I ran all the way to the overlook, then turned around.  With less than a mile to go, I rolled my right ankle... it hurt kinda bad, but I kept running on it.  Putting it in the river sounded really nice!  And I knew I'd get there quicker if I kept running.  It hurt for abou a quarter mile, then eased up.  When I got back to my car it was raining, so I skipped the river.  I'm just going to rest it up and hope it isn't that bad.

Went to the second anual Salt Lake Hunger Games this afternoon.  I was allied with Patrick and a few others, Patrick got 3.6 miles on his GPS watch!  Not logging it in the miles since it was stop and go, but it is important enough to blog about I think!  And because I wanted to brag about getting third. :) Because I'm awesome.  Jk.  But my ankle was fine on the running around, just on slanted ground it hurt a little bit.