You've got to want it to win it

Today I ran to the track as a warmup to see if there was a workout, there was.  Ben, Natalie, and I weren't doing the team stuff since we just finished state, now we are preparing for Great Southwest.  Bill had planned for us to do a 10 miler, Ben didn't want to do the whole thing so he drove to the Shriner's drinking fountain and Bill, Natalie, and I ran there via  the usual route through the U campus.  Then we went up to 11th Avenue and ran into City Creek and up just past the bathroom and drinking fountain until we were 5 miles from the track.  Then we turned and went back the same way we had come.  My calves were probably the tightest, and my hamstrings.  I stretched when we stopped at the drinking fountains along the way.  

Today at JV regions since Nat and I weren't allowed to compete, after cheering on our team mates in the 1600 we went for a run.  We needed 8 miles.  From Bountiful High we went out onto the main road, Orchard Drive, and turned up 500 South.  We wanted to run to the temple so that's what we did.  It was pretty much uphill the whole way but it was worth it.  We made a loop around the temple, we went up some streets that took us as far as 300s and then it circled back to the road the temple was on.  Then we ran through the parking lot, we were weaving around the planter boxes to get mileage, and then we stopped to look at the view from up there, it was incredible!  On the way back out to the road we weaved around the planter boxes again and we counted them, so if you ever have temple trivia and you get the question how many planter boxes are in the parking lot you can answer 58, there are 29 on each side.  Then we went south on the road and followed it until we reached Lakeview Drive, we had been on that road earlier in the run before we went north.  So we followed that road down and then turned onto 1500e, I know we had been on that one too when we had went north.  Eventually we worked back to 500s and went back to the track.  That put us at 6 miles and we were hoping Bill would say that was enough but he said we had to do the full 8 so we went out on the road a mile and back to finish off our miles.  What a great adventure run!  

Today for workout we were going to do speed but Bill changed his mind. Instead we ran along Guardsman and through U campus and through the alley just like we would if we were going to Shriner's. But when we got out of the alley we turned and went down to South Temple. When we got to T street we turned and did a stride up a block, and then went west again for a block and then did another stride to the north up the hill. We did that all the way until we had reached 11th Avenue, and then we went until we were at 4 and a half and then turned. We did the same thing on the hills going back, pushing the downhills and then relaxing the flat part between each. Then we went back through U campus the same way we had come back to the track.

Today for workout we had an easy day.  Starting from the track, we did our 5k course backwards and then went up and along Wasatch Drive until we were at 4 miles and then turned and went back the same way.  For the first few miles of the run we were pretty close as a group, but at about the post office we got separated a little and I was by myself for most of the rest of the run.  On Wasatch I was closing on the others but after the turnaround I am pretty sure they picked it up because they got a lot of distance on me. But I didn't try to catch up to them because it was an easy day and it was downhill anyway.  Later when I got home I did my abs, pushups, and arm swings.

This morning we met at the track for workout.  We started with a mile warmup, then stretching, then another mile and then a mile of speedchanges.  Then we changed shoes.  The workout was a mile in which I was supposed to hit between 5:20 and 5:25, and then four 400s at 75 but for every second slower I hit on my mile I would have to do an extra 400.  Natalie had the same deal but different split times.  I hit my mile in 5:23 and then after some standing recovery we did a lap recovery before tackling the 400s.  I hit 73, 73, 71, 71 and we had standing recovery after each.  Then we did 7 laps for cooldown. 

This morning I went for an easy 6 miles.  I felt like bringing my iPod along so I did.  I went up to 1500e and then ran over to Sugarhouse Park and did 2 outer laps and then came back along 1500e but when I got to Blaine I cut down to 1400e to go back to my house because I didn't want to go up the hill.  When I got home I did my abs, pushups, and crunches.