You've got to want it to win it

This morning we had our first cross country practice :)  We met at Sugarhouse park and started by running the state course.  Then we did one set of the circuit.  After that we did a lap on the outside of the park for cooldown.  Since I was only at five and a quarter I did a barefoot quarter.  After that I did my crunches and pushups.

This morning for practice we met at Sunnyside Park.  We started with a lap around the block for warmup.  I forgot my garmin, but I think it was about 2 miles warmup.  Then for the workout we did 8 sets of 1 minute on 1 minute off fartlek around the fields.  Towards the end my leg was hurting where it had been injured, but it was hurting after the warmup but I massaged it out so I don't think its the bone.  Afterwards we played ultimate frisbee for our cooldown :)  Then I did my crunches and pushups.

In the evening I met the group at Sugarhouse and did the warmup lap with them, and then I did another lap with Dakota to get 4 since we didn't need to do speed because of this morning.

This morning we met at the Shoreline Trail for practice.  We started up the way we usually go, but coming up on Red Butte we went up the path that leads to rock living room only we turned left.  Then we followed that trail for a while.  I had only run it once before, though in the snow so the scenery was different.  Going up the steep hills I was so proud of myself for not stopping to walk :)  It was hard to breath but I kept running anyway, even though it was slow.  After that when we were still climbing a bit I caught up to some of the guys.  Then going down I even passed Bill.  We ended up at the fence at the top of the road and then we went back the regular way we get to the fence.  But not really because where we usually would come off the trail was roped off, probably because of the oil spill.  So we had to go through the parking lot and past student houses and stick to the road until we could get back on the trail.  Taylor and I stopped for water and then got back on and ran back the regular way.  After everyone was finished we did our crunches and pushups across the street on the grass.  When I got home I took a 10 minute ice bath.  Tough day but it feels so good to be finished :) 

Today we met at Peace Gardens for our workout.  We planned to go out 2.5 miles on the Jordan River trail and back, but the trail was flooded at 2.35.  I ran with Abigail, Amanda, and Mary, and when we got back we ran a little bit in the gardens to get up to 5.  Then we did a few core exercies, including lunges, toes, high knees, butt kicks, and then Emily showed us a few plank exercises that work the abs more than crunches which were tough but I'm glad I know them now.  Then we did high knees and we were done for the day.

This morning we met at Liberty for workout.  We started with a lap warmup, and then went to the start line on the sidewalk for 800s.  While we waited there I stretched my quads, they were sore from the core work yesterday.  We did a few strides before we started.  I hit the first on in 2:53, and then we had 800 recovery over to the mile mark, and from there we did another one.  This time I was with Tommy and Scott and I hit a 2:45.  Then we finished that lap and did another lap for cooldown.  After going out to breakfast with the team, at home I did my crunches and pushups, and the stuff we learned from Emily yesterday.

This morning I ran to Sunnyside, did a big lap around all of the fields and the whole park, and then 2 laps around the 2 fields, and then ran home.  Just did enough to hit my mileage goal for this week :)  I did my crunches and pushups at home.