You've got to want it to win it

This afternoon I just did 2 miles on treadmill.  I didn't do anything like listen to music, I just ran 2 miles on the treadmill.  It was very boring. 

This morning we had team practice starting st Sugarhouse Park again.  We ran up to 1500e and then went over to 900s and down to Amanda ave. where we cut over to Sunnyside.  Then we ran down just behind the school to 1200e and went back to 900s.  We went down to 900e and then went all the way over to 2100s, and went back to the park.  We have done a similar loop in the winter, but that loop is only 5 miles.  I ran with Bre, and on 1500e Bill caught up to us and told us to try to stay at his pace.  We did, but along 900e my stomach ached and I slowed down a bit.  But then I caught back up at a light going up 2100s.  It took 48 minutes, so we had a good 8 minute pace.  When we got back to park we did three sets of 25 crunches and three sets of 15 pushups, I did girl pushups.    

This morning we had a team workout again at Sugarhouse Park. We started in that park and ran out to 2100s and then up to 2100e. We then went over the where there was a church and then we turned right, and took the next left which goes under the freeway. We kept going until I think 2700s and we turned right and went down to Alden Street. I wasn't paying that much attention, and I would have missed the turn but I was running with Bre so when she turned I realized where we were. Then we ran until Alden ended and turned right and went back up to 1700e and went back into the park. We pushed a little at the end, which put us at an 8 minute pace. When we got back we did three sets of 25 crunches and 15 pushups. Then we did some drills, not too hard. We only did high knees, power skips, butt kicks, lunges, and squats.

This evening I had a speedworkout with Wasatch Athletics.  Few people showed up at first, but at about 6:30 we finally started our warmup.  We did a lap around the outside of the park, I ran with Bre and Greg.  After that we went to the track and did 3 laps of speed changes with a lap cooldown.  We were going to do 800s, but when everyone looked sad about it the coach only had us do 400s.  He wanted us to do as many as we could, and he gave each of us a goal to reach.  He told me to try to do 10.  I was a little sore from my long run a few days ago and probably from some of the drills this morning, so I didn't go very fast. but I wasn't that slow either.  I got about 1:23s on most of them, going no slower than 1:26 one time.  Then on my last one the coach told me to try to  push up to the lead of the group, and I did well with a time of 1:16.  I was glad, but I wish I had tried to push harder on some of the other 400s.  After that I stretched a little bit and then went and did a cooldown around the perimeter of the park again.  It felt nice and relaxing other than being sore.  I can feel that I am getting stronger.      

I went camping today and wasn't familiar with the area that much so I just ran on the road.  It wasn't that bad, I saw lots of wildlife.  I started with running down from my campsite and then I went east on the road.  Someone from the camp followed me on a bike to make sure cars were able to see me.  I ran out 3 miles, and I saw quite a few roadkill, and used some of them to determine how far I was.  I went out about 3 miles instead of my original plan to go to a turnoff for the Smith-Morehouse Reservoir, which when we drove later found it was 4.  So when I reached 3 miles I turned around.  I saw the same roadkill in the middle of the road, like a raccoon, and since I was running on the opposite side of the road I saw a dead deer off the side of the road as well.  The run was nice and cool, just starting to get dark when I returned.  While walking back up to my campsite I saw 6 or 7 deer in a field by a stream getting water.  That was neat.    

I started the day out with a hike.  A friend and I decided to run parts of it.  I didn't have my running shoes and I thought it was going to be too hot at the time we were on the hike to run.  So we ran parts of it, and we carried our water bottles.  I'm not sure how much of it we actually ran, or how long the hike was, so I'm not counting it in my mileage.  On the way down we tried to make it back faster than we had made it up, which we did, and then we took naps for almost 2 hours while we waited for others in the group.  

For my 4 miles I went running in the evening along the same road I had the other day.  I saw some deer on both sides of the road of me so I watched them for a while.  I didn't go out quite as far as the raccoon, but to a spot just past the deer I had seen.  Then on the way back I identified one of the roadkill as a snake.  Something else I thought was kind of funny was on one of the ranches there were a bunch of no trespassing signs that said "We can make it to the fence in 3 seconds.  Can you?".  I had a good run again, and I felt good when I was done.   

I went for a run in the evening a little earlier than I had the other days because we were having guests visit for dinner.  This time someone else rode on the bike behind me as the previous rider was working on dinner.  I had originally planned to run all the way to the turnoff for the reservoir, but since the water bottles were falling off the bike and since it was a run where shortcuts wouldn't be possible on the way back, I only went out 3 miles.  Just past the dead raccoon again.  Since it was a little earlier and the sun was up a bit more, there weren't as many bugs to swallow so that was good.  There were little cotton things floating around in the air, and when one of them flew into my eye I had to stop for a moment.  I didn't realize until there was noise in the bush by the road that there were some deer in the bush, so it was cool to see them.  It wasn't so bad with the extra sun.  As we were just reaching the turnoff to go back up to the campsite, and old couple driving by offered us a ride but we told them we were just at our turnoff but were glad for the offer anyways.  When I got back I had a nice dinner which felt good :)  

I returned from camp today, and it took a while to get everything put away.  Then I went to dinner with the family, and we played games afterwards.  We left those at about 10 so there wasn't much time for running.  So I just did another boring mile on the treadmill.  My little sister did read a children's book to me though.