You've got to want it to win it

Today for workout we ran on not Foothill!  We went through the Avenues to get to 11th Avenue and took that all the way to City Creek.  We were in one big pack the whole time, though I admit going up the hills on Alta and Virginia Streets to get to 11th I fell behind the group and took a while to catch back up but I made it.  The group turned down Memory Grove but I ran up just a bit farther to hit the bathrooms and drinking fountain because I knew they were less than a quarter mile away and I wasn't feeling so great, but I wasn't feeling horrible.  Just about the whole run I was at 7:25 pace.  The rest of the girls ran around downtown and took trax back up, but I ran back up to campus along South Temple like in indoor track.  I ended up with a total of 9 miles in 70 minutes, and I actually beat the other girls back because they had to wait for the train.  I was pretty slow as I got closer to campus because it got steeper there, I really need to do a good hills workout because I have not been doing so well at those lately :P

This morning I didn't make it to weights because I was puking my guts out last night and in the middle of the night.  It took me a while to fall asleep after both times so I needed the extra sleep in the morning, and I wasn't feeling that I'd be able to have a good lifting workout since I hadn't kept any food down since yesterday lunch.  After class I went and saw Hanah and she called Kep to see what he wanted me to do about the workout.  He wanted me to come and try anyway, so I did.  We were at Sunnyside today, we ran there for warmup.  Then we did our drills and strides and changed shoes.  I decided not to change shoes because I know you are more prone to injury when you are sick so I wanted to be careful.  The workout was three sets of 700, 800, 900 with 2 minutes after each.  I was in a group with Hilary, Bekah, and Lauren.  When we got going on our first 700 I kept up with them for the first stretch but then I fell back and even though I was pushing as hard as I could I couldn't keep up and then I was nearly in tears as I finished in 2:45, 13 seconds off what I was supposed to hit.  Then Kep came over and told me to just do a cooldown and focus on getting better.  I just did a few laps around the park, stopping on some of them to drink some Powerade since I am dehydrated from being sick.  I finished with 5 miles.  Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

This afternoon for workout we had a recovery run.  I wasn't sure how much I was going to run so I just ran by feel.  I started in a group with Nikki, Lucy, Alexis, Andrea, and Alex.  We ran along Foothill and then down 900s, where a few of the girls went into Bonneville glen.  I was with Alexis and I wasn't feeling too great so we didn't go into the gully but we ran with Alex and Andrea down to Guardsman and then back to campus.  We did strides and drills in the field by the humanities building and then ran just a little bit more until we were at 4 miles.

Today we didn't do lifting as a team because most everyone is racing tomorrow.  In the afternoon, those of us who aren't racing because of Stanford next week did a workout.  We drove to Liberty Park and did part of a lap to get to Cassie, who was already running, and then we turned around and ran a full lap and then we did our strides and drills before changing shoes.  The workout was two, 12 minute thresholds with 2:30 rest after each.  I was in a group with Hilary, Bekah, and Lauren.  On the first one I was able to keep up for about the first half mile and then I fell back a little bit as we kept going.  Coming along the bottom stretch almost to a full lap I really fell back and then by the time we were over at 1300s almost done my stomach was really hurting.  I jogged a little bit to get to the drinking fountain, and then Kep changed the workout for Lauren and me.  He had us instead of doing the second 12 minutes do two 1 mile repeats with 45 seconds after each.  We hit 6:27 for the first and we're not sure for the second but it was so nice to be able to break up that second set!  Afterwards we did our strides as we went back to change shoes and then we did a lap cooldown.

Today I finally got my lifting in, my arms felt just about like they were going to fall afterwards!  And I still can't do a pullup :P  it was a good workout though and I gave it my best effort, it will truly be a momentous occasion when I finally can do pullups all by myself!  A few hours after I was done lifting I went for a run from my house.  I ran to Bonneville gully, did 5 laps, and then went back home.  Then I went up to campus because I decided I would go cheer at BYU but they must have changed the departure time because I didn't see anyone so instead I decided to take trax to Murray and see if I could catch any of the invite but I missed all of the girls races.  Eventful day.

Today for practice we met at HPER and then drove up to Park City for a long run.  It was cold because it rained last night, its finally starting to feel like fall!  I ran with Hilary the whole time, she was going 13 miles.  Lauren and Kep and Lucy and Nikki were with us for part of the run but it was just Hil and me where we turned at 6.5.  Trail ended we think so we followed this sidewalk and ended up to where the trail continued most likely but that was about where we needed to turn so it was good.  Our average pace for the way out was 7:44 but we had got it down to 7:28 overall for the way back.  Cassie ran back after she had finished and joined us for our last mile.