You've got to want it to win it

Today we had a recovery run.  We did the zoo loop.  Mostly we stayed in a group up until Wasatch when people started turning around as they needed.  I was with Hilary and Kate wasn't too far behind us.  We turned at half an hour.  On the way back Hil and I don't know where Kate went but we went through the golf course on a little trail that took us over a bridge and out of the course kind of by the post office.  Then we went back to campus and at the track we did 6 strides and 4 drills.

 Today we had a workout at Sugarhouse Park.  We met near the first pavilion in the park, the one by the starting line of the state cross country course.  We started with an outer loop of the park for warmup and then our usual strides and drills.  Then we changed shoes and Kep explained the workout.  It was four 200s (not really, just 30 seconds) with a minute recovery, then three 800s at race pace with 2 minutes recovery, then four 1000s at tempo pace with a minute recovery.  I was with Bekah for the workout.  We did the 800s on a loop that goes up the first hill of the state course and cuts down the hill near where I've heard the old road was.  For the 1000s we ran around the pond and then across the bridge and up along the river for a little bit and then cut over through the trees and back by where we parked to finish.  On the 800s I hit 3:03, 3:01, 3:02.  On the 1000s my times were 3:56, 3:53, 3:56, 4:03.  Then we did a cooldown picking up the course and then some, I went until I was at 9.

Today was the region 6 championships at Cottonwood Complex and Kep said I could miss the team meeting to go watch my sister! Starting just outside the E HPER building I ran all the way to the complex. It was 6 and a half miles there and then I did 3 laps around the baseball diamonds until I was at 8 miles. Later when the East girls were starting on their warmup they wanted me to come with them so I ran a mile with them. Throughout their race and the guys race as I ran to different parts of the course I ended up with another 2 miles. It was exciting to watch Natalie take first, Abigail take second, and Sarah B. take third! And the guys team took third, qualifying for state!!! It was a great day and I'm happy I got to go watch Abigail race :)

This morning we had weights with Coach Rufino.  This afternoon we had a Kenyan run at Liberty in the cold sleet that came too early.  For warmup we ran to the park from the 900e Trax station.  Then we did strides and drills, altering the routine to exclude the drills that involve us laying down since the grass was wet.  Then we changed shoes and broke into groups for the workout.  I was with Hilary.  We were the 3rd group to start and we were 40 seconds behind the previous group to start and 40 seconds ahead of the last group starting.  We were supposed to hit 6:50, 6:30, 6:10, 5:50 but we ended up hitting 7:01, 6:43, then Hil was a little ahead of me and gradually pulled away but for the last 2 I hit 6:31 and 6:30.  Then we did for 200 meter strides and changed shoes and I ran to the Trolley station with Nikki D., Andrea, Macee, and Kate.  Afterwards I went and talked to Hanah because my quad has been tight but this week my right hip has been hurting too, at about the same spot as it did when I had a stress fracture 2 years ago.  She told me to cross train tomorrow so we'll see how that goes.  :(

This morning after I was all done with class I went to Steiner and pool ran for an hour.  It felt great but made my arms and legs kinda tired.  After I finished I went to the training room to see Hanah and she had me get on the bike for 10 minutes and then stretch my hamstrings and roll out my quads since my right thigh has gotten even tighter since yesterday :P  After rolling out and stretching for a few minutes my quad was hurting pretty bad so Hanah rubbed it out for me and then stretched it for me and finished with wrapping ice on it.  We'll see if it has improved tomorrow I suppose.

Today instead of going for the long run with the team I was supposed to stay on campus and run in case my leg hurt.  I started with a lap around the Huntsman building to see how it would feel and that was enough so instead I went to the training room and biked for an hour and 20 minutes.  Then I stretched out a bit and finished with a 17 minute ice bath.