You've got to want it to win it

Today I ran on Foothill with Kate and Alyssa while everyone else ran Trax.  We did the zoo loop and ran on Wasatch.  They turned around on Wasatch but I kept going to Thunderbird and then ran back on Foothill.  It was 4.5 when I turned around, but the total when I got back was 8 and I didn't feel like adding on a mile so stopped.  I rolled out in the training room for a while afterwards.  Tomorrow I will start some rehab exercises for my knee.

This afternoon we had a workout at Liberty.  We warmed up there from the 900e Trax station, and then Alyssa and Charlotte joined me for the longer warmup around the perimeter of the park since Hilary is taking her break right now.  I rejoined the group for strides and drills, and then we got going on the workout.  Kep wasn't there because his grandma passed away last week so he was home after conference.  The workout was four 1 mile repeats, we couldn't remember what rest was supposed to be so we said 90 seconds.  After that we were supposed to do five 30 second strides with 2 minutes recovery.  On the miles Andrea and I fell behind Giselle, and probably eased up too much because our first on was a 6:23.  The next 2 I hit in 6:14, and then on the last one I was back at 6:22 and fell back from both of them.  After everyone was finished we did strides back to the car.  I only ended up doing 4 because my knee hurt really bad.  For cooldown I was on my own, I did the rest of a counterclockwise perimeter of the park and then ran to the 900e station to get to 9 miles for the day.  Also I started my rehab today, I have 4 exercises that I do before running each day.

I went to practice plenty early today to get my rehab done and leave a lot of time for the team to choose costumes and get pictures before our run :)  Everyone dressed up even though not everyone was running.  On the run there were 8 of us and we all ran on Foothill so we could show off our costumes :)  Charlotte, Kate, Giselle, and Alyssa turned around early but Lauren, Andrea, Hilary, and I ran the Albertson's loop.  

This morning in weights I actually hit my numbers for hang cleans for the first time this season!  The workout in the afternoon was at the track but we didn't find out what it was until we got there.  I did my knee rehab before, and had the same tape from yesterday since Hanah said to leave it on.  It was fine until the warmup, then it started to hurt.  We did our usual out and back route to the track, then stretched for a while before doing our strides and drills because the sprinters were having a 4x4 relay with 3 teams they had thrown together, so we watched that and cheered them on.  When we got going on the strides and drills my knee hurt even more and was catching during some of the drills.  After we finished those I told Hanah and she gave me some advil and wrapped it with what she had.  It was the weirdest wrap ever but it seemed to help.  My knee wasn't popping on the way down to the bailiff where we were doing our 300s.  But it was making the rest of my leg go numb, so when we got down there I tried breaking it but that didn't work either.  Then Hanah came down there with some scissors and read my mind because she came right over and cut a slit in the bottom so it wasn't so tight.  Then I was able to do the 300s with the team.  The first part is slightly downhill, the rest was pretty flat.  I wasn't up with the group the whole time but at least I was running and my knee wasn't hurting like on the warmup.  My times were 60, 59, 58, 57, 56, and 56.  We jogged back to the start each time for recovery.  Originally I hadn't wanted to time them but I am glad I did because seeing my time drop each time was motivating.  After those we ran back up to the track and did some 200s.  It was sort of like a relay because we would go when someone else was finishing their 200.  Each of us did 6, my times were 39, 36, 36, 36, 36, 35.  Afterwards I ran out to North Campus Drive and back with Lauren, then added 2 backwards laps at the track and then back to the lockerroom to get to 7 for the day.  In the training room I did stem and ice for 15 minutes.

Today I went running with Kate and Charlotte.  We ran on Foothill and then through the golf course to get up to Wasatch.  They turned at about 20 minutes, but I kept going to 4 miles  This put me up on the paved Shoreline trail past the drinking fountain.  I ran back the same way.  My knee hurt on the way back because of the downhill.  I've just gotta suck it up for one more week at least... (still hoping for nationals with the team!)

This morning we went running in Park City!  It was so cold up there and there was frost everywhere!  So we didn't stand around long but just got out of the cars and started running.  About 2.5 miles in we started the 4 mile Kenyan run we were supposed to do.  I didn't time it but pushed the second mile like we were supposed to.  I fell behind Kate and Andrea when we got to the paved part again where it starts to go uphill.  They turned before I did but I went to 5 miles before turning.  My knee hurt on the downhill again but I guess that's to be expected.