It's a RUNderful life

I'm baaaaaaaaack hah. Murray Invite today. It was a little weird in that the first mile my legs felt pretty bad, but when I hit the second mile they felt a lot better, less heavy. kind of the opposite of how it normally is. I felt good about this race overall... I still really want to get my average pace up a lot more by the end of the season but it was by far the best race of the season for me :)

Well first of all shoutout to the haters (*cough chuck*) who accused me of being a "fair-weather" blogger and ditching after one day... news flash: I'm still going strong.

Anyway's today's run was a good one. I just did this loop I had in my mind and didn't worry so much about the distance considering I went over yesterday. It was a good loop although the hill at the end just about killed me. I was also feeling pretty good considering how wrecked I felt yesterday.

Also final shoutout to myself for a job well done (at least I hope) on the ACT... the real question though is: was it enough. We shall see... We shall see.  

Let's just all take a moment to appreciate that it will be fall soon, and then these miserable days of bone-melting runs will finally be OVER... Anyway today we ran the "kicker" and truth-be-told I didn't exactly "kick it" today. I sure tried hard, but I think the kicker was the one doing the kicking today. Legs just felt dead and breathing wasn't so good. So you tell me... what happened?! Ugh. Better luck (and stamina) to myself next time i guess. (my time was a 10:11 - yuck yuck yuck - ) After, to my eternal dismay, we had high mileage to finish, so that's what I did cuz I'm a champ. Did 4 miles out-and-back towards Smith's with some of the girls the finished my last two miles on the grass barefoot. I definitely was D-O-N-E by the end and I really lived by my motto to "stay thirsty" because I think after I drank like 5 gallons (give or take hah) of water.

***Also sidenote if any of my fans want to support my squad come watch my pal Lil Nug (aka Carolyn) kill it in the hoco pageant on Thursday night (she is doing the Napolean Dynamite dance which will be EPIC!)

Ran a long ways, very slowly today. High recovery run at 8:50ap (haha am i a turtle or what?). Did a long out and back up Sundance and into Apline a bit. Felt okay but my legs felt pretty lethargic. 

Mile wu, drills, and then a 5ish mile loop. Technically it was high recovery today, but my legs weren't feeling too wonderful today so I decided to take a few miles off and bike for a bit instead.