It's a RUNderful life

First practice back with the team... gotta love 'em. We did the "mile and a half jolly good run" today (quote cred to coach) but I didn't full out do it because I'm still somewhat sick and can't breath all that wonderfully. I paced Rachel and Emily most the time and they totally killed it. Shoutout to them. After the girls and I (minus Mario who has unfortunately low mileage) ran up to the Skyridge track and did a lap, which was my first lap on the track there. What a big moment ;) I think I'm going to like that track tho. Then we headed back, picked up Mario, and made our way back down to the old creek. Did some abs and half-hearted hips (sorry not sorry) and then took a wonderful ice bath in the SOLW which is finally back! so yay. 

I. Am. Exhausted. this day has just been......a tuesday. But I digress... Practice today was at my old alma mater, Lehi High School. Low mileage recovery that didn't feel like recovery to me. #stillsick. Anyway, the run itself wasn't so bad especially because it was lead by our fearless leader Mario. Except I almost accidentally left our leader. Whoops. We did an out-and-back out toward Williowcreek. After a very speedy run back we did some abs and hips to wrap things up. Missed my good pals the Raffs today, they should really come to practice once in awhile ;)

Today I did the mile wu loop and after Jamie had us head up to the grovel and do ten or so minutes of grass running (I did mine barefoot) and after we just finished our mileage. However... the all of our running today (minus the wu) was supposed to be at "easy pace". It'll suffice to say that for me on this day "easy pace" did not feel very much like an easy pace. I'm hoping that it will start to feel easier as I feel better and get some more training in. (Apr. 7:20) After the run did the usual abs and hips and then a short, not-too-hard lower body workout. 

So today was super excited because I got to run seven whole miles for the first time since, uh... A long time haha. Mile wu then headed out with some of the girls to go wake up Laurel. Turns out she was already awake and going to work. She needs to straighten up her priorities I think. After that Guppy and Brynlee and I headed up to the MCT and ran on that for a bit then turned around and came back for a "fun" upper body workout... Apr. 7:40.

Also HUGE shoutout to Guppy cuz it's her 18th birthday!! I wish her many more years of being super awesome and super speedy ❤️

Late start practice today. very slow wu and then it was tempo. Goal pace was below 6:45 and I only did 2 miles (versus 2.5) because im still trying to recover from being sick. First mile or so was pretty fast and felt okay, but once we hit the hill I slowed a little and never recovered the rest of the run. I wasn't very happy with my performance overall but I guess it could have been worse. After tempo I did three more snail-paced miles to finish. I'm seriously looking forward to tomorrow when I can take it a little easier. 

Well I woke up thinking this was going to be a torture run because I was exhausted, seriously unmotivated, and lonely, but it actually turned out to be a great run! I'm at Bear Lake this weekend so it's nice and cool for running which was extra nice too. I warmed up a mile down the road with my madre and sister then they headed back and I kept going for three more miles and then turned around and came back. Saw some pretty things like the lake and stuff AND I saw some not-so-pretty things like a dead deer and a dead skunk. But anyhow, I was pretty negative at first and wasn't even sure if I could do eight miles today but once I started running I felt a lot more positive especially bc it's a recovery day and I can go a little slower. Fun times. Shoutout to my grandma for giving me chocolate milk when I got back.