It's a RUNderful life

Medium recovery today. Ran through the dip by smith's and over to the park by freedom/ the MCT and did a barefoot grass mile. Good run and a quality talk with Gan. After did abs and hips and I'm ashamed to say I got a little provoked by a certain name... smh. 

New loop today. Down the MCT towards Thanksgiving Point, and then back mostly on the rail trail. Good run for the most part. Legs were kinda tired. After we went over to the SOLW but it was turned off. I am still crying inside. Shoutout to Gan for an epic splish-n-splash slip. 

3 miles at recovery to start and then a mile of speed changes on the grass. Felt pretty good and it was a great surprise to hear it was low mileage. After did one more cool down mile on the grass. 

Shoutout to myself for doing "the plan part II". I'd say it was a success. 

Recovery low mileage today. Real boring, but I feel great. After did abs and hips as per usual. 

Finally got to the Bob Firman course after a longish bus ride. Did a mile wu and then ran the course, which is like the best ever, IMHO. After that we did the last 800m or so of the course at race pace and then did some starts. My legs were feelin pretty fresh and ready so I'm way excited to see what tomorrow brings :)

*also mega-unshoutout to whoever helped throw me in the pool. I was very provoked.

Soooo, fun day at Bob Firman today. It was also basically perfect racing conditions so that was a win. Got there and chilled for a little bc my race (elite varsity girls) wasn't for a litte bit. Then warmed up a mile and did drills. Got to the start line and had to wait forever cuz technical issues, but we had a pretty great dance party while we waited. Race started, and I got stuck in a pretty bad position, I think because of our box placement, so the first part was a little rough. After like 3/4 of a mile I finally got in a better position tho so it was fine. First mile was a little fast at a 5:57, but second mile of course slowed down a lot... I really need to work on that haha. One of my goals for this race was to stick with these two davis girls and for the last couple miles I was tailing them. Got to the hill second time around and almost died (well not really) but I tried really hard to pick it up after I got to the top. I felt like I had a good kick this time and I ended up passing the davis girls (not exactly sure when) and then towards the end I also passed a girl from AF and one from Pineview. Finished with a good course PR (40 seconds) and a normal PR (about 8 seconds) as well, if you can count that sort of thing in xc. Looking back I probably could've kept the pace the second mile and then got harder the last mile, but overall I'm proud of this race. Also the rest of the team did awesome as well and we ended up 7th right behind Pineview, who we are gonna for sure get next time. After did a two mile cool down.