Running and more running

Today we did a speed workout on the track. It was 800-600-400-200 twice with the 800/600 at two mile pace and the 400/200 at mile pace. The first set I felt pretty good, but my legs felt a little heavy. The second set I was slightly off pace and just felt pretty sluggish. Overall it was a decent workout though! The rest of my miles came from a two mile warm up and a two mile cool down. Shoutout to gan for roasting me while I did abs and to Collin for making me get this blog! ;)

Slept in then went on a nice, easy recovery run. 7 miles at like 7:30 pace and it felt really good!

Today was freezing! It was windy and sleeting soo bad. The run was good, though. Eight miles with an average pace of like 7:10. The first four were above 7:30 because we were running straight into the wind but the last four we picked it up quite a bit. I felt really good, except for the school "lasagna" (if you can even call it that) sat like a rock in my stomach. After the run I did abs for 20 minutes and called it good for the day!

Today was high mileage with speed. I wasn't quite able to finish my mileage, though because I had to take off before school got out so as not to get caught in traffic. I will add a few miles later in the week. Speed was good though! My legs were a little heavy but by the end I was doing better. It was just 6 by 400s, so not too bad. Overall, it was a good day!

Not very happy with how today turned out.... 5:01 in the mile. Eight miles overall and just felt pretty tired. Talking with Jamie she thinks that it is in the mental game that I am losing in races, so any tips would be appreciated... With the times I am hitting in practice I should be able to do much better, so hopefully it only goes up from here!

Ran with the team for about three miles then split off with Ryan and Connor. On our way back Ryan and I felt super good so we were running around sub-6:50 and ended up with an average pace of 6:57 for the eight miles. I felt really good, much better than yesterday! After the run I did abs for 20 minutes and then biked for half an hour. 

We had a nice speed workout today! 5 by 1000 meters at two mile pace. About three minutes of rest in between each one, which was a little bit less than it was supposed to be since I did it with varsity. My splits were 3:16, 3:18, 3:19, 3:21, 3:22. So I was slowing down by the end because my legs felt pretty wrecked, but overall I was pretty happy with it! 

Just a nice six mile recovery run today, about 7:08 pace. It was nice to sleep in a little bit and I have to say that it was the perfect weather for a run this morning!

We had a medium distance run today. Our route was a little strange because we just went straight down Main Street the entire way and there was no shoulder on the road, but we survived without getting hit by cars. After the run Collin and I picked up stuff to ask to Prom, so shoutout to all the people who started asking a month and a half early so that everyone has to now... 😒

I didn't have a lot of time today because I had piano and am heading to the BYU b-ball game, so I just a squeezed in four miles with a couple of pickups as pre-meet. Felt pretty good and am super pumped to race tomorrow!

Today was awesome! Before the race I was freezing cold, my it band was sore, and I was pretty stressed out but as soon as I started I felt pretty confident. I ended up getting a PR of 20 seconds in the 3200, which was awesome because I felt like I finally broke through a little bit! Afterwards I just finished up mileage and then went to Pizza Pie with a ton of people. Shoutout to Gan because it is her birthday and she is super awesome!

Today was just a nice recovery day. I was only supposed to go 7, but decided to go 8 since I did a little bit less on Tuesday. I felt pretty decent, but definitely tired. After the run I did some squats with Connor and then freaked out and ran home because apparently ACT scores came out today.

Once again went a mile over but it was all good because I got to run with a group rather than by myself. After the run I did some high jump with Collin and the hincks and discovered why I am not a high jumper... Then we did some abs and pull ups than made some smoothies at my house. Definitely a successful day!

Today we had a sick speed workout that we did at the UVU track because that is where our next race is. We did 6 400s at mile pace then 3 200s all out. My splits were 66, 70 (whoops), 67, 66, 67, 67 for the fours then I tired out and got 30, 30, and 31 on the twos. Afterwards we kinda just laid on the grass and then finished up mileage. Shoutout to Asa because it is his birthday, and even though he is hecka mad at me right now I hope he has a great day.

Today we did a loop where we went up killer hill on the way out and then the dip on 1200 on the way back. So it was quite the dramatic run in terms of elevation change! I felt really good today, so that was good. We pretty much negative split every mile the whole run so that was sick. After the run I biked and then did some abs at Thom's house while we devoured all his power balls. Also, both Connor and Josh got their mission calls today so that is sick.

Well, you could say today kinda sucked. I was warming up to race and the outside of my foot all the sudden started hurting super bad. I went and got it wrapped by Janice and she and Jamie told me I probably shouldn't run. Hopefully it is fine tomorrow, so I guess we'll find out!

So it is not a stress fracture or anything super bad! I just have to take a few days off and watch it really carefully.