Running Blog

4 in the fields with Mia, Frida, and Stoner. We ran out to George Washington. It felt pretty yucky. I had only run a little bit before and I was sore from indoor soccer. Plus I'm pretty sure there's something wrong with my back. But it was fun.. we stopped to see some horses. I'm slightly terrified of horses though (not as bad as birds though). We saw one really fat one. And a baby. And a brown one.

4 in the fields again.. but this time I was with Mia, Stoner, and Kaylee. We ran from Mia's to the JP tank thing. We stopped at the horses, but they were too far away to pet. And we stopped at the church cause Stoner can't use the restroom before we run, apparently. It felt fine.. better than yesterday.

First day back and.. I was actually okay. We had to stop at Boulevard so Rachel could use the restroom, and Frida and Kaylee left us. So Mia, Stoner, Taylor and I ran together. Twas a good time. I felt rather fine, even though we did mall run, which is the worst road run ever invented. It was okay.

5 putrid, horrendous miles out by Quail Lake. Worst run of my life.

Okay, okay, so the trail itself wasn't that bad. Yeah, it was steep and the pits on the sides of the trail were freaking me out. Plus, I stepped on the Forbidden Dirt. But, all in all, it was kind of fun. Except that my legs would have killed me if my stomach hadn't beat them to it. I was hurting sooo bad. Pretty sure I have shin splints all the way up to my elbows. And I don't know if it was because I hadn't eaten much, but my stomach was hurting like crazy. The way out felt much worse than the way back, because I have this problem with not knowing where we're going to stop. If I don't exactly know the turnaround point, the run feels SO much longer. Combine that with the fact that we were in the desert, and it just felt super terrible. After we turned around, I felt a little better. And when Coach joined us, I got this sudden surge of energy, and I felt like I could run way faster than I had been. So.. even though I said "NEVER AGAIN".. I actually think I would like doing this run again. So.. yep.

Double church run.. it was okay. Roberts ran with us, which was fun. And the pace felt okay. My quads were kinda sore from yesterday. And I got a slightly bloody nose on the way out.. but it ended up okay. On the way back, we kinda separated into 3 groups.. Roberts and Kaylee, me and Stoner, and Mia and Frida. So it was pretty quiet on the way back. But it was fine.

River run.. Frida told us it was gonna be a speed workout.. so this was a lovely surprise. We couldn't decide where to turn around, so Kaylee and I spent a good 5 minutes standing there discussing it. We finally decided to run to one edge of the fence to the other, and back. So we really went like 5.12. Just sayin.

We took Liz Lunt and Taylor with us today because they're level 3s now.. we went out to hospital. We'd just made cookies in foods and I was feeling pretty yucky on the way out, but the way back was fine. Except that Liz was kicking our trash when we got to the 5 mile mark. She took off. So Stoner and I vote we move her up to level 4, cause I don't know if I can do that every day. (:

We went out to Green Springs (aka the land of corruption, according to Coach). It felt fine.. Kaelie and Aubrey stuck with us for most of it, and they kept going when we had to stop so Mia could go to the bathroom. It was a good run. (:

Trail Thursday. And not only was it a trail, but it was the Green Springs desert trail. Bleh. It was better than last Thursday.. but my stomach shares my hatred of the desert and I thought I was going to puke. It was the worst. Until we got to the top of the desert version of Mt. Everest. Then I was okay.

Green Pole run. Well.. today was definitely better than yesterday. But my knee kinda hurt since Jared so rudely tripped over it today and almost killed himself. And my stomach kept trying to murder me. But.. it was still fun. Stoner managed to offend a bell tower and we ran on our favorite brick path. And we thought about going hunting for deermen.. but decided against it.

Out to Green Pole with Stoner.. it was really nice weather and we talked most of the way out there. On the way back we were pretty quiet but it was still a good run.

Backwards Fire Station.. Best run ever! It felt really good, and it was mostly downhill. We added a mile on by going out to the light before the church on Telegraph. We saw Sierra (okay, not really, but don't tell Stoner) and our favorite bell went off right as we got there. Also.. we stopped by a house so Kaylee could stretch.. and they had doll heads hanging from their trees, which I found slightly creepy. But it was a really fun run, even though Kaylee freshman raced us at the end and no one actually followed her.

I really really didn't want to run today. I felt yucky all day (probably because I was up until ONE THIRTY doing a reading guide last night.) :P And then we found out we only had 4.. so I decided to suck it up and deal with it. We were going to run Starbucks but someone made us run Dog Pound. It wasn't terrible. I felt alright. We kinda separated somewhere in the middle, but by the end, all 10 of us were together again. Stoner and I freshman raced and Kaylee lost. And my hand split open somehow, but Liz doctored it, cause I'm the Megan. (:

Trail Thursday. We went up to Green Springs again, but this time we went up the Ice House hill.. I wanted to die. Coach said the hill was hideous, but that when you got to the top, the trail was fun. Ha! I kept waiting for the fun part. It never came. My legs felt like they were about to explode. No joke. When we finally turned around, we looked up and saw all the boys half a mile ahead of us.. they looked like tiny specks. We were super glad we didn't have to run 6, because we were dying. But then we turned around and it was a BLAST. I tripped on a rock and wiped out, but other than that, it was thee funnest thing ever. When we got to the gigantic hill, Kaylee left us in the dust because some of us didn't actually plan on killing ourselves today so we tried to be careful. But when we got close to the bottom, we just let go and it was fun just to see how fast we could go. I would definitely do this run again. It was sooo fun.

Random house in the fields run.. It was fine. Robert's ran with us and pushed the pace as usual.. we stopped at the river and Kaylee contemplated killing herself.. but ultimately decided that it would hurt the team too much. Although as my sister just reminded me.. she's gonna be gone next year anyway. So maybe it wouldn't be super horrible.. (: Anyway.. fun run. Even though the fields smell like poo.

Green Springs. So.. I wasn't going to run the whole thing because I am the best sister in the entire world and stayed up til 2 in the morning reading stories to and rubbing the back of a puking twelve year old. So this morning I wasn't feeling so great myself. So when I showed up to school during lunch and it was raining.. I was not actually planning on running at all. But I got talked into it, even though I felt yucky, because I can't run tomorrow. When we got to the three mile mark, where I was planning on turning around.. I felt fine. And I didn't want to run back by myself. And every mile mark we passed, I kept deciding to go one more mile. Then we got to the six mile mark and I felt great. So I ran the whole thing. And it was the best run EVER! We sang the whole time and we were running pretty fast. It was super fun. Even in the pouring rain.

Target. It's so much easier to run fast when Kaylee's not here.. don't tell her I said that. We ran quick and easy.. it was fun. Stoner and I did all our little traditions, like screaming "PUDS!" when we get a little past Arctic Circle. Striders after. They felt really good. My legs were a little sore after the run, but then we did striders and they felt great.

Trail Thursday. We went out to some place that I can't remember the name of.. but it reminded me of Chuck-a-rama. By far the best trail run we've done. It was really chill, with quite a bit of uphill, but it wasn't bad uphill. We ran out and looked out over Snow Canyon.. and picked up the boys clothes and realized someone took off their shorts.. No big deal or anything. That's just our team. (:

Shoe run w/ Costco added on at the end. Today was a really great run. It was fun to see Nicole out again and we all ran together for the most part. Mia had to leave us partway through but we picked up Jared and had even numbers again. (: I felt really good during this run, probably because Stoner and I found golf balls and we bounced them in rhythm with each other for most of the run.. so I kinda forgot I was even running. Stoner and I also realized what great captains we're going to be next year.. sophomores and freshies better watch out. (: We did step-lifting after.

Green Springs loop. Today after some debate, we finally decided on Green Springs. It was a good run. We added on the second half of the DI loop to get to 8 miles. The weather was really nice and we all ran together. It was nice.