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Ick. Today was 4x1000 at 3:46, 2x300 all out. The first part was really good. I was feeling great and hitting my times.. even a little faster than my times. The first 2 were both 3:43. The third one, I was on pace for another 3:43.. until the last lap. All of a sudden, I got this huge knot in my stomach and i felt like I couldn't stand up all the way straight. That lap was way slower and I ended up finishing at 3:49. I recovered with the girls, trying to breathe deep and make the pain go away, but it wouldn't. We got back to the starting line, and I felt like this one would be bad. I'd had a positive

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workout so far, and I just kind of decided to keep it that way. I didn't do the last 1000. The knot didn't go away, but I knew I still had to do the 300s. I ended up with :48 and :49 on those. It took me a long time to recover after and I still don't feel very good. 

Pm: 3 with Mia in the middle of a freaking tornado. 

Am: three.. still feeling that icky feeling in my stomach from yesterday. I'm pretty sure I've fractured my appendix and/or spleen, but no one really cares.

Pm:  10x200. I did this workout with the sprinters. It was kind of a pain. It was a hard workout, because they go quicker than we usually do on our 200s, but it takes twice as long cause they walk the recoveries! I was there forever! I was the only one to actually do 10 of them. Honeycutt stopped after 4, Janz did 7, and Katie stopped after 8. Lexi started with us when we were on our 8th though, and she really helped me keep pushing, because she was going faster since she just started. At the end, I was very very tired and my head really really hurt. I felt really lightheaded and my eyes wouldn't focus too well.. I was scaring myself on the drive home, so I stopped at harts and got some water and tried to help my body relax. 

Am: three.. it felt way fast on the way out there.

Pm: easy 4 with Roberts, Stoner, Mia, and Flaubrey.  my legs really hurt! Striders after (Mia's fault). It was pretty fun.

Am:very talkative morning run. Really nice. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Pm: race.. first time running the mile all season. It was okay.. I have mixed feelings about the outcome. I ran the first lap with Kamryn. Then I just kind of fell off of her and kind of ran my own pace.. I didn't really go with anyone. I was doing fine mentally until about halfway through the second lap, when someone yelled to me that I was settling and I needed to pick it up. At that point I was only a few feet behind Kamryn and some random Hurricane girl who just ran up out of nowhere after the first lap. But after they said that, my brain just kind of quit. I was really angry at them for saying it. I know it's way stupid, but I hate it when people besides coach or my parents cheer for me like that. I don't even know why. I'm fine if they say 'good job' or whatever, but I hate the stuff like 'don't settle' or stuff like that. Dumbest pet peeve ever, but there it is. The rest of the race, I didn't really focus on running. I was more focused on how mad I was. I ended up 5th with a 5:43. Which isn't a fabulous time for me.. but I'm not super upset at myself about it. I'll try again. And I'll be a little more focused and not so mad.

I just made up the mileage for this.. I have no idea. I did the workout with the sprinters today. We did firestation hills. They don't go as far as we do, but they go faster. We had five. Everyone just kept giving us water. I always feel weird doing the workouts with the sprinters.. they don't do things the way we do. Like recoveries. But it was still good. I felt good. Weights after.

Am: three. We nearly blew away.

Pm: 4x1000s at 3:46 and 2x300 all out. Coach had me do the distance workout today. So glad he did. I've struggled a bit with this workout pretty much ever since my time moved down to 3:46.. I don't think I ever had a day where I hit my time on all four of them. Today was windy and rainy, but I actually thought it felt good. Other than the soccer players using us for target practice, it was really a great workout. My splits were 3:37 (way too fast.. I backed off a bit after that), 3:42, 3:44, 3:42. Then we did the 300s and I hit :50 and :49. I wasn't feeling very well after the 1000s.. Stoner even told me I looked pale (which could have been because the rain washed my makeup off..), but I was okay during the 1000s. Weights after. Great day.

Am: three. So cold! Coach scared us to death.

Pm: workout. 600 (r pace +4 sec), 400 (r pace +2 sec), 300 (r pace), 200 (r pace -4 sec), 100 (r pace -2 sec). I felt absolutely awful in 3rd and 4th periods.. and it never got better. My 600 and 200 were both 3 seconds slow, and my 400 was 5 seconds slow. I didn't do the second set. As soon as we finished the cool down, I went home and got in bed.. I hardly moved the rest of the night.

I wrote about today, then accidentally clicked on an ad and it deleted. Basically, Mia and I ran alone, Aubrey and I ate poisonous fruit, and I practiced handoffs with Janz.  The end.

Freak. I did it again. The post deleted. We ran 4 with 200s in the morning. My leg still hurts.. like almost in the Achilles area but to the left a bit and up a little. Now to region sterling scholar. Shoot me now.

Ran the 1600 and the 400 today. The 1600 was just not good. But I talked to Coach about it afterward, and he helped me a lot to stop stressing. I'm going to focus on the medley tomorrow and just let the mile be what it was. 

The 400 was pretty good.. I ran a 1:04.74. My times are pretty much always right around 1:04, so it was a lot like the others in terms of time, but I felt much stronger at the end of this race. I had taken it a bit slower the first 200 than usual, which gave me a lot more left to use at the end. Now I just need to figure out how to do what I did at the end of this race for the entire race.

I'm gonna be honest; I didn't get nearly the mileage in I was supposed to today. That 3 is probably a little high, even. Anyway.

The medley wasn't til like noon, so I cheered and sat around a lot. When it finally came time to warm up, I ran around cheering for Katie and Stoner, then did a few more laps and agilities. I was pretty nervous for this race. I knew we wanted to qualify, and I really really didn't want to let the other girls down. Cierra and Katie started it off really well and kept us right in there (which was super impressive of Katie,  cause she had just run a really good 800). Then Janz took off and passed everyone except Aimee, so we were in a really good position when I got the baton.

I wanted to start it off a little bit slower so I could have a good kick at the end. Jackie from Lehi passed me somewhere on the first lap. As I crossed the line after the first lap, I could hear Coach yell 1:11. That was rather quite faster than I had planned, but I knew I had to pick it up now. I remember hearing Coach tell me I needed a 1:15 2nd lap.. and after that I really don't remember thinking much of  anything. I passed both Jackie and the Cedar girl on the last curve, and the only thing in my head was just to hold them off for 100 more meters. Luckily, I did. My split ended up being around 2:23, and our medley time was a 4:23.

Really, words cannot describe how happy I am with this race. I haven't run that fast since sophomore year, and it feels so good. Plus also we qualified for state, so that was a huge plus. (: This kind of race makes me remember why I like track so much.

 am: three. Pretty quiet. 

4x1000 at 3:46, 2x300 all out. Felt pukey all throughout the workout.. I think because I didn't get a chance to eat lunch til half an hour before the workout. Early days throw my whole routine off. My splits were around 3:45, 3:49, 3:49, 3:42. I'm not totally sure, because my watch was off.. it would start and be on the right time, but by the end of the 1000, it would be 2 seconds off of everyone elses. So I guess it was an okay workout.. it felt awful, but looking at those times, it wasn't that bad. The 300s were bad. I didn't have my watch, but I could feel the suckiness. I was so so tired after. I just wanted to sleep.

My thoughts and prayers go out to those in Boston today. What an awful thing.

Am: I really really really didn't want to come this morning.. I couldn't sleep all night cause I was coughing so hard. But I did. How dumb of me.

Pm: Coe #1.. whatever. Basically, we ran 100, 110, 120, etc until we got to 200. And there was some formula for figuring out the times.. mine started at 21 seconds for the 100, then 22, 23, 24 etc until the 200 which was 32. It was a good workout.. really fast. It was over pretty quick. Some of my times were a second fast, some were right on, one of them was a second slow. 

My cough  won't go awayyyyy.

Am: I swear, every morning I wake up and decide I'm not coming to practice because I'm so tired, then somehow I end up at the school 20 minutes later. It's quite annoying, really.

Pm: Panther relays. Quite awful, really. I mean, it was kind of a little bit fun, but I just did rather horribly. First I ran the 1200 in the distance medley (no school record for us.. not even close). Then I anchored in the 4x800. I would like to exempt myself from blame in the donut situation here. Liz had 150 meters on me before I even got the baton. Then the 4x4. That one was okay.. I was just very tired and coughy. So.. not a great running day. On the bright side, the weather was ni.. oh wait.

Am: showed up late, so I ran the way out with Michael and Krenshaw. Chilly this morning.

Pm: today was weird, and I got out to practice and I just really didn't want to run. Which is weird, because usually I look forward to practice. But for real. I just didn't want to do anything. But then we got going and there were 10 (TEN) of us, which has got to be a new record, and it was so so fun. We had story time and ran through sprinklers and planned out how we're going to come to Rylee's graduation in six years. Then we ice bathed after. Also, we had 200s. It was a lovely run.

Am: I would like to let it be known that I finally FINALLY made it to morning practice every day for a week for the first time this season! Now I'll be taking the next week off to recover from this exertion. 

Pm:  race. Just had the 400 today. It is driving me crazy that I can't break 1:04! No matter how I run it, I always get the same time! I really enjoy the 400 though. 

Tomorrow is the 800 and the 4x4. I'm getting nervous for the 800. I really really want to run it as well as I did last week. I'm scared.. but excited too. I know I can do it. I just have to remember that during the race..

Well. I was extremely nervous for this race.. more so than I have been in a while. I was afraid everyone was expecting me to run the way I did at DH last week and I was afraid I couldn't do it. Also, they were doing an alley start, which only added to my anxieties. I HATE alley starts. 

Janz was in my heat for this race, but she was in the alley before mine cause Coach put her time in as 2:30. When we started and cut in at the 100, I was pretty far back in the pack. The first 150 or so after cutting in, I just focused on catching up to Janz. I passed her somewhere on the home stretch of the first lap. We came across the line at a 1:11 (ish). Then I knew I could run as well as I did last week, but I had to pick it up. I started passing girls, and ended up getting all of them but two Ogden girls (and I don't think Sarah Feeny really counts). The last 100, I was dead. I was trying hard to kick, but I was way tired and my muscles were all tight. 

After the race, all I wanted was to have qualified. Turns out I missed it by .73 of a second. That was pretty disappointing, but I know now that I can do it.

Later I ran the 2nd leg of the 4x4. We were hoping to qualify.. we were 3 seconds off. I don't know my split, but it didn't feel as fast as I wanted it to be.

Am: three. Finally warmer in the morning. My leg hurts though..

Pm: 4x1000 at 3:46, 2x300 all out. Holy hotness. It really wasn't that hot outside.. but it was way warmer than we're used to. It was also windy off and on throughout the workout. We had the sprinkler spraying us at the starting line, but it only reached the inside lane if the wind got going. Anywho. The first two were good, 3:44 and 3:46. The third one just felt yucky and my throat was so so so dry. I ran a 3:50 on that one. The fourth one was looking like it would be about the same as the third, but Coach came and ran the last lap and a half with me and for some reason that made it tons easier. I ended up hitting a 3:45 on that last one. Then the 300s.. I'll be honest, I had no motivation to go fast. 53 and 54. Weights after.

Am: almost did the workout this morning, but then didn't. After, we found a refrigerator box. Kids kept pushing and kicking and stabbing us though. Rude.

Pm: 8x200 at 34 seconds with decreasing recovery (1:15 for the first 3, then 1:00 for the next 2, then 45 seconds for the last 2). I was a tad slow on most of these.. I hit 34 on the 3rd, 5th, and 8th.. and 35 for the first two.. and 36 for the 4th, 6th, and 7th. Which is a really complicated way of saying my splits were 35, 35, 34, 36, 34, 36, 36, 34. The decreasing recovery threw off my groove. But I felt like it was still a good workout and I felt good about it.

River run with Roberts and Rylee! What alliteration. Except Roberts ditched us when we got to the river. We played with sticks and Rylee dove in the water like 6 times. We looked everywhere for Roberts when we got out of the river, but all we found was some hobo. So we ran back. Weights after. My hamstring hurts.

Am: three with stoner and mia.. then we found a portal to narnia. We plan on shoving Megan in there tomorrow. She's the only one who can fit.

Pm: coe #2. 200, 220, 240, 260, 280, 300. My times started at 43 and went up 2 seconds every time. This workout felt way easier than the coe one we did last week. I never actually hit my times.. I was always too fast. I tried to slow it down near the end, and I got within one second on one of them. Anyway. It felt good. So excited for Davis. It's gonna be a good meet.

Am: three

Pm: headed up to Davis today! Went for a run with the guys with a few striders after.. Stoner said after that the hills weren't that bad, but I don't know what run she went on, cause I was dying on a few of them. But it was a way fun day. Striders were a little stinky though.

Race day! I was nervous all night, so I didn't get a great night's sleep (not to mention I was sharing a rather small bed with Stoner).. but I was excited too. I managed to eat two pancakes before I felt the pre-race queasiness, so that was good, because I generally can't eat breakfast at all on race day, no matter when my race is. 

We got there and watched Matt race, then Stoner came and warmed up with me around the neighborhood.  I got my spikes and my sticker (or just my 'er' as Byron called it, because it wasn't sticky at all). Then I went and did agilities on the field. 

They called us up to the line and I was in the first alley (have I ever mentioned how much I hate alley starts?) and me and the Park City girl next to me got way boxed in. I spent the first 200 letting everyone kind of shove each other around, then at the 200 I moved to the outside so I could move into a better position. But too bad for me, cause there was a girl right behind me that I didn't know about, and she was like 'oh..' then ran right into my leg. I tripped and my face came way closer to the track than I ever hoped for it  to be.. but I caught myself and managed to stay on my feet. I tried to speed up to recover from it, but I just let it get to my head and everything just kind of sucked after that. Ended up with a 2:28. Bleh. That was definitely not what I wanted at all. Coach told me after to get closer to the lead pack quicker next time, so that I'm within reach at the end. I ran a lot more mileage than I usually do at meets today, cause Stoner and I did everything together, so I warmed up and cooled down with her as well. So that was good for me.

All in all, it was a good experience, and one that I can learn from. I'm still going for that 2:23. I've got it in me, I know that. I just have to go out and do it.

Also, I know this is spaced way weird, but I have tried and tried and I can't fix it. Sorry. 

Am: I went to morning practice, but I ended up not running because my calf feels all cramped. I stayed and rolled it for a while.

Pm: I did a 2000 (a super crappy one) and a 1000 before I decided I just couldn't do it with my calf anymore. I stretched my calf and Michael showed me how to use the foam roller to help it, and I'll ice tonight, so hopefully it loosens up. It was so so so hot today. After the cool down, Aubrey,  Liz,  Mia,  Stoner, and I went and got snow cones and screamed primary songs the whole way, since the radio is off-limits during missionary week. I hate missionary week.

Am: three. My calf still hurts.. I rolled it some more.

Pm: 4x400 all out with full recovery. It was so so hot. The first two felt fine and I got 1:06 on both. The 3rd I still hit a 1:07, but as soon as I hit the 300 mark, something felt wrong. It felt like my legs wouldn't hold me up anymore. We finished that one and I had to go sit down- I was dizzy and my legs didn't want to work. Stoner was getting impatient though, and made us start the last one. It was the most terrible I have ever felt while running. Ever. It was absolutely awful.. I ended up with a 1:20. I went and sat down by the wall and covered my eyes.. everything looked way too bright and it was giving me a headache. Then we went on the cooldown and the headache wouldn't go away. But my calf felt fine until after the cooldown. Then it hurt again.