Running Blog

AM: So I woke up at midnight and thought it was time for practice.. but I was so tired, I decided to sleep in and miss practice.  Then my alarm went off at 5:40, and I was so confused.. I could not figure out how I had managed to go back in time.  I almost just rolled over and went back to sleep, but I decided I couldn't sleep through morning practice twice in one morning, so I dragged myself to the school and ran (I wasn't rewarded for it, by the way.  The showers were cold, I forgot my backpack, and then I found out I didn't even run the 800 last Saturday. Bummer.)

PM: 4x1000 at 3:46. Eh. Not feeling too great today. My nose is still stuffy and I have a bad cough (again.. I swear it never goes away) My splits were 3:47, 3:48, 3:53, 3:52. Then we had 2x300 all out with full recovery. I ran :51 both times. My throat has never been so dry. My lips were sticking to my teeth and I sounded like a frog when I talked. But I went and got two bottles of water after.. I'm gonna try to stay really hydrated this week and hope it helps me recover.

AM: 3

PM: 4 to sandbergs with striders after. So hot! We waded in sandbergs a bit to cool off. Stoner and I took a walk down Memory Lane (literally). After practice, I was planning on just coming home to relax and eat applesauce cookies, but both my parentals are sick (I am too, but they're being way whinier about it than me) so I proceeded to make dinner and clean the entire kitchen (yes, all of it. I did the dishes, vacuumed, and scraped off the pieces of Trix stuck to the floor and counter) without being asked. Oh, and then I went downstairs and worked on my sterling scholar portfolio. I'm the golden child, I know.

Wasn't allowed to go to morning practice today. 

PM: 4x600 at race pace+4 to 6 seconds. This workout was a lot harder than I expected. My heart rate was so high it wasn't even funny. My splits were 1:57 (right on), then 2:01 and 2:01, then I messed up the watch on the last one and missed that split, but it felt faster. Turns out I don't know how to work a Garmin. During the cool down, I started coughing so hard I had to tell Aubrey and Ali to leave me cause I was dying. Weights after. I feel so bleh.

No morning run again. I'm on the road to recovery though.  (: 

PM: four to sandbergs with 4x200. Super hot, until we jumped in.. then it was freezing!  But it was fun. We found a gun in the pond.. so naturally we checked it for bullets, and when we found it was empty, we brought it back with us. We were a little afraid of being arrested, so we surrounded Ali so no one could see.

Meet tomorrow! I'm in the open 400 tomorrow and the 800 on Saturday.. and supposedly the 4x4 too, but all the sprinters insist that I'm not.

Am: I'm back! Three in the morning. Woot.

Pm: skipped all my classes to help get ready for the meet.. this is easily my favorite meet of the year. Today I just had the open 400. I met some girl in the bullpen who's a sophomore and said she runs like a 1:03. And then she went and took second in finals. She smoked me. Anyway. I ran a 1:04.. which is 3 seconds better than kanab.. probably because I was so tired at kanab! That's all for me today.. stoner did well in the mile though. She pr'd.

Well.. this race was not what I wanted. I was in the fast heat, seeded 10th, which I thought was good cause it would make me go faster, but it also made me nervous. Some of those girls are really really fast. We did an alley start, which I hate hate hate, but it's how they do it at state, so I guess that's good. I got kinda boxed in when we all cut in though, and I was tripping on people for about 100 meters. Our first lap was a 1:10. That's so fast. I couldn't keep it up.. like 6 people passed me in the last 200 meters. I was pretty mad after. It was ideal conditions for a great race.. the weather was nice and there were fast girls all around me.. so I was pretty frustrated with my time.

I was supposed to run the medley 4 after, but I was coughing so Mrs. Gil wouldn't let me. I really wanted to run it though. I want to get the 400 in quite a bit this season cause I want to have practice for the 4x4.