Running Blog

Today we have to move stuff from the track to the Laub so we had a run on our own, then we'll do core together later. I went down 8th because I couldn't think of anywhere else to go- Broken Canal will be snowed in and I just ran down 12th on Saturday. But 8th wasn't exactly a fantastic idea either. Everything was covered in ice and snow. At some points, it was covered by ice, snow, and leaves, which is probably the most treacherous situation anyone could dream up. The run itself felt good, actually, but it was pretty slow because I was more worried about keeping myself upright than focusing on speed. Also on the part that goes past the stadium to my apartment, my form was pretty scary. The ice made leaning forward to any extent out of the question, and I couldn't get any traction if I tried to drive my knees. So for that part I ran standing straight up and down and my feet barely left the ground. It was an.. interesting run in that aspect, but it felt really really good. 

35 minute warm up. Conditions are still icy and precarious. 

Anaerobic workout: 25 sec each of burpees, high knees, split jumps, grasshoppers. 8x single leg squats each leg. 6x pike planks, knee bends. 4x single leg bridge lifts each leg. 6x pull ups with the band.

Another set, except with 6x single leg squats, 6x pendulum (instead of knee bends), 6x double leg bridge lifts (instead of single leg), 7x pull ups.

Finished with 45 sec high knee progression.

Talked about blue & white meet, how training over the break will work, and how we're going to handle indoor. I'm quite nervous.

40 minutes on my own. It got up to 39 degrees today so that felt good. There was an awkward moment at the four-way stop where I almost went but so did a car, then we both stopped, then the car went, then all the other cars were waiting for me to go, but I didn't know so I just stood there for a few seconds while everyone stared at me. Then I realized what was happening, so I hurried and ran across the street and, upon reaching the other side, promptly proceeded to get run over by a guy on a bike.

I was supposed to have full core after but after the 8 & 7 minute sets, I somehow ended up laying on my bedroom floor laughing my head off at some lady I found on instagram. Ah well. 

PS I'm slowly starving to death because all the food I own is a few pieces of bread, some peanut butter, and honey. Therefore I have eaten nothing but a sandwich today. Send help.

No run yesterday. Honestly, I don't know why either. I just couldn't make myself. After writing an 8 page paper and stressing about my math quiz, I just wanted to sleep and then go play futsal. So that's what I did. And I feel much better- today was a good day. It was sunny & my math quiz went okay & I found out today that by some odd miracle I was one of five people in my psych class to get 100% on a six page research paper I forgot about and consequently wrote in two hours one night. So hallelujah for making it through the week. 

Today was hills. Buuuut... Sydney had class at 3 and Megan was late so I did them by myself. Which was fine except they were at a different place that I'd never done before (Coach just called them 1500 North hills, so I ran until I found 1500 North and assumed I was in the right place) so I didn't know where to start on the hill or how far up to go or anything.. I didn't even know what the real objective was, so I didn't know about pace either. All I knew was that I had 4 full hills at 1:15 and 4 steep hills at :32. The hill turned out to be a dead end street that ends in a steep dirt hill. So I started at the very bottom of the pavement for the first full one and ran sort of quickly until I got to a black thingy that was sort of where the hill leveled off.. at that point on the first one I was at 1:09, so I went a bit farther than that every time. Then on the steep ones, I first started a bit before it changed from pavement to dirt and ran up to a bush at the top, but I was very under 32 seconds on that one (:24), so I started a bit farther back after that. My third and fourth steep hills were much faster than the other two. 

All in all, it was fine except for not knowing what I was doing, and also on the dirt portion it was extremely slippery because of all the melting snow, so it was hard to get any traction going up that part. 20 minutes warm up, 15 cool down, legs after.

When I woke up this morning, it was raining, which I was way excited about. Janz said it wasn't even cold outside, so I got dressed in a short sleeve shirt and some compression capris and went to go pick Spencer up.. Joke's on me, the rain was actually slushy grossness falling from the sky. So I had to borrow a shirt/jacket thing from Spencer (luckily I'd had the foresight to keep my gloves in my purse just in case) and we went down to the Island to sort of make a run up. We parked my car, ran about  mile, and realized we were completely lost and would never be able to find the car again. We were already going though, so we just kept at it. It was actually a super good run, even though we were soaked and my face was numb. We went through a nature park and found this cool garage thing that looked like it might have aliens or a time machine hidden inside (as far as we could tell, it didn't, but we didn't go inside so it still has sci-fi potential) and discovered that Spencer can run 18 mph (courtesy of one of those annoying flashy signs they put up for cars to discourage speeding). By some miracle, we found my car at the 46 minute mark, at which point we went and got hot chocolate and then I dropped Spencer off at his apartment and I drove home to finish off the run. The last 14 minutes were exceptionally freezing though because I didn't have the jacket anymore so I was just in my t shirt and capris. So, all in all, 60 minutes. It felt really good, despite the freezing wetness that is Logan today.