Running Blog

Oh what a joyous run. We did roller coaster hills, which I'd never done before, and those were a blast. We played with some holes that went deep into the earth and ended in a lake.. Samara is down there, we've decided. We also played in a leaf pile, whipped a few of the girls, and talked like tonghongisong the whole time. (: my toe was killing me for most of the run, and I considered going back at the five mile mark, but I stuck it out and survived. I was running weird on my foot though to keep it from hurting, so I had to focus on running right and ignoring the pain. My knee hurt for a while too, cause Michael and krenshaw thought it would be hilarious to leave me in the dark in Coach's room, and I ran into a desk.

Holy altitude. Alli and I ran out here in Bountiful from our grandparent's house to the temple and back. It's pretty much entirely uphill on the way out there. And it's super windy and cold up here. But it was an all right run.. except Alli complained the entire time. Anyway. Got our first run in. Yippee.

Good gravy. Running with my sister is a pain in the neck. She refuses to run four miles, and she can't turn around early cause my parents don't want us running alone. So we went 3.5 today, just to please her. We waited til like 10:30 but it was still only 32 degrees out there. We went on a trail By our condo. The first mile was covered in snow and ice but we had a pretty good pace.. then alli started to get a sideache and have trouble breathing and it just went downhill from there. Everytime I'd try to help her and tell her to relax her breathing, she'd get worked up and start crying so she really couldn't breathe, then I'd get mad

and tell her to stop crying and let me help her.. funny how no one in my family can go anywhere without it being some big dramatic ordeal. Anyway, then I did my 200s by myself and it was crazy hard to breathe with this altitude.

I didn't get off work til later today because of frost on the greens (but I did see baby G and Liz doing their run while I was mowing.. that was fun). So it was 3 when I finally got out to run. But it was nice weather and it was one of those runs when I got into a rhythm and I was enjoying it. I was planning on running down to the intersection by Costco and back to my house, which in my head worked out to be about 5 miles (and later I plugged it into Google.. I was right), but the traffic down there was unreal. I knew I was never going to be able to cross by In N Out and the bank, so I turned onto Telegraph and was planning on running a little ways down that road and back.. but the intersections over there were a mess too, and crossing them was really scary, and after doing it once, I didn't want to do it again. So, after much contemplation, I decided keeping myself alive was worth running a little extra distance and turned my run into a loop. I ran up Telegraph, then turned onto Main St. and ran past the fire station into Quail Ridge. I had a pretty good pace going the whole time, but when it came time for the tempo, the pace change wasn't really very big. It took me 45 minutes to do the run, and thanks to Google, I found out my loop is exactly 6 miles, so my average pace for the whole run was 7:30 min/mi. Which is all right.. but my tempo wasn't as fast as it should have been.