Running Blog

40 minutes with Maggie, Abbie, and Kenzie. 6x20 sec stride, 70 sec rest throughout the last mile. 

Going home. Hallelujah.

Easy scavenger hunt run w/ PV's team. Probably not a full four miles, but it was fun. I found a dollar, which Alli promptly sold to Coach in exchange for two points. We lost by a mile anyway because half our stuff came from Josie's car. 

Later, I tricked a couple suckers into doing core with me. They were very whiny about it. But now I have to at least be friendly toward Andrew because he did all the minutes and that was the agreement.

Alli and I stayed up quite late last night, and my dog has been breaking into my room every morning (at some point in the few months since I left in August, she has learned to open doors, apparently) and waking me up, so I was a bit tired today. Also I spent a few hours helping my mom get ready for everyone to come over this morning (I made 110 pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. That is a lot of cookies). Anyway, at about one-ish, I decided to go out and get my workout in. It was GORGEOUS weather, because this is St. George and St. George knows how to do Thanksgiving.

Today I had a fartlek workout: 15 min warm-up, 10x60 sec hard w/ 2 min recovery, 10 min cool down. I drove out to the high school because I know all the routes & mileage from there. I decided to do Target/hospital run, without really thinking much about it.. mistake. I forgot that it gets trafficky here. Luckily, I made it through without dying or even having to modify my fartleks at intersections.

My warm-up got me to Sunrise Tires, then I started my fartleks. The first four got me down to the volleyball courts by the hospital (I didn't want to cross the street by Harmons & Zions. It was too busy, so I turned left and ran toward Foremaster. As a side note, Harmons has been redone and looks kind of scary now), then I turned around and did the next six on the way back. I finished exactly at the intersection by Arctic Circle. Somehow, big intersections always came either right before a fartlek or right after, so I never had to stop in the middle of a fartlek to wait for the light. The rest of the way back to the high school took a bit longer than 10 minutes (13, actually) because I was quite tired and also my arches/calves were killing me. I had to stop by the mall to try and stretch. I think I ran a bit farther than 6 miles today (maybe 6.5ish, since we always said 6 was the doctor's office sign) but I don't have a distance watch, so I'm just going with 6.

I saw Ali Jo running up by Green Springs, so maybe Alli and I will run with her tomorrow. I mean, if she wants to. Maybe she hates us. Also maybe Alli will whine enough that I'll kill her and then she can't run. That's been the pattern of our relationship today, so it wouldn't be a surprise. 

I was originally only going to go 40 minutes, but Alli and I met up with Kaylee and she was going 8 miles so I extended my run with her. We went out to the storage units on Telegraph, then back to PV, then out to Arctic Circle and back. My poor calves have been aching since I finished my run yesterday. They still hurt after the run today, plus my quads are starting to ache too. I'll roll and put on some muscle balm stuff today.

Tomorrow will be a real recovery run. My legs can't handle anything more intense than that. 

Easy recovery run with Josie, Ellie, and Alli. Thirty minutes down Sullivan Park Trail. Felt good. 

Hills(8x75 seconds). We were supposed to find a hill like our road hill (gradual until the last 30ish seconds, where it steepens pretty quickly), but all the hills I remembered from high school were pretty steep all the way, except for Old Mans, which aren't steep enough. So, in all my wisdom & common sense, I decided to go out to Icehouse and just run up for 75 seconds, then head back down. I went out with Alli, my mom, my aunt Judy, and Gabbie. Judy wouldn't let us head out on the revegetation path (yeah, yeah, so it's illegal. The entire world runs/rides bikes on it. Maybe not that great of an excuse, but the legal way out there is annoyingly long and steep). So my mom and I did a 20 minute warm up on that trail (Alli threw a small fit at the 11 minute mark, at which point she and my aunt cut across the desert and took a shortcut to Icehouse). When we got to the steep part of the trail, I decided to just start my hills on the way to Icehouse. We did 2 hills on the way there, then met Alli and Judy at the bottom of Icehouse (they'd already done a 3 hill progression thing and decided they were done). I did the six remaining hills up Icehouse, which actually wasn't as steep as I expected.. just really rocky. The second, third, and fourth times up were really good for me- I made it quite far. The fifth one was probably my worst. The last one I got back in the game a little bit. Gabbie was getting quite tired but she refused to stop chasing us up the hill, so my mom skipped one of the hills to keep Gabbie from running up it again. 15 minute cool down & light core.