This is for you, Coach

ran around with Rach and Abel. Attempted to pet a cow.. one ate my stick. baby steps tho, I'll get em next time. Felt relieved when we finally made it back... a very quiet run but it's whateva!

hart's warm/cool with 2x1000s at a pretty chill pace. Nice to run with the girls and pack up. Carli did so awesome, I feel like a proud mama. Weights are always fun with Nicole as my buddy.

trail run tuesday!! Out somewhere by Dixie rock. Fun fun. we kept a good group and screamed in the tunnel. So exilerating. tripped 4 times.. probably the clumsiest I've ever been on a trail run.

Tempo wednesday! 12 min. tempo with the ladies. had a nice bigger group going!! I'm so excited for the group that we're going to have this year!! tempo was good, it took awhile for Liz's watch to catch up to how fast we were going. we kept a nice pace just under 7min pace and it didn't feel all too good but we stuck with it! yay. stretched lots and did weights the right way then stretched again!

DI warm/cool did the kosmin.. cosmin..cosmen? cozmen? the bing cosby test! hahhaha. It was so flippin hard.. honestly. but it was different running fast! Ran the cool down with the boys but I don't think they like Nicole and I very much, they keep running away.  

3 miles to green springs with the guys, ran with nicole then we backed off at the turn around but somehow we caught back up with them and it was fun! Did striders and I totally wasted all the guys.. anyways, tired from the week and ready to be done with the tempo for tomorrow.. haha!

woke up late and raced over to wear the girls ran and found them around the club house in green springs so I ran the rest with them to the 6 mile turn around then on the way back we started our tempo a little before the 5 miles mark and we finished the 10 min right at chevron. Nicoles watch said we covered 1.5 miles and our pace jumped around between 6:10-6:20.. I don't really know how helpful the watch was but it felt good! The decline helped us get into the pace so I think it was pretty effective.

harts warm/cool with 3x1000's. hit 4:03, 4:05, 3:46..... I feel kinda bad for the work out today. Our time was 4:02 and we tried to hit somewhere around 4:08 for the first but we freaked out and then we freaked even more out and went slower on the next one.. and the last one we just kinda killed it.. But next week we'll learn from our mistakes! We took turns leading and that was great! We have a great pack!! weights.. I'm already drained, hopefully yoga will help tomorrow.

am: 3 and yoga

pm: 4 mustang trail.. I love that trail! Weather was the best!

tank top tempo! coachy ran with us and it was really nice having him there to set the pace and it was not like our past tempos.. It didn't feel like we were chasing our pace, we were just picking it up a bit and keeping it together. Very different if that even made sense! Focused on relaxing my breathing and the lsat 4 minutes was the toughest part just trying to hold it together.. I didn't finish as strong as I would have liked to but it was still a good tempo! It was a mental game the whole time which is so so annoying!! It was hard to push them away but focusing on breathing helped clear the thoughts away. coach said something about breathing in the good and out the bad.. maybe I heard it in my head.. I don't remember but it helped! After the tempo I was tired but I felt good still! I felt like I could keep on running! We stopped by the running center and we admired shoes then finished with them boys. Weights after and I feel good! Tempo actually made the run good! weird. Mom said I stunk.. first time since xc finished so I guess track has officially started. woohoo!

morning run then left to all state in slc. Still trying to figure out how I'm going to do my runs when I have rehearsal flippin all day. But I'm going to have to squeeze one in sometime! boo... running alone in the big ol slc.. it's kinda scary! But it's pretty!

ran in the morning before the concert. went to the Jordan river temple and took a selfie with a horse on the way. It was great! Except the cold made my lungs on fire! so so cold.

ohh what a day! 4x1000's at 4:07, 4:01, 3:55, 3:50. Stoner came and ran with us and she talked to me and got my mind off of the cold. It's always the best when she comes down and runs with us! I miss her a lot but I'm glad she helped me out today. Weights and somehow feeling sore already. whaaa?

am: 3 with yoga. Paul yelled at me for breaking the silence. I guess I messed up his mojo. sorry paul.

pm: trail run to dino tracks. so so fun! We had an awesome group running and even the youngens went 4 with us! It was so fun! We even ran into the desert hellans. Oh the irony! They should be running in the desert.. and we should be running in the pines... hm. 

tempo tempo tempo. Average today was a 6:41. Next week we will be in the 30's and just maybe we'll do a 24 min.. maybe. It's scary running the tempo alone with coach, I actually have to respond to the things he's telling me to do. It's weird how tired you get by the end and holding picking up your feet at the last 4 minutes becomes the most strenious thing. Coach even had to push me along but it felt about the same as last week. I think I tried more at the end but next week I'll focus more at the end cause that's when I start to fall apart. We stopped to look at some puppies at sportsmans! They were called "Pom Poo Chi" HA! They're as adorable as they sound :) Please go adopt them. 

am: 3

pm: old mans 1x800, 2x400's. weights after. tired.

sandburgs with all the ladies. striders too. fun fun!

1000's at 4:02, 4:00, 3:56, 3:50. I was actually scared that we wouldn't hit our times after the second one cause I felt exhausted but look at that! yipeee. weights after.

temple run. so fun! the girls got mad at me for leadings them astray but we came back! We sang songs and went to OP after so.. they better not be complaining still!

am: 3.. just ali jo and I. what the?

pm: tempo today for 18 mins and I honestly thought I was going to do worse.. I was already getting tired the start but weirdly I stuck and the last 4 minutes I actually convinced myself that I still had it in me.. and coach does this thing where he runs like a foot in front of me and every time I try to get him he keeps that distance! So really I'm just getting faster haha.. maybe.. anywho, I was surprised that I actually had something in me today and coach didn't let me think, thanks thanks. Surprisingly we hit a 6:29 pace.. whaa?! Last week I couldn't even get under 6:40! I have to say I'm pretty happy.. yippee!