This is for you, Coach

am- 3

pm- 3.. whaaa! ran with all the girls, had some nice chit chats then striders. Felt good, nice stretch afterwards and a free tshirt!

Today was the annual Mr. PVHS fun run but this year its for Talen Vaughn who happens to  live down the road from me :) Anyways, 2 mile warm up with JP and Stoner and felt kinda tight and wasn't sure about the run but it ended up being good! There were parts, like the grass, that took some energy from me and i wasn't sure if i was going to let the lady behind me pass me.. but i actually got competitive and didn't let her pass me! woo.. But there were a lot of parts where i felt super good and my legs didn't bug me! Actually kicked at the end and it felt great! I didn't feel the tiredness i have been with track work outs at all. Ended with a 20:06 and 10 seconds behind JP sooo going to be working on closing the gap. I thought I'd be tired today from all the workouts from this week but i feel great! Stretching and doing some core workouts cause it'd be a shame if i didn't do any work outs while i feel so good! 

am- 3, scared aubrey twice! she's so funny :)

pm- harts warm/cool 4x1mile repeats. A lot better compared to the past two weeks but still got a lot to do to get where i need to be! Coach helped out a lot and he calms my breathing down a lot cause he's just trotting next to me and is way relaxed. When he helped me breath it was so much easier to be in the momentum. Liz and Taylor pushed me a lot but i let my breathing get in the way so it was harder to keep up. I need to hit my times! I know i can, espicially when i have a 3 min recovery! Everyone's doing awesome, and i need to start doing my part. Weights after and starting tomorrow we have plyos too.. bring on the soreness! ahhhh. OH! and today i checked my weight and i've lost 5lbs which seems remarkable to me cause i've maintained the same weight for a while now.. i'm kinda happy but hopefully it's healthy.. 

am- luckily rach called me and i made it to only 3 minutes late! plyos after run

pm- iceburg.. ice house run? brick house run! anyways, gah. we switched every half mile of who lead just to have something to look forward to and i had the last half mile until the turn around and i felt like death, but stoner kept me going. I was waiting for the boys to pass but when i finally looked up there was a herd of them at the top. kind of self consious having so many just watch us. but the way down was super fast. no one biffed it. Me and aubrey got side cramps by the end so i was happy when we got back! I'm starting to get a cold so my hearing is weird but i'm taking a ton of emergen-C!  

i know, lame that it's only 2 but I've been sick and today was just too nice of a day out to not run or do something outside. So i snuck out without my madre knowing and took my dog with me out on a run on the dirt roads. I don't know why i've never taken my dog out on a run before! He's pretty good at doing some fartleks. The first half mile was just booking it cause he was so excited then the rest was a few surges. Felt pretty good but it's always a weird feeling when you're sick and running, just breathing funky and throat burning. Hoping to be out running tomorrow!

3 plus striders. ran around with JP to hand out flyers for the hope 5k tomorrow. Almost got ran over in the wal mart parking lot.. then we parkoured the fence.. it was great!

Hope 5k today! Honestly felt good, and sadly i felt like i was doing good until coach and Riley caught up and i realized that i wasn't going a tempo pace. Maybe next time i'll actually run with Stoner so i can hit my pace. But Rileys beast! She's going to be so amazing! Hoping to be fully recovered from this cold by monday so i can run a solid time trial. calls for a lot of doterra and kick-*** herbs.. 

am- 3..pretty chilly!

pm- harts warm/cool, time trial, then striders. Evaluating mile... ahhh! Time was 5:59..It was nice to have Liz on the third lap. It went by quicker and not as hard as they usually are but by the forth i already given up and Janz pacing me didn't do much cause mentally i was beaten. But i am happy for the third lap cause they usually stink hard core but it was good to battle it out with Liz. She's getting dang good! Striders then stretched.  

am- 3.. so chilly! plyos too.

pm- 8 with 30 min tempo. Stayed up for half way then started the 1min recovery then 1 min tempo.. but i changed it a bit and added on more time with tempo and it worked out perfectly! Felt like i got more out of this tempo than the ones before, felt pretty good but the way back was more painful then the tempo! But overall i think it was pretty decent. Work on staying up longer each time and doing less recovery. Weights and stretched after. Feeling the soreness already! 

am- 3

pm- easy 6. ohh golly! so happy we had an easy cause my legs were begging for some mercy! hopefully they'll be fully recovered for whatever lies ahead. Still pretty sore but i guess i'm the only one! After practice we went straight to the temple and did baptisms! I honestly don't go there enough but it was nice to go with a few buddies. 

am-3 with plyos

pm- harts warm/cool and 10x200's. I never got my 10 bucks because i never hit my time..which was 45.. hit it consistently around 41's. kept my heart rate below 120 too! except the last one it went over by 5.. but other than that it felt great! my legs didn't feel as sore. 

am- 3

pm- 5 trail out to.. by freeway? It went by quick! foot fell asleep and it kept bugging but whatever. Everyone was in a good mood today. had to embrace it 

ran with Rach, Liz, and Megan out past george washington. such long long long roads. It was okay though. During the AT pace i felt good and tried to keep a good distance with Rach but then my foot fell asleep (why?!) and then the side of my foot.. the other side of the arch.. started to shoot pains and by the time we finished, just walking on it kept shooting pains into it so i've stretched and iced it in case its actually something bad. It's great weather though!

Ran on this beautiful morning with the girls and did 3x800's which felt pretty decent. My foot pain isn't getting any better but its endurable during runs and during work outs i don't even notice it but when i'm walking around it bugs me. Ice and stretching. couldn't go to zions but still playing volleyball later. 

am- 3 miles with plyos

pm- 4x1000's 4:12 pace. Ran with Liz and it felt super good! we controlled it and worked on keep our breathing relaxed and steady. Foot didn't bother until after we finished. Talked to my mom about getting new shoes so fingers crossed that i'll have some new kicks soon! stretched and ice but honestly i don't feel it getting any better.. but still doing it! 

am: 3. It snowed! kinda chilly.. but good thing we were wearing our pv track warm ups! saved our lives. 

pm: 4 to dogtown/ dog pound. Rach and i kept getting them mixed up.. we're just SO excited for this weekend! Ran with the straggler boys which included mike, abel, krenshaw, and casey. Felt good and we weren't too offended that they didn't invite us to there conversations. Weights after and struggled with benching as Rach almost let the whole bar + 14lbs drop on me and while coach laughed at me.. it's okay though, we were just trying to impress the studly basketball guys next to us as they lifted double the amount we did. We still felt pretty good of ourselves though. My mom started rubbing her magic voodoo on my foot and it's feeling better! maybe i won't have to go buy some new shoes. we'll see how it goes! 

am- 3 with plyos. felt warm

pm- 12x200's with equal recovery and checked every three for our heart beats. Got 105, 95, 98. Found out that it's only a competition with Rachel if she's winning. Little wienie. Felt good, got in trouble from the girls cause i only hit my time once and it threw them off.. sorry! But we kept it pretty consistent. 

am- 3

pm- 3 + striders. felt good. Ran with the boys again. 

Half Marathon today! woke up to some glorious cereal and me and my buds rode our way to george washington to ride the bus! No butterflies until we walked into the holiday inn and saw all the other runners. We realized that they might look intimidating with their fancy running clothes but they can actually afford it cause they work! we were wearing all free clothes and shoes our parents generously bought for us. :) Anyways, kinda chilly but so happy i wasn't wearing a jacket cause the weather was perfect after the first few miles! Nervous at first but as we ran through the canyon with coach it felt great and i was able to relax! Surprised myself by running with Rachel until the 6 mile mark. I was soo happy and i felt great! At the first hill around the mountain, both my feet fell asleep and i was ticked and it stayed that way until after i got over the second hill. So that bothered but going down hill i picked up my pace and i guess i ran off the numbness of my foot. I could tell my legs were getting really tired but i thought it'd hurt more if i stopped so i kept going! It zipped by super fast, espcially having my parents and the Peterson's driving by and cheering helped out! The hardest part was the last mile.. I just wanted to be done and it felt like this last mile was taking forever! Plus there was Godzilla behind me breathing like crazy so I picked it up more and when i saw the guys jogging i wanted to be done SO bad. Then fortunately coach appeared and ran the last 400 m or so and he helped a ton! I didn't notice how bad my form was starting to get until he told me to straighten up. It was hard to push the end but I was so happy to be done and get a good time. I wouldn't mind doing that again but maybe do a better job pacing myself. (overall place out of the girls..)

am- 3

pm- 4 with striders and the beginning of a nightmare.. just kidding the clinics were fun because we all look goofy and stink at them. well some of us, or at least i do. We started off with the hurdles which i jumped over 3 then got too scared to do the rest, or self conscious. But planning on conquering them tomorrow.. Then the shot put. Mike made fun of my first throw because i barely made it over the concrete but later we found out that i was using the mens.. so in his face! then we went and did the high jump which was the most fun and the funniest. i almost peed cause we looked so ridiculous! Janzens and Katies actually good at all of them so thats no fair. If i were to do any of the events i would want to do the high jump cause it's like jumping onto your bed.. but on your back! 

am- 4 miles + 4xfartleks with JP. Legs were tight but felt good. 

pm- 3 

am- Kosmin #2. got somewhere around 1250. The start was horrible but i felt pretty good. I wasn't very happy with the boy in front of me but i'm planning on passing him on the next one so i won't be bothered again. 

am- 3 with plyos

pm- cello lesson but took my dog out