This is for you, Coach

May i say that coral canyon is NOT my favorite run. I made that desicion right as we started on those rolling hills that Coach Roberts was talking about. He also said it feels like a rollar coaster. Rollar coasters are fun, short and sweet no grusome and aganizing. But on a positive thought, i was pretty happy for staying up with the varsity girls and coach Roberts. It was sure hard but they were pretty entertaining.  

We ran to Green Springs today and it was quite grand. I thought i was going to run 4 but coach asked if i wanted to run 6 miles. what a question! It was a shame it was more of a statement than a question. JP and I got a little behind at the end but we did striders.

We did what we always do on thursdays except we added another 3 laps (mile). After running around countless times, i lost count and i don't even remember what we (jp, stoner, and i) talked about. I think running on the grass more than 10 times makes you go delusional. i say we ought to find a different grass field to run around!! Kids run was not as fun today but probably only because the sun was beating down on us the whole time. what happened to raining for 5 days? some forecast. Anywho, 3-4th grade girls is probably the best group out of all. is it bad to say i have a few favorites in my group? Hopefully i don't show it as much so the other girls don't feel left out. The coachs (again, JP and Stoner) and i finally got all the girls names memorized! (well at least the girls that come) it was an accomplishment. we even made a few nicknames for some girls :)

We ran around my neighborhood today and i was pretty tired. I just didn't feel like running and on top of that it was really humid. By the end of the run i got the chills and i started to get cold, it was kinda weird. hmm.. and JP took me home and she ran a stop sign but no one was there luckily. Don't get me wrong, JP's a good driver, she just didn't see the stop sign...

Hells Hole. It really does live up to its name. I got behind after running up the hill but i think i worked my butt off to a point. I felt bad for coach roberts cause he ran the end with me and i know how much he hates running slow. It must have been painful. So i think that concludes my run for the day..

AM(5 miles+3.5 miles bike): Dirt run.. hurray. It wasn't that bad, it got over a lot fast than i thought it would. It was fun running with Megan again and hearing her great stories (-: umm.. Stoner and I biked home and the hill going down feels a lot steeper on a bike than in a car.

DAY(3 mile run+ 8 miles bike [there and back]) : Stoner and I biked to school today and it was hot!! stupid helmet just collects sweat! great protection. Running to artic circle was dreary. I complained way too much but on the way back it was a lot better.  We did some work outs in the weight room because according to coach i'm a "cute little twig" and i need to work out more.  we biked home and it was mostly downhill but I have a good feeling i'm gonna be pooped by the end of the week Or we'll be buff according to stoner... 

Lovely, Lovely day. It felt really good until we started doing striders and i got really bad side cramps, Megan told me to eat a banana but i came home to fine none :(  Rode bike (3.5m) home but my fanny disagreed even though we just started yesterday! cmon. petted some horses (well stoner did) fed them pop tarts and planning on bringing food that horses can actaully eat next time.

Here you go Roberts... "I Wear Socks...Everyday" (TA-DA)

Coach was genorous enough to have us do only 3 miles on the grass today, hurray!! I finally learned that the faster you run the faster your done. I think we did pretty good today. Nicole and i caught up with Jp,stoner,roberts, and casey and ran with them until the end and it felt good! We actaully could see the guys in front of us instead of looking behind to see them. coach actually got stoner and i to play frisbee.. i caught it once and i was done. Kids club was fun. they ran around a lot more and they can actually go half way through the warm up/cool down without stopping! The girls are always way funny and adorable. Stoner and i rode our bikes home and we acted like we had radios and said 'over' after everything. The horses didn't want anything to do with us today.. we even made chanting noises and stuff but they still didn't budge:( poor stoner even brought carrots! we were hoping they would be able to spell/hear the carrots but noo. anywho i think thats all for today.

AM (6m): Ran around tabernacle and such. On the way up to the turn around it felt A LOT longer than going back. Running back, i didn't recognize anything and i didn't remember running past the buildings. Good thing JP was there to remind me! The only building i remembered was the 'Palaties' place, only because i couldn't pronouce it and JP laughed at me. It was fun all together. JP took me home and she didn't run a stop sign this time :D

DAY (3m): Hot but fun. lifting was fun too. now i'm sore

I 'dislike' coral canyon. If eternity feels like that hill, i'm not ready. anywho, i got behind going up the hill and it didn't feel amazing. I felt really tight in my calves and i got shots of pain in my ankle going back. I used to think going down hill was fun but that hill was everything but fun. so i think i've complained enough.. I still did striders (1mi), I felt slow.. Todays run was just not good. maybe its cause i'm missing 2/3 of me :-(

AM (6mi): Green springs plus tempo. blah blah blah. i'm worn out, the end.

DAY(3mi): It felt a lot better than this morning. we talked a lot and it was fun! we actaully didn't get any water at artic circle this time, improvment :D I got a really bad cramp on my side at the end, megan, i still don't have a banana :( Afterwards we swam at Megans and it was delightful...except for getting slapped and getting pushed into the pool, not the best.

hell hole rolling hills: 2x1min. & 2x30sec. Felt a lot better than the past 2 days. Coachs advice of looking at the person in front of you's feet and matching theirs helps. Thanks Rachel (-: 

Grass run. just peachy!

Missed morning but went to afternoon. Felt better than a lot of the others who ran the hills that morning.

Played fujitive and got lost but no worries, we found our way back.

mornin': 5 miles. mavrick run with rachel. i think i felt good.

later: 3 miles @ high altitude. pretty tough staying up with the level 3 girls. decided it wasn't my favorite 3 miler.

mornin': 8 miles-ish. rachel and i didn't know where the turn around was until it was too late. we were suppose to run 7 miles but i guess an extra mile wouldn't hurt.. wrong! it was hard, slipping and sliding (kinda funny) everywhere and wondering if there was even any civilization out in the woods. ran the last few miles back with Zak Lusk. we talked about breakfast and decided that we wanted smoothies..that we never got :(

evening-ish: 3 miles. had to go to the bathroom so got a "wee bit" behind :) than coach yelled at my lack of good form.

Sadly had to leave for girls camp in the morning. We (as in the other girls camp gals) were rushed to pack so we didn't get much of a run in. but girls camp was pretty exciting and overall i guess i was pretty happy to leave on wednesday instead of thursday. It would've been better if i missed the boring intruduction of girls camp though.