This is for you, Coach

morning: 3 miles swell

pm: 4 miles (2 mi. on 2450 park) AHH! is it possible that my caves are just gonna rip apart? cause thats how it felt! it hurt even more when i stopped. ahhhh. anywho, so weights and plysos pretty tiring. note to self: start doing some push-ups.. than went into marks room to roll out them legs! goodness! pain is in the brain.. such a lie, its in the legs. on my right thigh it hurt terrible to roll out. It was a different kind of hurt though, like pinching hurt. Wise Kaylee told me to roll it out even more. blah blah blah. so yeah, thats pretty much my day.

morning: 3 miles to artic cirlce

afternoon: 1x1min cruisers, 2x1200 cruisers, 1.5 mi. cool down, striders (6miles) at bloomington hills park. first two work outs, got behind but last one stayed up pretty close. Didn't want to do striders at all cause i was beat.

evening: 2 miles (8ish to 9ish). Runathon!!! fun fun fun fun (: some pretty excited things happened but i can't rememeber much at the moment! fell asleep a wee bit in the bed of the truck so according to kaylee and jp i missed out. It twas fun though! 

runathon

Its Labor Day and i ran!hurray! so anywho, I ran with Frida and Stoner and it was plesent. Frida brought one of those apps with the pace,milage,and time so we went with whatever the app said. At first we were going like 9:50 pace.. hahah so we picked it up a little. It was pretty fun, we talked a lot about anything really. We met at Fridas and we ran from her house, around the mountain, by my house, than to a park and ran some laps there, than back to Fridas. At first my legs were being dumb and would hurt but than it turned into my feet falling asleep which felt really weird but when we stopped for a wee bit it felt a lot better. We stopped at the park cause we had to use the restroom and i ended up using the mens bathroom.. anyways I think that was one of the cleanest park bathroom i've ever been in! crazy, i know. So on the way back from the park we ran past these dogs and a couple on bikes and the guy on the bike was not a guy.. he was a gorilla! AH! not kidding, he was way dark (didn't look natural) and he was SO hairy. like beastly hairy!!! Prolly had one of those gorilla faces too! right as he past i couldn't help but break into a laugh and Stoner called him a gorilla and Frida didn't even see him. which i thought was miraculous cause i mean, how could you miss him? She said she was looking at the dogs. Oh and we passed like a billion dogs on our run, It twas crazy! 

Am: 3 miles plus 4x200- swell plus felt pretty good on the sprints

Pm: 4 miles plus 8xstriders- ditched the pep assembly and ran with Frida and Stoner. Best idea EVER! got done by the time everybody started (:

AM: 4x30sec, 2x800, 2x1000 plus warm up and cool. splendid. happy i kept up with the group.

PM: 3 miles plus weights. I got sore from benching right after i finished benching. blah.. thinking about putting on some more upper body muscle. my papa says that i might just tip over. (haha) ran 3 miles from the Gillispies with Kailee and Frida. fun fun fun

AM: 3 miles

Pm: 3 miles plus striders. ran and ran again

wow.. i've never felt so excited for a race and still felt the same afterwards! Listening to the boys 'girls' song and sitting in the car forever was lame but other than that the trip was fun. Most everybody was honery (eh hem..) on the way up so i was happy i slept through it. We ran at the State course and I talked to some geese while the girls avoided them (cause they thought they'd be attacked whimps!) and Stoner was chasing after them. I don't know if i'm way excited for the huge hill at State.. it doesn't look so pleasing. Anywho, we ate at subway and on the way out coach and tyson made fun of me cause i didn't know how to open the door :P.  I was suprised i didn't feel so nervous so i took advantage of it and ate as much as i could before the race.

 AH! than it rained HARD. It was quite funny because we were listening to some kesha song on the radio and right as she sang 'make it rain' (something like that) it started to rain like crazy! Some of us (JP) were hoping that the race would be cancelled but it wasn't luckily! I finally started to get nervous when we were warming up but i felt pretty confident. The only thing i had in mind was to keep Frida in sight. The race was so muddy and its crazy that i didn't slip. There were a ton of down hills and it felt so good to run down them. There was one incline and it was the most muddy. It was hard pushing off in the mud but i got through it-ish. For a while there was a west jordan girl in front of me and i finally passed her than the desert hills girl was in front of me, Like how'd that happen? Coach yelled that if i passed the two girls than we'd win and finally i got out of thinking of running for myself and started thinking about running for the team. Good thing too. At the last prolly 200 yds, theres this huge down hill that i was afraid i was gonna trip over (i didn't) i passed DH and hoped to pass the AF girls. i got close but not close enough. Overall i'm pretty happy with the race. I felt like i had a ton of energy and i didn't feel extremely warn out until i finished. I kept thinking if i was actually giving it my all and how i don't want to finish thinking i could've ran harder. I probably could have ran a little harder to pass the AF girls but that'll just be a learning experiance this time (: I really liked the course even though it rained. I can't believe we got 1st place! Its crazy to think that we're starting to get good!

Slept at Fridas with JP and Stoner and woke up around 8ish to go run! be proud, we could've slept in more and just ate breakfast but instead we (more like frida) decided to run (: We even added a mile tempo!

AM: 4x30sec w/ 1 min recovery, 3x800 w/ 2 min recovery, 2x1000 w/ 1 min recovery and harts warm up/ 1 mile cool down. holy cow! i was breathing like cra-sy! It was hard but it felt good finishing. Frida (Sweda..hahah) said she could hear me breathing and i was a good distance from her..so that just shows how terrible my breathing was.

PM: 3 miles out to the bridge-ish. i don't like that run. I hate cars, they stink with gasoline. and it sufficates me. ask frida, she agrees. It smelt like nail polish on the way back, it was gross.

AM: 3 miles plus 6x200. Sorry our mistake for doing the 200s a day before..

PM: 3 miles to hot nails. ahh the smell of fast food..bleh

am: 3 miles to artic circle. my left leg was feeling tired but not my right, it was feeling pretty spify. so i was pretty unbalanced today

pm: 3 miles to 2450-ish park. wasn't too bad, devin told me he liked my stride but he was quoteing a movie that they keep talking about.. and i ran with Frida and Michael. Fun fun fun.

AM: 3 miles to artic circle like every morning

PM: 5 miles to green springs. my legs are tired or sore or something. blah

race day.. was a lot nervous compared to Provo last week. the course was pretty good but i didn't feel like racing. I kept settling and i just didn't feel it. My breathing wasn't amazing so it wasn't the best. Good job to Kaylee and JP for getting 1st and 2nd though!! :D The rest of the trip was super fun, even though we encountered some nappy new jersey football players it was all good (: 

(i think) 8x200 and 2x4min tempo plus 2 mile warm up and 3 mile cool down. at Sugar house park! SO cold! It was hard but it felt good. the geese didn't get in the way luckily. Good Job to the JV girls and boys! I've come to love running in SL, it was so pretty running to the cotton park. Firda and i found a funny street called "Europa Ln." and i guess that's how you say Europe in swedish. 

Michigans hallelujah.. (6.75-includes warm/cool). I found that the first set is harder than the second-ish. The first set my breathing is ridiculous but by the time i get to the second it's more controlled. I settled a wee bit.. and i got behind Frida and Rachel more than i wanted to. By the time i started my last set of 1200s it finally clicked that i don't have that much left and i need to step it up! I'm hoping next time i can get A standard and stick with Frida and Rachel a lot more.

3 miles to Hot Nails plus striders. my legs are begging for mercy.. maybe i should start stretching more! 

Am: 4 miles to starbucks. JP and Stoner are pace pushers. but it wasn't too bad!

Pm: 3 miles shortened sandburgs. pointless cause we didn't even jump in!! but not bad. 

Am: 3 miles (blehh) plus 6x200's in the dark! 

Pm: 3 miles 2450 loop. It went by fast cause Frida and i were talking about creepy/scary movies the whole time!  

morning: 3

afternoon: 3 (only because i had a cello lesson to get too..)