AM: 4.3 miles easy (turned out to be more of a light fartlek)
PM: I warmed up a mile and a half before practice along with 4*100m strides, to get my legs moving a bit. When practice started I warmed up with the team, and then we headed a mile to the baseball fields to do our intervals. The workout was 5*1200m@5:00mile pace w/around 3:00 rest between, although for the rest we did workouts with resistance bands or plyos (ended up being 6). The intervals were supposed to be 1200s but I got .66 miles with my watch so it ended up being 2/3 mile repeats (1067m). The first one I struggled major and right from the beginning my legs felt really heavy: 3:30 (5:15 pace). I was worried if I was going to be able to complete the workout because I pushed hard to hit 5:15 pace and my legs were dead. The second one I felt about the same but pushed more to run a 3:26 (5:09 pace). On numbers 3 and 4 I decided I would help the team work together and motivated the varsity guys to stick as a pack and push each other, and we all did very well, I was really impressed how the guys did: 3:31 (5:17 pace) and 3:33 (5:19 pace). On number four I all of sudden loosened up and started feeling pretty good, so I wanted to push number 5 hard. Coach told me to go sub 3:30, and I asked her what she would do if I broke 3 minutes...we both laughed, I had not intentions of breaking 3 minutes and my goal was to run 3:20. As I got going I pushed while making sure I stayed relaxed and surprised myself major with with a 3:06 (4:39 pace)! After that I was pretty beat, but still felt like I hadn't quite finished for the day yet, so I asked coach if I could do a 6th and she said it would be okay, and told me not to go as fast as the 5th one (i had no plans to) I wanted 3:30, but once again surprised myself with a 3:17 (4:55 pace). When I finished I gagged a bit but composed myself enough to not throw up, which was weird because I felt like I pushed hard but not that hard...anyways great workout! I jogged a mile back to the track and then finished up the day with a 2 mile cooldown with my mom and Ky Voorhees.
Strength Training: Full Body/Core
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