Monday: Hahahaha funny day today. We were doing a long run day so I planned on doing my L pace (6:15). First mile I felt great and I ran 5:50. As I entered the second mile we climbed Arlington hill, and I don't know if it was the extreme heat, the lack of hydration on my part or the hill itself (probably a good mixture of all three.) But I felt absolutely terrible. I stopped at the top of the hill and got some water. This is where a bunch of the varsity guys caught me. We all started running again together and then we ran over to devils throne hill and got some water before we ascended. When I bent down to get a drink everything went black for a couple seconds, but I just shook it off and started running up the hill. About halfway up my legs just completely tightened and wouldn't move. Then Kamryn whizzed by me as I was standing on the hill trying to walk up it. This is also when coach drove by...embarrassing. I looked behind me and saw Ryan who also raced BYU and Kody and they seemed to be struggling just as much as I was so we grouped together and were determined to finish the run. By the time we finished everyone was worried we died because we took so long but we finished the 8.5 mile hill run (we go up all of the biggest hills in Hurricane) in an excellent one and a half hours....probably the worst workout I have ever ran...but hey at least I finished and am still alive.
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