Redemption

Am: Ran up Smith Mesa, 3 miles up, 3miles down (6 miles total) It was really steep! I averaged 10 min miles going up and 5:30 min miles going down. So approximately 49 minutes. Which I am pretty proud of :) The first mile was tough, but then I thought about how easy it was in comparison to the Running camp I went to last week, and I got a second wind. Coming back down the hill was a breeze, I felt really good this workout.

 NOTE TO SELF: Get more sleep

Ran 1.5 miles easy around my house

PM: 2.5 Miles easy plus hardcore weight lifting at Cross Country, I felt great, but kind of got light headed near the end. I think I just needed more water

NOTE TO SELF: Drink more water.

Sorry for putting this week up late my computer broke!

Am: 6 miles easy, my legs felt REALLY tired.

PM: Body Weight exercises w/sprints (Push ups, sit ups, lunges, etc.) plus 2 miles easy.

AM: 2 miles easy

RACE: Cedar All-Comers           -Time: 16:54

Before the race my calves were really sore, when I woke up this morning I felt like I could hardly walk, but when the race started I completely forgot about the soreness and the first mile I felt really good, but when I got half way through mile 2 I had to go to the bathroom, which made the rest of the race uncomfortable, but I was still happy with my time.

PM: 3 miles easy

AM: 7 miles easy, I felt better and my calves weren't sore any more

PM: 6 mile bike ride, along with 2 miles easy.

AM: 7 miles easy, and 200/100m sprints

PM: 4 miles easy

My legs were a bit tired but not to bad.

AM: RACE: Washington Fair Half-Marathon relay (10k leg)       -Time: 35:34

Great race!!! I felt really good and got a new 10k PR, but I think it was more like 6 miles.

2 miles of warm ups and cool downs

PM: 6 Miles easy

AM: 1.5 mile easy, 3 miles tempo, 1.5 miles easy, and 2*200+2*100m sprints

I was feeling good today, no soreness, and felt pretty strong this morning. We practiced our cross country course, and it was fun, so I'm excited for the race this saturday.

PM: Water exercises in pool for about an hour, and 3.5 miles easy.

AM: 1.5 miles easy, 4*.65 miles hard, 1.5 miles easy, and 200/100m sprints.

We ran over to the park then we did intervals on our cross country meet course, but we just went around the park instead of doing the whole loop. It was about .65 miles and I did each one between 3:05-3:15, I'm guessing, my coach timed my first one at 3:08, and I know I went about the the same for the others, but she forgot to time the others so I'm not quite sure :) But I felt really good despite lack of sleep, I love doing intervals, so far I'm the only person I know that likes them, I think there really fun, but painful, I like to think I'm really good at going high intensities for a period of time, getting short to medium rest and be able to do the next one just as fast.

PM: Weightlifting, circuit training, it felt really good and I like weight lifting so it was fun, plus I did 2 miles of easy running

We did 2 miles easy, Hill Sprints, about 2*2 minutes and 5*1 minute (Jog back between reps for rest), 1.5 miles easy, then I did a 1.5 mile easy run a bit later after practice.

I felt really good in the warm up,  but then I think the heat started to get to me a bit, and I started to get a bit lightheaded but other than that, I've been feeling good lately, I do think I need more sleep or something because I don't feel like I have much energy, and I feel kind of lazy sometimes, but it's not anything to complain about.

AM: At 5:45 this morning :( We ran 5 miles, I was soooo tired, I'm not used to waking that early, after a whole summer of sleeping in.

PM: Me, Taylor, and Austin ran 7 miles to farmers market and back to deliver thank you notes it was like 110 degrees outside, I thought I was going to die. But at least I got in some decent miles today, I might go out for another couple of miles tonight to catch up my mileage, and cool down for the day.

AM: We did some games, that involved a lot of running around, probably got a few miles out of it.

PM: Hurricane football game, no practice, everyone was at the game.

I did some running by myself to get in a little bit extra, but not nearly enough  :(

RACE: Great race, really fun, felt good. I started the race really good, I don't know how exactly I did it but it's not like I really started out to fast, I just ended up in the front, and I'm used to everyone going out super fast, and I usually end up getting caught up in the pack. I got to the turn around point, (about .8 miles into the race) and I was in the lead, I probably shouldn't of went out quite so fast the first mile, but I still felt strong the whole race. But anyways I make the turn and I'm in first so I'm thinking "Wow, I'm doing really good I might be able to place in the top 3!" And then all of a sudden Mike from PV, and Jason from dixie both zoom by me from both sides of me, at the same time, as if they planned it. I think both Dixie and Pine View are plotting against me, just kidding... but seriously :) It's interesting, when you race in the middle or back of the pack, people start to slow down as the race gets going, when you race in the front of the pack, the race doesn't even start till the 2nd mile apparently. But anyways about my race, I slowed down a little bit that 2nd mile, so I think Mike and Jason have a good plan, take it easy that first mile, and then have a strong 2nd when everyone else is slowing down, I need to try that. But then the third mile I started to pick it up again, and I passed a kid, and slowly started to make ground on Casey, but then every time we went up hill he would start to open up the gap a bit, but then when we were running flat, or downhill I'd start to catch back up. I don't know, I guess he's just really good at doing hills, and then when we got to the top of the last hill to the last like .5 miles to the finish which was just one long downhill stretch to the finish I started moving up again, and I was thinking I could catch him but I just ran out of time, I still got a good place, and beat last years time by a minute, so it was a good race, I felt good the whole way, even near the end, when it started to hurt, I've noticed that now that I'm getting older It's getting easier to push myself, it still hurts really bad, but It's easier to hurt that bad, usually now when I get done with a race it's like, eh, I've felt worse, and then I shake it off.

PM: I did an hour of cross training, biking, arm exercises, and core workouts.

AM: This morning we were just doing 4 miles, and me and Taylor went super fast, I guess we were just feeling really good, we finished the route in 23 minutes! I don't understand how Taylor kept for me considering that's like his race pace! For some reason he can run so fast in practices, but then race a minute slower than me...I don't know?

PM: We ran 6 miles pretty easy about 43 and a half minutes in the heat, then ran a 200 and 100m sprints, and I did a few miles of light jogging by myself.

AM: We did a 4 mile tempo run, and Kaden (who is graduated) came to workout with us, and he stayed with me the whole way until the last little bit, but I think I killed him :) He was in pain, and was bent over panting like crazy when we got done, I kind of feel bad, apparently he hasn't been running much lately. But anyways it was a good workout Taylor said he finished in 24 minutes, but he had to go to the bathroom so he slowed down a bit and me and Kaden got a little bit ahead, so I think we got closer to 23 minutes, for some reason I always end up going super fast in the mornings.

PM: We did a half mile warmup then ran 1.5 miles to Iverson hill, and did 5 sprints all the way up, about 200m, and then we did 8 sprints about halfway up, and then 1.5 miles back (which hurt more than the hill sprints themselves). Then we did a half mile cool down, I didn't feel the best this workout, because my legs felt heavy, but I do know I'm a lot faster at hills then I was last year.

AM: No practice :( Rest day.

PM: .5 mile warm up (.75 if you count the speed walking to the grass :) ) We went to the grass next to the baseball field and did 10*400's in the grass, but coach said it was a bit longer than 400's which made sense, for the not super impressive times. 1:21, 1:19, 1:18, 1:20, 1:20, 1:19, 1:21, 1:20, 1:20, 1:15. I'm reciting these by memory but I know it's something like that, coach said I better go faster the last one, because she was getting sick of saying 1:20 every time :) It was this muddy grass field with tight turns, so it hurt... a lot! the last one I thought I'd be funny and dove at the end, haha, but to be honest I kind of didn't want to get back up. And then somebody had the bright idea of running our 1.5 mile cool down on the road, where rocks where everywhere...NOT! It hurt worse than the workout, my feet are still in pain :) Then we did some strides on the football field. And I did a little extra running around my house to get today's mileage at least at 6 miles today. Taylor said he would call me and we might run an easy trail run tonight, but I doubt it will happen, no offense if your reading this Taylor :)

AM: We ran 4 miles at the Sky Mountain golf course this morning, I went a pretty decent pace around 7 minute mile on rolling hills (It's a hilly golf course) not big hills, just a lot of them. But Jesse was running ahead of me and Taylor, and I was joking by saying he probably thinks we're just doing one loop, instead of two, so anyways we get to the point were you start the second loop and he turned to where we finish at the parking lot, haha, apparently he really did think we were only doing one lap, so then I picked up the speed the second loop and finished at a decent pace. I always like to run the first have of my runs in practice slower than the second. The way I view it is if you run super fast the first half of the run (like a lot of people on my team try to do) you end hurting and have to slow down the second halve, and the whole run your in pain, and your legs will end up more sore. But if you start of comfortably, then go faster the last half, then you only hurt the last little bit, plus you get faster less tiring workouts. 

PM: We had a planking competition, and this kid that's on the soccer team who joined recently planked for 16 MINUTES...CRAZY! Then we did a 6 miler, but about 3 miles into the run I had to go to the bathroom, so I stopped at the Tanner Butler's house (a teammate who is now graduated) but the only person that answered the door was his little brother who doesn't know me...well anyways I won't get to specific just know it was embarrassing. But when I got back on the road I was feeling great, and picked up the pace, and surprisingly still beat a few people. Then  when I got home I did some light jogging to cool down for the day.

Night: Did some circuit training with my Dad and my cousin, and I paced her in some running workouts.

AM: I felt soooo tired when I woke up, and for some strange reason I had trouble breathing, we played some running games in cross country this morning, and I felt awful :( When I went to school I kept on thinking about going home I my head killed, my nose was really runny, and my throat hurt to swallow... But I'm pretty sure I will be better by tommorrow...I hope. Usually when I get sick it doesn't last a long time, plus none of those factors affect my time, so I can always just suck it up and still race well tomorrow.

PM: I did a couple of miles at the grass next to my house. And then a few sprints, still feel sick, but I think I'll get better.

Worst race of my life... My head was pounding when I woke up, my neck killed, I was mentally just out of it, and couldn't think straight, when the race started I was just really tired, I was super congested, and had trouble breathing, but at least I beat this kid in the final sprint.

17 SECONDS SLOWER THAN LAST YEAR :(

AM: Another 4 mile tempo, but this time I only did it in 24:30, I have a long run this afternoon so I didn't to kill myself out. I was feeling still a bit sick, but once I got running I started to feel better.

PM: 10 miles (if you count warm up and cool down) It was really hot! But on the way me Taylor, and Austin took a quick detour, and jumped in the hallawell pool, it felt AMAZING! Then the rest of the way we just cruised, I'm glad Taylor and Austin are getting so much better, because now I actually have someone to run with. So much more fun to run with other people. The last mile I had to go to the bathroom really bad, but I was so close to being done I just dealt with it, but other than that I felt great! We did the 8.5 mile route in 57 minutes, which is actually pretty good if you consider it also takes account the heat, jumping inside a pool, drink stops, and having to go to the bathroom real bad the whole run

Night: I just did a couple miles slow on the grass next to my run after practice.

AM: Did 4 miles really slow, (about 30 min.), and my leg started to hurt at the end, I think the 18 miles I did yesterday kind of wore me out.

PM: We ran our warm ups, did ab workouts and some drills, we did a few accelerations, then a 1.5 mile run to Pa tempe Hill, and we did hill sprints, It was really nice because it was shaded. 4 long sprints up to the top, and 4 short sprints, about halfway, I felt pretty good and when I got back to the track I felt so good I decided I better take advantage of that and do some 200's on the track, which felt great.

Wow! I've already gotten like half of my weeks miles in two days :)

AM: No running, we got the morning off :(

PM: At school I was feeling like crap, but then right as I got on the track doing warm ups I immediately felt great, we did just 35 minutes of pretty fast paced running, and I was feeling amazing, WATCH OUT SUU, I am going to kill the steeplechase when we do it during track, I've been practicing, during every run I am constantly jumping over everything like trash cans and fences, I'm getting good at it :) Then after practice I did some 400s on the track, don't know what times, I forgot to bring my watch, so I just went fast, and I felt great! But then when I stopped running I feel sick again... I don't understand! I guess I just need to keep exercising.

Tomorrow we're doing Mile repeats, and coach says I can do six of them, last year we only did three (I LOVE mile repeats) I'm excited!

AM: 4 Miles around the Sky Mountain Golf Course

PM: This was the most successful/hardest workout of my life :) I love mile repeats, we jogged over to the elementary school on this grass course, and did our mile repeats,           2 laps=1mile, and I asked coach, and she let me do 6 of them 1st mile: 5:17, 2nd: 5:18, 3rd: 5:21, 4th: 5:23, 5th: 5:23, 6th: 5:13. By the time it was the last one, I was hurting, but I wanted to run faster than my first one, so I decided to run the first lap conservatively, then when I got to the turn around of the second lap (last 400m) I knew I could cut of quite a bit of time if I sprinted, so I came around my first lap in 2:38, and I was hurting, I had doubts I could repeat that same time, as I came around the turnaround, the last 400meters I glanced at my watch and saw that I had only 1:15 left if I wanted to get a 5:17, so I knew I could sprint it that fast, and I took of (I felt like throwing up) and sprinted in a 5:13, meaning I ran a 1:11 last 400 :)  (That's like my mile pace). It was the BEST workout ever!

AM: Running games plus warm/cool (probably got in a couple miles there)

PM: Ran the regions course with Sarah, Taylor, Austin, and me, it was nice, we just went nice and slow :)