Redemption

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.