Redemption

AM: Did 4*400's with jogging a 400m in between, went nice and fast; felt great.

PM: I was doing a 7 mile tempo run, and I made sure I stayed focused and kept my head clear, and my form smooth. That's one of my problems during races is that I tense up and my brain gets all fuzzy, which throws any form of tactics out the door, so I will start working on that in my workouts. Stay relaxed and focused. Then when I got done I just did everyone's cool down laps with them just to get a longer more relaxing cool down.

AM: I did the 40-30 drill with Taylor, it's where you run a 200m in :40 then 30, then 40-30-40, then 40-30-40-30, then 40-30-40, then 40-30 only resting in between sets. To be honest I didn't quite hit all of those 30's especially on the 40-30-40-30 set, but I at least tried and got pretty close. The last one though I ran the 40 second 200m right on, then sprinted as fast as I could and turned out a 1:06 lap meaning my last 200m had to be at least close to 26 seconds, I pretended like I was in the last 200m in a race so I gave it EVERYTHING. Great workout!

PM: We ran up and down smith mesa 3.25 miles straight up, then 3.25 miles straight down, we did this same workout at the start of the season, and she told us she was going to have us time it going up and down then we do it again near the end of the season, and to make goals. My goal was to run up it in under 30 minutes, and down it in under 17 minutes, at the start of the season I ran up in 32 minutes and down in 17:36, today I reached both my goals, I made it up in 29:54! I booked it at the end to make sure I made it, I can't believe I was so close! Then I made it down in 16:40, so 5k PR!!! I'm just kidding it was like straight down hill there is no way I'm counting that :)

I ran a mile from young men's to get home it was the leaders house so it was somewhat close to where I lived, so I decided just to run home rather than bother my mom for a ride.

We ran over to the splash pad where the grass is at and did 2 minutes run, 1 minute sprint, 1 minute walk, and we did that twice, then we did 1:45 run, 45 second sprint and did that 3 more times. then we ran a long cool down back we took a much longer route. Usually I would love the longer cool down, the only problem is, is a lot of people don't seem to quite understand the concept of a cool down and they all took off super fast. So me, being young and stupid and ultra competitive had to take off with them. But it was a good workout, although my hamstrings are SUPER sore from yesterdays run straight up and down that freaking 3.25 mile mountain (on a paved road, but hey, still a mountain...I guess if you get technical it's a mesa.) It is really hard for me to get sore I hardly ever get sore, so if I do it has to be a REALLY hard workout. I think it was because during track I would do like every single event every race (which probably isn't a good idea), so I got really good at quick recovery. Honestly, at one track meet I ran 11 events in ONE day I did the 100,200,400,800,1600,3200,110 hurdles,300 hurdles,4*100,4*400, and Long Jump all in a 5 hour track meet NO JOKE, it was a really stupid idea, but it was my favorite meet ever!

just did 5 miles easy my hamstrings were a little bit tight, but other than that I felt good.

Cedar invitational: The  race went about as close to perfect as It's going to get. It was great!!! I'm so excited I finally ran a 15 I honestly never expected to have ran that fast. My strategy was run my first mile really comfortable, and then stay strong my second mile, then my last I was to give it everything I had. And I did just that, haha, except for I kind of forgot what lap I was on, so I had to ask another racer...that was embarrasing. But anyways great race, I'm really proud of how I did, I beat my goal so I'm happy :)

We went to Las Vegas today, so I was only able to get in 5 miles this morning, I was hoping to get a bit more...oh well. It was nice I went on a trail so I didn't have to deal with the noise of cars or anything, I just enjoyed running.