I <3 RUNNING

Another amazing run today! I ran with Chandis, Cassidy, Kenz and Monica. We were all pretty sick of running in St. George so we drove out to the Tuachan Theater to invent a new run. We ran from there to the main road and then found a trail and ran on that till we hit 7. It felt really easy and the miles seemed to fly by. It was way fun to run with everybody too! :)

a.m - Confusing stuff this morning. But I got all 3 in. It was a good run but really slow.

p.m - 5 hills! Good workout for me today. I feel like I really pushed the hills hard. I even stayed right behind Ashley for one, till the end she pulled away. The only thing that stunk was it felt like I couldn't breathe, sort of an irritating feeling!

p.m - AT dog pound - Good workout today! I felt like I was running where I was suppose to be. It wasn't suppose to be full out today so we just went fast enough to get us breathing hard.All these harder workouts (bigger hills, AT, 800 repeats tomorrow) in a row are making me feel a lot stronger. I'm happy we're starting to move into them :)!

a.m - ac and home :)! < 3 miles >

p.m - 5 800 Repeats! Warmed it up to Hearts, split into groups and off we went! I was so excited with this workout because I kept them really close in time :)! 1:28, 1:30, 1:32, 1:30. . . The last one was freaking AMAZING! I shaved 10 seconds off (1:20)! Coach said something really cool too. . .something about how you've put so much effort in this far don't throw the workout away by relaxing on this next repeat?! I don't know it just really helped me. Sweet stuff today!

I feel really strong after this workout and I've never felt so ready for a race! :)

a.m - my mom forbid me to go :(

 
p.m - After a very long bus ride it felt so good to be outside and run. Me and my friends decided to stick with the trail. The trail ran right along side a river which was way pretty. I wanted to stop and sit by it but. . .haha. . that wouldn't fly over well! We also went across some bridges (good times, good times) and then under little tunnel things. It was really fun and relaxing just to be somewhere different!

BYU! I was so ready for the race after coach had come to talk to us. It was sweet! We talked about team goals, personal goals and over coming the walls that keep us from reaching those goals. We talked about how sometimes we forget that a race is a race and that we need to race it like a race! Thats always a hard one for me. I can never get in the right mind set and I relax if the pain gets to intense. So with all that said, I was completely ready for the race.

Woke up early so that I wouldn't feel rushed and feel like crap. Went over and ate a good breakfast. I wasn't hungry because I was filled with so many butterflies but I stuffed food down me because I knew I would get hungry. Then we left for the race :) Watched and cheered for all my friends why they raced. When they came back though they were getting minutes higher then what they usually get. That scared me really bad and sort of discouraged me. Finally it was my turn to race :)!

We stretched, warmed up, got mentally ready for a great race and got on the line. I was so nervous and scared. When the gun went off I took off. I could barely feel my feet :)! It was sweet! My first mile was 7:07! I was passing a lot of people and just trying to push myself. My next mile was 7:43. I slowed down too much here. I didn't even really notice. Just kept tugging along. Last mile was 7:55. Then the last little .46 was 3:39. It felt like I really pushed it hard the whole race, harder then I've pushed it all season.I was way pleased with this race. I still have a few things to work on like bring the last two miles down though. But it was a good race :)

If you raced this and were wondering if it was long, two gps watches from our team got 3.46, 3.47 miles.

8 Long with Chandis! It felt really good to go that far and slow. It was a little too slow but it still felt good. Great run! But where were the rest of the girls we usually run with ??? GRRR!!!

a.m - Usually I take my running buddies for granted because they've been there every morning . . . but today I was by myself and it stunk! :(

p.m - 6 Sunrise Tire Hills. Warmed up and stretched with the team then jogged over with a group of girls and coach. Legs were really sore, I'm glad we had that 1.5 warm up to the hill to work everything out. Once we got there I ran the hills as best I could. I felt like I did okay on them but not the best I've done this season. I really had to work numbers 4 and 5 because those ones were just so hard! Legs were on the sore side and body was on the tired side today, which made it hard. But it was a good workout and I feel like I'm a little bit better because of it :)

p.m 4 AT Dog Pound! When I started the warm up today I was like 'crap I'm in trouble' because my legs were so sore! During stretches I stretched really good and just tried thinking positive thoughts. When we started off to Hearts I thought that everybody else has done the same workouts as me, they're all probably in just as much pain, so why should I relax? Finished jogging it up to Hearts and then took off with Chandis. We had a really hard pace too. It was nice pushing together because neither one of us really wanted slack off or drag the other down. It kinda felt like we were competeing but in a good way, a way that pushed us hard. My legs hurt really bad the whole time, I guess thats a good thing though.  We ended up staying a little behind Coach and Kassidy too! They didn't really get that much farther ahead during the run. We were kinda trying to catch them. But we fell behind when we finished the AT section. . . Chandis had to go to the bathroom so bad she could barely walk. So we ran into the Dog Pound. By that time we finished up Coach and Kassidy were long gone and Micci and Shayna had caught us. So we jogged it back to the school! Good run today and I'm glad me and Chandis could push it together like that!

a.m - ac and home! :)

p.m - Easy 5! It felt so good to just go easy for a moderate distance. Me and Chandis left way after everybody did, oops! But it was still great! The hills on the way back I thought were going to kill me but it ended up I didn't even feel them. Just kinda flew over the top of them, no sweat!

a.m - ac and home, nice and easy today! 

p.m - I didn't really have time to pack clothes this morning. . .and things just weren't working out. . . . so I was so late for practice! Once I got my clothes I headed off for ac. Ran a little past there when I ran into Chandis. I really didn't want to run alone so I turned around with her and then just did a mile on the track when we got back. 

After I finished todays workout I was talking with some friends and they said I had blood all over my teeth! So I went to the bathroom and sore enough I had blood everywhere! It was way weird! Does anybody know why??? I didn't have any cuts in my mouth or on my lips or anything. . .

Las Vegas meets are. . . .really interesting?! When we got there 1. Coach Holt wasn't there 2. We had never been to that race before 3. We didn't know any of the other teams besides Hurricane. It was so . . .cool but way intimidating at the same time. Me and Lacey ran around when I got there and cheered for all our team mates. When It was my turn to race I was so scared. We got on the line 10 minutes early so they decided to announce the top schools there. That was way intimidating. I had never seen any of these schools before and I didn't know if they were like robots or something.

When the race started I had a way great start! I wasn't way up there, I was kind of in the middle. The only problem is we went the wrong direction. So in the process the girls ahead of me were turning around the girls behind me were still coming at me and it was a freaking moshpit. Everybody was so frantic because its a race and everybody wasn't thinking that clear. Girls were grabbing me and throwing me out of the way. Girls were cussing left and right. . . it was horrible! When I finally managed to get out of it there was still a traffic jam we were jogging forever. There was finally a brake up in things and I could see Shayna, Chandis, Kareena and Micci clear up there! Ahhh! How did I manage to get stuck clear in the back. . .I have no idea. It took me a while to catch them. The whole race I passed and passed and passed girls. It was way sweet! There was a lot of loose sand and that was tuff to run in, sometimes it felt like I was just treading it but I pushed it so hard. I felt like I pushed it to a new level this race. It was great!

Are girls team did way good this race. We're improving so much every race. Its been hard with one of are 7 runners being injured but we've trooped along. We all have the heart and want to be good runners and I have a lot of hope for region even though everybody is telling us we can't do it!

After the race I was a little disappointed with my time. But I got talking to all my friends and we decided to judge the race on this. . . If we didn't know our time, did it feel like it was a strong race? And it felt way good to me! I feel like I pushed it so hard! And I'm way happy with this race!


 

O-man! I was talking to all my friends and we've never, in our little life's of running, been this sore. And on top of being sore we had to keep our legs moving for 6 miles and bare foot striders. We didn't even know why our legs were this sore. We did the same things as usual do during a race and for some reason we are beyond soreness! It made for an interesting run. We were phychos, it was fun, but it hurt! Finished up with 8 barefoot grass striders :)!

Today after practice somebody told me how the girls team didn't have a chance of making it past region and going to state. It seems like I've heard a lot of people say that to others as well as me. After hearing this all season it's been building up to the point that I'm really upset and I think some of the other girls that heard it are too. It's really hard to go and put your body through these workouts and not feel believed in or cared about because people don't think we have a chance. The girls on our team, the ones I've talked to and the ones I run with, love this sport and know we can do it. We have the most heart for this sport and we want to do well. We've all put lots of time in, equally to everybody else. Our lives for the last little while have revolved around running. We wake up Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays to do morning runs and then we run everyday after school. Our weekends are taken up with races. I finally talked to my dad tonight about it. He told me that when he played football for Alta, they came in last in the region and were last going into state play offs. The coach had given up and and didn't believe they had a chance. Every young man on that team wanted it, all of them had the heart to win that game. They went in last to state play offs and came out the state champs. . . .now I don't know we'll be state champs, but I want people to believe in us.

a.m - ac and around then home. I didn't think I would hit 3 this morning because I was helping a friend and I only had so much time but I got all 3 in!

p.m - Good race today! We had a meet with just us (PineView) and Desert Hills. It was so weird only having two teams there but it was way fun at the same time. The course was fun, I kinda like it. I felt like I pushed myself  hard this race but I felt like I could of pushed it harder. At the end me and Kenz sprinted it in. Thats the strongest finish I've had this season. Kenz ended up beating me by like a half step, it was intese! Sweet race though and I got a new PR :)! 

Went to a stake swimming party after the race. We got there just a little early so we went and ran cool down. My legs are so sore!

p.m -  4 AT! Last night I decided that I need to start taking my practices to a new level. I need to find somebody in front of me that I can push myself to keep up with. Today I knew my legs were sore but that I needed to push it hard. We warmed up to Zions bank and then I just took off! I was getting closer to Cassidy when the light changed at Wal-Mart! I thought I was going to kill the light. It totally ruined my plan of trying to stay with her. The rest of the run I just worked on catching her. I'm way happy with this workout. This is how hard I need to be pushing.

a.m - Woke up a bit late this morning so I had to tag along with the 6:30 group. It stunk! Anyway ac and home.

p.m - I was so sick I could barely run this afternoon. It was the longest 5 miles of my life. When I made it back to the school I was doubled over because my stomach hurt so bad! I still feel way sick but I got it in and thats all that counts!

a.m - ac and home. Still not feeling 100% better yet. Me and my mom think it was bad food. . .yuck! My body hurts (shoulders, legs, head, stomach) just feeling really sluggish.

p.m - (600,800,1000,1200)x2 with 2 minute break between each one and 4 minute break between the sets. First set at race pace, Second set faster then race pace.

This was definitely the hardest workout of the season and I wasn't even scared of it! I knew this workout was coming for 2 weeks and I've been mentally preparing and just thinking about what I wanted out of it. I wanted to finish it! That was what I was most afraid of, was just not being strong enough to finish it. By today though I knew I could finish and I knew I could do even more then just finish. Goal number 2 was to just push it hard and give it all I had. My last goal was to stick with Micci and Chandis and to push each other. We ended up sticking pretty close together. We each had are strong points and took turns pushing each other. I also wanted to pace myself so I wasn't dieing on the last one but that I didn't have anything left either. I feel like I did good! I'm happy it's done and I feel like I'm a better runner because of it! :) AWESOME WORKOUT!!! :D

I had to break up my run. . .I don't think it's good to do that but it was the only way I was going to get all 8 in. So I ran 6.5 then went to my sisters trilogy concert skipped the Dixie Collage foot ball game and finished it up. Wont happen again. . .today was just one of those days

a.m - AT dog pound! My goal was to stick with Cassidy all the way down to where you turn onto that dog pound road. I DID IT TOO!!!! :) She was going so fast and she helped push me so much. When we hit the dog pound road I still went way fast and ran right behind her! Finished and jogged back with her for a bit and then she took off again at the entrance to the school. Best AT of my life! It was cool :) I got Athlete of the Week too! *Thanks Coach!! 

a.m - ac and home. Me, Chandis and Micci all stayed together on this run!! SWEET! 

p.m - Great run this afternoon!!! Me, Chandis and Micci stuck together on this run! We talked about our goals for region; What we want to do as a team and what we want to accomplish on our own. We set goals to look at the girls that were right in front of us at Pre-Region and work harder to beat them at region. :) Now that we've all talked about it. . .LETS GET TO WORK!!! :) WE CAN DO IT!!!!   

I've been so nervous all day today! I've been worried about what the actual results would end up being for our girls team. I wanted to see myself and the team do really well. It was hard to prepare myself for this race because I was a freaking scatter brain all day. When we finally got to the race and it started my legs felt totally wasted. I knew I had to go after it though to see what I was up against and see how much harder I need to work. We all raced the race really hard and with the legs I had today I felt like I ran an awesome race. I feel like I could run it better at parts and maybe pick it up a little too, so I'll need to work on that and my finish! Other then that are girls team did AMAZING today! I couldn't stop grinning when I found out we got 2nd!!! I don't want to settle for 2nd though!!! :) *One of are V girls was not here today too so . . . .!!!! The boys team did amazing too!!

Homecoming Parade was sweet! The xc team was its own float! We ran together around all the other floats! It was so cool, tones of fun! :)  

a.m - ac and home. My leg hurt really bad :(

p.m - Out in to Washington and back. Fun run with Micci! Leg is still buggy especially on uneven ground. Finished with 8 striders.

a.m - ac and home

p.m - REPEATS!!! After last weeks repeats, these 6x800's were a piece of cake! It was kind of hard at the time because I was in a bad mood so it was hard to keep concentrated. I really had to work hard at that and just make the best of everything. The first was great! I got a 3:20! Then I cruised through the rest. I let the 2nd to last one slip, that made me super mad. I didn't know I let it slip that much. On the last one me and Chandis pushed it really hard together. My legs were hurting so bad but we kept pushing and pushing. It was way cool. Finished with a cool down to Hearts and back.

Lit the PV on fire tonight :)! It was cool but we also lit parts of the track on fire and RJ's shoe caught on fire too! It was funny. Good Homecoming game tonight too. Fun stuff!

Just went on my own today because everybody was gone with homecoming stuff. Just cruised through the run. Not too slow and not too fast. It was really nice! I hit a really hard wind at one point but other then that it was beautiful outside. I didn't think I would be able to do it all, because thats really far. But when I got going I felt like I could keep going and going. It was nice to be on my own and just enjoy.

a.m/p.m - My stupid P.E class would be quiet so we had to run!

p.m - Interior Design stuff after school so I was way late to practice. People were finishing when I was starting :( It was AT dog pound too :( . I was scared to run it by myself because I would just start relaxing. I think I ran in faster then I've ever ran it before though. :)

a.m - ac and home. Very fast this morning! :)

p.m - Easy, easy run today! My legs hurt so bad, it was ridiculous. Slow moving.

8 grass striders to finish it off