It's a RUNderful life

Awesome Week workout number three today was whistle hill in "Falcon Gorge". Mile and a lil bit warm up over there and then 10 "surprise" whistle hills ranging anywhere from 10 sec to 30 sec. I felt pretty good although I didn't like the surprise times bc sometimes I was completely dead and sometimes I had a lot more left to give (like the very last one). Afterward finished up mileage.

Today was the somewhat famous/infamous 20x400 workout as the finale of Awesome Week. Warmed up a half mile and then waited FOREVER bc some people like to sleep in (you know who you are;). Finally got started with 5x400 at 5k pace with 1 min rest inbetween (my average pace for those was a 93), then 5x400 at goal 2 mile pace with 90 sec rest (av. pace 86), then 5x400 at current mile pace with 2 min rest (av. pace 81) then finished it up with 5x400 at goal mile pace or just whatever you could give. For those my paces were kind of all over the place: 80, 80, 79, 76, and last one was fire at a solid 70 haha. So yeah I felt really good about the wo; it was really consistent and i was feeling super good. After cooled down a mile and then had a delish breakfast with the team. Shoutout to all the nice parents who made it for us :) 

And shoutout to everyone who completed awesome week!

Low mileage and pre-meet today for the duel meet tomorrow. Since I'm racing the mile for pre-meet it was two 400s at pace. First was so SO SLOW, like idek what happened but it was an 87 and I'm supposed to be hitting 80s... second one was a little better but still slow at an 83. Seriously don't know what was up with those. Hopefully tomorrow's laps will be significantly quicker... After did a grass mile which felt sort of  good i suppose.

Duel meet today. Suffice it to say this was not a great race, but I'm glad i did it so I can have a much better race next week at the invite. I just went way too easy and was way too comfortable the whole time. Also got passed at the very end because i wasn't paying attention and didn't kick much. So that was a bummer. But good job to everyone who raced! Also shoutout to Corner Canyon for having such a sick trail near the track to cooldown on.

ALSO... HUGE shoutout/congrats to Zack on his mission called to Argentina!! 

Medium recovery today. Did a couple miles on the grass and then the rail trail 5 mile loop with Guppy and Bryn. Legs felt tired but it was still a decent run. Unshoutout to my body for not being okay with the heat hah. And way to go Gan for being brave and facing Mr. Clinton. What a champ.

Medium recovery with the crew on the MCT. Good run but legs were tired.

Okay can I just say that I'm super not happy that practice on a Monday has to start at 2:45. But it guess that's just a #firstworldprob so it's whatever haha. Anyway, started with a five mile out-and-back bc our speed workout wasn't gonna start until practice started (smh). Legs were feelin pretty good. Then came back for the team wu and speed wo which, because I'm running the mile at the next meet, was an 800 wo. It was 2x400m with 4 min rest inbetween, the 3x200m with 2 min rest, and then 4x100m with 1 min rest. Times were like 73,72,35,34,35,15,15,14,14 so all under or at pace. Overall felt like a good workout once I got my legs going and wasn't too long which was a win. After cooled down 2.75 miles to end up at 9 for the day.

High mileage recovery today. Did the double-dip loop with some of the squad and then did a few more miles on my own including one and a half grass miles. Long slow run today, but that's okay sometimes. As a sidenote, I don't think I'll be going to school tomorrow bc it's a certain day that I would be more than fine to miss. Also shoutout to myself for taking some small revenge out on Thom... twas a success.

It's that time again... HAPPY ROAST WATSON DAY!! So tbh it's actually been a pretty good day for the most part. Anyway took a mostly cross train day today just cuz i felt like my legs really needed it. Biked 75 minutes including a 30 min endurance ride, and then ran a mile at the end. 

Low mileage and pre-meet today. Hit 80 and 79 for the 400s so just about perfect. 

**also huge SHOUTOUT to GAN cuz she's 18 today!!!