It's a RUNderful life

wu and then low mileage recovery run. Went up and ran a bit in the dirt pit and then out to 1200 E and then looped back by the jr. high. felt decent but not amazing. Also I'm super glad our leader is back with us (@mario).

Had to cut back on mileage a little today bc my knee was giving me issues and I want it to be feeling good for camp. 

Soooo camp day 1 was awesome... except for one minor incident (but I'll get to that later). We went up to Memory Grove in SLC which has an awesome trail up a lil canyon. I did get a little nervous tho bc that may or may not be the place where Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped. I don't quite remember... Anyhow we just did an out-and-back up the trail. And I do literally mean UP the trail because the whole way out was basically uphill. My group killed it tho so shout out to them. I was feeling good too and was glad that my knee was doin good. The way down was even better hah. However... the minor incident I mentioned occured at about the last mile when I somehow got lost. Don't ask me how cuz i'm not quite up to reliving my mental process at the moment. Suffice to say that it added like a mile and a half to my run, which is not a big deal just super annoying. I also apologize to any people reading this who may have been looking for me. My b. But other than that the day was stellar. Shoutout to my awesome country Jamaica for killing it in the xc olympics. We definitely pulled out the win. 

Camp day 2 todayyyy. It was all around super fun and really a classic especially cuz this was my third year doing this run. We went out to Deer Creek and ran along the trail there. I was feelin a little tired starting out but after the first mile it went by really fast. The first 6 miles were supposed to be recovery pace (they ended up being a little faster than that but s'all good) and then the last three miles were supposed to be at "easy pace". I ran with Guppy and Gan for the whole thing and if i do say so myself we killed it. Average pace for our whole run including warm up was an 8:04 which is pretty good for us. Plus i didnt even get lost which is a real win. After the whole team had a pretty fun time playing in the lake. Oh, and we did actually do abs too. Also when we got back to the highschool some of us went to the SOLW to ice bath. I thought it was a good idea at the time but after I wasn't so sure. #thanxmichael 

Last day of camp todayyy. After a small fire issue in Corner Canyon plans changed and we went up to Park City to run on the "real deal rail trail". Overall I was not a fan of this trail (talk about boring) but it wasn't too bad. Ran out 5 miles with ma group to the aid station but I didn't even loosen up until like the fourth mile. After we turned around we did the last 4.5 miles of our run as a progression run. Honestly this was a killer workout for me mostly bc I'm kind of a baby when it comes to the mental side of things, but I'm happy to say I put in what I felt like was a really good work effort and it turned out alright. I was especially happy with the last mile or so bc it was more on pace. And shoutout to my group for being so tough and wrecking the workout. After I had quite a good time racing Mario and Gan in a "rolling down a hill and then running to a bench" race. Gan says she won but she's just jealous sooo ;) 

Early run this morning with my mileage go-to's Gan and Guppy. Thank goodness it was low recovery cuz my legs are pretty much done from camp. Started at mi casa and then ran what I am going to call "the pumpkin loop" in honor of Mario's grandfather's thousand-pound pumpkin we get the pleasure of running by on this route. Towards the end my legs loosened up a bit and I felt better but it was super nice to go recovery pace today when it wasn't like 100 degrees. :)