dedication, perseverance, self-discipline

Surge - 517.2

Ohana Racer - 248.1

Speedstar - 339.05

I ran with the Springville Cross Country team today. They only ran 4.5 miles so I ran that with them and then finished up alone for a total of 10 miles. I ran the first 7 miles at about 7:30 pace, however I ran the last few miles at about 7:00 pace because I was coming downhill to come back to the school. I finished my run in 1:13:24. I also rode my bike to and from school today for a total of 18 miles, so I will count that as 6 running miles.

I ran with the team again today.  We ran a 1.5 mile warm-up, after which we ran an interval workout (800, 800, 400, 800, 800, 400, 400).  I just stayed with the team on all of the intervals, so they were not too fast.  The intervals were also kind of slow because we were running on grass and a dirt trail that weaves and turns, thus slowing us down.  My splits for the intervals are 2:41, 2:36, 1:11, 2:43, 2:41, 1:16, 1:16.  After we were all finished, I ran more to finish with a total of 10 miles.  I also rode my bike too and from school again, giving me another 6 running miles (18 miles on the bike).

I felt pretty sluggish this morning, in part due to lack of sleep last night, and also because of all the biking lately. I ran with a big group of people. The rest did a speed workout, but I turned around early so that I could get to school on time. I will run more this afternoon.

pm: I ran 5 miles this afternoon with a couple of guys on the cross country team. I challenged the guys to see how slowly they could run the second half of their workout. They didn't do too bad, running the second half of their workout 16 seconds faster than the first half even though it was downhill the entire way back. After that, I rode my bike home giving me 9 miles biking for the day as I got a ride to school in the morning (thus 3 miles running equivalent for the day).

I was supposed to run with Sasha this morning, but the schedule lately has really been getting to me and I couldn't wake up.  On the plus side, I got 9.5 hours sleep last night because of it.  Instead, I just got all of my miles in after school instead of doing half in the morning.  Kimia also has Thursdays off, so I was able to take the car to school today which was nice.  I ran 5 miles with the team and then 5 miles afterwards.  I finished the first 5 miles faster, as we threw a couple surges in during the run, while the last 5 miles were relaxed and slow.  Total time 1:14:00 for 10 miles.

I was sick all day, and I felt like garbage, so I cut my run short.  I only ran 5 miles.  I also got a ride to school today, so I only biked home for an equivalent of 3 more miles (9 total).

I was asked a couple of days ago to run this, as they had a runner get hurt.  It was a real low key thing and I mainly just had fun with it.  I ran the second leg of the marathon relay, and each runner ran about 5.2 miles.  Our first runner came in with a time just under 42 minutes.  We were in 16th place after his leg, approximately 8.5 minutes out of first.  I then took the baton and by the time I had finished my leg I was in first place and in the lead by 1:54 over the second place runner.  The funniest thing is that I didn't even pass the guy in second until I had already passed the 4 mile mark.  After that, our team promptly fell out of first.  We finished 4th overall with a time of 3:13:XX.  The winning time was about 2:56:00.  I just thought that it was funny that I could have run the race alone and I could have won it by a considerable margin over the winning relay team.  After the race I ran more to finish with 17 miles for the day.  I was still sick when I ran the race this morning, and I think that I did surprisingly well considering that I wasn't feeling all that great.