Be a Crazy Runner

My last run for XC camp... That made me real sad!  Atleast we ended with a nice easy run!  Well, it was easy, except for the part when we crawled up those hills!  Anyways, it was fun.  I'm glad this XC camp was able to go well.  I had so much fun!  I wish I had another year! I'm gonna miss it!

AM- Ran with Mia, Rachel, and Kaelie at 6 this morning!  We just ran around the fields.  The weather was so nice!  It was nice to be able to breath again!  I thought this run was gonna be so hard!  But it wasn't bad!  The tempo was a little hard.  We took turns taking the lead, which was so nice!  Gave me the chance to catch back up. :)  I kept on falling behind... I hope I get back to where I was soon.

PM- Kaelie, Ali, Dallin, and I met up at 8 at Kaelie's house.  I felt good on this run! And it went by fast, which was good. :)

Ali, Kaelie, and I were supposed to meet at the soccer park at 7, but too bad I slept in, so I showed up at 7:20.  Thank goodness that they were nice enough to wait for me. :)  We ran down to the fields, and saw Megan running with her mom on her bike!  It was awesome!  So we decided to finish the first half of our run with her.  Good week!  After this, I went hiking with Susan, Reed, and Colton.  Pretty intense hike! Really fun though!

AM- Well, I felt better today than I did last Monday!  But I still was so tired...  I was very consistent with my times though!!  All of the repeats I hit in the 4:30's, I don't remember the exact times..  But these are my fastest!! :)

PM- I felt soo good!!  I just had so much energy!  I did try to eat healthier, and I drank some more water than usual.. Or at least tried to!  I really need to work on that... The run was great!  Weights were great!  I'm a little sore, cuz I haven't done them in a while!

Well... I guess I did all right, considering the fact that I haven't done that kind of workout in 2 weeks.  I couldn't relax my breathing, at all!  I don't know what was going on, like I tried to keep up with Rachel and Mia, but my body would just slow down.. I think I prolly just thought too much about how bad I was breathing, and freaked my brain out or something.  I only did 9. :\  I just wasn't hitting my distance on like any of them...  Oh well, gotta think positive about it! :)  I'll do better next time!

Well, I tried to think positive about this time trail before we actually ran it.  But after I finished, and after both of the coaches talked to me, I figured out that I need to think positive about me being a fast runner all the time!  That's what I am gonna work on this season, I know I am a better runner.  I can do whatever I put my mind to!  Need to focus on the positive, not the negative!  My time wasn't too bad, actually!  It was like 14:37 or something like that.  I really do love running!  So glad I run with such an amazing team! :)

AM- I felt pretty good on this run!  We took turns leading on the tempo.  So that made it go by faster, which is always good!  My legs weren't tight during it!  But I still let myself slow down the last mile... I felt good, like I prolly could've kept up, I just keep on doubting myself. :/  But we grouped up after tempo, and all ran the rest of the run together. :)  Stopped at the park, I was so thirsty...  Thank goodness they had the drinking fountains on!

PM- Easy 3!  Felt pretty good!  I got to run with Coach Roberts!  It was prolly the funniest run I've ran!  I won't tell why it was funny, so coach won't get embarrassed. :)  Weights were great! Plyos were fun, as always!

I felt way good today!  The 3 grass miles, went pretty fast!  It was fun being in charge for a little. :)  The hills weren't as bad as I remembered!  I felt great!  Ali was a total beast during the minutes!  Holy!  She just took off!  We kept pretty good groups for the hills too! :)  We had no idea what order the hills were supposed to be, so we just did the minutes first, and the 30 seconds last.  Overall, good run!

I got to run with Ali today!  We met up at my house, cuz she's super nice, and let me sleep in a little. :)  I felt good today too!  The 4 miles went by fast!  I love runs like this!

AM- Well, I felt alright today!  I just gotta trust myself that I can go faster.  I got like 4:39 on the first one... I don't remember the rest though.. But!  I know on every single one I was faster than 5 minutes! :)  The fourth one I felt the best, but it wasn't even my best time!  The sprinklers didn't really help me much... It made me feel like I couldn't catch a breath, so that made my breathing all whack.

PM- 3!  Pretty toasty, but felt good!  Felt so much better than this morning!  Weights and plyos were great! :)

AM- 5 miles with 4 200's.  Felt pretty good this morning, my legs were tight, though. :/  It was weird, like they didn't hurt, like usual, but I still felt a knot in my calf.  So... I don't know!  200's were good.  I just need to relax, cuz I tighten up so much when I try to run faster!

PM- Race!!  I wasn't too nervous for this race actually!  And I felt way good on our warm up!  When we got up to the starting line, I started to get nervous.  It was such a huge group of girls!  The gun kinda caught us off guard.  All he said was "ready, go!"  No set!!  What the?!  But since I start so great for every race, I got a good spot!  Not!!  I started crappy, like always!  So I got trapped behind every stinkin slow girl!!  I was practically walking the start!!  I was sooo bugged!!  I couldn't get around them!  But I was able to get around them, like after the first 400 meters or so.  And then I got a good spot. :)  I forgot how much racing hurts!  Oh well, something I have to get used to!  I wanted to break 20 so bad, my time was 21:02.  So that's something I will work up to. :)  I got 11th place too!  I'm pretty happy of how this race turned out.  Good way to start off the season. :)

No morning run!  I was pretty excited about this, but I woke up at 7:30, and couldn't fall back to sleep.. I guess my body will never let me sleep in ever again!  I guess it's a good thing.  But anyways, I felt great during today's run!  We got a good group going too!  I'm excited for our new girls varsity team!  It's gonna be a fun group of girls!  Striders were awesome!

AM- first morning run!!  Super fun!  Did some plyos.

PM- I felt so good! Well, my body didn't feel so hot, but I honestly think it was my attitude that changed this whole workout around.  And!  I lead the girls today!  Felt great!!  :)  The last few 30 seconds, I felt so light headed though..  But was able to make it back, you know, without dying..  Weights were good!!

AM- easy 3!!!

PM- 1x1's today! It was sooo hot!  Ran them with Mia!!  That was fun! :)  We were able to help each other.  So that was nice. :)  Got my flippin senior parking spot.  Woo hoo.  I guess that it is alright, cuz I get my own parking spot.  But, eh..

I got new shoes at the Running Store thing!!  I'm so excited!  They are the same shoes as I had before but different color.  It was so weird to have shoes that actually have some support!

Instead of racing, I ran with Mia!! I stinking love her!!  I felt pretty good, but my calves were tight at the beginning.  When we started the tempo, they felt better.  Well, we followed coach's directions exactly and got lost... so!  We ran around this maze neighborhood.  I felt great during the tempo!  The best I've felt for that!  We kept under 7:30 pace throughout the whole thing, until the last half mile, then we hit 7:35.  But it's still great!  Made it back just in time to see our JV girls race. :) Our team is so great!  They all did awesome!!

AM- I felt pretty good this morning!  My times were pretty consistent too!  I got around 4:50ish on every one!  Still room for improvement though!  I need to close that gap between Mia and me!  My slowest was 4:50, so I got pretty good times today!  The sprinklers attacked us this morning too, so we had to become ninjas to dodge them!  Sometimes, they would use the element of surprise, and hit us from behind... So we got pretty wet!

PM- 3 miles easy!  We ran to Hot Nails, well not really... we were about to run to Sandburgs, but Mia had to go to the bathroom, so we stopped at the water wheel park, and got a drink there.  We decided to turn around from there, and ran back to the high school.  It was so hot!  Weights were pretty fun!  It was weird to be one of the first people in there!  But really nice cuz we didn't have to wait for anything! I taught the new freshman, Anna, how to do weights!  She's such a nice girl! 

AM- easy 3, felt pretty good!  It was warm this morning!  Plyos were fun..

PM- Oh man... It was so hot!!  Pretty sure I was dehydrated or something, cuz I was dying!  It was a pretty tough run today!  My breathing was really weird too, like it felt like I couldn't get a deep enough breath... Like I wasn't breathing hard, I was just trying to get a breath in!  We were able to stop a few times do drink some water, that helped a ton!  Heard tomorrow is gonna be even hotter!  Woo hoo!

AM- Well, I guess I did pretty good this morning!  I kept up with Mia more than I usually do!  And there was a little hill in it! I was able to hit 9 repeats.  Which is the most I've ever hit. My breathing was un even... I think that just freaks out my body, so I slow down. :/  I need to work on my breathing.  But!  I will get better!  I plan to do better next week!

PM- 4 miles!  It was so hot during the first half of the run!  Second half was alright.  We ran to green springs.  I felt way better during this run than this morning!  Striders were awesome!

AM- Easy 3!

PM- Old man hills!  My legs felt so tight on this run!  I guess I did pretty good today, I felt best on the second one.

AM- Ran on some grass for a little over a mile.  Decided to go finish our run with the DI loop.

PM- Ran to Sanburgs!  Some of us decided to not jump in, so we just went on with our run.  I felt pretty good during the 200's!  I was hitting around 39 and 40 each one.  So pretty good times!

I felt pretty strong today!! And I didn't look down!  Well for some of it.  I'm disappointed that I didn't even make top 10.. that's been my goal every time for this race!  I kinda felt like the team was disappointed in me too. :/  I wish I could've pushed just a little harder so at least one Pine View varsity girl would've been in top 10.  I was a little sad on the bus, cuz I was thinking that if Mia and I don't step it up and do well in our races, we won't be able to go to state.. I want to go to state so bad.  I won't have another chance if we don't make it this year!!  So I have to run in state!  After crying on Taylor H's shoulder, she comforted me and we listened to Disneyland songs on her I-pod. I was happy after that. :)Thanks Taylor! :)

AM- The 6 min. test!  I felt pretty good, for like the first 800ish.  Then my breathing went all outta whack! So I slowed down. :(  And the distance thing was off, so I don't even know how far I got!  Coach Roberts said that I got 1422, but then later told me it wasn't right..  Plyos were great!

PM-  Easy 3, faught a tiger, and did some weights!!  Good run!  A piece of advice, if you fall, or are falling, don't count on Mia to catch you!  She will just laugh!! Love you Mia! But, Kaelie is much nicer. :)

AM- easy 4!  Felt pretty good! We ran to Starbucks.

PM- Dog pound tempo.  Felt way good! Had another tiger attack us, but instead of me, it attacked Maquel!!  It was a saber tooth tiger!!  Anyways, we started out with 7:30 pace, and ended aroun 6:50 something during the tempo!  It was awesome!

AM- Just an easy 3 with Roberts!  Was the only girl this morning.

PM-  I think that this was my fastest time trail! :)  I felt pretty good the first lap, kinda had to get my legs going, 2nd lap, I finally started to race, and last lap, I felt sick, and my legs were pretty tight!!  But I was still able to finish!  I tried to relax my breathing, but I don't know if I did a very good job!  Atleast I didn't sound like I was crying!  I really need to work on that...  I only almost broke my ankle 3 times!  So not too bad!  Just happy it didn't injure me. :)

AM- Nice easy 3, on the grass. Jumped over some hay bales, looking super graceful. :)

PM- Easy 3 again!  Sanburgs!  Jumped over hay bales again!  Weights were good!

AM- Easy 3!  I couldn't find my keys this morning... my dad found them in the backyard!  What the?  So that's why I was a little late. Jumped over some hay bales!

PM- Ran the state course!  My legs were a little tired and sore.  But it was fun!!  

My legs were sore this morning!  I rolled and stretched last night, so I thought they would be less sore..  Oh well, I guess!  I was the first leg.  When they called the the girls varsity teams up, they seperated all the first legs from the rest of their teams, to tell them the rules.  They said to us to tell the rest of our team the rules, and if any of our team did something wrong, it was our fault!  I think I did pretty good, cuz we didn't get disqualified. :)  Anyways!  I felt pretty good!  I didn't trip or walk over any hay bales!  Plus it was a super fun course!  Our team did way good!  We are gonna kick butt this year!