Hadouken!

I found that I don't like Liberty Park...

The air is always smoggy, which screws up my breathing, which in turn screws up my circulation which, as I mentioned in my last entry, already sucks.

We did 1 lap, and I was able to run it all (finally!), then 2 800 runs, which I also ran completely.

My first time was 4:04

Second was 4:20

Then we did almost another lap for a cooldown.  I hate cooldowns.  I know they are important, but I hate them.  I'm already exhausted by cooldown time, yet Bill tries to still push the mileage using the cooldown.  I had to walk so much for that.

And now I've been assigned 3 30 second leg lifts each night because I have bad core.  Great...

A run from sunnyside apparently past Shriners hospital... Or something.

Seriously, I had no idea where I was going (that seems to be happening a lot...) but I kept up well enough to see where to go.  I made it to the drinking fountain, waited with my group for a bit, then we ran back.  I slowed down about half a mile down, because my sister was falling behind, and I didn't want her to get lost.  I stuck with her pace until the advanced group nearly ran into us.  Then I ran ahead and kept a good pace all the way back.

Then, after the advanced group came back(they took a longer run back around) we all did our core.

My feet felt a little sore during this run, but not hinderingly so.

Run at cottonwood complex.

1 warmup lap I ran completely.

8 strides across a soccer field.

4 hill workouts that I tried to run most of.

Then a regions lap that I ran very little of.

Bill, I have to run 7 miles, do double core, and do 3 30 second leg lifts?  Sheesh.

Pipeline trail.

I made it to the exact same point as last time, but I was faster this time!  Last time I caught up with a group coming back.  This time I lead a group going forwards.  Mostly, I ran with Maclean and his sister.  I'll be honest, I got a little lazy on the way back and walked a lot more than I needed to.  But I ran at least 3, maybe 4 of those miles!

1 Lap around Liberty warmup.

1 Lap Fireman.

1 and about 1/2 lap cooldown.

Then we did our core and some arm swings.

Good day, overall

Slurpee run from Sunnyside park!

Both tasty and painful AND disgusting.

It was odd, after about the 3rd 7-11, I started recognising a lot of places we went to.

I stuck with Blake and Becca most of the way there, and was in every 7-11 with them.  They beat me at the final strech though.

After the 6th 7-11, I was nearly ready to puke.  It was rediculously hard to swallow the 7th slurpee. 

We ended up at Liberty Park.  Most everyone else ran and/or walked back, but if I had, I certainly would have barfed.  I rode with my mom up there instead and did my core before they showed up.

Then, my sisters and I discovered that there was a free lunch at Sunnyside after, so we stayed for that.  Taylor is angry about it, for one reason or another...

Wheeler Farm run.

Warmup lap or so... I was with Blake and Becca and we got pretty lost.

Then fartlek, 1 min on, 1 off, for 20 minutes.  I ran that with Maclean.

Then strides relay.  I feel pretty good about it.  My elementary age sister even joined in for this!

Then cooldown.  I ran/walked with my sister because she wanted to try it.

Then core, of course.

Run from JCC on the "dry" creek trail... Which was flooded.

I got water in my shoes pretty early.  I followed Blake and Becca until we ran into Scott.  He was apparently in too much pain to run, so I stuck with him to the rock pile and back.

To be honest, we didn't run much at all.

And apparently, I'm a frog to Mike, whatever that means...

Run at Sugarhouse.

First warmup lap I was fine with and ran the whole way.

Then, we went and played 21 by running up a hill and going for 400s.  I thought it might be fun.  But it was so easy for the advanced runners that it was practically impossible for any of us newbies to win.  That was really demotivating.

I think we were supposed to run some sort of cooldown, but no one was running when I got to the meeting spot.

3 laps around Liberty park.

1st warmup.

2nd fartlek, of sorts... 20 seconds on, 40 off.

3rd cooldown.

Almost nobody was here because of girls camp and Harry Potter.  Was kind of odd.

Run from Sugar House Park.

Apparently, it was supposed to be 4.5 miles, but Alessandro and I were behind Sam and some other people, and they took a couple of wrong turns.

We eventually got back on the correct path, and we reasoned out that since we ran 3-6 blocks while off course, we could say we added half a mile.

I don't know where Sam's group went. We turned back onto Zenith, and they continued going south and west.

Well, it was a good run, besides the fact that I was slightly dehydrated and tired.

I don't exactly know how much it was, Mike seemed to say it was almost 6, Taylor says it was 4...

Well, we ran to the flagpole, then back a different route.

I walked quite sizeably on the way there, because my stomach started hurting. But I made it there and started walking back with Maclean. Mike ran into us and pushed us to run. I did, but Maclean only did for a little while.

That was probably the longest run I didn't walk for even 2 minutes worth of time in (total!). Thanks for showing me I could do it, Mike!

Man, I keep running 5 miles... Good practice for Monday, I guess...

2.5 mile warmup and 6 strides.

Then, a fartlek run around the regions course. Got most of the way through before the end.

Then, a final half mile to round out the numbers.

Run at Pipeline.

First half, I ran almost the whole way there just ahead of Maclean, until I ran into Delaney. She had to slow down for a bit because of her recovery from chlorine gas poisoning.

Second half, we ran into Scott and ran with him. He went ahead with Anders and Nelson, Delaney ended up somewhere behind us. Eventually, she passed us again.

However, then something happened, and Delaney had to stop completely. Scott told Maclean and I to keep running while he helped Delaney. We did... for about 10 seconds. Then we both decided to just wait for them.

They were up and moving again before long. We ran the rest of the way back after a short walking break.

Well, the first 3 miles were fine, I was just a bit tired.  Ran with Maclean until he started rushing ahead with Anders.  Ran into Alessandro, kept with him for a long while.

But somewhere after the halfway point, I started feeling sick to my stomach.  Ran as much as I could, but had to slow to prevent barfing or the like.  Alessandro got past me about 5 blocks out from the finish and I didn't see him again.

I feel like I could have done better if I just hadn't felt sick in the middle of it, but it was good for my first race (I think)!

Edit:

Wow, I was 2nd to last of my age group... thats a little discouraging...

Though, technically, I beat Alessandro (he lost his chip)!

Fairmont park.

Ran 2 laps warmup, talked for over an hour, then did 2 more laps for I don't know what purpose.  Advanced group ran somewhere else, I don't know exactly where, afterwards, to add on the last half mile. 

Bill seemed extremely tired from the marathon.  I actually "beat" him.

Run at Sunnyside.

Ran 1.5 gulley laps.

Did stretching.

Did some drills/drill relays (Duck walking is a lot more painful than it looks!).

Then ran 1 mile for cooldown.

Ow, I am sore.

I woke up today and my legs were sore just above the knee.

That trend continued throughout the entire run from JCC.

Bill caught up to me about halfway to 3, and kept pushing me to run faster, catch up with someone, etc.

I eventually caught the person he told me to, so 1 goal completed.

But that elevation certainly screwed up my breathing.

Way up, legs and chest hurt.

Way down, only legs hurt, and much less than way up.

Liberty Park.

Just above my knees were very sore, again.

1 Lap warmup.

3(4) 800 relays with jogging break. (We were told not to do all 4.)

Then finishing the lap for cooldown.