Hadouken!

Was unable to make it to cross country today, so I emailed Bill in advance.

He told me to run 5 miles around my neighborhood.

It was hot, but generally went well.

I invited Ashley to come along, but she was "too busy preparing for girls camp".

Sorry everybody, I don't mean to miss practice (or the home workouts you assigned me, Bill)...

But after I woke up yesterday, I was just feeling sick.  That's continued into today, so I don't know how long it will be until I can run again.

But I'll try to do what I can this week, sick or not.

Beginning of Hill Week at Sugarhouse Park

1 grass lap, 5 hills (would have been 6, but Emily told me not to run the 5th, because I was exhausted.) then 2 miniature hills, and another grass lap to finish.

My legs were sore right around my knees.  Mostly just barely above them, on the back side of my legs.

I was nearly the last person back on the first lap, then I pulled ahead of everyone that is around my level for the hills (except Jeremy sprinted ahead of me at the very end).

Jeremy kept ahead of me for the mini hills and the final grass lap.  Alessandro was ahead of me until just before the end.  I caught up to him, and he apparently was in pain or something, so he walked the last few meters (under 10 meters, Bill, don't worry.)

Around 7 miles, not sure...

Run from JCC up the mountain trail.

3 miles out, then 10 of those evil hills, then 3 miles back.

Hike up lake Blanch trail.

Was fun, despite Taylor injuring himself and me getting my leg covered in mud.

Oh, and me getting sunburned arms and neck (not as bad as the last time I got burned!)

Don't know how many miles it was, and we didn't run it, so I cant really count it.

I also discovered that Delaney has a major fear of heights... Nearly to the point of paranoia I would say. (Sorry if that sounds rude, Delaney!)

First time at Puke Hill.

Ran the entirety of the first half with Alessandro, and even got him to run down hills better.

Then, for some reason, I started crashing, and just felt really really tired.  He went off ahead of me. (Ironically, this seems to happen a lot, dosen't it?)

But I wasn't last back!  I beat some of the people who didn't even run 8.5 miles!

Liberty Park

1 lap, Strides up a hill, and fartlek around the lake hills. I got 7 laps in, maybe 8.

Then a cooldown, which Maclean, Nelson, and I nearly walked the entire thing.

Sugarhouse Park...

State course for warmup, 8 hill loops, and 5 circuits.

Then, Bill wanted us to run the state couse backwards for cooldown.  I didn't.

You know what I don't understand?

Why do we even need cooldowns?  Yeah, it's to get the acid out of your legs, or whatever it is, but doesn't it get out while you're running the workout anyways?  And if it dosen't, what changes to suddenly make running get the acid out of your legs?  Taking a break?  Because we did that during the workout, plural times!

Can anyone explain this to me?

Liberty Park

1 Lap warmup, strides, 2 half miles and 1 mile sprints.  Then ran back to drinking fountain for cooldown.

After the first half mile, I just got tired for some reason, and I couldn't run as fast.  But it was okay, I still ran most of it.

Then, Bill made everyone some sort of breakfast.

Nice day despite being suddenly tired!

Was it 8?

I dont know...

Run at Pipeline trail.

We showed up late (thought it was 7:30 that it started). We still ran the entire thing though.  Ran the first half alone, ran half of the way back with Ashley (well, technically speaking, walked), then ran the rest of the way back.

Almost everyone had left by the time I made it back.  It was quite odd...

Sunnyside Park

1 Gulley lap, 10 hill strides, 1 park lap for cooldown.

See?  Those cooldowns I actually am fine with.  But 3 milers?  I dislike them.