Hadouken!

Finally back from my sunburn...

Well, the first lap around sugarhouse park was okay, until my knees both started stiffening.

Then, we did a lot of stretches, my knees were still stiff, and it didn't help.

Then, we did a circuit workout thing, and the first part killed me, I had to slow on the jumping jacks because of the first one, but the squats and mountain bike excercizes weren't hard at all, minus slipping repeatedly.  My knees actually didn't bug me throughout this part.

I was exhausted by cooldown time, so I wasn't able to run as much of it as I would have liked.  My knees had restiffened, and I was starting to get a headache...

However, I feel fine now.

10 minute warmup run, then 3 minute runs (are those the ones called fartleks?) with 2 minute breaks inbetween.

Nothing really was bad today, except that my left side just at the hip started hurting in the warmup.  It stopped at the turnaround point.

Afterwards I did my core, and when the advanced came back, we all did 3 sets of stepups and arm swings.

Well, the scavenger hunt run was quite fun.

I was stuck into the girls group (grr...) so I was faster than most of them.  However, at least 4 of them could probably beat me easily.

I had no idea where I was going during any of this. 

I really like that pipeline trail.  Even though it was practically all hills, I really enjoyed this run.  I ran the first bit with Delaney, but she started going fast and I lost her.  I ran for a little while longer until I ran back into her, Sam, Gavin, and Tess going back.  So I turned around with them, but I still eventually lost all of them.  I ran most of the way back, and then started almost falling asleep running.  I wasn't tired, I was just very unfocused.

 All in all, this was an excellent run.

And I've also discovered my main problem with running currently.  Poor circulation runs in my family, so my heart beats really fast really early in the runs.  That makes it hard to slow down and recover without walking. 

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...