C Mantz Run

We ran about 3 miles which was really fun and easy.  I just kept up with the boys.  Our times felt medium because they weren't hard, but they weren't super easy. It got me a little more excited about track because I wasn't very enthusiastic after yesterday.

Today was the blue and white.  When we got there we were supposed to run the mile soon.  I decided to go for a sub-six mile.  Our warmup was only half a mile, but it felt good.  Then it began to get super rainy which wasn't very good.  During the race there was a horrible head wind on the back stretch of the track.  My first 200 I glanced at my watch and it was a 34 which was way too fast. I stuck with the boys because we mixed the freshman boys and girls.  My time was 6:03 which was okay, but I should have sprinted harder towards the finish.  After that I only did a quarter mile cool down because we were supposed to run the 400 for our coach, but they ended up not having it.  When I got home I did four amazing miles that were so slow and easy but felt so good.  My miles were 1) 10:34 2) 10:29 3) 9:18 4) 10:30.  They were very slow times, but The last two I ran with Ruby who pushed me.  The sunset was really pretty after all the rain.

I was ready to run, but then I had to wait for Conner for an hour to get me the workout, because we didn't have practice today.  I found out it was either tempo today and easy tomorrow or the other way around.  I attempted tempo, but it didn't turn out very amazing.  My first mile was right on, and my next half was really well on, too.  But after that my stomach started to hurt.  I stopped to walk and felt like almost falling over.  I tried to walk/jog home which didn't feel good at all.  My legs felt funny.  I went another half mile, then tried to run again, but I didn't feel good after a minute or so.  I went home and told Conner.  After that, I drank some chocolate milk and felt better.  It could have been that I didn't have any energy (even though I ate lunch like always) or my stomach wasn't very good, but it was okay.  I should have ran more afterwards, but I felt too sick to try.

Because I had such a horrible run yesterday, I decided to try tempo again.  I wanted to get a 6:32 pace, but I wasn't expecting to get the times because it was up the canyon.  My times were 1) 6:11 2) 6:57 (then I took a 30 second break) 3) 6:42 4) 8:08 (Then a minute break) 5) 7:06.  My first mile was all downhill and felt amazing.  The second mile I slowed way down towards the middle which I regret.  Then I tried to hit my time and atleast got a sub-seven.  I wore myself out a little bit trying to hit the time and took a 30 second break.  Then I went down the canyon and my stomach didn't feel amazing.  After that mile I always have to go up some steep hills which I didn't feel good enough to go up.  When I got home I took a minute break and went one more that was okay.  It was super nice outside and I was very excited to run in the heat. I did one more mile to cool down.

After warming up I wasn't really sure what we were doing, so I followed the boys.  I tried to ask them what we were doing, but didn't really figure it out until we went up beauty, then lost the person who knew where we were going.  We guessed he did sunnyside, so we went up the canyon to meet up with him.  I tried to go a little faster to reach tempo pace, but it didn't work very well because I didn't want to ditch the guys with me.  We turned around when we met up with the leader and went back to Sky View.

I wanted to get some sprinting in, so I did 8x 200 @ r pace with a 200 in between at home.  All of them were right on (41) except for the last two where the last one I got cut off by a car (43) and the last one my thigh began burning and I didn't want to injure myself (46).  After that I did a mile cool down I was thinking I should maybe do a 600, but I was so tired.

We warmed up, then Coach wanted us to do 3x 800 at about r pace.   I kind of have gotten a cold, so they weren't super amazing because I couldn't breathe super easily.  I wanted to get around 2:50 pace, but then my times were much slower. 1) 2:55 2) 3:02 3) 3:03  In between we had a 3-5 minute break.  There was also a really sucky headwind that was on the back stretch of the track.  After that we cooled down 2 miles.  I should have gone more miles, but I was really exhausted from yesterday's workout.