C Mantz Run

Today I went to Sky View to run with the girls.  We're planning on doing a meet this weekend and we wanted to get a long run in.  For them it was a long run, but for me it seemed more like an easy run.  We went at a really slow pace.  It was the temperatures it's been all week (about 25 degrees), so I wore shorts and a long sleeved shirt.  We had a blast just chatting.  A couple times we stopped because we had no idea what exact course we were doing. We ended up doing 5.94 when we got back to the school so we jogged in circles to get a full 6.  It took us about 53 minutes so a little faster than nine minute pace.  It was a ton of fun running with people again.

I went to Sky View to run with the girls again.  We decided to run 3 tempo miles after a quarter mile warm up.  We stalled a little before we began running.  We were going to go for 6:50 miles because they hadn't done a tempo in a while, and in the cold.  We started out almost sprinting and I was a few feet behind.  Our first mile was 6:39 which was my tempo pace.  We slowed it down.  Riley and I were being a little competative and went ahead of Katelyn and Amber.  When we turned around they caught up with us.  I felt as if I had a ton of energy and was talking a lot. I asked if they wanted to take a quick break at mile 2 because they were falling behind and this was their first tempo outside. We decided to and our mile was 7:14. After a minute and a half recovery we continued. This mile we stuck together. It was 6:18. I guess we didn't need a break.  We began cooling down after that. We ran about 3/4 of a mile.  I was super happy to run a tempo with somebody, it pushed me more and felt good.

I wasn't able to go to Sky View, but I did jog a premeet with Ruby, my dog. She was super excited because I haven't taken her on a "walk" in forever.  We went super slow, but it was a ton of fun. My times were 1) 9:32 and 2) 9:15. Then I did 6 striders.  Because I was wearing tights my form was a little restricted. It was a ton of fun.

Katelyn, Amber, and I jogged to Riley's house to pick her up.  Once we got her we jogged about a mile to the hill beauty because we had to do hills.  We were planning on doing up beauty, down beast, up beast, down beauty atleast 5 or 6 times.  But we ended up doing it only 3.  It was super slushy and there was a sheet of ice on beauty, but it was a good faster workout.   Our recoveries were super slow, but it was okay.  When we first went up beauty, most of the boys that ran cross country were finishing up their workout.  Our splits for going up beauty were 1) 27, 2) 28, 3) 28. Our splits for going up beast were 1) 1.09, 2) 1.12, 3) 1.12.  I wish we could've done it more times, but we had to leave.  Our cool down mile was about twelve minutes.

I ran an easy four that I didn't want to do, but I did anyways.  My times were 1) 8:11, 2) 8:56, 3) 8:55, 4) 9:36.  It was a really slow, but enjoyable easy run.

I was super excited to run today, I don't know why.  I decided to do tempo.  My first mile was 6:37.  My second I didn't feel very great near the middle, but I continued to try to go faster. It was 6:50.  A couple seconds after I crossed the mile point, I felt too sick to move, so I stopped.  I walked back to the mile point which took about a minute.  Then I decided to go half a mile and see how I would feel.  That took me 6:15!  Only half a mile which was super slow.  I sped up because I felt much better and that half mile was 3:00 which was super good for how sick I felt earlier.  Then, I took  a minute and a half break to figure out what I should do because I felt good again.  The next mile I took advantage of the hills and my mile was 6:15.  Then I went another half mile tempo whjch was 3:22.  Then I turned around to do a mile and a half cool down which added up to 16:46.  I felt really good on the way home and I was very happy my times were well on.