Today at practice, we had a mile time trial for those who didn't have a v dot number. Rachel and I led the warmups, which makes it so weird to be a senior. We did a mile on the course and attempted to explain our 5K course, haha. When we were back on the track, the boys ran their mile first, then the girls. I was really pumped to run on our resurfaced track, but it kinda sucked. It was really hard and not as bouncy. Hopefully, it will be nicer when track rolls around. I was hoping for close to a 5:30, but I wasn't really ready to run a mile that fast. It ended up being a 5:55. My motivation wasn't there, so I had fun with it. After everybody got their numbers (lol, mine was 10 less than what it really is/should be), we did a workout. All at race pace, 500 hard, 400 recovery, 400 hard, 300 recovery, 300 hard, 200 recovery, 200 hard, 100 recovery, 100 hard, 100 recovery, 100 hard. It was really fun becuase we had a solid pack of girls up front. I lost the times recorded, but my race pace splits were about: 1:43, 1:21 (both slow), 59, 38, 20, and 18. The first 100 was funny becuase there were a bunch of people and we were attempting to go around them. We cooled down on the course. It was a fun day of practice. It was around 4.75 miles.
In the evening, I did 8 up the canyon. It felt super good. It was also really hot. On top of that, the air was pretty bad from the fires. As I got further up the canyon, the air got better and cooler. Each mile-marker, I thought "one more." 7:41 average pace. It was a fun long run.
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