C Mantz Run

The weather could not make a decision today.  So, we got outside, and it was decent weather, good enough for shorts and a long sleeve. Yeah, that was before we started our workout. After our mile warmup around the track, the wind and clouds came.  Our workout was 4x1000@ipace w/ 3 minute recovery.  Later we had 4x200 w/ 200 recovery. For the 1000s I was supposed to hit a 3:37. Mentally, I was feeling really good. Clara tried to stick with me which helped. My first was hard, but it felt good. My time was 3:35.  The second one, it started to lightly rain.  It didn't effect anything. I got a 3:34.  Then, the wind started to kick in. The third was pretty bad.  Running on the back stretch was a wall of wind.  The rain hit my face like little pins, it was so cold.  I couldn't feel my hands or face.  My eyes were closed when I looked up.  My legs weren't too cold, surprisingly. The front stretch was hard to stride. Mentally, I was pretty broken, but I still pused through. My time was a 3:45. Coach was nice to let me draft the last 100m off of him. It was cold! When I started the last one, it started to snow.  That wasn't much better.  I started, but my first 200 was a 35.  I kept pushing.  Similar to the first, it was bad.  On the last 200 Coach let me draft, which helped.  I passed him the last 100, but finished with a time of 3:52.  I was pretty bummed that my times were slow, but that weather. I was gonna go inside, but decided to do the 200s on the tailwind stretch. They were way good.  I did them with Clara, who was kicking my butt, but I never let her pass me. They were 40, 39, 39, 36.  The track had a layer of snow on it, and it was pretty slick, so these times were kinda hard to hit, but they were perfect on pace.  On the last one we really went hard. When we were done, it was warm again with a light snow . Kelsey joined me and Clara on a 1.25 cool down.  When we were finished, my body was cold, and it felt like I had been skiing all day.  We stretched inside. 

Around 6:20, I ran 3.25 miles easy.  It was a little windy, but not too cold. The sun was out. My averagr pace was under 8.  I also did a medium core workout before bed.

Today we did a different workout called over-and-unders.  It was 2 minutes of 5 seconds faster than tempo pace (5:15), then 2 minutes 10-15 seconds slower than tempo (5:30-35).  Coach wanted me to do 5 sets, so about 20 straight mintutes. He told us that if the workout didn't make sense, just do tempo.  It was getting chilly when we got outside, and I was wearing a headband, shorts, and a long-sleeve shirt. Most of the girls and I warmed up the first mile out to Cedaridge, then we would do the last 3ish miles of the run for the workout.  The headwind out was pretty strong, so we were hoping to have a tailwind coming back.  I was feeling really good, and I started the first 2 sets fast. While I was passing the middle school, it started to hail, though. It was cloudy, but I didn't expect hail.  It didn't hurt too bad, but it wasn't fun.  When I turned up and began going back, the wind changed, so that didn't help. The hail was off and on, and sometimes it snowed. My pace slowly went up, but on each set made it waver. It was weird, on the unders, I felt like I was going too slow, but on the overs, my pace felt too fast. I took the wrong road coming back, but I made my way to the main road. When I finished half a mile out from sv, I felt pretty tired, but good. I did 3.1 miles with an average pace of 6:25. I cooled down and picked up all of the girls.  That was about a mile (I luckily  had a gps watch). When we got back onto the track, I did a mile wih Ethan and Kelsee.  It was a fun day, but the weather couldn't make a decision, again.

Later I did 3 miles on the treadmill because I didn't want to run in the snow. I attempted to do some core, but was tired after a minute plank, and it was late, so that was all I did.

Premeet! I wore tights because I didn't trust the weather. The girls decided to do tree of life, then we extended onto Milky Way.  It was super muddy from the snow.  Luckily, we didn't slip. When we got onto the road, we did 4 strides pretty far apart. They felt good. It snowed some, but it was way fun. When we got onto the track, we did 2 strides on the snow covered turf, and finished to three. I should've gone further, but I was pretty swamped with homework and never got the extra miles. 

When we got to the meet, I was freaking out because I thought I wasn't gonna have any time to warm up for the 2 mile, and my bus was the last one to get to Weber.  Luckily, they ended up not having it at all, so I wasn't so stressed.  We still didn't have a ton of time to warm up for the mile, so we were off pretty quick.  We warmed up 3/4 of a mile, then when we were on the track, we did about another quarter.  I got in 4 strides, which is really rare.  My goal time was a sub 5:33. The start was a little rough, but after the first 200, I got into game mode.  The first lap was pretty fast.  I was ahead. The entire time, I was waiting for somebody to come up behind me, but nobody ever did.  The last lap, I was either a little behind or a little ahead, but it made me go faster. I felt really good after.  My time was a 5:29, which is around where I was peaking as a freshman, so I'm pretty pumped for the mile this season.  I did a recovery mile with some girls, then waited for the 800m.  Because they didn't have the 3200, I kinda had to do the 800.  I've only ran it 3 other times, and I'm not crazy about it.  The first lap was a blur, all I remember was passing Abby on the 300m.  The second lap was weird.  I should have tried catching the pack, but I didn't. The headwind on the back stretch was pretty rough.  I didn't notice it during the mile. My time was a 2:35 which is half a second slower than my pr, so that's good. I need to figure out how to run the 800m, but it's not really my event, so I don't want to focus on it a ton. After, I cooled down 2 miles with Rachel.  It felt really good. The meet went by way fast, when we got back the 4x400 was finishing up.  It was a pretty fun dual meet.

We were supposed to take team pictures, but nobody knew when.  I was wearing my uniform top, and I got a nice sunburn on my shoulders and chest.  We did a bunch of random loops and would come back to the track to see if they were ready yet. Sometimes, we ran a few laps around the track, other times we ran tree of life or mack and back with some random turns.  It was pretty random but fun.  The boys were going really slow, so I was with them the whole time.  They were going around an 8:15 pace, so sometimes, I was leading. It was really fun and chill.  The beginning was cold, but it warmed up towards the end. After pictures, I ran half a mile more.  Ethan wanted to go further, and we saw the freshman, so we did Sunnyside with them.  It was a nice run, and those 5 miles averaged a 7:45, but they felt really good.  The last mile, my left knee was hurting, so when I got home I iced it a bit.

Around 1:00, Ethan and Spencer showed up. Yesterday we had talked about possibly doing the Pyramids, and we did!  It was way fun!  Our pace was way slow, but going up was hard. We took a lot of stops, and at some points we were speed-hiking (kind of), but it was a good workout. We stopped at all of the peaks to take in the view, which was amazing, like always. Some parts were slick, but it wasn't too bad.  Going uphill was great, but when we turned around to come down my knee started hurting.  I don't think hitting the ground so hard helped. I always take my time going downhill, so the guys both ran ahead, but were nice enough to stop and wait. I really like that hike/trail, and running it is a blast, too. When we got down to Ethan's car, we ran 3 more miles in Smithfield Canyon nice and slow.  They were some good miles, and it was way chill, which was nice. I'm glad we were able to do it!