C Mantz Run

We did a mile warmup where Coach showed us where the course was.  I started to get a dry throat during the warm up which effected my entire run.  We did that course 4 times at tempo pace.  It was super windy and it was very hot.  The first mile was way too fast by about thirty seconds.  The second one, I was a little behind the lead girls because I was so tired from the first one and my throat was burning.  The third and fourth were pretty horrible.  They weren't on the right time at all and all I wanted was water.  In between each one we had a 2:00 recovery which was pretty nice, I just wished I didn't feel so crappy.  We did 30 seconds at race pace six times which was also slower.  At the end we did a half mile cool down.

We did the tree of life for a premeet really easy which was a lot of fun.  After that we did 6 striders.  I felt really crappy even though it was a premeet.

We warmed up doing part of the course so we wouldn't get lost which was a little under 2 miles.

I was pretty nervous because we were going against Ogden for the first time and I didn't know what to expect. Right before we were about to start, Coach was talking to Lauren and me about how Katelyn and Riley are going to go hard.  I was pretty pumped right after he told us that.  When we started, I felt really good, so I got all the way in the front.  I just didn't feel like I was going hard enough.  The first half mile I was in front of everybody which to me was CRAZY!  After two girls passed me I didn't feel as crazy which was good.  My first mile was around 6:11 which was dang fast.  I was in third for quite a while until an Ogden girl passed me and I hung on her almost the entire time.  Towards the very end she began to go the wrong way and I would have felt really bad if I beat her just because she was going the wrong way, so I was telling her "wrong way!" I feel like I pretty much let her pass me after that, then another Ogden girl passed me.  At the very end I was trying to sprint to possible pass them, but I didn't have the energy.  I wish I didn't let them pass me, but I wasn't thinking much.

We beat Ogden, still which was pretty good and I think our team has a pretty good chance for region.

At early morning practice, everybody had already started and I needed to catch up to the girls.  I was bundled up a ton because it was cold outside.  I finally caught up to them a little past a mile and a half and went pretty easy the rest of the way.  I ended up taking off one of my shirts because I was so hot.  I had a lot of fun and that was the funnest early morning practice I've had yet because I felt good, and had a lot of time to change afterwards.

We did a mile warm up to Mack Park.  I didn't really want to go there, but it turned out I felt really good durning my run so in the end I was happy we went there.  We did 2 1000s at I pace with a 3 minute recovery which for us were right on and felt really good.  Then we did 4 400s at R pace with a 400 recovery in between.  They were really nice and also right on.  Finally we did 4 200s at R pace.  A huge group of girls were doing them with us for the first one, so we split up because it was really tough with so many people to get the perfect time.  In between those we had a 200 recovery. Then we cooled down a mile.  I felt super good and had a really good day which was really nice.

I did five pretty slow miles at 8:30 pace.  I should have done more, but I did them earlier in the morning and it was cold.  At one point Conner came up behind me and I heard hime, but I didn't know he was so close, and he scared me pretty well.  I thought it was funny.  After 2 miles, my iPod ran out of battery, so I ran musicless, but it was still fun.