I Eat PAIN-cakes for Breakfast

Woke up late this morning and was almost late to practice. The team did a mile warm up and dynamics and then the coaches had us do the five mile loop. Jacia, Reagen and I added on kids canal to get in the extra mileage. We maintained a good pace and then surged at the end. That really hurt. Mile cool down with them and McKenna after.

Roadkill Statistics:

Birds-1   Cats-0   Prairie Dogs-1   Flying Sharks-1   Rabbits-1

S/O to Kenny for catching us and getting some fast surges in and S/O to Kedric for also killing it today. 

Today a group of us went and ran Dino Tracks. That was pretty fun. We spent some time cliff jumping. I didn't jump because I was scared. It's not the height or the fall, but it's the impact. When I swam, I used to belly flop instead of diving. I hate that feeling and I'm afraid of doing some major belly flop. It would really hurt to from a cliff. Anyways, super fun run.

Roadkill Statistics:

Lots of rabbits. Too many rabbits. 

Today was a speed day. After the usual warm up, we did a fartlek run. It was 5 hard 5 easy, 4 hard 4 easy, and so on all the way down to one. Jacia, Reagen, and I decided to stay on the grass to practice pacing since the majority of our races will be on grass. Cool down dynamics after.

Roadkill Statistics:

We were mainly in the park so there was no roadkill to count. 

Woke up and ran to the park this morning. I felt like getting a few more miles today since its core and we don't usually get a lot of mileage on core days. Almost no one showed up for practice. Counting myself there was literally four people. We ran a mile warmup, did some core and then did the canal root. It was an overall easy day. Really, really looking forward to the seventy minute run tomorrow... We saw Pokemon go dude today. He has been very diligent in taking his dog out everyday for the past two weeks for a walk. 

Roadkill Statistics:

Birds-1   Cats-0   Prairie Dogs-2   Flying Sharks-0   Rabbits-1

Today was another seventy minute run. After the normal warm up, everyone set out. Kedric and Talon joined Jacia, Reagen, and I today. We ended up getting about 8.5 miles in at an 8:26 average pace. All of the girls were really happy. That's faster than we've ever run this before. I think it helped to have a new course. Running the same thing all the time sort of sucks. We did a half mile cool down after. Jacia, Reagen, and I went and dipped our feet in the canal. The water was extremely cold. I'm surprised my feet didn't freeze into giant ice blocks like in cartoons. All three of us are really looking forward to the USU cross country camp next week. I think it'll be really fun, especially since McKenna and Kyrie are coming also.  I saw this snake today and I almost screamed out loud. I hate snakes. 

Roadkill Statistics:

Birds-1   Cats-0   Prairie Dogs-2   Flying Sharks-0   Rabbits-2   My legs-2