Train insane or remain the same

50 + strides

First day of official practice! The day came. I am a collegiate athlete! I love the team that we have up here at Weber, the guys are a lot of fun and I can tell we are gonna have a great time together.  Easy run today on pipeline to the viewpoint and back. It got us back just a little before 50 so we finished up on the turf. Afterwards we did 6 barefoot strides. 

Today we got all of our shoes!!! The Solar Glides for the trainers, the adios for flats, and avantis for spikes. Also got some different clothes #christmas 

2x800,4x400/ 1x800, 3x400 on the grass field. 

Warm up on the normal path and then through campus to the grass field. Workout was the one above, with a 5ish minute break in between the two sets. Rest was slow jog for half the distance of what you just ran. Goals were 2:34ish and 74's. 3 groups. I was in group three. Our pacing was speradic, understandable with most of our group being RM's. We started too fast on the first 8 and then over adjusted haha. 8's were a tad slow. 4's a tad quick. I felt like my stride was smooth and I wasn't over forcing it. Wasn't feeling the greatest on the wa, maybe from not rolling out and not stretching too much yesterday but I felt good during the workout. Everybody did the same first set but then second set was modified. After it was all done, didn't feel too tired so that was good. Some barefoot on the grass and then cooldown to the Dee and back.   

50 ish minutes - Upper - Strides 

Easy fiddy on Upper. Its pretty good. I like that we are close to the mountains cuz we never ran trails at Lehi lol. Barefoot striders always feeling good. Calves were sore. Camp later today, tomorrow, and Wednesday!!

I am grateful to be a college athlete. 

AM: Camp was tooooo sick. Didn't know like any of the girls team and wasn't very close to some of the guys on the team but now after camp we all feel like total homies. 

As usual at camp on Thursday we did the tempo run. This one was a lot more fun than the one I did last week. We warmed up up the road 3 miles and then tempoed down 3, 90ish seconds rest and 1 mile tempo back up. Conditions were perfect. Goals were 5:20 avg or 16:00. We started and not long into it I was running pretty much alone cuz Tracen was going about 5 seconds under pace and Jameson, Russell were going 5 seconds over. First mile 5:18-19, Second mile 10:41. I was feeling great and was super hyped that I was running right on pace. During the last mile, Adam came back to me and we started working together. I sped up a little bit and finished at 15:54. It was a lot of fun. I wasn't necessarily looking forward to another mile tempo, up the road with only 90ish seconds rest. Right as I was starting to think about how it might go over, Coach said that he wasn't planning on having me and some other guys do it, he just didn't tell us before so that we wouldn't have pushed the last mile. 

Road in the car up to see the guys mile, cooled down the mile back and then a lil more to 8.23 for the morning.  

PM:At 4 we did 10 minutes just to loosen up a lil and then did some range of motion, core, and strength work. Did a 3:30 plank. During the 10 minutes I had this pain right below my ankle bone on my right foot that I have never felt before. It wasn't there during the tempo but was uncomfortable in the pm. 

Lots of volleyball. That was definitely the best part of camp. We were going soooo hard it was lit. 

40 minutes easy on this nice dirt trail. Foot felt fine, no pain so that was good. 

76 ish minutes / Pine View Reservoir 

Nice run at PV to cap off a good week. First few miles were on trail, we took a wrong turn. Then you pop out and go onto the road and it picked up there. Turned around. It was a good time. Tried to keep the heart beat up but not too much and not too low. Very hungry by the end. Delicious bagels and chocolate milk after. Good times with the homies. I love our team.