Trial of Miles, Miles of Trials

Distance run at 7:00 pace to Willow Park and back. It was freezing and windy and snowy but fun once we turned around. Went a lil over but no worries. On the way home my dad told me a quote "there's no such thing as bad weather, only weak minds" so that's going to be my new motto on days like this haha

1 mile warmup and then a mile of speed changes on the turf. They've gotten pretty annoying cuz no one actually does them at 5K pace which is kinda the point haha oh well their problem. 5.5 mile cool down to the park after the new road, did some laps around the grass and found a cool little trail. Idk where it goes tho cuz I didn't have enough mileage. Was going back and this elementary kid threw a pine cone at me. I was gonna go ninja on him but I didn't want to hurt the little guy lol 

Distance run at 7:00 pace. Saw this huge flock of millions of birds migrating so that was epic. Pretty pumped for the next couple days.

5.5 at 7:10 pace. Stopped somewhere in AZ and ran around a golf course. Took our shirts off and it felt weird and hot haha

Rab the course then went back and did the last 800 at 5K pace. Did some strides, ate dinner, and listened to the Nike athlete 

Got to the course and watched the girls in the large school open race. Shout out to Guppy for winning it and all the girls for getting fourth! Warmed up a mile and a half and then went to the starting line. Introductions and the national anthem and we were off. First mile was around 4:58 and hit the 2 mile in around 10 minutes. Felt pretty good and tried to keep passing people. Got out kicked by Joe right at the end which has really started to get disappointing so that's something I need to work on. Team got 8th which wasn't what we were hoping for but we did what we could. Shout out to Lone Peak for representing our region well and getting third in a very close race. They crushed it and they deserve to go to NXN with the way they've raced this season.

After the race I decided I'm going to be done for the season. It's been a long, hard 6 months of training and my body needs recovery. I want to have a killer track season so until then I'll just be cross training and running some easy miles here and there.