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Our coach gave us a track workout to do which I was really excited about because I love track workouts. The workout was 400,800, 1200, 1600, 1200, 800, 400. We were going to run on our track, but because our school was having soccer tryouts and they were running on the track, we went to Logan to run. We warmed up for a mile then started. My pace was in the high 4's and low 5's for each of the sets. Around the 1600 interval I could tell that a seam in my right spike was digging into the bottom of my foot. I usually don't run a ton of miles at one time in these spikes but after a while it was killing. I kept running and it ended up putting a nasty hole in my foot. Whatever. But anyways ended up seeing Cameron and Jack near the end. Cameron ran part of my 800 with me which was cool. On my last 400 my split was 60.4.. Not bad after running 6 hard miles. Cooled down to 7 barefoot which really hurt because of that hole in my foot. Idk why I did that? Really excited for track to start.

Today's workout was an 8 mile progressive run starting at 6:45 and speeding up by 15 seconds every mile so our last mile would be 5 flat. Hayden and I met at first dam and ran up towards USU. Our first mile was a little slow because of the huge hill that we have to run up to get to the university. The first 4 miles felt decent, but both of our legs were dead from yesterday and running with spikes for as long as we didn't help at all. It was quite clear with how we were feeling that hitting those low 5's were going to be really hard but we both tried to push hard despite our sore legs. Our last 4 miles were a little above or a below 5:30. Still was a killer workout and I can definitely feel it in my legs. We cooled down for a mile to get 9. Am I glad to be done with that one. 

My legs are so tired and I'm way fatigued. To my luck we had a hard hill workout planned so yay. Hayden and I met in Providence to a 30, 60, 90, 120 seconds hill repeats on the Center street hill. We got a mile warm up and then started. I pushed the hill hard every set, then jogged to the bottom where we didn't get a rest then started again. By the time the 2 minute interval came around I was already sucking for wind. I was dead but talked to myself and asked myself how good I wanted to be. I got .30 for distance and barley passed the mark that I always shoot for. We then ran to Don's and visited with him for a couple minutes. We needed to get about 6 for mileage so we drove down to Zollinger park to cool down. It was hot. I was tired. It sucked. I love to run. 

Finally after a long hard week of difficult runs and sore muscles we had a recovery run. This was the first day of track which is awesome! Our coaches have really wanted us distance runners to participate in team warm-ups which took forever because it was the first day. Ended up doing 5 really easy miles around Hyrum which still really hurt my legs. I got to run in my new Adidas Ultra Boost which I really like. Got back to the school and did a barefoot mile on the turf. We have a really hard workout planned for tomorrow so I'm really looking forward to that.

Don was able to come out to mountain crest and coach us during our workout so that was good to see him. Our workout was four 1 mile intervals at two mile pace, then a 400 meter jog between each. I could already tell that going that fast was going to be tough because this week has just been killer on my legs. My first mile was 4:52, but after that mile it was quite apparent that hitting my 2 mile pace wasn't going to happen. My next 2 mile were low 5's, and my last mile was in 5:10. I hurt but I'm glad that it was a good workout. Don told us that he didn't expect us to get hit the times right on because of the hard workouts that he was giving earlier in the week. Cooled down to 6.5..

This morning Hayden and I went on an easy 10 mile recovery run starting in Providence. We ran past 1st dam and up the hill to USU looping back to 4th north and back to Providence. My calves were really sore from yesterday and I didn't have very much energy. Average pace was 7:42 which was nice because I haven't ran that slow in a long time.