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am: 1 mile in 6:45 for aerobics in the morning.

pm: 7 mile at a moderate pace. Don wants to make sure I am feeling a hundred again before I start doing some fast track workouts. Did upper turkey sheds to McDonald's loop. Instead of turning back to the school I kept going down main street in Hyrum. I've been missing cross country so I turned at the cemetery and ran down cemetery hill. Ran down the road on part of our home course then back up the other side of the cemetery. Got back to the school and finished with a barefoot mile on the turf. Feeling better everyday, so that is good.

Don gave me a ladder workout to do on the track, It was 200, 400, 600, 800, 800, 600, 400, 200. I between every interval you would do an active recovery jog of half the distance of what you just ran. I haven't worn my Nike Victory spikes that much so I decided to do the workout in them even though I knew it was going to kill my calves. I warmed up for a mile to Canyon elementary then started. To be honest most of it was a blur. Everything just seemed to go by so quick. I was feeling pretty tired during the whole workout which explained my need for a nap later that day. I could just remember the last 400 and 200 hurting way bad in my calves. It was a pretty decent workout. I definitley could have ran a lot better but I guess I'm just getting back into the flow of things after not running all last week. Cooled down for 2 miles with Eric out to the turkey sheds.  

My calves are pretty darn sore so it definitely made this run really fun. Don told us to do an 8 mile progression run starting at 7 minute mile pace and then go down by 10 seconds every mile. In my head I was thinking that this was going to be pretty easy because he has had us do much harder progression runs. Starting at 7 minute mile pace sounded pretty easy. Nah. My calves were shredded and the pain didn't leave my legs the whole run. Hayden, Trey, and Eric all came along and we ran hollow road. At the top of the Nibley Dip hill I had to stop for a couple minutes to catch my breath because I felt like I was dying. Hayden and I pushed the hill pretty hard. We ended up having to run past Mountain Crest and past Canyon elementary and back to get 8 miles. The last mile at 5:50 pace actually felt a lot better than most of the other miles which was pretty weird. Maybe I was just excited to be finished. This is the kind of run that I am so glad to be done with. Cooled down on the turf barefoot to 9 miles. After Hayden, Eric, Joe (yes, I stopped and got joe) and I went to the Logan track meet just to watch. Cameron did pretty good in the 800 so good job to him. I need a protein shakkke. Peace.  

Time trials again, but this time it was different. My time would be my qualifying time that my coach put me under for our first invitational. I'm actually not going to go off on this because it makes me furious for a couple reasons. I only got a half mile warm up then ran a 3200. Finished and did upper turkey sheds with Eric to finish with 6 miles. I came home and took a nap then ran another mile. 

Hill repeats with Eric today. Did a mile warm up then started. We did 30, 60, 90, 120 seconds repeats on the center street hill in Providence. The first 2 intervals weren't very bad but the 90 and 120 second intervals sucked. I've had some pretty good workouts all week long and so I wasn't doing this workout on fresh legs. On the two minute interval I got to the top of the hill and past the sewer on the road that I always try pass. Got a pretty good workout, but this is one of the easier hill workouts that our coach gave us. Cooled down to Von Baer park and found some cool trails that I never knew were there. Finished at 6. Probably should've gone more. Oops.

At about 3:30 I finally got enough motivation to go run. Drove to Zollinger Park in Providence and head towards cliff side. I got some pretty good hills in this run, but I wasn't pushing them or anything. Today was supposed to be a pretty easy day. Once I got to cliff side I ran to 1st dam then up the hill to USU. I suprisingly wasn't very sore and was feeling pretty good. On the way back to Zollinger I picked up the pace just a little bit. Average mile pace was 7:09. Can't wait for this next week because I got a lot of really good workouts planned. I don't have a meet yet until April 9th so I don't have to taper for anything soon.