Alli's running blog

Today we had 45 minutes with 3 laps around the dirt mile at with faster pace each one. This was like the hardest run. The last half of the last lap I really wanted to quit but I'm glad at myself cause I stayed in there and pushed better than I usually do. I really want to work on my mentality this season especially this summer because I'm gonna need it if I want to still be varsity. What I've really been focusing on (I'm not sure if it's good or bad that I'm pushing myself for this) but I really want to be varsity for bob firman. If I get left out of that because I didn't work hard enough I will be pi*sed I just know it so every run so far when things get tough I've been trying to think about how sad I would be if I didn't get to go and that usually snaps me back into working hard. On the way back we found some cute disgusting little ponds & jacey fell in. Holt ran with us which was different but good. Although I couldn't hear him most the time cause he was always on my left side and I was too scared to tell him I really couldn't hear a word he was saying. Altogether is really was a super fun, good run.

also shoutout to presto cause it's his birthday!!

15 min barefoot, striders, 15 min barefoot. way good run I love running barefoot. Ran in the group but mainly was like talking to rylee. I love that girl. Kids club after, that was a blast. Roberts was too cool to show up to practice again. I have a dream that someday he'll come. 

50 min up the parkway. Really solid run even though we only had like 4 people there haha. Me & caroline led the way up the first hill thing like before the freeway and we didn't realize we were actually going a real good pace except I don't know what it was exactly. Roberts is back yay!! And I seriously cannot wait for practice tomorrow I don't even know why. 

Easy 30 with striders after. I've just been feeling so good this entire week! I actually kind of like being low in numbers because I've gotten to know people that I hardly ever talk to.

35 min with 3x3 minute fartleks w/ 3 minute recovery. Really solid run. I felt super good even though it was hard. We tried to get about mid 7's each fartlek cause coach said "NOT TOO HARD". Lots more girls there today even though we're still missing some. Now off to Top of Zion with the team. Yayayayay

TOP OF ZION HALF RELAY okay okay okay it was extremely fun. we had to wake up at 1 am to start our running so we had 3 hours of sleep hahaha. We ran in pairs cause we had 2 teams and running at night was actually the scariest thing I thought I was gonna get kidnapped the entire time. I ran with Josie and we were the 2nd leg. We had 6.5 miles straight uphill the entire time. It was so hard hahah. We ran at like 2 and finished at about 3ish and let me tell ya that was the scariest run. So then everyone else ran and then me and bos had to run again this time only 5 miles with a little uphill and some downhill. It wasn't bad. THEN everyone else ran then we ran again only we had to run 7.5 miles pretty much completely downhill which would have been the easiest run ever but we were so dang tired. Although we did run between a 6:50-7:10 pace the entire time so yay for us. We got 2nd overall and it was a lovely trip!