Real Men Wear Short Shorts!!

Well Today we had a workout in the rain!!! it was raining slightly when we went up to the track and was told to do 800m warm up. Then the fun began, like usual i'm up front by myself, pushing myself cause Tyler was doing a different workout and Dustin was taking an off day. It wasn't too bad running by myself again it was just harder to push. But i did it!! so we did 800m warmup and then began static stretching and agilities. Me being me completely forgot to wash off the INDIA written on my left calf and the SH for Susannah Hurst on my right calve  :P (i don't mind you initials staying there :D made my right hamstring feel really good while running!) so everyone was wondering why in the world did i have those written on my calves. and what did SH stand for. well i wouldn't tell them and then Jace and a few other people did and i got really embarressed and they started teasing me for it!! ha ha ha i love our team :D ok sooo our work out today was yes from the MRS. EVIL PAXTON!!! dun dun dun!!! ha ha ha it was 3x (800, 400, 200, 200) my splits for each set went, 2:21. 71, 34, 34. second set. 2:20 69, 33, 34. and then last 2:21, 67, 32, 28. it actually was a pretty hard work out, definately challenging! but i was feeling drained really bad, i don't know why but i wasn't feeling not motivated at all to be running, although i had been looking forward to it from a day of literally testing for every single class (4 total) but by the end of the work out i was fighting, pushing, reaching for that 67 and trying to keep my 800's consistant! i did! i was basically speeding up each time too! i'm starting to get smarter with my start to, instead of going way fast, i slow it down a little and then pick it up and i felt that it got me through the workout! it had been raining most of the time, pretty lightly most of the way through which felt pretty darn nice! then when Jace, Jason and I were on our last set is when it really started to rain! it felt way nice and we were making our hair go crazy!! :P once we were done (and we finished before the sprinters for once in the decade!!! don't know how that happened!) ha ha so Jace and i cooled down for a mile and while we were going down the hill i decided to slide down it surfer style which was fun! Ice bath time!!! it was and this time a ton of kids wanted to do them (usually only three or four, but this time about 6 or 7) it was about 50 degrees when i got in and we added more ice but since Big Ben decided to go all the way in, Hone and I had to add more water cause we had to let some out when Ben was in. I stayed in for about 17 minutes and it felt soooooooooo nice afterwards!! my hamstrings are feeling great!!! AND I PROMISE YOU SUSANNAH I WON'T INJURE THEM!!!! :D :D <3

Today was a very easy run (Nathan Baker can agree) we weren't trying at all, just super easy and sorta longish, it was fun cause we were just talking and everything and i was trying to purswade Dustin (White Rice) (Not India (Brown Rice) ha ha ha anyways, i'm trying to get him to run cross country next year instead of football (BOOOOO). and i was passing on my wisdom as a senior and all my experience of my four years of running Cross Country to them, and how important it is for them to get miles in the summer, and stuff like that!! it was pretty fun! i'm really gonna miss High School Running!! i'm gonna train with them in the summer though!! and i also told them what keeps me motivated too!! i feel like a mentor!! after we were done running Paxton had us do abs and it was painful like usual mostly cause people wouldn't stop cheating so she would add time on!! 

Ok so today was my birthday and it started out amazing!! i was really excited for the track meet! just totally ready to PR my mile and everything! well do to my stupidity and didn't turn in my XC shorts (which are amazing and awesome) Paxton said she i couldn't run and that she was gonna get mean and give me a hard workout! (i've never seen here get mean or mad before so it scared me.....literally i'm sooooo turning the shorts in cause i don't want to go through hell with her) so i totally broke down cause i was ready for this meet and i tried explaining to her about how those are really the only shorts i could wear, and i don't have any other good ones like them, and the ones i was wearing i'd been talked to about multiple times about covering up and stuff and that i couldn't wear them, and the new shorts i just bought for 20 bucks from chili don't even fit which is a waste so now i'm stuck in my awesome extremely talked about good or bad short shorts (I swear i'm the only one on the team who gets picked on for this kind of crap i.e. short shorts, shaved legs, etc...) so i was totally bummed and pissed off about not being able to run the race that ment sooooo much to me. Paxton wanted me to do a 20 minute tempo run as hard as i could, i'm guessing she lessened it cause it was my B-Day i could totally tell she was gonna say 30min (which would have sucked!!) so i was warming up for that in circles waiting for Susannah to show up, and when she did i went up and i talked to her and her mom about what we were going to do, and i told her that i had to run 20 min thats all and i'll be back so she decided to wait for me, and i went on my way. I made my way through a lot of sub divisions and actually ran into Susannah while zig zagging back and forth to the main road, i really picked it up and pushed it hard on this. I eventually got back to the car, and we grabbed the Cupcakes (which were AMAZING!!) and Susannah and i went for a cool down/very prolonged run, i showed her the Clearfield Cross Country course and we played around on the kids track that was painted on the ground! then we went and sat next to a tree and just talked and laughed and hung out and stretched!! it was sooo much fun to spend some time with her, we eventually made it back to the track meet and cheered on some of the race. and somehow only two Cupcakes were missing!! so i grabbed one and then i told the distance runners and some other kids that they could have one. they all loved them! we sat and talked and took some pictures and watched the meet some more and sadly Susannah had to leave :( but i'll see her soon! were gonna go run Pipeline!! way excited for that! when the boys 3200 came around a little bit after she left, India Dustin was running it soooo slow it was way funny and we were cheering him on and stuff! i eventually went for another run with Dustin and a little longer by myself in an attempt to find a restroom. we left the meet happy and ready to go home, Paxton told the bus driver that it was my birthday so he annoucced it on the intercom and everyone freaked out screaming and singing! i was laughing sooo hard and then they teased me some more about Susannah! overall it was an amazing running day and i was able to vent out my anger and frustration into my workout and it worked great! sooooo glad i got to run with Susannah again! I LOVE RUNNING SOOOOOOO MUCH!!! 

Well it seemed like it was going to rain pretty good cause the thunder and rain were shaking the entire building and you could hear the pattering of the rain too! Anyways so I was feeling like i was gonna throw up and everything and i had noooo idea if i could make it through the day. yet alone even do a 5 mile easy run without throwing up everything! but we went up to the track and i was wearing my Boston Marathon Jacket from 1999 (It's totally awesome) cause of the rain. Paxton told me to lead Drills and stuff, so i lined everyone up and we started! ha ha i also turned in my Cross Country Shorts =( to Chili and then i helped him email a few coaches regarding my interest in their schools and running for them. so after we warmed up, Jace and i ran around the baseball field for 40 minutes talking about everything! ha ha ha it was pretty fun and he gave me some more teasing sessions about you Susannah ha ha ha, i totally defended you by saying what you said on facebook! We got pretty muddy cause the baseball field has the worst drainage problem in the entire world!! so after we went inside and streched and we were feeling pretty sick so we left without doing abs and so we could get some sleep and feel better! running today really got some stress out even though a lot of the day was really lazy!

Well I hurried down to the locker room to get changed and head up to the track because it was such and amazing day!! It was soooo warm and beautiful outside i just had to hurry! (plus perfect short tanning time! ha ha ha XD) So we did our two laps for warm up, and then we started agilities. I asked Nathan if he know what the workout was cause i had no idea and hadn't talked to Paxton all day except for when she told me to go to class cause i was lollygaging to debate :P So after all that we started the work out, this had to be probably the hardest work out she has given me. Originally I was suppose to do 3x (4x200, 1000, 2x200) but she knows 200's are too explosive on my hamstring cause they are too short so my work out was 3x (2x400, 1000, 400) not too bad i thought cause i've done one exactly like this before...... only this time i would be going faster... a lot faster!! my splits were: 69, 68, 3:11, 66 for the first set, 69, 68, 3:11, 67, for the second set and finally: 68, 68, 3:08, 65!!! it was insane! sooooo hard and intense! i was feeling like i was a little slower on the 400's cause i should be hitting 67-68 at this point, but then again i was running by myself and i'm recovering from being sick so that could be it but it really was harder than the last one cause it was at a faster pace! i feel sooooo accomplished though!! 4:30 mile here i come!! :D so after i went down and stretched with Ryan and Dustin (White rice, not India) and Ryan was complaining about the sprinters workout (ok this totally proves that Distance Runners are awesome and beasts!! Go Us!!! :D ok so he's a sprinter and he said that they only did 4 200 meeter runs and stuff and he felt like he wasn't being pushed or challenged enough so he went and talk to Paxton to see if he could do anything, and she had him run 400's with Tyler who was doing a 800 meter runners workout. and he totally hates the sprinters workouts cause they are too easy for him (and keep in mind Ryan ran Cross Country) and so now he's starting to do our workouts and stuff, it's pretty funny! Sprinters don't know what we are made of!! ha ha i decided to take an icebath and i asked White Rice if he wanted to, and he said he'd never taken one before but would like to try it! ha ha ha you should have seen him shiver! sooooooooo funny, i hope in and it didn't seem very cold and it was 54 degrees!! we took one for 15 minutes and then i went to get changed in the locker room. GOT SOME GOSSNER MILK FROM LEES!!! YUMMY!!! BEST STUFF EVER!! overall very hard and good workout! i'm definately sore and looking forward to a fun 10 mile or so run with Susannah Hurst tomorrow morning and then breakfast and what ever we make up after that!!!! I'm soooo happy right now :D 

Ok today was absolutely amazing!! =D woke up around 7 and left for Salt Lake City! Went to Susannahs house and surprised her with some flowers! and She said that we were gonna run Pipeline, so we headed up to the adventure, and eventually got to the trail head. This Trail was totally amazing!! it was about 4.7 miles to the end where we had the most beautiful view of the Salt Lake Valley! We were on top of the world, on top of a pipe, together! :D ha ha i think Susannahs the only one whose gonna get  that! it was an amazing 10 mile run and was way beautiful. the Water we felt was way cold! after we went to Eggs in the City! The two best things ever!! Breakfast and Running!! I had an amazing rest of the Day with Susannah and the activities and everything was awesome!! I can't wait till she comes up to my house and run's in the OV!!!