just for the run of it

wu then ran the kicker. started out kinda fast but we hadn't hit the hills yet so it was fine. handled the first little up hills alright but had a little bit of a mental block about halfway through. made it up the bigger hill and collin just kept telling me i needed to catch watson. with probably like 50m left i reached her and then we both finished strong with a 10:07. huge shoutout to collin and camden for pacing and motivating me and also to watson as well. i felt good about having a strong finish, and a new pr. ran over to skyridge except felt like i couldn't breathe for a few minutes so that was ruff 🐶 did a little bit of grass running. also rolled down a hill, but got pretty dizzy so bad idea. said hi to jhoan and butters. headed back to finish up mileage. abs hips and ice bath. 

nice easy recovery today. went on a new road that id probably call the back country road. shoutout to jamie for coming with us! 7:59 ap. did abs hip and ice bath then went to the hinckleys who made us a delicious breakfast. 

decided to do medium mileage today and low tomorrow, because tomorrow im not gonna have a ton of time to run. ran to practice which was 2.5 then we did a 1.5 wu to the skyridge track. did a few strides then up to the line for the 6 min test. felt like it was fast but alright, came in around 5:45-5:50 for the 1600m mark then got 1655m. afterwards i wasn't too tired so i knew i had more in me, but this is defintely a workout i haven't done too often, so maybe as i get more used to it, it'll get easier to push myself. did a cool down on the grass while the guys went and cheered them on. ran back but about the last half mile my stomach started feeling really tight and it was hard to keep going. not really sure what it was but the pain subsided a few minutes after i finished. did abs hips and ice bath.

after a long flight we finally got into london and got to our hotel. hit up some tourist sites like the london eye and big ben and such. took forever to get back to our hotel though so ended up running at midnight. was just on the treadmill at about 8:20 ap. felt long but glad my legs loosened up after sitting so much today.

got on the trusty treadmill and did an easy 1.5 mile wu. started on my steady state run. it was 3.5 miles and i kept a 6:40 ap. it got harder the last mile but everytime i started thinking negatively, i sped up. went outside and did a 2 mile cool down with my sister and saw the nice charming suburbs of london.

ended up running pretty late again which isn't my fave and 9 is a lot on the treadmill. actually did abs and hips tho lol. 8:25 ap.