Today since Dakota told me that practice started at 9:30 instead of 7:30, I got to sleep in. When in fact workout actually started at 7:30 so I arrived at Sunnyside park when everyone was leaving. When I got home I went for my own run, a short run at that because tonight is the Alumni run deciding who is going to be on Varsity for Saturdays race. So I started at my house, ran down to Sugarhouse Park. Went out one mile and stopped at the mile mark and did 10 strides that were like .08 of a mile. Sometimes more sometimes less. For my recovery for those, I walked around the tree two times. Then I ran home and when I got home I decided to add .25 of a mile to make it an even 3 miles. Alumni run here I come! http://connect.garmin.com/activity/107550065 PM: Today was the alumni run and the time trial to determine our first Varsity Team to show east for the first race on Saturday. So Annie and I went out for a mile and a half warm up, then we all as a sort of team did a stretching circle. Then we went down and jogged to the starting line. Since there was some rugby games going on we had to change the course a bit, change the starting line. So we all lined up and we started. I started out fast because I knew if I wanted to make Varsity I would need to get a good position from the beginning. So I was in a group with Dakota, Dylan, Me, Natalie, Voung, and Gio. I knew from then that I was in the top seven because Scott and Tomy were the only ones ahead of us. So I got ahead of the group but Dakota started to pull away and Natalie went with him. So Gio and Voung and I started to pick up the pace. Our first mile was 6:35. That was near my goal pace of 6:30 so I was proud of that. Then Voung started to pick up the pace with Dylan. Gio started to fall behind so I picked up the pace because I knew he could out kick me. So we were going around the pond and I counted my position and I was in fifth. So we go up the hill and Scott passes me. Bringing me to sixth place. Dylan at this point was about 10 feet away from me and didn't get any farther ahead than that the rest of the race. When we got to the top of the final hill I just kicked it in, with everything that I had left and I made Varsity!!!!!! I got sixth!! My overall time was a 17:36. Then I did a way short cooldown because I was feeling way sick, I did about a mile after the announcements. Warmup http://connect.garmin.com/activity/107633465 Race http://connect.garmin.com/activity/107633467
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