How many more miles coach?

What I learned through my first ten miler of the summer. I should NEVER skip practice in the morning. Even though today I totally needed it; breathing was super hard all night and I kept being woken up because of my coughing. So I went at around 8:15pm and didn't get home until it was dark. That sure made me speed up toward the end. I HATE the dark!

Today I went to xc practice at the peace gardens. I ran with the front group for about a mile and a half, then sat back with Gavin for another mile. We did three minutes on, five minutes off. The on hurt soooooooooooo bad! My airway closed up super quick. Stupid vocal chords. After two sets of that, we turned around and went back. Coming back wasn't too hard. Since it was an easy pace for most of it my airway opened back up some. And it was nice having someone to talk to. heh. When I got back I did my crunches and pushups. Then saw Abigail and went running with her some. Then as a team we all did step ups and arm swings for a minute each? I don't remember what time Bill said. When I got home I remembered Bill's policy (more of punishment) if you don't have your watch with you. Two extra miles. So I did them, giving me eight miles.

 Official name change. I feel slightly sad, but no one recognized me! My name is DELANEY

Today was the scavenger hunt! I was in a group with literally ALL the girls. Natalie, Jessie, Suzette, Abigail, Camille, Sarah, Michelle, Travis (who is a boy), Saige and me! We had to run to all these places and get pictures or something else. When we went to get a picture of bacon I realized that I REALLY want bacon. Like I REALLY REALLY REALLY want bacon. I feel so bacon deprived. We finished LAST! woo!!! MY tooshie hurts from sliding down the skate park bowl with Sam. I should put that on my running accomplishments! I'm gonna do extra miles later if vocal chord therapy doesn't kill me.

Later on at Vocal Chord therapy, my doctor had me run on the treadmill and concentrate on how I breathe, then learn a different way of breathing. Took a while, but I got four miles in! 

The Good: Cute Boys. The Bad: Rattlesnake Gulch. The Ugly: Teaching myself to breathe. Today we were running on pipeline. I was just running at a fine pace when I see the brighton team coming up. Their boys were golly gosh darn CUTE, but FAST! So I went with them. It felt nice to go faster because I loosened up my stride more. At about the overlook I lost them. I kept running to rattlesnake gulch. About to there a guy from the team of cuties ran by me. He said 'nice shirt'. We were both wearing footlocker shirts! How adorable is that? So I ran with him for a little longer and then turned around. Going back was a toughie because my airway was super tight. I got back and ran a bit more with Patrick, giving me eight.

Today we went to Liberty for speed. I wore my xc uniform cause I knew since we started at EIGHT it was going to be super hot! We did a lap warmup, two 800's and cooldown to finish 5 miles. My chest was really sore and tight from trying to teach myself how to breathe yesterday. Today I tried the same excersises! They STINK! My times on the 800's were 3:26 and 3:33. They're better than they were last year at this time so I should be happy about that right? But I still feel extremely inadaquite. Why do I do this again? Oh yeah, cause its fun. Oh well, its just a bad day that I need to get through.

Today I ran down to Sugarhouse, did two BIG laps and went home. I took it slow because teaching yourself how to breathe has really effected me the past couple days. I made sure I went early so the heat wouldn't effect me badly. Then later I was walking down to sugarhouse to get a book and saw Chris doing laps. He was sure haulin!