Cool Runnings

Loved the hike. Minus the injuries--that sunburn surprised me after 2 weeks at cloudy sea level! Hahaha no not that injury. Anyway, then after Drivers Ed (which I almost made it to in time!) I went shoe shopping. I ran on the tredmill a couple of times. That's my excuse for this post.

Pwned Puke Hill. 'nuff said really.... well... I was the second one up the hill proper. Then I fell behind when we started up again after the look out. My knee started bothering me again at about 3, 3.5 miles. I just ran through it and all of the sudden, just after the turn around I felt great. On the way back I passed RJ, Nathaniel, Vougn (is that how you spell it?) Geo, and almost caught Miss Hurst. (Well technically I beat her to the road, but she had a good 50-70 meters on me when she stopped.)

Thanks to my wraps my knees survived. And thanks to my guardian angels I survived (I made the last 1.5 miles in about 10 minutes. Going down a gravely hill, few sane people would call that safe.) And thanks to ... yeah I can't think of any more.

 On a strange aside, I've lost almost 6lbs since returning from Sweden... don't know how that happens.

Bryson and I tried to keep up with Ben.... that was terrible. We did 100m fast/slow etc for 2 miles. I'm not sure if it was more. I lost track after 6 or 7 laps. All I know is what Ben's garmin said when we finished and that he did about 600m more than me.

First day of college. This is a back entry so I'll be short. We went from the HBLL around Helaman and the track north until we could turn east and go to the temple. We held a pretty fast pace the whole way and I was back in under 40 minutes (warm up stretch run cool down.) 

So college. Yeah. I thought with a few extra minutes this morning I'd record my runs. Today I went with Bryson around campus. I realized about 5 minutes in that I'd forgotten to take my Ibuprofin and that my knee would kill if we went 5 or 6 miles. So we decided to do some fartlek-y stuff. How it went was I'd go at a fast pace for 2-4 blocks then jog til Bryson caught up (usually about 15 seconds) then we'd go the pace he caught up at for about another 30-45 before starting out again. It was really hard. Especially the last sprint up the staircase of doom my the smith fieldhouse. But we made it. And warm up and cool down aside we went like 2.5 miles in probably under 18 minutes. So I was pleased.