swim, ride, run

Short swim before school with the high school team this morning.

After school, HS ride on the BST, and went down Bobsled for the first time, which was really fun! First HS race this Saturday in Soldier Hollow!

After the ride, went for a short run. It's been a wimpy week of running.

First NICA high school mountain bike race today in Soldier Hollow. The league has grown so huge -- today, the place was packed with 660 racers. Dug deep today and it hurt a ton... finished 2nd in varsity girls. First place had a good gap on me, so got some work to do for the leader's jersey! Really happy though with today's race.

This morning, 3.5 miles out and back on the Shoreline trail by my house. Medium pace, and my shins aren't hurting much anymore.

Some AM swimming with the high school team before school today. Still nothing hard.

This afternoon, ran 7 miles with the Alta XC team on Porter Rockwell with a 2 mile hard effort (13:19) before the rain started pouring. 

Easy swim at Dimple Dell before school with Martin.

Ran 4 miles on the lower loop with the XC team in the pouring rain! We made a point to step in every puddle along the run, and I was soaked to the bone! It was great! Finished up with 8x200m on the track.

After the rain stopped I went to Corner Canyon and spun around a bit on the lower trails.

Today's race at Herriman was awesome, and really, really painful! I think I push myself a lot harder when I'm racing other high schoolers, no matter the sport. That last 3/4 mile hurt the worst, but I was able to catch a lot of girls. Alta did really well as a team too, and I'm bummed I can't count for their points, but I was just happy to race today.

Went up to Pineview for an open water swim. Emma and her super fast friend Barbara from Chile were with me. It was a hard swim trying to keep up with those two.

Later we prerode the xterra course, but nonstop. Emma took off, and I didn't even try to keep up, my legs were sore from yesterday. 

Riverton homecoming that night!

Easy swim this morning before school, by myself at Dimple Dell with all my old people friends.

Today's XC workout was hard and HOT...

We did a mile hard at the beginning and I was with the girl's group which went a 6:30. Then we ran the Best Buy loop pretty slowly, but some of the girls weren't feeling too hot today. Murphy got mad at us for all the water breaks. The last hard mile felt really good too, and Ashley, Julie, and I ran a 6:40, which I was happy about after a long, tiring day.

XTERRA Nats in Snowbasin was arguably my best race I've ever had. I felt really rested and strong through the entire race, and one thing that helped was eating and drinking early during the bike to help with the last half of the race.

Swim - 27:59, 6th amateur.

Bike - 1:55:50, 5th amateur.

Run - 55:40, 8:50/mile, 11th amateur.

Finish - 3:19:33, 7th amateur, 2nd in my age group.

Hannah Rae won both my age group and overall amateur in 3:03... She is crazy fast! Also, Emma took 4th in the pro field in 2:48, and won top American series leader. I'm stoked about the results! It wasn't easy, and I have lots of people to thank for the success this year! YAY!

8 miles today with the XC team on Porter Rockwell, 8:45 pace, or a little faster.

I feel... ok from the race Saturday.

4 miles trail running on the BST before school today, medium pace. 

That afternoon, I had a high school ride up at Mormon Pioneer trail. The loop was steep and had some good climbing efforts. Toward the beginning, all of us (15-20) were riding the trail single file, and someone at the front ran over a beehive. Anyway, everyone behind got stung! :(

In other news, I went to Blackbottoms today with my bike coach and we designed a custom tri suit for Maui! Very exciting.

8 miles with the XC team at Porter Rockwell again, but this time the first 6 miles we held around 9 min and the last two miles were hard, around 7:20/mile for me.

I had to go straight to the U for chem lab after that in sweaty clothes and running shoes.

No school for me today so I went for a long ride by myself at Corner Canyon (everyone else is at school or work) and then a short run off the bike.

Gully run for time this afternoon. I was paired with Read and Cubby and they made the run a lot more bearable with all their funny stories and the good encouragement. I hate the fact that guys are so much faster than girls, NO FAIR! I was really scared the last couple miles downhill because Ashley was so close. It hurt and I feel good about today's run. 47:56