Awesome day today! Our women’s team was ranked nationally for the first time in SUU history, we’re ranked 23rd. The men are ranked 25th. We’re also ranked 4th in the Mountain region (really competitive) after Colorado (No.1), New Mexico (No.3) and BYU (No.9). The next teams nationally ranked in our region are Utah State (No.27) and NAU (No.28). I know I’m not on the scoring team, but it’s still pretty cool. (I’m our 12th runner).
Mile warmup, then strides and started. Workout was 16x400s, split into sets of 4. The first 12 were supposed to be at 84-88 (5k pace), last 4 at 80-84 (3k pace). First 4 had 2:30 recovery after each, next 4 had 2:00, next 90 seconds, and last 4 also had 90 seconds.
Times went:
1) 85, 84, 84, 83
2) 82, 83, 83, 83
3) 82, 82, 82, 82
4) 80, 78, 79, 80
Comes out at exactly 82 average.
Cooled down 2 miles.
Feel really good about it! I’d decided to go for 85s beforehand but felt good and relaxed so that’s what happened. Also helped to have Brighton there to pull me along. The faster group’s pace was 80-84 for the first 12 and 78-82 for the last 4 so I was in their range! Yeah! Legs got heavy after 8 but I stayed positive and worked through and stayed relaxed, then pushed the last 4. It was so nice to have someone faster than me there (Brighton had class and they’d start the workout too late so she did it with us instead). Kept me focused and I was only a second or two behind her on almost all of them. The other girls were just a little behind me, Danielle and Bino caught me on the last one. Everyone killed it! What a great day.
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