Lacey loves to RUN!

I went to visit my "adopted" Grandma (the young women all adopted a grandparent) and I ended up talking to her for a lot longer than I had planned, so I just got to run home. 

Coach is really going easy on us right now, I think she's trying to push the next meet on Friday.  I really want to do good.  So we just played a game and did a warm up and cool down.  It was fun though!

I love racing in Cedar! But next time I am going to use a watch.  It was a good race, but I wanted it like a whole minute faster, so I am definetly going to have to work on pacing.  But it was nice to get another race in at Cedar before region... which I am stoked for! :)

I forgot to run until after Conference, so on our way home from my grandparents house which is where we watch it (we don't have a t.v.) my mom dropped me off 4 miles from our house, it was kinda super really cool to run with it so overcast, but not rainy, I love Hurricane's colorful mountains... they're absolutely gorgeous, and the loop that I run a ton takes me to the best view. Tonight they were all purple and foggy with the gorgeous green orchard and fields underneath.... I love it!!!

I ran an extended loop, actually I started out the first little bit as a walk with my sister, we did like 4 small hills, and then I left and ran 4 miles home, it was nice and I tried to go fast because I missed a speed practice

Practice on the track, and then we played a fun relay game, and did a nice cool down. Kinda just a fun/easy preparation day. :)

A very nice race at Snow Canyon, I love their course, but it was pretty hot!!! It felt a lot faster than my time told me I was;  I am getting pumped for region next week!!!!!! :)

Recovery practice, fun. very short, but fun.

Itsy bitsy morning practice, with ultimate frisby at the end.

I ran from my grandma's house on river rd. around formaster, down the tire hill, and to the bank and back down river rd.  I'm not really sure how far exactly it is.  But it was FREEZING, and so WINDY! Other than the weather it was a nice run, and my legs felt strong the whole time. 

small run today in preparation to Region TOMORROW!!!!! I can't believe the season's already over, time has ran away! hehe... literally.  I'm contemplating between joining the swim team or working towards the Painter's half-marathon.  I'll talk about that later.  I have missed Pine View's girls team so much today, I feel like a ball baby.  What Ruth talked about last year with no regrets pushed me through my best race ever, now I'm trying to do it for myself, and one of the things that I heard tonight from a motivation speaker at our team dinner has helped me, he said: "If you don't give a complete 100%, you are basically giving away that goal, you're cheating yourself out of reaching your goal." I don't want to give away my goal.  Another speaker compared racing to love.  He explained how as you mature you are able to love your crush more and more.  In kindergarten puppy love only lasted about an hour, and it hurt for about 10 min. in high school it was a couple of months, and it hurt about a week, but when you've been married for a long time, and you really really love this person, it would hurt you so much if you broke up for some reason or another.  Then he said, the more you love running, or the more you love your teammates, and want to succeed to help them, or the more you Love whatever it is that motivates you the more pain you are willing to endure to succeed.  I realized that I truly do love to run.  I really do, regardless of whether I have learned to love running or not I really love running now.  Tomorrow I am going to push past all of the pain and run my fastest pr ever!!!  I am so motivated right now it's awesome! I LOVE RUNNING! I am going to run my fastest ever ever ever!!!!!

No Regrets!

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Race was at Cedar, I was really nervous about the weather, because of the wind yesterday.  But it was beautiful... I had a great race, I almost got my goal time and I passed all but one girl that I wanted to.  I also came up with some great ideas for next year's team.  :)