Staci Hirschi

First day back running after the break. Had to work so I ran at 4 in the afternoon, it was a really hot day. I ended up walking quite a bit, but I'll do better tomorrow. Just ran to some dirt trails by my house, but it was all flat.

Work again, can't wait until I finally get to go run with the team! Went over to the trails by the school so I could have the same run as everyone else. Hot again, ran at about 3. Remembered to take water with me today. It was a slower pace, but I ran the whole time and it wasn't flat like yesterday which was fun.

Finally got to go run with my team! I pushed myself to run with the faster girls today, and did pretty well until the half way point.  I think just my mind is my problem, so work on that and I think I can really run with them. Great run, I felt really good when I stuck with them. 

Busy day and had to run in the evening. Didn't have very much time so I only ran 3. Felt alright today, but could have been a better run. Ran out behind the school trails again.

Ran around 5:30 in the morning with Courtney and Tanner before Youth Conference today. They started out pretty fast, under an 8 minute pace so I slowed down and trailed behind them for the run. Went up the airport hill, so a little hilly put mostly flat. Felt really good again today. 

I haven't been able to find too much time to run the last couple of days being on vacation with family. Only got a mile in on the treadmill at our hotel. Ran about a 6:30 with incline. Knee started to hurt a little bit though.  Would've done more but we were getting ready to go back over to Disneyland. At least I got a lot of walking in, but I wanted to run more. 

Got home last night from vacation so I was able to go to practice today. Kept it easy, still recovering from flu. Ran about 30 minutes on the trails then about 15-20 minutes on the track. Felt good today, but my head hurt a little and still tired from flu. 

Had a hard day running today. I thought running in the afternoons would help me more than getting up earlier to run, but it's not working too much. Ran/walked around 3:00 in the afternoon over by the Thatcher's. About a 100 degrees out. Only went 3 miles, cut it early because I wasn't having a good day. Went running about 9:30 that night for another 2.5 miles. A little over 90 degrees, but no sun so that was nice. Wanted to go more but I don't like running alone at night. That run was a lot better, went about a 10 minutes pace for the 2 miles then dropped down to an 8:30 for the last half. Can tell I'm still sick though because I finished kind of light headed. Mostly flat tonight and part trail part road.

Able to go to practice today and run 90 minutes on the Navajo Trail. Stayed with the group for the first 25 minutes then slowed down. Still having a hard time breathing. Dropped my pace a lot, but I kept running the rest of the way. About the last 20-30 minutes I picked up my pace a little then the last mile a little more. Felt ok, but my head still hurt. 

Ran trails by the Thatcher's at 5:30 this morning. Felt really good but it was a slow run. Need to pick it up more. Went about 55 minutes. Finished then did some of the exercises with the team, stretched then went to work.

Ran with Alexis tonight around 8:00. Mostly flat trail by our house, but about 2 miles of road to get to and from them. A lot better run today, about 10:00 to 10:30 miles. Still not the best speed but getting back up there. Had some fun running the bunny hills before running to the top of the new airport hill, but my knee was bothering me a little. Taking care of it though. The last 1/2 mile we picked it up to an 8:45 pace that felt good too. I finally feel like I'm not so sick anymore. I got a running pack and that was helpful too. It wasn't too hot but good to have now. All in all it was a good run today.

Ran in the afternoon with the team. Felt really good today even in the heat. 

Morning practice with the team. Did the ladder workout, 1:1, 2:2, 3:3, 2:2, 1:1. I did fine on the fast parts, but lost the group on the easy parts, need to work on that. Felt like a good workout today.

Ran 3 miles this evening but kept them at a faster pace. First mile to Little Valley park (road) at an 8:30 pace, second mile barefoot on the grass at 7:50 pace then third back home (road) at an 8:15 pace. It felt really good to just go out and run. Made a goal to stay under 9:00 min miles for today, so pretty happy. Finally feel like my runs are turning for the better this summer. 

Ran the Navajo trail with Chloe this morning. Kept it at about 10 minute pace, felt really good. 

Easy 3 this morning and afternoon with the team. Finally felt like a good run in the afternoon, but still need to get back up with the other girls. Hit my foot on a rock and it kind of hurts, but a good day.

Ran 6 easy miles on the ridge and up Hidden Valley with the A group today and stuck with them. It felt really good and it wasn't hard to stay with the group. Caught a cold over the weekend though so I'm trying to get more rest and hopefully will be back to two a days within a couple days.

Had a really good workout today. We did a two mile warm up toward Yesco then did a 10 minute tempo run. I fell back a little about the last quarter mile, probably ended 10-15 seconds after the group. We mad it about a mile and a half, around 7:05-7:10 pace. Then 200's at the school and cool down to 6 miles. Still felt sick today, hopefully near the end of it though. Figured out I need to get some new shoes too.

I felt really sick during this race and it didn't help that I started out way too fast. I can't wait for region to really take time off of it though and hopefully I'll be running varsity by then!

3 easy in the morning felt really good but I had a hard time in the afternoon. Fell behind from the group and started thinking negative and felt sick too.

Ran at Bloomington Hills park (region course) and did mile repeats. I had 2 and was supposed to hit 8:58 but I hit the times too fast. 8:00 for the first one and 8:53 for the second. Stomach hurt a little after my second but it wasn't too bad.

Easy mile today felt good in the morning and afternoon.

Had part of the Michigan workout today. I only did 1 mile on the track, 1 mile road then 400 M all out. The weather was really nice so that helped a lot. I still ran my miles too fast and I'm trying to work on that. I was supposed to hit 8:08 on the track and 9:08 on road but I hit 7:28 on the track and 8:10 on the road. It felt really easy though and I felt like I could have talked most of the time. My 400 was 1:23, maybe I'll get under 1:20 sometime...

Easy 3 in the morning and 6 plus 200 M finishes in the afternoon. Ran the ridge and did some climbing with Rachel and a couple of the girls. Finally a really good easy day! Finished with some 200's, 40, 40, 36, 36.

3 miles easy in the morning and 6 miles in the afternoon. Had 3x mile repeats. First one I ran at my pace at 7:47, then I wanted to run with Brianna and Johanna and ran a 7:08 then a 6:59 with them. Really glad I was able to keep with them!

Easy 4 in the afternoon.

6 x 400 repeats on the grass at Little Valley. I fell behind from the group but I still hit all of my times fast by about 10 seconds.

3 easy in the morning then ran at a park up north with the team. BYU tomorrow!!

I had a really good race today! It wasn't my best but I felt really focused today. Came in first for our team for JV Junior/Senior girls. Dropped 3 minutes from the Dixie race last week, and 3 minutes from this course my sophomore year. Only 15 seconds from making varsity dang it, but another week of workouts and I think I can get there next race!

Didn't feel we'll during the workout this afternoon. 3x mile repeats at Bloomington Hills. Hit the first one 7:58, then it kinda went downhill from there. 10:00 then 13:00. Just wanted to finish the last one. Had 4 finishes after. I didn't get enough food today and just didn't have enough energy and my head hurt really bad.

Been a while since my last update but still been running. Going on 2 1/2 weeks of this stupid cold. 3 miles easy with the team this afternoon then waited while everyone else did 200 m finishes. 

Well the season has come to an end, sorta. I did good today for being sick the last 2 weeks, but it wasn't good enough to make varsity and run at state. I felt good during the race though, so hopefully I'm done being sick. My head didn't hurt too bad.

Ran 3 miles today. Apparently shooting a basketball for an hour can give you shin splits. Ran with all the girls the first mile and a half then ran back ahead of them on my own. Just had to think for a little bit and run off some anger. I finally didn't feel sick though and my head didn't hurt at all, so at least one upside to today.

Three miles easy this morning. Ran two miles with everybody while varsity did their warm up then one alone since none of the other JV girls came. Shin kinda hurt but it wasn't nearly as bad as yesterday. It was a really fun morning! Cold though, not excited for winter to roll around.

Just 3 miles easy this morning to Hidden Valley and back. My shin didn't hurt at all during the run but it did a little bit after. Glad it's getting better.

3 miles easy, all really flat and mostly on the dirt. My shin doesn't hurt at all today thank goodness. 

Ran in the morning with varsity then ran around cheering them on at state. It was great to watch everyone do so good, but I'll admit it was pretty hard to not be there to race along side them.

I am back! I don't care that I'm still sick, it's only a slight cough now. First workout in forever, it felt so good to pick back up on the speed, I love workouts so much. Don't ask why, I don't really know.. 2 mile warm up then a 15 minute tempo run on the track. I just tried to stay with the varsity girls as long as I could and did pretty good. It was so windy holy cow!! Almost 8 1/4 laps, better than my Vo2 max at the beginning of the season by a little, so I guess that's good for being sick for a month. Can't wait for footlocker and track!!

Really, really, really bad day at school. The easy run helped so much. I just ran behind the A group by myself today, really needed it.

2 mile warm up then 2 mile repeats on the track. I was supposed to hit 7:55 and 7:50, but I went a little (or more) fast. 7:08 and 6:46, it felt great! Little bit of a cool down while waiting for everyone to finish then a mile cool down with everyone.

5 miles easy Indian run to little valley park and back. Halloween run!!

2 mile warm up then 5 laps on the track. I was supposed to hit 1:46 for 1, 3, and 5, then 1:51 for 2 and 4. It was alright, I felt like I had no energy today. 1:36, 1:52, 1:47, 2:00, 1:47. Even the mile cool down was a struggle today. :/

8 400 m repeats with 400 m recovery at Little Valley Park. My time was 1:50 for the first 6 then 1:44 for the last two, but I hit around 1:30-1:35 for the first 4, 1:40-1:50 for the next 2, then about 1:30 for the last 2. It felt like a good workout today. I did have a hard time breathing after the faster ones. It was a really good day altogether though, I stayed up with the varsity girls pretty well.

Felt really sick today.

Mile time trial today! Felt really good, and came in behind Brianna. 6:24, not a pr, but I feel pretty good since we're still training for distance.

Only got a morning run in, then had to babysit my niece and nephew after school...

Hill repeats today. I just did them at my house, about the same length of a hill, but a little bit steeper and on the road. I got 10 repeats, then finally have in. Felt good to run in a little bit of rain.

Back to running! Four easy miles this afternoon with my dog. Sadly it was all flat, but it was a good run.