Runners don't shake hands. Runners gotta hug.

5.9 was the mileage. Did the first workout of the track season and man did it feel good. We had 2X mile repeats. My goal time was 5:35 and the first was 5:35 and the second was :33. Felt good to get the legs going fast. This week is gonna be a good week of training!

Today was trail run Tuesday so we drove out to just a little down the road from Dixie rock to the trail and began our run. It was a pretty simple and beautiful 5 mile run, I quite enjoyed it!

Today we did 6 miles and in that 6 miles we had our AT tempo pace which was 5:45 for myself, Byron, Colton, and Matt was 5:45 and we had this pace for 12 minutes. We headed out on our new tempo loop around the middle school area and did it. We hit our time and it was actually not too shabby at all, enjoyed it quite a bit!

Goals for tomorrow's kosmin: I really want to have a good 1600 time to base my stuff off of and I know that it will only come from a good 3rd lap so my goal is to really push it that third lap no matter how tired and the last lap will take care of itself!

Kosmin Test! So today we did our first legit workout of the season. What it consists of is 1 minute hard, 3 minutes rest, 1 minute hard, 2 minutes rest, 1 minute hard, 1 minute rest and one last minute hard. This is done on the track and it is a pretty dang good workout. You measure your total length you ran in the 1 minutes hard. I got 1548 meters and this calculated to a 1500 meter time of 4:09 which is a 4:27 1600 approximately. Not too shabby for the start of the year, definitely places to improve but overall I was pleased. We did 2 mile warm and cool and got 6 miles total.

Easy 3 miles with the boys and finished with 8 striders.

Goals for tomorrow's tempo: hit my pace (5:05) and sustain it. More importantly though keep positive thoughts throughout.

Had an 8 miler today with a 10 minute LT tempo during the run. This tempo was going to be fast and it's always better with people so we had a good group of guys. We set out on the mosquito trail toward the river trail and we started the tempo on a downhill to get to our pace (5:05) the first half flew by and we were moving. First mile 5:10. Byron really pushed it and I was grateful for that, he's a stud. We got .95 of the next mile in the tempo. Our average pace for the 10 minutes was 5:13. It wasn't our pace but for this early in the season it was a very hard and good workout. Looking forward to do better on the next LT tempo. So excited to race!