Out of difficulties grow miracles

AM really good run today. Back to the usual half mile warm up then made our way to the dirt mile for 6×1000's. Coach bumbed up the times but they were pretty much the same thing that I have been running, my new time is 4:43 I got 4:25 4:39 4:35 4:30 4:31 and 4:37. I enjoy these runs because its not super easy but still easy.

PM afternoon 3 miler felt pretty good today and wasn't too hot thanks to the wind. So the run was good but the weights and plyos were the hard part. Today me and Can upped all of the weights we did so I'll expect being sore, but hopefully I will stretch enough that I won't have to worry  

AM new workout today that really wasnt new. We replaced the 30/30 workout with the 1/1 minute on minute off. I got up to 13 and I was so close that I probably could have done another but didnt. I felt like I did really well but I could have kept going to the max amount. The next time that this workout comes around I am determined to make it all the to the max regardless of how I feel.

Final day of kids club and it was good except that I  felt terrible legs were super sore but still had a good time for the last time with the kids.

PM have you ever had a run where it was just awesome, your legs didnt hurt you could breath just fine and it was just the best run ever? Well my afternoon run was definantly NOT that. In fact it was just the opposite. Nuff said.

AM todays time trial was a good experience for me it had its ups and downs but it was still good. As every race has different things happening whether good or bad it is good to know both. One of my downs today was my legs, they have been extremely sore for a couple days and it hurts just at a slow jog. One of my ups was that I was so determined to do good that my pain wouldnt stop me from reaching that goal. Once the race started I stuck with Cam for the first lap then on the second he started to pull ahead and that's when I started to think negative. I was thinking things like whatever, what's the point, and it would be easier to just slow down. Soon I realized what I was saying and I got mad at myself and forced myself to go faster, so I started speeding up and closing the gap between me and who was ahead. Then I realized that I wasnt to far behind the older guys who I wasnt expecting to be even close to. My time was 12:15 and I didnt really know what to expect for my time and I think it was a good time. I am also pleased with my placing in the race and I hope that I can work hard enough to run varsity at least once this year.

Been feeling sick since this morning so decided to do afternoon run on friday.

AM Tempo today and it was probably the best one i've done even with my sore legs. Ran on the river trail with all the level 2 boys and started our tempo at the 2 mile mark, once we hit our first mile on the tempo we were a bit spread out and we picked up the pace a bit going about 6:30 instead of 6:40, the next mile was a little faster and that was where the other boys fell off and it was just me, Cameron, Jake, Nick, and Preston. This was the biggest group ive ever ran a tempo with since i'm usually aloneish sometimes one other, and I think it was easier to keep pace. The last mile was way faster than the rest at about 6:10. Felt good the entire run and feel good about how it went.

PM nice run felt good and had the wind to help cool me off. Weights and plyos after and those went pretty well too.

AM woke up earlier today to get to practice on time at the little valley park. No coach today and so a little disorganized but eventually we worked it out. 3 miles grass run and hit 50 miles barefoot. Wahoo! Then went over to some hills and did 5 one minutes and 3 30 seconders. Did pretty decent on the minutes and I'll admit that after those I felt like I could have pushed harder, but I think that the 30 seconders I pushed up the like there was no tomorrow and did pretty good. My legs seem to be almost completely better after a hard week of pain throughout my runs.

PM ran an afternoon run today since I missed the one on wednesday didn't really want go but knew I needed to so did anyway. Felt ok not the greatest, just another afternoon run. 

Ran late today at about 9 and went 4 with my brother on his bike. Felt really good today no leg pains or anything and since my brother was on his bike I felt like going fast, it was about 7 minute pace so not too bad. It was pretty interesting because we saw first a firefly and you never see those here then we saw a skunk. When we were passing by the skunk we saw it lift its tail so we sped up to get out of there then we noticed it started to stink but I think we got away in time. Other than that a pretty good run.