The Renegade

Good run on the river trail. Started out with Keith and Paul then Keith turned around at 1.5 because he was only wearing shorts and a tshirt haha I've been there. First mile was slow,  but felt nice and relaxed. Then Paul and I picked it up the rest of the time, but still felt good, turned around at three miles, except I had forgotten to go potty at the beginning of the run, so I felt like I was gonna explode for the last part of the run. That was 6 miles at 7:20-7:25 pace, then after a stop at the toilet, 4x100m on the track, which felt pretty good, went 3:40-3:50 pace on the last two. Then we went in the weight room and I did some lifts, but not as many as I wanted to because of time. Not a bad day for only getting four hours of sleep. 

Crap day, but hey I got the miles in and it wasn't junk mileage either. Forgot my shorts at home so I warmed up two miles in my freaking joggers while I waited for my mom to bring me my running shorts, and when I say joggers I mean like the 100% cotton kind from GAP so that sucked but I got a warmup in while my teammates were doing their workout.

Workout was 2x2400m (1.5 miles) with a mile jog in between on the track, which I honestly wish we were doing somewhere else this early in the season. Last time I did that I was low to sub 6 pace, this time I bombed it, I ran 6:18 pace on the first one and 6:22 pace on the next one even though I felt like I was going hard. It was also super cold so that played into it a bit, but yeah I wasn't satisfied with it at all.

Paul and I did 4x100m, those actually felt good I ran 15.05, 14.48, 14.78, 14.13, and that was after accelerating within the 100 meters, not outside of it. Then we went inside and did a Big 10 with Hayden and Anna, finally I cooled down roughly half a mile on the tread. My toe was hurting. Hopefully that won't become a real problem, and it probably won't because it's kind of been off and on, and it didn't really hurt during or after running in spikes all day on saturday.

One thing I need to do to improve my workouts and thus my fitness is get better sleep, during christmas break I went to bed late and slept in, but now I'm just going to bed late and getting up early for school (usually 2:00 am to 6:45 am) so yeah gotta change that, it'll be good when the semester ends this week. 

Coach told us to keep our run shorter today, so Paul and I just ran two miles up to the canal trail and turned around, 7:32 ap. We really tried to get Kalin to run with us because he never goes on distance runs but he wouldn't budge, I don't think he is focused enough to do that, although he has run two half marathons so i dunno what his problem is but it's frustrating. We had to get back so we could be introduced to the new weight room workouts we are doing. Same three basic lifts and three sets of each still but we are decreasing the reps and increasing the weight each set. It's more of a hassle to change the weights but it's a good workout. Before that tho we ran an extra mile on the treadmill before, and we had done a half mile jog indoors earlier so it added up to 5.5. Still need to work on my sleep.

A little dissapointed today because we didn't do the temple hill workout that I was looking forward too, but oh well. Jogged a half mile inside, then coach Davis from SVU talked to us, then Paul and I jogged another half mile on the freshly snowblown track, which still had a thin layer of ice/snow.  That layer was terrible for the mile threshold we did. First we had one mile threshold, so not too bad. Ended up running 6:06, but it was pretty hard to run at the pace waisting a ton of energy slipping around. Then 8x200m. So for the 200s I knew I wasn't going to do them on the track because I would not be able to run them fast at all, so I decided it would be better to run them on the road, so I jogged out to the road by South Campus and did block long sprints there, times were 32.4, 33.1, 33.5, 32.5, 34.1, 33.1, 33.6, 31.2, with 1:30 rests. Felt okay, but I wish I could've done it on a nice clear track. Jogged back the school and did a mile cooldown on the treacmill, then a tiny bit of core. My sleep will hopefully get back to normal next week after the long weekend. 

Well, today was super unproductive, all I did was sleep from midnight to 3pm, and then I ran two hours later when it was dark, which I really liked, because I love night runs but don't do them that often. Got my new nike tights in the mail so I tried those out. I ran to Old Main and back, and my watch died after I turned around, but it was about 6.5. Slow pace, at least on the way out. When I was running back down the hill I slipped and fell on my knee but luckily I got right up and was fine. 

Drove out to Providence at around 2 and parked at Von Baer Park, and then I did a big loop out to Millville, basically a perimeter, came back and then finished on part of the course that MC took me on in November. Pretty hilly for how much vert I've been getting lately, but good to change it up again. There was basically a blizzard going on the whole time, blowing in my face pretty hard whenever I was running south. My foot didn't hurt one bit! One problem I had was that my stride felt ever so lopsided, and I think I figured out why. I honestly think that my left leg has grown a bit he last two months, and the right leg has yet to follow, that's why the left glute has felt so much weaker, and why I've been drifting somewhat to the right. Hopefully it will even out before outdoor, and hopefully I won't loose too much leg strength, cuz I really need that to break 2. So yeah, not the funnest run, but it was good to actually get in a solid long run this week. I'll have three straight weekend's of racing (although I will be free to do another long run in two weeks) and then a break, then Simplot. 7:46 ap.