The Renegade

I've gotta say that that was the hardest workout this season so far. Here's what we did:

800m warmup                                                                                                                        + 2x (1200m I-pace w/ 4 min jogs)                                                                                        + 2x (1000m I-pace w/ 3 min jogs)                                                                                        + 800m I-pace w/ 400m jog

So there's what I did, and it was almost the full workout, just 800m short. I cut it off because I didn't want to injure myself since our first meet is on Thursday, and I was having a hard time with it. During the thousands I would say was the hardest part. I had that feel like I wanted to just collapse on the track. I still think it was a good workout and that it made me stronger. So stoked for thursday! 

Easy run today. I went with a group of freshman, and we really didn't have a route planned, so it was basically all over the southwest section of the city. I felt really good today, like I could have gone much faster and farther.

Today we practiced starts, just a 400 each time. I kept ending up 5 seconds faster than where I wanted to be. After that we were done so my medley team and I actually practiced passing the baton and we got the hang of it. I'm just nervous about dropping it tomorrow.

1600m - 5:22.98,12'th place

Pretty good race. They split it up into two heats, and I got placed in the faster one, but didn't place last in it either. There was about thirty runners in all, so maybe fifteen in my heat. Toward the middle, an Ogden runner passed me for a second, but I gained my position back and beat him. I kind of bummed that I started too fast. My first first lap was 1:15, and I didn't keep track after that. PR though, from that 5:28 a couple of weeks ago. 

800m (Final Leg in Medley Relay) 

I wasn't too serious about this one since one of the teams had Chad Artist (fastest sprinter in the state) with Caden Andersen, Thomas, and Johnny, plus another team from Ogden that looked fast. When I recieved the baton our team was in dead last and by alot. Luckily Hayden was the 800 runner in fourth so I closed that 200m gap pretty quickly. so we didn't get last, and plus if I had a faster relay team with some actual sprinters doing the 200 instead of other distance runners, then I think we would do alot better. 

I was not expecting a workout today. This is it:

10 min E-pace                                                                                                                    + 2x (600m R-pace w/ 600m jogs)                                                                                       + 3x (400m R-pace w/ 400m jogs)                                                                                        + 4x ( 300m R-pace w/ 500m jogs)                                                                                        + 4x ( 200m R-pace w/ 200m jogs)

I went way too fast on the first parts, so I geuss those were really more like F-pace maybe. But I actually hit the right pace after that. I felt surprisingly good today for having a meet yesterday afternoon. I geuss I just had a good recovery. 

I was feeling to good on that run today, maybe I should have cut it short. I knew it wasn't going to be good as soon as I started the first mile. I also wish they would open the park bathrooms already enough said.