The Renegade

Rough day today and it was all my fault for not getting enough sleep last night. Th workout was 4x1000m w/ 400m jog in 3 min rest + 4x400m w/ same rest + 4x150m w/ 250m jog, full recovery in between segments. I had a fairly tough time, but then again Ks always suck. I'll lay down the times first.

1000s-    3:33,    3:36,    3:39,    3:45,

(9:25 recovery)

400s-    82,    85,    76,    74

(5:44 recovery) 

150s-    20.8,    23.1,    23.6,    24

The first two I ran with a good little pack of guys, but by the last 1000 it was just Davis running with me and he ran the whole workout by my side, which is nice but I was surprised with how fit he was on 1 week of track, the only running he's done since cross-country. If he trained solid he would go places. Anyways the 1000s sucked but the 400s and 150s were alot easier. Except that I'm pretty sure my form sucked on the sprints. After  I finished I was pretty delusional and couldent really walk straight or talk very well. I've learned my lesson about sleep that's for sure. I'll probably feel tired tomorrow too.

Premeet. I felt so tired at I could only jog less than three miles plus some strides in my spikes. I think I'm sick or something. But hopefully tomorrow I feel better.

Okay meet today. I didn't get a ton of warming up in before the mile, and I geuss I should have. I didn't feel to energetic but I felt better then yesterday. The mile felt okay actually. I led the race for te first 150 meters before I got overtaken by a pack of Sky View guys. Then there was one kid that I held on to for the whole race and that's how I ran it. I was still on his shoulder come the finishing chute and I was battling it out with him so I let out my ferocious scream and scared the crap out of this kid, plus let me kick it into high gear. The rest of the meet I just relaxed and ran the medley and the 4x4, which in both of them I sucked pretty bad. But oh well, I got a two second PR today. 

Post-meet run up the canal trail. I really just didn't feel jazzy, but hey it's an off week. When I got back I did some strides, iced, and maybe did some hip drills, too.

Amother premeet today. Felt better than the premeet on Tuesday but I was kind of tight. We did a short mile warmup before we did our strides because of the soccer game, and then got on the track and I busted out some 200s in 34, 28, 34, 30. The first one I did by myself and the next three were with Keith and Isaac. Then we all cooled down together, three miles for me.

So we left the school at 6:30 and and got to the meet on West Jordan at around 8. I waited in the restroom line for what felt like almost an hour and then chilled for a little bit longer, then jogged a mile to shake out some of tightness and that helped out. Then maybe two hours later the first call for the mile came so I got my stuff and then did my warmup with Mark and Coach. I had a good comfortable amount of time to stretch while the first two heats were going on, so that was great. Then my race finally came and I was stuck in the back for starting. So of course I had to start out pretty timidly so I didn't get spiked. The good thing is that I never got boxed in. I tried to run a smart race. There was a headwind in the homestretch, so I made sure to do most of my passing on the opposite side. I also tried to pull it off before the curves. My splits were 75,79,79,75, so that's not bad. I felt like I had a little more strength in the third lap, so that's why it wasn't the slowest. My finishing kick was weaker, and I'm kind of mad about that because if I really sorinted it in then I would have shaved at least a second off my time. That was my only race so after a grueling 3 mile cooldown plus strides and hip drills, I got to relax the whole seven hours after that.