The Renegade

Big workout it was 1000s and 400s. I ran my thousands with Keith but then he had to leave so I did the 400s alone. It was 4 of each with 400m jogs in 3 min rests. Full recovery in between the two distances. 

1000s- 3:24, 3:35, 3:29, 3:33

400s- 68, 79, 74, 69

The 1000s were tough, but they're thousands so they always are. The second one was weird because I thought we still had 200m left because I lost count. They hurt pretty bad after that. At first I thought the 400s were going to be hard after the first one but then I looked at my watch and saw how fast it was. The next were just cruising, and on the last one I tried to go pretty hard and feel lose. After that we got a good cool down and strides in, and then weights.

Sort of easy trail run in Logan Canyon today. The team took a bus but I went earlier with Vickie. We ran non-stop until I had to "retie my shoe' at the top of a big hill. Felt not to bad for having that tough workout yesterday. We got to exactly the place where I turned around with Thomas and Johnny in July. It got pretty steep at the end and I remember dying on it last time. On the way back down for the single-track part I let it rip and cruised, but as soon as I hit the wide trail I slowed down a ton adn I realised how tire I was. So after a couple of stops to keep my heart rate down, I didn't feel too bad. I went at an okay pace the last mile and a half. I could tell how little tread there was left on my old ones. I think they are done. With a few more day s of not completley running in my new shoes, I can make a smooth transition. When I got back, (I was going a lot faster than Vickie) Tere was literally noone there because everybody's run was less than 30 minutes. That was kind of dissapointing to hear about, but oh well, I wasn't there to get anyone to run farther. Hills tomorrow.

Light workout. We ran to the side path that goes up from canyon road to temple blvd. and did 8x100m up the hill, with 1:45 to 2:00. I averaged 17, with one that was 16. So pretty easy compared to the steeper 200s we've been doing. After that we did a longer cooldown and I felt pretty tired, but I was glad to get a couple extra miles in. Tomorrow I'm racing the two-mile and hopefully I'll pr but if I don't it's not a big deal.

Today was a pretty chill meet because of the Grizzly Invite on Saturday. I did a mile warmup with Davis and Paul and then did some good warmup drills. I just stayed pretty relaxed the whole meet and didn't take it too hard at all. This really just felt like it could have been one of those two mile tempos that I did earlier in the season. Davis tailed me until about two laps left and then he died off, and I just spent the whole race watching Keith who was about 50m in front of me. In the finish I still stayed pretty relaxed and it felt good. Didn't burn myself out on this one.  The next race I did was the 400 and I think I got something close to 55, so around a three second PR. Then I had to run the 800 in the medley and since MC didn't have a team I ran a 2:22, but it still kind of hurt. It was a good workout. I cooled down two miles with strides at the end of the meet. It felt good.

Premeet easy day. Jogged some and then did a few sets of strides in my spikes. Cooled down, then got some calves massaged and that was practice.

I got to the meet at about 9:30 after sleeping in (one of the luxurys of having and invitational at your own school). Watched the two  mile and then it was maybe a few hours after that the I was ready to warm up for the mile. I felt okay on my warmup but that doesn't predict your race anyways. I wasn't super pumped for the mile but I was stilol planning on PRing. I opened with a 72, so three seconds faster than where I wanted to do. I think I kind of slacked off in the second lap, so that was where my weakness was, and then the 3rd lap I tried to keep pushing it a little harder, and I  think lap 4 was was either my fastest lap or my second fastest, probably the later. I was pretty dissapointd in my time. After a little bit of recovery I felt good for the 800 and ran a 2:11, but it hurt a lot. Then I found out I had to run the 800 in the medley so I was bummed about that. I ran 2:15, which surprised me because I usually don't go under 2:20 in relays, but I had more people to race this time. Then after watching more meet, putting meet away, and a McDouble plus a slice of pizza I cooled down three miles partly with Mark who had to turn around because his knee was bothering him. I averaged about 7:12 pace, which was sort of pushing it after such a hard meet. Oh well, I didn't have the races I wanted but it's been a hard week and I never really got fully recovered for today. But after a few more good hard weeks of training and racing, I'll crush those PRs if I havn't done it already, probably at BYU and Region.