The Renegade

It was nice getting back to running today. First I spent ten minutes on the bike just to kinda get in some extra work and to warmup. Then we jogged 2 laps and did our warmup drills. Mostly everyone had a workout, but I decided to ease back into things and have an easy day today. So I did some barefoot running on the field behind the stadium, which I'll get to know very well in the next two weeks since I'm staying off concrete for the rest of track. Then I did two 200s with Isaac on his 300s (it was weird ending on the curve) and then I did some accels on the turf and cooled down. Finally hip drills and and attempt to ice in the freezing canal.

Good solid workout. Smaller, but that was the point. 5 minutes on the elliptical and then the basic warmup routine, and then when the rest of the team left on their easy run I started my workout, which was during a soccer game so not good. The workout was 2x1000m and 6x200m with. Here are them times:

1000s- 3:23, 3:25

200s- 28.59, 31.62, 29.38, 29.99, 30.44, 27.64, 

So for the thousands it was 3 min partly active 400m recoveries. The 200s were 3 minute active 200m recoveries. I really didn't feel to energetic during the 1000s, and that made them kind of hard, but it's tough coming back after a week of not running. It was nice to run them relatively fast. The 200s went really well that's a 29.64 average. Is actually enjoyed them I mean they kind of hurt, but only in the short rep way, not the way a set of 1000s does. I felt powerful, and I just focused on keeping my shoulders low and staying relaxed and stuff. Love'em. The last one I planned to run 27.something so that was good. I was running it all out completely and I really really has to fight to keep my upper body relaxed, and I geuss it worked because my coach told me I looked really good. After that I did a variety of different strides ms a cooldown, and really I think I waisted a lot of time just trying to get rid of my tan lines. So after all that fun stuff I went in the weight and did the full set of what we would do in the winter. 

Little shakeout in Merlin-Oslen today. Just a shakeout.

We got to BYU today and then some of went over to Provo High for a little racing before tomorrow. I ran the 400 just to remember what fast running feels like before tomorrow's 800. It was a pretty dang small meet, mostly just kids who weren't fast enough for BYU. So I just ran the 400 like you normally would, sprinting the first 150, cruising, and then sprinting the last 200. It kinda hurt, but I PRd by two seconds. No big deal though cuz it wasn't that fast.

Great day! Waited about two and a half to three hours and then decided I should get warmed up.  While I was jogging they announced that the heats were getting rearranged and reseeded and I got moved from the 5th to the 4th heat. That was okay. So pretty soon I got called into the bull pen and I alsat down and I was hecka nervous and couldn't sit still in my seat. Then we walked out into the stadium and the sun was really bright, and I felt really cool. We were lined up and I was it the first guy in the second ally. The gun went off and I got out good. There was just one guy in front of me, and he pulled away and stayed away. (He ended up running 1:59) I stayed I front of the chase pack until 600 and then some guys passed me, and I had an okay kick, but another guy just barely got me on the line. I looked at the screen and saw 2:04 and I was so happy. 5 second PR. Then maybe an hour later I ran the medley and were in the second heat to golden hour, even Davis's Medley team was in our heat. We came on dead last by a lot but I'll take it. Then I went on a good cool down up to the MTC and back.