The Renegade

TOTAL TIME: 45:00 (R)

I slept in this morning and missed cross country, so that ment sitting around all day and trying not to not completely sabotage my evening run by eating too much junk food, not hydrating well enough, etc. So at about 6:30 or 7:00 I rode my bike up to first dam to run the shoreline trail.  It was pretty hot, and I wasn't feeling too great. When I got to the end, I decided to take a more flat and shady route back, so I went through the neighborhood by Lundstrom park and Hillcrest until I hit the dam again. Not a very enjoyable run today, but that's what I get for sleeping in.

TOTAL TIME: 40:00 (R)

Nice "pleasent" heat run up to the riverwalk from home and back. Felt pretty sluggish. I think it was the heat and humidity, or my lunch I don't know. All I can say is the sun is an interesting and tricky thing, and you can't live with it but you can't live without it either.

TOTAL TIME: 5:00 (WU), 25:00 (R)

Moderate run at morning XC. I was feeling a little more tiredt than usual, and it might have been from those heat runs.  We went to the river trail, and on the way back the pace felt pushed even though it was just barely under 7, but it was nothing I couldn't handle. We played ultimate frisbee after the run.

TOTAL TIME: 44:00 (R), 6:00 (WO)

Evening run from the house to about halfway up canyon rd. and back. I felt okay, just a little tired and stiff, and a little bit after I started up the road my heart started beating really fast. In the middle of the run at the turnaround point I did 6x (15 sec @ 2 mile pace w/ 45 sec recov. jogs). That was the workout written by coach. It was pretty easy because of the shortness of the fast parts and the long rests. My stride loosened up a bit more on the way back, but I still felt tired. After the run I did aprx. 4x50 meter barefoot strides in my yard and then about 5 minutes of core.

I woke up for morning cross-country, not knowing if it was cancelled for the holiday or what, so I ran to the school. That way I could just keep going if nobody was there. I took it pretty slow; it was an 8:10 mile. Turns out there wasn't a soul who showed up, and I felt pretty stupid. So I continued after some extra stretches, at a faster pace than before. I basically just did a loop through most of river heights (river heights is pretty small), the one with all the hills that comes out through the nature park. From there I took a pretty direct route back home. After that I ran about 400m worth of accelorators. I was pretty bummed that practice got cancelled. Independence Day shoulden't be an excuse to put off training, so I figured at least a few of the more serious people would show up. Nothing even goes on that early anyway.

Friday night I made a plan to ride my bike up to Providence Canyon at 6 in the morning. That plan didn't really work out. I didn't get enough sleep that night and then slept in till about 10:30. But I decided I would still go and left around 11. Once I got up there I ran a mile up the canyon and decided that today was not my day for a long run and turned around. Probably dehydration. I didn't drink enough water friday and it was hot day for a bike ride with a lot of steep hills. This week was my lowest mileage of the summer, which proceeded my highest weekly mileage this summer, so I guess it adds up. Next week I'll make sure I go above forty since scout camp is the next, and then that will be my lowest mileage week all summer no doubt about it.