The Renegade

Joined the XC team for practice on this fine morning. We did river trail. We did warmups and core and all then fun stuff first though. About 2 miles in we had the same group of four that were at the run on Saturday. I'm impressed with Collin he's really stepping it up for his senior season. Paul and I started to drop the other two and then they turned around at 3 and I showed Paul Trapper Park, which is 3.5 miles out from the school. At this point we had gone from a couple of 7:45 miles to a 7:05 to a 6:48 so i just decided to turn it into a good progression run, withouting telling Paul initially lol. So then we went 6:42, 6:32, and finished with a 6:20. I was just glad to be feeling good. Kind of reminded me of the progression I did on the treadmill during indoor. Afterwards we did some strides on the turf and then everyone iced in the canal but I got in for 10 seconds and decided I was a wimp so just hung out there. The run was 6:58 ap because of the slow two miles at first.

I was gonna meet up with Johnny (Perez) to run the Logan Canyon this moring but he cacncelled so I met u pwith paul and ran Logan Canyon instead. Since we had that pretty good paced run yesterday we took it really easy, except for when we hit the switchbacks I wanted to get a CR on them so we sprinted up. Unfortunately, I stopped too soon, which is typical. We headed back down at the slowest paced I have probably ever descended the canyon with a GPS, which was low 7s. Average was 7:37.

Met up with Spencer and Hayden for a Freedom Run prep. We met at Lincoln Elementary and then drove up to left hand fork, a mile below the the start line. Headed down a pretty good pace, around 6:30, which got down to like 6:10-6:20. Spencer was hanging back so we stopped and waited for him a few times. The hill actually felt pretty hard, we ran up it at 6:20 pace. The last two miles we picked it up even more. 6:17 average.

Was gonna run somewhere in the morning (can't remember where) but I slept in. I was curious about how far that new canal trail went (from my workout last week) so I drove to the xc course to run it. I got about a mile in, and then there was a private property sign and a guy by it and he told me he owns the trail and doesn't want people running on it. So that put a downer on things lol. So I headed east and onto the main road that Lundstrum park is on and went north. After I started heading up the hill I had somewhat of an accident and turned around for an extremely uncomfortable mile (with a turd in my pants) until I found a honey bucket. Headed back on the road and after another mile I started getting "movements" again, and luckily found another potty. By then I was almost back at the course so I finished up for a mile there. 7:04 average. 

I slept in today and then I was watching the 10k at the trials so it was a while before I could head out so it was almost dark when I did, but it was super humid and I was not feeling good. Headed up to Old Main on 5th North, did the loop and then came back on the xc route. I just was not feeling good. I stopped off at the high school to do a bit of a workout. 4x200 hard with 200 easy, continuous, in the dark, with fireworks for a backdrop. First one was prolly like 32, then a couple 33s, then like a 31. I could tell I have lost lots of speed. They felt good, but they werent fast. Then took it easy back home. 

Slept in again and was really not feeling motivated to run. So when I dragged myself out at eight I decided to just go five instead of seven because I was tired from trying to run relatively even mileage all week in order to be fresh for the 15K. I shoulda done more mileage on Monday. I did the dump loop then jogged a few laps on the Woodruff field. Then finished off that two mile loop at a pretty good pace. 7:05 average.