The Renegade

TOTAL TIME: 50:00 (run)         AVERAGE PACE ON RUN: 7:30 mile

Slept in and missed XC again so I ended up having to run at night. This was my first run in my new shoes that I got on Saturday, and I really like them, although there wasn't a huge difference compared to my last ones since they're just the latest version of the same shoe. I think they helped my form out better than the last ones. I basically ran up to the temple and back with a lot of weaving in and out to make it longer without getting too far away. I felt better then I expected to be feeling. I really like running at that time in the evening (8:30 - 9:30), but it sure does feel good to have your run over with early in the morning. 

Evening run up to the east side of logan and back home. I don't exactly remember how many minutes it was today, probably about 45. Maybe if I had gone a little later than it would've been more enjoyable, but I was not feeling it. The way I felt at the end of the run could be likened to how I would feel after racing a 5K at 100%. I still hope that I can go above 40 this week, and then next week I'll run maybe 26. (scout camp)

AM:          It felt good to be back at cross-country seeing that it's been a week since I've ran with another human being. We had a .4 mile which felt pretty good. Then on our run (the river trail loop backwards) coach had us do push segments after about the first mile or 5-10 minutes. We did 6 x (20 sec 2-mile pace w/ 1 min jogs), so basically the sam thing as last week but longer on both sides. After that portion I had a hard time keeping up with the group for the rest of the run. It almost felt like I was racing. Probably because I'm not used to just going on and running a long distance immediatley after doing something similar to a workout. 200 meter stride after (31 sec) and then we did 5 minutes of core. We did the run in 30 minutes and it was about 4.3 mile long. 

PM:              I got a new pair of shoes to race in this season and do some training in too. The run a little over 2 miles long (and it was really close to home). After that I did some practicing with my form for a little over 800m, and finally some barefoot strides in my yard. (.18) The shoes were great. They're zero drop shoes, and the other brooks I have have a 12mm drop, so they felt alot different, but they were so much lighter and connected with the ground really well. It put pressure on some muscle groups I'm not used to using, so I'll have to run in them more before I race with them, but overall  I think I'm really going to like them and I may even switch over to minimalist shoes for the most part after these.       

Nice evening up to the area by Old Maine and back. I took a road on the west side of mainstreet that I've never ran on before, just for a change. It's always nice to mix things up once in a while. It helps training not be as redundant. I felt really good and it pleased me to realize that I had better form right then than I ever have before.  Those shoes probably helped out alot. Although after going up Old Maine, going down too far and having to back-track and go up another hill, I got a little bit more tired. But I would definetely have to say that was the best run all week so far.

Wow, crazy practice today. First we did a mile warmup, and then Chazel had us run to Merlin Olsen Park, but we had to get in 20 minutes of running before we could do what we were doing. So me, Luke, Damon, and Jake did an indian run to the park, and we realized we had only been running for 3 minutes. So Damon took us on this wacky obstacle course that he just made up as we went (I mapped what would be close to it: course{Damon's Crazy XC Course} ). So we basically ran in circles for 1.5 miles (we had already done .5 getting there). Then the whole team played soccer for maybe 45 minutes, which was super fun.  

 After that I went on a good 6 mile run with Mark and Johnny up to first dam, and on the way back we took an extension of the canal trail that I didn't know about before. That was maybe 37 minutes, and I felt good, but it felt longer because of the shoes I was wearing, and I started to get blisters towards the end. I really shoulden't run that far in brand new shoes that are so minimal. Great run. We iced in the canal after and then I drank 2 big bottles of water before I went home.

Good run today. I was surprised at how good I felt with the long run yesterday but it was pretty enjoyable. I felt like I did on Thursday. All I did was go about 15 minutes out (which got me to the start of the rivertrail, and then came back, but the last half mile I staged a 5K finish, so pretended I was finishing a race. It was in between 3 and 3:10. Then I did a couple hundred meter strides and that was it. Break week nexxt week at scout camp (meaning lower mileage), but I'm still going to run every day. There is a 5K that I'm going to run, since I haven't timed it since May.