The Renegade

AM: Did a run after class from Ryan's Place. I actually dropped down to the windy north/south road that goes into Providence, took that till it ended then headed up center street and eventually to Eck Hill, possibly the steepest bit of road in the whole valley (probably actually). I prepped myself then did a "sprint" up it, although I felt like I was crawling on the steepest part. Ended up with a 2nd place ranking on the leaderboard, darn you Hayden Ewer, I hope you destroyed yourself getting that CR haha. Then jogged back to my car for 6 miles.

PM: Drove up to the ARC for some running and lifting after work. Ran three miles on the treadmill which felt really good actually, then did various standard lifts that I usually do, then did some running on the track with an attempt at a big ten, but the benching I did had completely drained my arms and could NOT do pushups by about 7. 3.5 miles total. 

Parked by the XC course for a workout in North Logan at around three. This happened to be the same time as track practice. The workout was one mile easy, then 5 miles at a moderate pace, then a mile jog and another moderate 3. Well a mile and a half into the run, the "big boys" who had been running behind me trying to catch me came up behind me and I just hitched for the ride and talked to them a bit. They were actually going at 6:20 pace (these were the varsity dudes including Dillon Maggard who took 12th at XC Nats, such a stud) which was a bit faster than the moderate pace I was gonna do but I took the opportunity to run with them and just cut it to 4 miles. Funny guys haha. After 4 miles I dropped off the pace and took a left, and jogged a mile which brought me almost back to the course, so I dropped down to that and finished up on that at the same pace as before. Felt okay, but it was really cold. We'll call it half marathon pace for this workout. Was consistantly within 5 seconds of 6:20 the whole time, they are really good at pacing, and somehown I did the same thing alone. 6:42 ap.

After the cooldown I got in my car and started to feel shaky and weak. It got worse as I drove and when I got home I got into bed as fast as I could, I was not feeling it.

Well, I woke up and had a headache, along with that I had chills and my whole body was achy and fatigued. I still thought it would be a good idea too run, I thought I would feel better if I did... haha nope. Ran from one of the blue parking lots down the highway towards the canyon. As soon as I started I knew it would not be a good run. After running down the hill I stopped my watch and slowly walked up the Bonneville switchbacks to the high line trail and kept going from there, very slow, probably 9 minute pace. Turned around when I hit Stokes and I had stopped maybe 5 times at this point for 5 minutes each time, still going at a snails pace. Hit the hill and tried to suck it up and I only had to stop and walk once going up. Tried to hold on till the parking lot without stopping from there. 

Just an absolutely terrible experience that probably shouldn't have happened. Would rate this as the worst run of 2016. 8:34 ap which was faster than I expected but nothing close to what it would be on normal day. Got homea and didn't take any gear, just went upstairs, crashed on my bed, and slept for 4 hours. Took the rest of the week off from running.