C Mantz Running

AM-4 cold cold miles. 

PM-12 miles and 2 laps on the indoor track doing strides.  Lots of coughing still.  It's been 3 weeks since this started.  It might be a problem.  

10 miles.  Lots of coughing.  It's just hard to run at all with this sickness.  I did pick up the medicine that the doctor recommended.  It ended up being pretty much just a cough syrup.  

AM-3 easy miles on a treadmill because it was pretty cold outside and I was pretty sick of running in the freezing weather.  

PM-2.5 mile warm up, strides, then a 6 mile progressive tempo.  Goal was to run 5:10, 5:05, 5:00, then sub-5 for the last 3 miles.  We went 5:08, 5:04, 5:02(which was weird because this one felt faster and it was downhill a bit, while the second one is uphill), then I didn't get splits because those who I was around didn't have a GPS watch on.  But I finished the 6.06(that's what people's GPS watches said) mile run in 30:10, so that was great.  Faster than my 10k PR pace and it felt controlled. Well, the last mile I was pushing it a lot, but other than that it was pretty controlled.  Jared Ward was running with us for the first 3 miles, but was more like 4:40 pace for the next 3.  It was pretty crazy to watch as he just looked like he was running with absolute ease as he left us in the dust.  Like, he didn't even seem like he was pushing it. I coughed a little bit during the workout around 2.5 miles, but had almost no problem with the workout.  Lots of spitting though from mucus built up in my throat.  After the run the coughing was pretty bad.  Enough that I lost some of the food I ate earlier today.  Kinda gross.  Cool down back to the park(over a mile), then cool down back to the school(2.5 miles).  

10 easy miles on the extended carter-ville route.  Ran with Dallin Farnsworth and Zack Jacklin for the majority of it. When some of the guys went to use the bathrooms on the team, we kept going because we were pretty tired from yesterday and wanted to run slower.  They caught up around mile 8 or 9 and gave us a lot of crap for leaving them. I learned that I really enjoy running with a smaller group some days. 

4 easy miles in the morning.  About 6:30 pace.  The day is going to be busy with studying for finals.  

Did some studying then ran another 5 miles 

15 miles in St. George. More coughing than usual and I had to stop running about 4 or 5 times until I stopped coughing. My throat felt so sore after. I talked to another doctor that is a family friend and he recommended an antibiotic. Hopefully it works because my throat hurts so much and makes running so miserable. One good part of the run was where I got to run with Collin from the blog.