Just do it

Beast creatures... First speed workout since before the break. We ran 1.5 down to Liberty Park and then did 4 x 1 mile repeats.  I was pretty tired but I was able to maintain an AP of about 5:50 so I was okay with it.

Our coach had seriously misplaced the cones so it was long.  My watch beeped at a mile and he was still about .14 miles away.  Instead of stopping there though I kept running to the cone.  Gave me an idea for a new shirt.  "Westminster Cross-Country/Track... We go for the cones." 

 Good run today except my body doesn't like afternoon practice.  At about mile 3 I started feeling some serious gas and I couldn't relieve it!  Then at about 4.5 miles I had to stop for a bit to see if that would help the relief factor. I felt a bit better and decided I wanted to catch up to my teammate who had kept going.  I did mile 6 in 6:10 so I caught up just fine.  It was really cold though and my eyes felt weird when I went inside.

 Did some beastly core work with weight plates after the run.  Not too shabby.  

Went out to the Olympic Oval today for our interval training.  We did 12x400 meter intervals.  The first two were pretty chill at about 85.  The next six were at about 80.  The last four went 79, 77, 75, 73.  It was meant to be consistent but speeding up after all those is pretty good so I was happy.

Cross training day.  I just did freestyle non-stop for 50 laps.  I decided it's much easier for me when I count the laps.

Slow... It had snowed and I always feel like poop when the run starts on an uphill.  Coming down 5th South the sidewalk had been covered by the snowplows so it felt like I was running through about a half a mile of sandboxes. 

Coach told me to run 9-10 and I was planning to but I went with Jef and Oliver who were planning to run 13.  When we got to the Temple (about 5 miles) I decided I would just keep going with them and it felt sooo good!  Great run!  We were just chillin at an 8 min AP.  It's quite a climb from the Temple to the top of the avenues along the road above the cemetery.  I had to stop again on this one.... 

Quote of the day: "Hang on guys... I can't gas while I am running." - Me