Sage Ducote,the runner; not The Runner,sage ducote

Morning: another solid workout for me. Warm-up drills and form mile, then warmed up to bicentennial for 10x1k, 90sec rest, goal range 3:05-3:20. The grass was tall and wet so that was interesting. Did strides then got started. Hit 3:18, 3:14, 3:15, 3:13, 3:12, 3:14, 3:20, 3:17, 3:17, 3:17. Great coinsistent splits! Was with the pack til the 7th rep, then I fell off and grinded with koy and jiree. Huge workout, low rest, felt great. Cooled down to the track, jogged to 11, then had weights and lifted. Good stuff from everyone today!

Morning: 4 easy shakeout on grass, 7:49 avg. Mountain workout this afternoon

Afternoon: 50% on the mountain with the boys, 6:49 avg, chill pace. Good run and good conversations.

Morning: warm-up and the form. Then 50% with strides after, 6:40 avg. Weights after. Legs a little tired but I think they'll feel good by riverside

Afternoon: 4 easy on grass with the boys, 8:30 avg. Felt nice

Morning: it was really thundering and lightning, I got out the door for a shakeout and made it out 1 mile before I got spooked by the lightning and turned around. Dang.

Afternoon: drove down to mesquite for practice today. The plan was 60% with 30sec pickups at mile pace, twice per mile. That didn't happen, we got going as a group and 6:20 pace felt hard, so it was changed to 50% and 30sec pickups. Everyone was just drained today, wonder why. Sometimes I like when coach changes the workout, today was one of those days. 10miles, 6:29 avg.

Evening: pre meet on the course at UC Riverside. 10 total. 8k course, then last 1k at hard effort, ran 3:00. Then 3xStarts. Cooled down back to the hotel. Feeling ready.

First collegiate 8k! I raced like an idiot haha. Gotta stop going out so hard and get back to my roots of going out easy and working my way up. Went out with the Kenyans from Alabama, then died from there. Still finished 24th, not too bad. Our team won the race though! Somehow lol. Cooled down a bit, good stuff. Work to do, but good stuff

Update: coach had my splits for the first 5k, went 4:46, 9:55, 15:08. I went out WAY too hard. I really gotta ease into it, it's hard mentally but I gotta start doing that again.