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

Finally shook the rust off, took care of a few nagging aches, now I'm starting my first week of my new wave of training! Just like the 80s kicked off a new wave of music, I'm gonna kick off a new wave of fitness. 45min easy, 6:58 avg, on main street loop with some barefoot grass loops to finish. Felt good despite the wind and cold. Gonna also start doing some more injury prevention oriented strength training/core and all that on wednesdays and saturdays. Random i know, but variation in training yields the best results. 

First workout of the training block. Ran park loop to warm up, then did 10x400m on the grass soccer fields with 1min rest. Kept the avg around 1:17's, or 5:10 ish pace. 45min total, 7:11 avg pace. Felt hard! But that's to be expected. Got it done. Also thought of a quote that I'm gonna use to motivate myself. "I am now Sage Ducote, the runner; not The Runner, Sage Ducote". I'm training for myself, not Eric Houle or SUU. And it feels amazing! I wanna sit down and put together a race schedule, but I gotta get a better reading on my fitness and budget first. Tentatively though, me and another former teammate will be racing a trail 30k out in Moab in november. Don't hold me to that though. 

Played some intense pickleball with Brady, then ran 45min easy with him on a new loop we're gonna call "north park loop". 5.6 miles, 8:03 avg. felt kinda tired. Might start keeping track of my RHR when i wake up.

Did another workout! 8x30sec hills at home depot hill, jog recovery back to start. Nose started bleeding pretty bad but i pushed through it like an idiot. Man that hill brings back memories. 45min total, 8:35 avg. It's weird to think that when I graduate this spring, I will have spent most of my time in college on the team. WOw

Rest day, RHR 54

RHR 53

6.04 total, 45min easy, 7:27 avg. Just ran up the canyon and back and did grass loops to finish. Felt good! A few weeks ago i was laboring at that pace, now it feels normal.