A few thoughts/aspirations about the next few weeks...
I'm racing a 2-mile road race next Saturday. The plan is to go sub ten. Two weeks after that I'm going to Birmingham(where they held DI nationals earlier this year) to race at the BSC icebreaker. I'll be signing up for the 3k, mile, and 800 and race what I feel like(probs 3k and mile, but if I feel I need another couple hours to recover from the 3k, I'll drop the mile for the 8). With the San Diego half marathon just 20 days later, I think my half debut will have to wait a while. Maybe I'll race a Christmas 5k instead. I'm glad. Instead of tons of half marathon training/stressing over break, I'll have time to relax, run some killer trails and smash some workouts.
It's been a couple of months since my last real race(CC and homecoming were more of brisk jogs). I'm starting to get some speed in my legs and that excites me. I ran a sub 5 mile a week ago, and I barely did that senior year due to sickness(and suckness). I'd like to get back the level of speed in my legs where I can run sub 2:15's and sub 60's in track work again. I'm not too far off; I did a sub 30 200 earlier in the week and from how I felt I could have held it at least to 300m.
This last summer I got some crazy mileage in that gave me great endurance, but in return I was putting so many easy miles in my legs that I didn't put enough hard ones(except maybe some good tempos before Ragnar). I sacrificed my 5k fitness for the one of a marathoner, when 5ks were the only thing that mattered. That's my midnight ramblings, I don't think I've had any on the blog yet.
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