Step by step, mile by mile

Today's workout hurt. I drove to the sand dunes about 30 minutes out of town to get a new workout, what I didn't plan on, however, was how difficult it would be. It may have been soreness from yesterday's run, or from my stomachache, but it hurt pretty badly. I did a one mile warmup on the highway, then ran 4 miles around the dunes. They were very hilly and my feet kept slipping due to loose sand, and that combined with the fact that I only had a one mile radius to run around made for a slow pace, but it hurt, which is good. I'll need to be sure to do this run again, as I've heard from multiple sources running up dunes builds leg muscles drastically for running up hills, which is really what I need to make my stremgth if I want to break 15:30 at sugar house and place top ten. After the four miles I ran a mile and a half down a pretty steep hill at an easy pace, and the. Turned around and ran back up it. It was about a 400 foot hill, but I still managed to keep up a 7:45 pace for the most part. I'll need to remember this as well for hill training. After I ran back up the hill I got lost for half a mile trying to find my truck, once I found it I ran a cool down mile and went home. I think I need to keep the next couple of days easier training-wise. This is the training I need to do every day to get my goals, but I haven't worked up to this level of intensity so I'm fairly wary of injury. After camp usa, however, this needs to be the quality and intensity of my daily training(at least). Surprisingly after an ice bath I haven't been all that sore, possibly because I've worn calf sleeves for both of my past two workouts. These past two days have definitely made my top ten hardest workouts. Can't wait to see what's on that list in ten months. Another recent goal I've developed in my brain is to qualify for the Adidas 2016 dream mile. Farfetched I know, but I'm willing to but everything on the grind for the next year until I get to that level of speed.

Went to the track, but turned out there was a team dinner going on at the time, so I waited for them to leave the track, did a one mile warmup, and did a 5k run. My first mile was at a 6:10, then 6:00, then 6:02. Felt good, besides the rain downpour. After that I did a 400, 300, 200, and did one third of a mile for my cooldown until the weather got to the point where I could no longer run,

Did a 1 mile warm-up, then did an easy 5k at 6:40 pace. 1 mile cooldown afterwards, then I lifted for about an hour.

Ran a 1.1 mile warm-up at a speedy 5:47 pace. Planning on a distance run, I got about a tenth of a mile out until major calf and arch pains forced me to jog back to my truck and drive home for injury prevention.

Mile warm-up, and about twenty minutes of stretching because I was still having pretty big pains in my lower left calf. I went for a 4 mile run, averaging out a 6:31, 6:53, 6:18, and 6:00. My calf was hurting pretty bad the first mile and a half, but after that the pain subsided and I was able to pick up the pace. After that I did 3 300m wind sprints (about 47-49 seconds each) and I did a mile and a half cooldown and went home. After thinking about my goals for the season, I'd like to break 16 at time trials this year, with a high hopes goal of sub-15:40. Icing leg currently to recover faster.

No run today. Today was the last day of school, so I sent it hanging out with friends and watching seniors graduate. I feel bad about not running, nut then again all my friends(runners) were eating donuts and stuff like that while I chose to keep my palette pretty clean, so I guess I did something right today.

Also I've been reseaching my injury alot, and what I've assumed it to be through many websites and such I found it to be what I thinnk is Achilles Tendonitis. I guess I increased my mileage too quickly at too intense of a pace, which resulted in me hurting myself. Once again I'm icing right now, and I looked up a few stretches to do as well. I think I'm going to aim for 40 miles this week, but for the next week or two I think I'll drop down my mileage to 30-35 miles a week to recover. I really hope to get better soon because I want to be the best, and an injury will not assist that.

Didn't run today because I'm afraid of injury, however I did mountain bike six miles, and it was even more dangerous. I fell off a ton, and cut up and banged up my legs pretty badly. Not a great day. Good exercise though. Major icing and stretching to maximize recovery.