Step by step, mile by mile

Well this was it. Every factor was against us on the team. One of our girls dropped, forcing Mason and I to add extra legs to our three original. Rylie got lost and ran an extra 5 miles on her night run. Someone collapsed and Kyrie had to stay with them and call for help for 20 minutes on her last leg. Kedric had knee problems, I had chest problems, and Kenny had some stomach issues. But still, we were at 23 hours and only had one runner left. We knew it was gonna come between us and Alta. We waited on the finish line, knowing Jordan should finish any second now. As the time passing by got ludicrously long, we watched Alta and another team pass by. Then we fell timewise behind another team. It turns out Jordan's tendons had locked up and he barely survived his run(not literally). There was really no one to blame. I gave my all, that's all I could've done. But the website has us ranked second, so I call it that for now. We lost by 7 minutes, which is pretty insane for all that went down. Good times.

AM - rested and did core

PM - 2 mile WU, 8x200m grass hills, w/ 200 rest back down. Drills and 3 mile CD

Snapchat I sent right before had 96 on the degree filter. I think it was being modest. 200's ragned between 31-37, which wasn't great but I felt quite bad. Only felt good on the final repeat and last mile of the cooldown.

AM - 5. Tried to go easy but I didn't have my watch and went quick and just never really slowed. Probs a high 6:30/low 6:40 pace. Gonna try draining my legs after typing this.

PM - 3 on the treadmill, 4 outside in the blistering heat. Apparantly I don't handle warmth well??? Who knew. Achilles hurt a bit at the end. Gonna roll and ice that one out.

Holy moly I was tired today. Original plan was 3x2 miles but marching band was on the track. Then went to the park and changed it to 4xgrass mile instead. Warmed up three and felt pretty trashed. I went out on the first repeat and managed to get .20 in the first minute, but my legs told me to stop. No point in wasting a workout on dead legs. Went 6 miles after. Ran sockless and that was a huge mistake. The last mile my left heel hurt so bad, my limp game was awful. Took off my shoes and ran the last mile on the turf. I might do a short run later and try the workout again tomorrow.

Also I got quantified(finally) which is sick. On the other website it says I have 238 monthly views.

PM - went and lifted, did 3 easy on the treadmill after, ran the last quarter mile at 5:20 pace which felt pretty good. Also did 100 pushups and 100 sit ups.

I woke up at 5:30 and marching band still beat me to the track. WU, speed changes, drills. 4 mile tempo. I went quick the first mile but sustained, but those last two miles I just lost focus. I think it's because, in my head, I was planning to only go hard for two miles. Splits were 5:21(uphill), 5:29(downhill), 5:47(uphill), and 5:47(downhill). So four miles at 5:36 pace. Only a bit faster than when I did it in December, but that was coming off better training, I'm still running on tired legs, and in December I went hard enough that the run injured me. Cooled down for 8.

PM - did 100 push-ups while I was waiting in the Enclave room. Got caught at the end. Was extremely awkward. Did 5 miles up at McCoy. Ran the dirt road loop I never run on. Wow that thing is steep. Averaged about an 8:30 pace the first 3.5ish miles, then picked it up on the downhills for 7:30 pace for 5 miles. Total elevation gain was right below 600 ft. My left shin hurt a bit during it. S/O to Alli bc she blogs so much, truly an inspiration to us all💝(The joke here is she'll never see it because she doesn't even blog)

Ran 2 up main, 2 up the gov. trail, and 3 down back to the rec center. Splits were 7:50, 7:40, 7:30, 7:20, 7:10, 7:00, and 6:50 so that was neat.

4 in the afternoon. For the first time since Ragnar I felt pretty good, and it was in the heat too! Started at 7:20 pace and dropped down to a 6:20 pace by the end. Finished up with some strides, lifted, and did core. If I hadn't done Ragnar I bet I could have been #1 on the mileage board this week. Oh well. Tomorrow's progression run is gonna be prime time blues.

Wow quite the run today. Woke up at 5:20 and drove up to Kenny the Apache's house, where his dad drove us up to brush creek. I say "up" but there sure was a lot of uphill coming back. Ran the first 10 with Kenny and picked it up and finished at the Dino tri. I ran with the leader at the end at about a 5:40 pace which was pretty quick after all I did haha. Jogged just a bit while waiting for Kenny to come pick me up. Avg pace was under 7 so that was rad. Would have finished quicker, but Kenny was going quick at the beginning and I stayed with him. Good work today

I also found out that the winner I ran with at the end was Jason Holt!