Step by step, mile by mile

6.75, nothing too intense. My legs felt much better. My knee was an ever slight nuisance towards the end but no worries, i took an ice bath when I got home and felt much better. I felt pretty tight towards the beginning of the run but it mostly faded away, but my chest felt tight the entire time, I didn't hydrate very well. I had a fun night with Emily after. We played air hockey, ate some Quiznos, and made fun of Star Wars more than we watched it, honestly. It's a good life.

I wasn't allowed to drive in the hard falling snow today, so I was driven to the rec center(the roads were completely salted but oh well). I did a warmup inside, and did an easy run to my house down mainstreet. It was snowing pretty hard during it, but I still still think I overdressed a lot. I wore heat spandex and my state jacket and I couldn't feel the cold at all. Unfortunately my legs have no life in them if it's hot, so I felt pretty sapped. Also I stepped in a huge puddle about a mile in and got my shoes soaked. Since my run was from point A to point B, I made my route so there was a pretty large elevation gain. I wanted to run more, but it feels good to be running without pain. I requested a new style of BOA 1 inch shorts for Christmas and I can't wait to show them off at Cali if I get them.

I drove up to McCoy, got about a third of a mile in and the conditions made me turn back. The wind was way strong up there thus the new fallen snow was hitting like a blizzard, it was awful. I drove to the high school and started over. The first couple miles my knee was worrying me a little bit, but then the pain just disappeared(I think the pain is from my left hamstring so maybe I stretched it out while I ran). At about 30 minutes in I did two sets of 90-60-30's, going my normal pace on the rest times. I hit right about at .3 miles for 90 seconds, .2 for 60, and .1 for 30 both times so that consistency was pretty righteous. I did a square from the high school to Aggie to the rec center to the hospital and back. Felt good. I drove back to the rec, ran for a couple minutes to warm up, and lifted/did core. Good workout! The tempo part of it felt easy, I wasn't going all out and it was still pretty quick.

Easy shakeout in the morning. My knee hurt at the beginning but about a mile in felt better because my hamstring got stretched out. After I got home it started bugging me again though. I'm not sure whether to run through this or rest my legs, but I'm going to test the latter option so adios until Monday. I'll lift and do some core until then.

core. Why were all the stores closed today????

Also I got to skype Brendon "Based God" Merrell at the Merrell's house today with Kyrie, Brendon, and Drew! It was sick, been missing that ragamuffin lately, I donn't know how I'll survive track this year without our stupid amazing inside jokes

Core in St George. A little calf work and a couple minutes on the stair machine just to get the legs some life in them after 7 hours in the car.