Relentless

AM - 16 Grapevine/Dirt Mile. Woke up a little late after setting my alarm wrong, but ended up fine. Ran toward the Grapevine desert - everywhere I've gone lately has been hammered by the flash floods from the recent storms. Got to practice and ran 6xmile on the dirt mile at a steady state pace - no big deal. No hard workout today because of Weds.' Race. Then a mile with Pyper. (Barefoot '13 87.5)(Hyper Speed 396.5)

afternoon - 5 DI/AC. Just 2 before practice because I was working on a bunch of XC stuff. Then AC and weights. (Connect 575.5)

AM - 13 Junction. A good morning run despite the heat and humidity, sprinkled just a little. Then a warm with the team and a little more setting up and taking down the courses. (Kinvara Lime 199.25)

afternoon - 7.75 Dino Tracks. Temps weren't too bad this afternoon and the breeze made a nice little run. Enjoyed running today (not that I don't usually, but today was just nice). (Free 803.45)

Enterprise 10K. 32:16

AM - 10.5 got up early to hit the road. Got up there just in time to catch the bus (thought the boys were on another bus, but they ended up missing it because they were in the bathroom and had to hitch a ride to the start - dorks!, no offense to you guys though, it is just a joke and I don't mean any harm to your feelings because of it!). Anyway... Jumped off the bus to hit the John and only got a short 1.5 warm up in. This worried me that my legs would be hurting and blah, but I actually felt pretty good. 1-5:17, started off with the 5K'ers, so it was Logan and Abel, Byron, Matt and Kyler with Colton not far off working this mile together. 2-5:14, was feeling fine but Logan got about 5-10 meters on me. I figured I would try and just close the gap later if I could. 3-5:18, told the boys to make this their fastest mile, so they closed right up on Logan and I thought about going with them, but didn't want to commit too early. Then I noticed that he didn't look as smooth as he had earlier. So by the end of the mile I had closed on him and we made the turn off the main road up into a neighborhood. 4-5:26, different mile than last time I ran this race. It went up a gradual hill into some neighborhood. I grabbed a quick drink and poured most of it on me. I was worried that Logan would come back to me on the hill since he is a much better hill runner than I, but I held him off and tried to push back on the flats. 5-5:23, started having a very bad side stitch on this mile, but I didn't want to dig into it and show Logan I was hurting. Finally it got so bad that I couldn't get any breath in, so I dug into it and tried to calm my breathing down. Was starting to get tired and focusing on shorter sections. 6-5;27, made the turn back onto the main road and gave a glance back. Te lead seemed safe unless Logan unleashed a crazy mile. Since I know he can, I tried to keep pushing. I actually thought I was going much quicker on this mile (felt that it should have been low 5:10's pace, but I guess that is just because I was tired). Finished with 5:10 pace in. Course was short (blah) at 6.1, but I still felt good about the run and pleased with how I pushed on a good honest course (besides the shortness). My boys also ran well and went 1-5 in the 5k. Cooled with them for 3. It was great to up in the cooler temps at 5500 feet. I didn't know if I would ever feel a chill again. (Rocket 2 45.5)

afternoon - 3 Grapevine. Just an easy 3 this afternoon. We had practice from my house and then a swim party, so that was much better than getting a bunch of miles in. Wore my Altras that I had basically retired, but they felt nice. (Altra)

AM - DogTown/Hells Hole. Was tough to get up and get going after yesterday was so much like a Saturday with the race and swimming and staying up for fireworks and all that. So I just ran around town and then down into Hells Hole for a hill workout with the team - 4x1min and 6x30sec. Was pretty tough on the old body. (Barefoot '13 88)(F50 531.75)

afternoon - 8.5 PV/AC. To and from practice and AC. Weights before coming home. I'm not too hammered, but ready for a bit less next week. (Landreth blue 989.15)

AM - 16.75 Fields. Good morning of running. Feeling pretty good through the week. Hopefully that means a solid run tomorrow. Got 5 in before practice from PV Park out to GWA and then had a good run with the level 2/3 boys and Tyson out past Staheli Farm. (Hyper Speed 2 313)

AM - 20 Red Hills Parkway. Went out with the idea of going on the GV loop, but when I got up by the sugarloaf, I decided to keep going on the Parkway and then turn up the course for a few miles. Tried to push it back down the course and diagonal, but was pretty blah. Getting back on top of the parkway I had wanted to get 6 AT tempo miles in, but that didn't happen either. Thought a lot about how my legs have been dead the last two Saturdays. Probably the high mileage and the push from the race this week. But I also wondered if maybe some of it is taking the afternoon off on Friday. Maybe I should go get a short run and not let the legs get flat. I don't know... maybe. Won't be such an issue in a few weeks anyway since school will be starting and my mileage won't be so high. (Kinvara silver 144.75)

Week was okay. Would have better if I could have hit a good workout today.

Goals for next week: XC camp up by Bryce at Pine Lake, so I am just going to enjoy working with the team and resting up my legs a bit. Probably wont be up above even 60 this week.