Running Blog

Starbucks in the dark with Kaylee. She always goes at a quick pace. Then when I got home I did an 8 set and a 5 set of core, plus legs. I even powered my way through the wall-sit and it didn't even feel bad. Tomorrow I may do a workout, but I also might do another easy run and do the workout on Wednesday.

Easy run with Mia. Talked about anything and everything. It was grand. 8 & 5 minute sets of core after. 

2 mile warm up. 2x(6x20 sec up, 10 sec down), 1x1:15 up on Sunrise. 1 mile cool down. Legs and light core after.

Easy 40 minutes with Mia from Nisson Park out to the Maverick on Parkway and back. Light core after. 

Super good day today. The weather was fantastic. I did my long run today and am saving the fartlek workout for tomorrow. I started at the high school and did Foremaster loop. Doing the entire Sunrise hill, even just once, nearly killed me. But Riverside Drive and whatever it's called when it goes up past Jumpin Jacks wasn't nearly as bad as I remember it (although that could be because I remember sophomore year when we were forced to do tempos with the boys up that road). I got back to the high school and wasn't to 60 minutes yet so I went up past the Costco light a little bit, then turned around and when I got back from that I still wasn't at 60 so I went over to Sandstone and back and finally hit the hour mark at my car. Light core and legs after. 

Workout. Not so great. 2 mile warm up on DI loop. 1 mile continuous warm up on the track. 1x(500,400) @ 20 sec/100 with long recovery jogs in between. 1x200 all out. Should have done more 200s, but just wasn't feeling up to it. It is hard to get back in this mentally, because I think I'm just so afraid I won't be able to do it. I actually got nervous before my 500 & 400. Like, race day nervous. I wanted to throw up. And I was alone in the whole freaking stadium-- I could have run 8:00 pace on the repeats and no one would have known. Also, the pace wasn't even hard. But I was terrified. Splits ended up being 1:40 (right on) and 1:17 (a bit fast). Still didn't feel great about it. Bleh.