The best pace is a suicide pace

Super intense day. Ran from the HS to the top of Docs beach hill and back, 6.25 miles, with friggin' steep hill. ran with Kenny the first half, ran low sevens, rested for a minute at the top of the hill and started back. As usual I got a huge boost from the downhill, and got a little bit ahead. after about a quarter mile, Kenny caught me. We ran together for a few minutes, then I died off a little. I hung back for a while, but then I caught my second wind, and got back with Kenny. We ran the last mile together, and it felt way fast, I think it was like a 6:20.  Average pace was 6:50. Iced at home.

Way sore from yesterday, had to walk almost half of the mile warmup. After dynamics, we did a two mile recovery run, and then played games. I'm gonna call the games half a mile of fast pace, cuz I was pretty active. Repeat/speed workout tomorrow, I intend to go ham, want to get back under 16:30 at BYU on saturday.

Repeats. Mile warmup followed by 1x1600, 4x800, 4x400, for a total of four miles. splits were 5:33 for the mile, low 2:40's for the 800's, and 75, 75, 80, 69 for the 400's. Pretty consistent for evertything but the fours. Feeling pretty good about today, got in some good speed, iced, now I have two rest days before BYU. 16:30 or bust.

Mile warmup, then the neighbourhood. We were supposed to do core after, but I just stretched instead because I was way sore from repeats. We leave for BYU tomorrow which should be heckafun

Mile WU, then one 90 60 30. super short workout, but I'm not complaining. Got my legs moving at a decent speed, hit a couple of hills, good shakeout run. Psyched for BYU tomorrow

Good race. I didn't get as much sleep the night before as I would've likes, but I felt good. The course is mainly flat, three laps around a 1 mile course. I went out too fast, hit a 5:25 first mile. This hurt a lot and I died off a bit for the second mile, which was a 5:40. I guess everyone else died more, though, because I was still passing way more people than passed me. I picked it back up the last mile and ran a 5:35. This race hurt a lot, I gave my all, and it felt horrible, but great at the same time. Top 6 got medals, top 30 got shirts, so I got my first a top finisher shirt from a big meet this weekend. Final time was 16:40, so 40 seconds faster than 17:18 on the same course last year. This season should be exciting. S/O to the TP in the porta-potties for being the exact same texture  as my math homework. Next up is our home meet this Wednesday. We've never been beat at home, and we don't intend to break the tradition this year.