El Burro Blanco

3 easy miles with the team this morning.

Dealt with lightning all afternoon so the team ran inside around the school. Dang lightning.

Big boy workout this morning with the Circle. Checked the lightning and it was mainly over Utah Hill. Wasn't too worried about it. Very hot and muggy again this morning. 4.4 mile warm up which included a VRPB. Got started on the 8 mile tempo and felt pretty good. I didn't worry about my splits but just wanted to focus on how my body was. Felt amazing the first 4 miles and then turned right in to the wind. Head wind for the next couple miles. I just tried to stay relaxed and work through it. I could see the lightning and and hear the thunder gettting closer. Not good!

Kept catching muddy spots and dealing with lots of water on the trail. I almost slipped really bad once on my backside because I caught a patch of mud. I survived though. Got rained on a little at the end which helped. 5:42/mile. I thought it was a little quicker but looking back the head wind really slowed me down. Happy to get this in. The thunder and lightning were right over the top of us on the cool down back to Clyde's house. We had no choice but to finish up. We all survived! 15 miles total.

.5 miles running with the team as they finished running inside the school.

5.6 miles this afternoon with the team. 6x500m dirt hill repeats doing some of them with the boys and then pushing Laynee and Rachel. The old gray mare he ain't what he used to be. The team looks very good right now. Just need to keep everyone healthy. Legs were pretty tired this afternoon.

3 miles in the morning.

5 miles in the afternoon with the boys over towards the freeway and back on the trails. A little warmer this afternoon.

3 miles in the morning. The mornings have been hard on me lately.

7 miles total this afternoon. Did 4x1 dirt mile repeats over by my parent's house. Slightly overcast made this day perfect. Goal was to run with the boys at 5:50ish pace. They went quicker than this each time and finished very strong. I ran a 5:12 last mile and was dropped like a bad habit. We had 10 solid boys sticking together today. Wow! Won't let them get this excited too often. With the lighter/recovery week I was okay with this.

3 miles this morning.

5 miles this afternoon with the team. Did an easy 4 miles out along the Arizona Strip and finished with 6x100m strides on the turf. Excited to see how the team does tomorrow.

Big boy workout with the guys this morning from the DC Trailhead. Warmed up going to River Road and then came back down. 3 miles fast, 7-8 miles at Tinman, and then 2-3 miles fast again. 5:24, 5:23, 5:18 for the first three miles and then 6:02/mile for 7.5 miles. I was short on time because I needed to get back to the high school for our bus. Didn't feel great once I stopped to use the bathroom.  Jogged one mile easy down the trail and then decided to do once last mile hard. 5:18 for the last mile. Cooled down a bit after wards.

Good workout but I know I could have finished it off if I had more time. No worries!

Very happy with the way the team did today. Varsity Boys, JV Boys, JV Girls = 1st place overall, Varsity Girls = 2nd overall = Coach Fielding is happy!