Run Buffs Run!

Today was a great running day. I ran with the CU team, and we did "the tank", a course signified by a large water tank at five miles into the run. The whole team split up as the run progressed, based on ability and how good each particular runner was feeling. The few runners up front were hitting 5:40 mile clips, and did so for 20 miles. There were other runners, however, who only ran 11 miles and averaged closer to 6:30 miles. I ran 15.3 miles (a bit farther than what the average runner on the team ran) and did so in 1:34. This averages out pretty close to a 6:00 mile pace, so I was pretty happy with the effort. There is a lot of variation on this team. While some runners are very strong, I feel that I can hold my own with the majority of the team, possibly even beat some of the slower runners. It is kind of frusturating to recognize this and still not be on the team, but I'll get my chance. 

Just an easy day today. I wore a watch, but I paced myself purely off how I felt rather than time. I also did some stretching at the end.

Today was a V02max workout day. I began with a three mile warm up, then did 5x1200 meters with the following splits: 3:40, 3:34, 3:40, 3:47, 3:43. I had three minutes of rest between intervals (light jogging). My splits were kind of scattered, but I exceeded my coaches goal pace (3:48-3:52) on each interval, so I was not too dissapointed. I saw Jorge Torres and Steve Slattery out on the track, too. They were doing some speed stuff too, so that made the workout a bit more interesting. All in all, a good day!

An easy run today to recoup from yesterday and prepare for tommorrow. School is stressing me out waaay too much, so this run was kind of lacking in the whole energy thing. I did some strides at the end, and felt ok. Blah.

Today was the economy run. These workouts always seem the most painful to me, so I tried not to think of the workout too much before I went and did it. I went to the same track that I did on Tuesday, and did 6 intervals of speedwork. Each inteval consisted of 400 meters in 65-64 seconds with a 200 meter jog, then a 200 meter run in 32-31 seconds with a 400 meter jog. Not too terrible, but I could definitely feel it. This track is weird. Everytime I have gone there, I have seen some sort of famous runner. Today I saw Chris Lear (author of Running with the Buffaloes) and once again, Jorge Torres. Pretty cool. If I keep going to this track, maybe Paul Tergat might just decide to show up. That would be totally boss.

Today was a really good run. I just decided to run whatever my body felt like today, but to run negative five mile splits. The first mile was about 6:15 followed by a 6:10 mile. From here on out I just cruised at 6:05 pace, before letting myself go on the last mile, which I ran in 5:25. I completed the full ten in 60:11, but what really felt good was the lack of effort it took to run this. I really did not push at all, and this was pretty much what my body wanted to do, so I didn't fight it. I did 8x150 meter strides at the end in grass.