GOING THE DISTANCE

3pm -  Did 1st workout of the year after school today with the track team.  We did 2 1600m repeats.  First we warmed up 2 miles.  Then we did the repeats.  My goal was 5:48.  First one was 5:49 and my second was 5:42.  Everything felt great except a bit of tightness on the side of my left knee which has been there for about a week.  So I am gonna try to do yoga everyday.  After that we cooled down a mile and a half then lifted weights.  

3pm -  Trail run today with the team.  We went over by red hills parkway and ran on the city creek trail.  I had biked this trail before with my dad and it was fun to run on. The pace was pretty quick the whole time so it wasn't exactly relaxed but it was fun.  Knee was a little tight but not too bad.

3pm -  Ran our first tempo as a team of the off season.  It was an AT tempo and my pace was 5:57 for 12 minutes.  Good and pretty relaxed.  Coach is having us do a new loop for our tempos this year instead of down to the river so that was a nice variety. 

3pm -  Kosmin test today.  I got 1494 meters.  Pretty good and it was very hard, harder than the 800m kosmin test while this was the mile kosmin test.  Pretty sore in my knees but yoga later today made everything feel a lot better.

3pm -  Easy day for practice after Kosmin test yesterday.  My results for that say I should be able to run a 4:37 right now.  My Kosmin test last year was really accurate.  So thats good that would be a 5 second PR.  So today we ran 3 miles into greensprings.  It was pretty good, but coach pointed out that my left foot points to the left instead of parralell with my right foot.  Steve from the running center has told me that too but its really hard to run if i point my foot straight.  So that's just one more thing to improve my form.  we also did striders and my form felt swell.

9:30am -  10 minute LT tempo today in a 8 mile run. My goal was 5:17 pace.  I met up with about 12 guys from our team at the sullivan soccer park and ran towards the virgin river trail.  The tempo today was pretty hard.  Our ending pace ended up being 5:25 pace.  Pretty good I thought, a bit slow but I really wasn't mentally into it very much.  On the way back my knee was hurting bad so I took it slower than everyone else.  Just a mediocre run with goods and bads.