GOING THE DISTANCE

6am -  Did 4 mile repeats.  Wasn't feeling to hot this morning but it was 6 in the morning.  I got a 5:22, 5:20, 5:26, 5:31.  Not a super good group of times.  And I probably pushed it a little too much on my foot.  Throughout the day it started to hurt.  

did yoga in the morning with the team.  fiji really bugged me this morning I felt like punching her as she was projected upon the wall.

3pm -  did 1.5 mile warm up.  Then Coe workout.  We were supposed to research sebastian coe cause he made the coe workout.  Turns out he is pretty epic.  He is also called Lord Coe.   He is a swag british politition.  He is a member of the paralment.  he was pro chancellor at loughbourough university.  I think he was a runner too.  1.5 mile cooldown 5 miles total.  pumped iron after the run.

3pm -  4 miles dogpound loop.  Practiced handoffs before the run and some after with Abel.  doing the 1600 in the SC invite tomorrow and anchoring the medly team.  The goal is state qualify for both.  

3pm -  Decent racing today

Started out with the 1600m, first event.  Me, Dallin, Andrew, Cam, and Preston went on a 2 mile warm up.  It was really boiling today.  Normal prerace routine, doing strides and stuff.  I soaked my head before.  When the race started I got right out into the lead.  I just went for a good pace not to quick.  It ended up being pretty quick though at 1:03.  I tried to kept that pace going but it just didn't happen.  The heat messed with my head today and I really didn't have a great mental race.  My middle laps were both like 1:12.  I lost my lead on the third lap but going into the fourth lap I heard the split was like 3:27 and that kinda woke me up as I thought, "I could still qualify for state."  I gave a surge there and had a decent last lap; I passed 2 guys and barely missed qualifying for state.  I felt pretty hammered afterwards and felt really lightheaded for a while.  I felt better later and went for a 2 mile cooldown with Jake.

Later was the medly relay, which I was the anchor in.  Me and Abel did a mile warm up.  Our team was Colton, Wayne, Abel, and me.  I was totally exausted but my team set me up great and I couldn't let them down so I dug in and got a 2:04.  We qualified by about .3 seconds.  So now I am officially going to state and it feels good.  I cooled down a mile.  My foot felt pretty sore on my cooldown.  Good day.

11am -  Really rough day on my body yesterday so I went and pool ran.  The team was doing their 600, 400, 300, 200, 100 workout so I got what my times would have been for that and did them all out in the pool.  I did 2x(1:32, 1:00, :45, :26, and :13), each as hard as i could for that length of time.  My recoverys were all around like 40 seconds average.  It was very hard.  I warmed up 5 mins and cooled down 5 mins.

7am -  Met at the Warbys for my run this day.  There was a group of like 10, coach and some varsity guys.  I was feeling really tired from my allergies this week.  Claratin clear sucks.  We ran over in grapevine and went under the freeway and ran on prospector trail.  The pace was quick but running on the trail really made for a nice run.  We ended with 1.5 miles hard. and a good breakfast.