GOING THE DISTANCE

3 pm -  The workout for today was different than we've done so far this season.  We had to take the best average 1k time from our 1k repeats workout.  Me and Pauls time was around 3:30.  So we had to do 2000m on the track at that pace.  We were side by side the whole way and my breathing felt solid and it was just some really fun hard running.  Our time was 6:56.  It wasn't too hard except that last lap my stomach started getting that painful feeling when you work your body really hard.  Then we did 1000m at that same pace.  For some reason this felt so much harder but we just worked together and finished strong, 3:28.  We cooled down and warmed up 1.5 miles.  After we lifted weights.  I am improving my bench press a lot, and my hamstrings are getting much stronger, which i'm hoping will help with my patellar tendonitis.

3 pm -  XC practice was a Michigan today.  It was hard.  We started by 1 mile warm up. I was feeling good mentally and I was pretty excited and pumped to go for a PR (24:38). I started out good going behind Abel and Byron for the first 800m.  I kept feeling ok for the first 1.5 miles.  Then I don't know what was wrong today but my legs slowly started to burn insanely painfully.  I tried to stick it in and pick it up to see if it would go away but my legs just were jacked.  They've never felt like that bad.  It felt like i pushed it much harder and my legs were much more sore than last time.  I still was going tough mentally but it just wasn't a good physical day.  I got like 26:15.  O we'll I guess I'll just redeem myself in the race and go under 16 minutes.

3 pm -  good hard workout.  I really pushed it today.  We had lots of sprinting stuff.

3 pm -  today was a nice recovery day.  We went down to 2450 park and ran a mile on the grass then back.  After that we had 4 all out 200's.

3 pm -  race!  My favorite one too.  It was the Cedar Invite.  I was hoping to go under 16 minutes for this race.  That was gonna require a balls to the walls performance.  I had a good fast race, but I didn't go to my whole potential like Preston for example.  I really just need to keep working towards the point where it don't have any fear to go more.  I need to start caring more.  When someone would pass me I really didn't even care.  That's a bad mindset I need to change.  At least I finished pretty strong and passed a Dixie right at the end.