Workout. 3-mile warmup, 5.5-mile tinman tempo, 3-minute cooldown, with 10x100m strides. Ran a nice loop near my parent's house in Brazil, IN. All miles on were small rolling hills.
| Mile |
Split |
| 1 |
5:48 |
| 2 |
5:40 |
| 3 |
5:40 |
| 4 |
5:36 |
| 5 |
5:36 |
| 5.5 |
5:39/mile pace |
It was a decent workout. The first couple didn't feel that great, but I eventually warmed up a bit. 6:12/mile average pace for the run.
(Elite: 80 miles)
Later in the morning, we all drove over to watch D-I XC nationals. My parents only live about 10 minutes away from the course, so it seemed wasteful not go. I hadn't been to a XC meet since my own national meet my senior year (7 years ago). I definitely miss the aura and electricity of nationals, and the feeling of running on grass. I bumped into Nate Long, who was there to watch his wife (Weber State). Other than that, didn't see anyone I knew. I cheered for Pat Smyth (Notre Dame, 15th place), since he is a Utah boy, and also cheered for Seth Pilkington (Weber) and the BYU teams. The Liberty kid managed to hold off the Oregon dude for a fairly exciting finish, something like 29:20 or so. It looked like Oregon beat everyone pretty bad, but I never checked the final score. NAU looked strong as well. The women's race was less exciting, as the Texas Tech girl just crushed everyone. BYU had a pretty strong spread, but no one up front. The two Weber girls looked like they did pretty well, perhaps AA. Again, I didn't check the finals, so don't know who won team-wise. Anyway, it made for a more entertaining afternoon than just sitting around my parents' house watching TV.
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