I can do it. I will do it NINE times!

Morning run: track warmup then stretches and Arctic Circle. Ran with Ally and Michelle Green most of the way out. Perfect cool weather, running felt really great, not slow, but easy just breezin' along. Pushed it harder on my way back, so I went by myself. Knee was great until last 3/4 mile or so.

Afternoon run: warmup, agilities and stretches, then out-and-back 4-miler to Green Springs balcony house. Kinda hot out (comparatively) today! First mile was same as this morning, legs got a titch tired once the hill started, but not enough to slow down for. On downhill back, knee bugged me a lot, tired-ish legs, but just coasted the downhill back. 10x100m striders when I got back - on the turf barefoot and it felt good.

Lifted: 3x10 of leg curls (10), lat pulldown (4,3,3), leg press on calves mid,in&out (90), front and back abs (10), bench (55,45,45) and squats (95).

Warmup(.5), agilities and stretches, big grass loop(.75), then 6x800m repeats at 2 mile pace with 400m jog recovery between. Pretty warm out today, a little breezy. Goal pace 2:54 for an 11:36 2 mile. Repeats:

1- 2:50, not too hard, just remembering to keep pace right, like the first one always is.

2- 2:51, let this one slide a little, still under 'goal pace,' but didn't want to make my first freaking fast and let the rest slow down, so I reset my goal pace to a 2:50. 

3- 2:50, right on, getting a little harder, but led this one out and didn't let times slip, though knee started getting achy on this one.

4- 2:47, put on waffles for the second half of workout, feeling fast w/light shoes and on toes, maybe shouldn't have run so fast, but good for the middle of the workout.

5- 2:48, working hard to keep fast times, back stretch on second lap breathing was really hard, but kept it down on that killer second-to-last repeat.

6- 2:48, just about died trying to keep time down, but last one finally, knee not so nice.

Cooled down out around sandstone elem(.75). Legs dead and ultra slow, but good repeats. Ice and ibuprofen at home.

Warmup and run to Arctic Circle by my lonesome this morning. Felt good.

Aftn: warmup, agilities and stretches then Bank/Mall run 5-miler. Legs tired out, went so slow, felt crappy the whole run basically. knee hates downhills. Only got up to 13 mph on the sign, hot out and tired. Frustration.

Warmup and such, then AT run: Dogpound. Overcast but pretty warm out today, timed run with watch today, felt tired and not motivated, but tried to push it anyway. Times were ok, at least for the first 2 miles, the 3rd just sucked: 6:31, 6:30, 6:57. Knee has felt mostly all right today, just achy a bit the last couple of miles. Mostly I'm frustrated because this is supposed to be a good week to get in some hard training since we don't have a meet, but I feel like I'm wasting it, but not on purpose. Also, I feel like I'm getting slower since my times for the same AT run two weeks ago were better than this week's (6:39, 6:20, 6:47) and those were slower than the week before (6:23, 6:11 & 6:42). Aargh. I'm so frustrated that I just want to go running, but that would just make me more frustrated. :-( Anger anger anger, dar.

Morning at school alone, warmup and Arctic Circle like always-I'd get bored of it except for the fact that I run it asleep half the time. After yesterday's frustration, I decided that I wanted to go fast, so I pushed it hard the whole way. I didn't time it though, that would probably just have been depressing. Had a sideache most of the run, but knee is feeling less achy, so I think my efforts to stretch my ITB more thoroughly before runs have been somewhat successful.     

Afternoon warmup, then Chuck-a-rama run (4.2), I've gotten a bit more used to it being warm out, so all that bugs me about it now is sweat. Ran mostly easy, though I tried keeping my turnover faster than plodding for good practice. Relatively good, knee only a bit of a bother. I think I'm about over yesterday's freakout, though I think I will try switchin' it up a bit on my morning runs.

Easy long run (8-miler) around noon, clocked a new run from my house to River Rd. onto 1450 S then around on 3000 E then onto 2450 S until River Rd. again and back to my house. 'Twas only 7.83 when I got to my house so I ran around in the park for a titch until I got to 8 miles. This run was not my favorite course, pretty boring and flat with only a couple sloping hills and all on roads. Overall good run though, slow 8:06/mile avg., knee ached, esp. the last couple of miles. I think getting a good warmup and stretching my ITB a lot is good for it, since today I didn't warmup and only stretched a little before taking off and it bugged me more than it has since tuesday. Pretty warm out, wished I could've gone running earlier when it was perfect out, but oh well. Happy Easter tomorrow!