Sock tans

My calves are incredibly sore from Saturday (3 miles in spikes will do that to you - especially if you normally don’t wear spikes). My legs are still dead tired from last week too, but we didn’t do much last week so? Kind of feel like I’m running myself into the ground if I’m being honest. This week is a week of effort soooo I’m just gonna die. I might talk to coach and ask for a day of recovery tomorrow if I still feel like this.

Today’s workout was 2x1000 with 1 minute rest after both, 2x800 with 90 seconds rest, 2x500s with 2:00 rest, 2x200s with 3 minutes rest. Pace increases as the intervals get shorter, 200s all out. Goal for the 1000s were 3:30-3:45. I hit 3:32, 3:45. Goal for 800s was 2:50-3:00, hit 3:23. Then coach told me to cool down. I’m kind of discouraged but at the same time I’m so dead tired and know I wouldn’t have been able to get the quality out of the workout like I needed if I kept going.

Weights later, today the workout increased.

AM: Steeple practice, did continuous jumps today for 5 minutes and it was actually pretty tiring. Think I will count that plus drills and other jumps as a mile.

PM: 50% run today, hallelujah. I definitely needed it. 8 mile dikes, 7:40 average. 

The workout today: 3x500s and an 800. Hit 94, 1:40, 1:46 and 3:25 (yikes, I gave up halfway through and just told myself to finish). So yeah, not the best, but time to move forward.

Weights later. 

AM: Steeple practice, counting everything we did as a mile.

PM: Workout was 2x50/80 at the track (mile for each), 10x100m strides at 3k pace with 15 seconds recovery. For the 50/80 it’s continuous, the miles at 50% are basically recovery. Time went: 7:22, 5:56, didn’t catch this 50 but it felt like a 7:15-7:20, and finished with a 6:20. First 80 I basically just went off the group, fell off a few seconds in the last 400 but it felt very even and relaxed. I honestly was surprised that I broke 6:00. The last mile at 80% could’ve been better, but overall I’m happy with it. Strides then cooled down 3 miles, 7:37 average.

Legs have recovered a bit, still are sore but feel much better than they did a couple days ago.

Mile warmup then 60% today. Coach had us do it on the track. Range was 6:15-6:45, I felt relaxed. First mile was a 6:18, coach wanted us to stay as a group and I just tucked in at the back. 1.5 in I started to fall off, surged to stay with the pack. Fell off about 10 meters the third lap of the second mile and when I came around by coach he told me to finish the next lap and then go on a distance run. Finished with 12:49 so 6:31 second mile. I was kind of disappointed, I was still well within the range? But coach wants us to stay as a group so I guess as soon as I fell off that was it for me. Anyway, for the little that I did I was happy. I was really relaxed and it didn’t feel too difficult. 4.5 miles cool down on Main Street.

Shout out to those who traveled to NAU this weekend! Not many distance runners went but those who did killed it! Casey broke Cam Levins’ indoor mile record with a 3:55 and Maddy broke 5:00 for the first time with 4:48! Speedy quick. Two sprinters ran the same time and set a new school record and a heptathlete I think also broke into the record book. Our team is going places! Also forgot to mention that last week at UW Angie, Madison and Maddy all broke 17:00 in the 5k. Yep, those are my teammates!

Easy distance run, 10 miles. 7:35 average.

I’m going to bump up my miles next week, I wanted to this week but because of the 4 days of “effort” coach had told us all to drop our miles a little... so I just stayed about the same haha. Going to start my 8, 10, 12  rhythm.