Running is a means and never merely an end

5 easy recovery + abs. 7:50 average.

6AM- 1.3 mile warm up around our normal campus loop, then to the lower fields for our normal fartlek. 2 sets of 8 x [40sec hard + 1:20 easy] with 2:30 easy between the two sets. I love this fartlek. I can always tell on this workout how solid my endurance is, which is super encouraging. I'm not super fast on the fast parts because my footspeed is -10, but I always gain on the front group of girls and am right there with them by the end as they fall back a little bit. That came out to be 4.3 miles. Mile cooldown and abs after that.

6PM- 5 mile shakeout run on the treadmill by myself. I've grown to really cherish alone time on the treadmill. Finally a moment to just think and feel and be alone and still (so to speak). Body-weight circuit afterwards.

7 mile tempo at Milliken! Averaged about 7:15. It felt hard, but really productive and so really good. Anya really pushed me today and made sure I didn't fall off, and I appreciated that so much. Shouts out. Didn't do much of a cool down but just sort of jogged around for a few minutes afterwards to get the heart rate back down.

Awesome workout today! Kind of surprised because we had that challenging tempo like 12 hours before. Maybe its because I finally got over 6 hours of sleep last night (?) woohoo! Anyways, 1.3 mile warm up and then it was 1.5 miles, 1 mile, 1 miles with 90 sec rest between each on the lower fields. We hit 6:38 pace on the 1.5, 6:34 on the 1, then 6:27 on the second 1. Times are fine I guess, not amazing, but I just was really happy about it because I stayed right with Anya and Rebeka the entire time. I'm trying really hard to push myself and stay up with that front pack during workouts. They've been really encouraging as well. 2.2 mile cool down afterwards!

8 miles easy recovery run on my own. Felt amazazazing outside! Went down to rail trail, up a mile or so, back out and into Converse Heights, and then back up to Wofford the regular way. Super enjoyable and relaxing run. Stretching, abs, and hip mobility drills afterwards.

Pre-race 4 miles easy with the freshies + strides. Super excited to race tomorrow!! I am setting a goal of sub-20:30, which is 6:36/mile (which sounds easy enough? I just don't know what kind of shape I am really in right now!). Ready to get after it!

First 5k of the season! I feel good about it. I was shooting for the sub-20:30 and I definitely got that! We did so great as a team as well! Last year at this same race we did awful and only had 1 girl so sub-20, and today we had our top 4 sub-20 and Jamie and I not far behind. Me, Jamie, and Chandler ran together or right near eachother for most of the race, which I was happy about. They had a pack of 4 up front as well, so if we can just close the gap between our packs we'd really move up in SoCon rankings. Anyways, mile 1 was 6:22, mile 2 was 12:50. My kick was really strong, perhaps too strong? As in, I could have gone about a hundred meters earlier but I didn't realize the chute was so close! Still, I'm pretty happy with it. 

3 mile shakeout with Mell + abs when I got back to campus!