Running is a means and never merely an end

70 minute easy-moderate run with last 10 being at a controlled hard effort. Averaged 8:20/mile by my watch, with the last 10 min at about 7:25-35. Several of my teammates were having some aches and pains in their calves and such, but I felt great today! Much better than yesterday. I was coasting for the majority of the run. Good to be back at Wofford.

40 minutes recovery out and back from campus + weight lifting.

1.75 mile warm up, 5 mile tempo, 1 mile cool down. Tempo was supposed to be 7:30/7:30/7:00/7:00/7:30. I didn't do a very good job with the splits, for a number of reasons I won't get into. I hit 7:18/7:38/7:13/7:11/7:32. Those arent even very good splits, yet I was absolutely beat. My legs felt like iron and I was breathing so hard. I asked coach Harris if we could maybe try to move our weight lifting to workout days instead of lifting on easy days, so my legs wouldn't be so heavy and tired from squatting on the days we are supposed to be recovering. He's gonna work on it. It's just hard with our M/W/F class schedules. 

5.2 miles easy. Lots of good conversation and fun on this run with Halee, Breck, and Anya. 7x100m hill sprints afterwards, weight training. I'm pretty sore from all of our weight training...I'm excited to back off on that over Christmas break.

AM- 30min easy exploring around downtown! Super fun run.

PM- 40min at Milliken with Breck. 

Pre-meet with the crew as usual! First indoor meet is tomorrow, at App State. I'm not sure how I feel about it! I haven't really thought about it at all honestly, finals are next week and I've just been studying a lot and tying up loose ends for my classes this week. Not exactly a convenient time to have a meet, the weekend of finals, but I'm only running three thousand meters so how bad can that be. I'll just bring my books with me.

First indoor meet of the season!! I only ran the 3k today. I actually really enjoyed it! I've never ran a 3000m before, but I guestimated what my time would be had that been a full 3200m, that probably would have been a PR! Plus since it was in Boone (elevation 3,333), we get an elevation conversion so my time will be like 5-10 seconds less or something.

We got out comfortably fast the first 400, I think like 80 flat or so. First mile was 6:01. So that is close to an even split for the mile pace of the last 1400m. I was in 6th for most of the first mile, and then Breck surged for a straightaway and passed me. That pushed me a little bit and I started steady gaining on her. While I was gaining on her, she was gaining on Katarina (WCU girl) in front of her. By the time I passed her back with 200m or so to go, they were both together, so I passed both of them and finished 5th. I was tired but I think I had a weeee wee bit more gas in the tank, like I could gave kicked 20 meters earlier and cut 2-3 seconds. But other than that I was pretty happy with my time honestly, but my coaches didn't seem too pleased. Not sure why. Essentially a PR didn't seem too bad to me for our first meet of the season.