Thatcher's Running Blog

It was cold today, but it was a pretty good run. We went out for 30 minutes, and back in 27:30. I ran with the freshman guys. Our average pace was 6:34. Our last mile was 6:00, and it felt easy, which bugs me because on Saturday my last mile was 5:50, and it felt very hard! My hip flexor is a little sore, but I'm going to ice it tonight. 

Four easy miles in the morning. Today was the coldest it's been so far, but it wasn't too bad once I got going.

For practice today we did a 5,000 meter fartlek and a 3200 meter fartlek. For the 5,000 we went 400 hard, 400 easy, 400 hard, 400 easy, 400 hard, 400 easy, 1200 hard, 800 easy, 600 hard. The hard pace was supposed to be 74 second 400 pace, and the "easy" was supposed to be 84 second 400 pace. I was right at the front of the group for most of the 5,000, but dropped off a little bit at the end. I finished up at 16:08, the fastest was Brandon at about 16:00.

We had a ten minute rest, and we went into the 3200. For this, we went easy, hard, easy, hard(800), easy(400), hard(800). I stayed back a little bit on this one, and I moved up on the last easy 400. I pushed it really hard on the last hard 800, and I was about 2:19 on that. I finished up behind Trevor and Miles, and I almost caught Miles. My time was 10:03 or so. We measured it after, and it was a little bit short, maybe ten seconds or so. But it was still a good workout, and the top guys were only about ten seconds faster than me on their 3200.

I warmed up 2.5 miles and cooled down 2.5 miles, so that makes ten for practice, and 14 for the day.

I ran with Neal and Blake today. We kept it pretty easy. My heel was hurting today, and I iced it. Besides that, I felt good. We were about 6:50 pace.

I planned on running this morning, but my foot/heel was hurting, so I decided not to.

I didn't really feel like running this afternoon either, but I did. The traveling team and coach were gone, and some guys who were here decided not to do the workout today, so our numbers were limited. I guess only the truly committed guys ran today.

For our workout we did six 3:00 intervals. We weren't really pumped for this workout, but it ended up pretty good. I'm not sure my position on the first five, but we were all pretty close together on all of them. The last one was my best though. I was feeling sorta sick to my stomach, but once we started, I cut in right behind James. I stayed right with him until thirty seconds left, and pushed it hard, finishing just ahead of him. We finished a lot ahead of everyone else. I'm not sure how much, but I would guess ten seconds at least. My heel hurt pretty bad, but I iced it and it's feeling better. I don't want to get a bad injury now, so I'm going to talk to the trainer tomorrow, and if necessary take some time off. I figure now is a better time to take a break, because I won't be racing for a while.

Does anyone know what my injury could be? My heel hurts on the outside near the bottom of the heel. It doesn't seem like a muscle pain, but it doesn't hurt when I push on it. It seems to warm up as I run, and it hurts when I push off of my foot, and hurts more when running on my toes.

Nothing today.

I went  easy today. I ran in Salt Lake with Morgan, Shalaya, and Gemachu. My heel felt pretty good, but still a little pain. It felt better though. We averaged about 7:00 pace. The last 400 was about 74, I had forgotten how fast Gemachu likes to finish.