Thatcher's Running Blog

This is my first time running since Wednesday. My achilles was hurting a lot, but it's feeling better today. I'm going to take it easy until it feels totally better, just play it by ear. If it hurts at any time, I will stop running. On the run today, I could barely feel it, and it doesn't hurt more than it did before. I did 30 minutes today, about 4.25 miles.

My achilles was feeling pretty good, so I decided I would try doing the workout today. We only did five four hundreds today. It felt good during them, and it doesn't hurt anymore after doing them. I think it's almost better now. My times were 65, 62, 64, 65, 64. They felt pretty east and pretty controlled. I kept the first one relaxed, and was in the middle of my group. On the second one, me and Trevor lead it and pushed each other to finish in front. On the third one, I was a second or two behind the front. On the fourth one, I pushed it the last 100 and was just behind the leaders. On the last one, I kicked the last 100 to get up in front with Trevor. My legs were pretty tired, but I had a lot left in me.

I did 42 minutes today. I went out with everyone and me and Dylan turned back early. My achilles feels fine, a little sore, but getting better. I'm just going to increase my mileage slowly, doing a little more each day. We did 6.25 miles, and it felt pretty easy. We averaged about 6:30 on the way back, and it felt really easy and good.

Today I did a race. I originally thought it was a 5k, then 2.5 miles, then we were told it was 3000 meters, but it ended up being about 2.15 miles. I didn't decide to run it until this morning, so I didn't really care how I did. I was just going to see how I felt. All the guys who weren't running at nationals did it. I started out in the pack, and it felt a little fast. After a half mile, I settled in, and I felt pretty good. A mile in, I was behind the main pack about five-ten seconds. My garmin had the mile at 4:43, but I would guess I came through around 4:50. After an uphill, I started gaining on the pack. I got closer to them, but couldn't get up with them. After this, I didn't really push too hard. Trevor passed me, and I let him go. I didn't really kick much at the end, and one other guy passed me. My time was 10:34. The winning time was in the 9:50's. Most of the other guys were around 10:10-10:20.

I'm not too dissapointed about my time, because I didn't really try my hardest. I should have pushed myself harder mentally and tried to stay with the pack, but after I fell back, I backed off and didn't push my hardest. I think if I would have gone all out, I would have been at at least 10:20 if not faster. This was a good tune up for the the Thanksgiving Race I'm doing next week, and I'm going to push myself a lot harder there. I'm doing the four mile race by Mountain View. I felt my achilles a little bit still, but it felt better and I was able to get in some decent mileage today.

I ran with Trevor and Neal today. We started running on the Provo River trail, but it was closed, so we went out on the road. It was a fun, easy run. I did 8.5 or so. (My watch died)

I was back home to see a musical my sister was in, so I ran with Gemachu. We went from Skyline up to Wasatch Blvd. and to the street above Foothill. I think it was Wasatch Drive or something. We did about 12.5 miles. It felt good and the pace was around 7:10.