The College Dropout

The first day of spring break is a good day to start training, right? Especially because of the coronavirus, I don't even have school to go back to haha. Ran 3.5 on park loop, then finished with some barefoot laps on the turf. Felt wheezy, but that's how any training block starts. Can't wait to get at it. 

Sidenote: if any of you are former collegiate runners turned party lifestyle turned back to running, I'd appreciate some advice haha, I'd really love to get back to my original fitness, but after about a year and a half of slacking off, I can understand if that's unattainable. 

Was gonna do a bike sesh at vasa this morning but they closed all of their locations due to the virus; also my mom lost her job due to the virus. Wild times. We'll all pull through though.

Ran 3.5 total, park loop again with 4xbarefoot strides on the turf. Felt really good in the cedar city wind. Less wheezy.

Ran 4 easy from my place up the canyon and back. Felt amazing. The canyon was snowy and beautiful. Forgot how much I love to just go run and look at the scenery. 

No run today, bad weather. Nothing or no one is forcing me to run, so why run in bad weather when I dont want to? I'll be honest, some of those mud runs and runs in lightning and what not were fun, but there's no need for it anymore

Bad cedar weather, no run

Bad cedar weather, no run

The weather is nice today, but I still probably wont run. Whoever reads my blog gets a front row seat to my OCD; gotta start tomorrow so the week looks good on paper. Lol

Update: I ran today. 35min easy on park loop. Gonna do minutes now because I don't have a GPS watch, and I won't be living in Cedar, where I know the mileage of every route, forever, so may as well make the switch. Felt good, hamstrings are tight, but that's to be expected. 

Ran 30min easy on park loop. Today is our first day back from spring break at SUU, and the town is empty. Very eerie. 

Ran 30min easy, park loop again. Felt good. 

Ran 40min easy, from my house up the canyon and back. Felt good. Still wheezy after these runs, but that's ok. 

Ran 35min total easy this morning, park loop with 4x100m barefoot strides on the turf after. Windy morning. Classic springtime Cedar City 

rest day friday

rest day saturday

sunday rest day

ran about 25 minutes, 2 mile loop with some track laps. felt good

Ran 40min total, park loop with some barefoot strides on the turf.

UPDATE: since I have no GPS watch and I run by time but that's hard to blog on here, I'm going to blog my minutes as if they are somewhat relative decimals of miles. For example, if I run 40 minutes, I'll put 4 miles in the total distance box. That way i don't put 40 miles in the distance box and ruin the mileage board, and now i also won't put nothing in the mileage box, so it won't show up as zero. I understand that I'm definitely running faster than 10min pace for these runs, so it may not be that accurate, but it keeps my OCD at bay. 

45min total today. Was planning on a chill park loop with some strides, but I ran into travis, nate, clayton, and teron on the track so I started their workout with them. Just did 600m with them at about 5:00 pace. Surprised myself haha didn't think I could last that long. Felt good! 

35min total today, park loop with strides. Getting into a routine

friday rest day

saturday rest day

sunday rest day

Easy 40 minutes before work, followed by 4x100m barefoot strides on the turf. Felt nice

Easy 40min again, followed with 4x200m finishes on the track, hit 32's for them. Didn't feel very smooth, I haven't gone that fast in a while, but felt solid! Also i know i switched over to time instead of mileage, but i like mileage better honestly so i might just download the strava app and record distance on that because i don't have a watch 

Ran 3.52 easy from my house, up by cedar high, and finished with some grass loops. They closed the track due to coronavirus, so that sucks. loved training at eccles, wish I could a little more before I leave cedar, but i understand they're just trying to keep people safe, and there have been quite a few people using the track when i've been there. recorded the mileage with strava's gps thing on my phone, and it was kinda glitchy. i need a watch. finished the mileage with 2xBarefoot hill strides in the grass. 

rest. not feelin it

rest. not feelin it

rest. not feelin it

rest. not feelin it. work really takes it out of me. 

Kidding today! got my arse out the door and ran park loop with barefoot hill strides. 4 total. Felt really good! 

used strava's record-from-your-phone feature, seems pretty accurate. Ran park loop and finished with grass loops, the usual. 6:49 avg pace. way faster than i'm used to these days, but felt good! 

no run today; bones from 9 hours of putting up shelves, cabinets, and reorganizing a small warehouse 

Ran 3 miles, 2 mile loop with hill strides on grass loops. felt good! 

My new watch came today, the Garmin Forerunner 245 Music. It's awesome, I was able to download my playlists from spotify to my watch, so I didn't need to take my phone for music, the watch connected to my headphones. It aso tracks so many things, Vo2 max, tons of different things with heart rate, arterial oxygen saturation, and a ton of other stuff, an exercise science major's dream. 

anyway, ran 3.5 on park loop with grass loops. threw in 2x30 second pickups just to test the quickness of the pace drop with the watch's gps. super accurate! felt good on the run. 

ran 4.75 easy, up the canyon and back from mine. 7:05 avg. ran into nate, that was fun to run with an old teammate. i miss those guys. 

ran 5 easy today, 7:05 avg. ran from my house to bicent, then looped up through the park and back to my house. nice little loop in the classic cedar city wind. I can really feel myself getting fitter. reminded why i fell madly and hopelessly in love with this sport. improvement you can see. 

i want to do a mile time trial soon, just spike up and go for it. if anyone reads my blog, give me a reasonable date for a time trial and i'll do it lol

woke up and ran some shuffle pace grass loops, 8:54 avg. felt really good, beautiful weather too. love those chill sunday shakeouts. probably gonna up the mileage next week, that way I can get ready to start doing real workouts soon. glad to be back into it. 

no run today. wanted to hangout with my best bud david for the last time before he leaves for oregon and i graduate and move on from cedar city. gonna miss that guy. 

only had time for 2.2 miles this morning. 9 hour shift at work and then went up to Scofield to move my grandparents stuff from their cabin. they had to sell it due to getting old. 22 years of memories come to an end, but i'm forever grateful for grandparents who gave me the world. 

no run; up here in scofield moving. pretty exhausting stuff at 7,200 feet! 

ran 3.2 miles on park loop when i got home from scofield. it was hotter than usual in cedar, and i PERISHED. still hit a good clip, 6:38 avg. 

ran 4.5 easy, went up dikes and came down near cassie's old apartment. kept it easy, 7:30 avg. felt really good! the fitness is coming together nicely, and i'm getting better at holding back and not feeling the need to run 6:xx pace all the time. 

ran 5 total, threw in some 30sec pickups with 1min recovery jog. felt really smooth at 4:55 ish pace! really wanna do a time trial soon. also threw in some hill strides for form on grass loops. good stuff

ran 2.6 easy, shuffle pace grass loops. 8:26 avg. love it

gonna start doing 2-a-day's again! first morning shakeout of my mileage campaign. 3 easy, warmup loop to grass loops, 7:37 avg. gonna run with my buddy Jose from the tennis team after work. good stuff

after work me and jose ran from my place to cedar high's track, and i did 4x400m with a lap jog in between, hit 67 (forgot how to pace myself in workouts lol) 72, 71, 71. felt good going fast again! 3.5 total. 

morning: ran 3 easy, classic warmup loop to grass loops

evening: ran with jose again, cedar high's track. i ran barefoot on the infield, felt super good. 3.5 total. 

figured since i didn't have work today i'd make it a true rest day and not run lol

ran 5.6 easy before moving to my new place. moving is so exhausting lol i've now lived in 7 different places in cedar. can't wait to settle down. also i'm having a bit of an existential crisis about getting older, anyone on the blog who's in their mid to late 20's wanna help me with that? i'm only 22 but i'm kinda struggling with the whole concept of not being able to do certain things due to age

ran 3.5 after work with brady from my place. felt pretty good! also got an indoor trainer so i can do bike sessions, stoked about that

woke up, did a 10min warmup on my indoor trainer, then went out and ran 5.25 easy, 7:13 avg. felt pretty hard to be honest. i think the reason i was able to train at such high volumes and intensities when i was on the team at SUU was because i was able to have access to the caf for free; i could burn 4,000 calories throughout the day, but replenish as much or more calories at the caf for free. there's no way i eat nearly that much now; i really gotta figure out a way to eat a lot and track my calories so i can recover. 

ran 6 total after work; did 11x1min pickups with 2min recov jog in between. kept the pace around 4:50-5:15. felt really good! gotta take advantage of the days you feel good. 

morning: did a 10min spin on the trainer, then 5 miles in the morning. 2.5 with aaron and my friend Kiyena who runs for washington state. felt good.

evening: ran southview with nate and kiyena, 5 total. super nice to hit the trails again! crazy to have done a 10 mile day. haven't done that in ages. 

took today off because i didn't wanna push it after my first 10 mile day in over a year. 

ran main street loop from my place, 6:46 avg. felt really good! i think i like running in the evening after work more than waking up early for it. glad i have the choice 

morning: did a 30min bike sesh on my trainer, avg HR of 111, max HR of 136. i want to gain more benefit from these bike sessions, so i'm gonna try to go harder to get my avg HR up, without being too tired to run 

evening: easy 2.25. didn't feel like more 

rest day

rest day, doing mothers day stuff

morning: 18 minute spin followed by some core before work

evening: 7 miles, ran from my house on park loop, 6:52 avg. felt good. went for a few segments on strava but just missed them. i'll be back 

had the day off of work so i decided to dedicate a few hours to training. 

morning: started with a 4 mile shakeout, 7:59 avg on grass loops. felt good!

followed that with a hard 20min bike sesh, made sure to get the heart rate up and work the quads and posterior chain.

followed the bike sesh with another shakeout, 3.4 on park loop, 7:17 avg.

good day for training! the grinder in me is coming back. 

taking today off of running just in case. i figure i don't really have to push it hard day after day, so why would i?

played pickleball with brady, got the heart rate up and it's always good cross training

morning: shakeout on grass loops, 2.3 miles. 8:15 avg. felt hard, need to focus on recovery.

evening: felt a little better after getting some food and a 9 hour work shift in me. drove over to southview, ran the trail, saw a huge rattlesnake, then when i finished the trail loop, i did 4x30sec hill reps, jog back to the start for recovery. 5.5 miles total, 8:53 avg. i love and miss running single track trails like that with a big group of people. felt good! 

ran 6.66 miles lol 7:47 average. can't remember when or where, as i'm blogging this a week later haha

morning: 25min bike sesh, avg HR 106

7 total, did my first workout on the track since being a runner again. warmed up, strides and drills, then did 2x800m with 800m jog rest, hit 2:30, 2:28, then 3x(2x150m), 30sec between reps and 12min between sets. my friend brady, who's a 400/800 guy, wanted to do a sprint workout so i joined him for funsies. threw in the 800s so i could feel like i was actually doing something lol. felt good! cooled down a half mile

rest

morning: 20min bike, avg HR 101

evening: 4 miles easy, 7:33 avg

20min bike, avg HR 98. taking this week a little easier

5.4 mile run at night, 7:06 avg. felt good to run at night again. followed that with a 20min bike, avg HR 125. love it

ran 6.3 after work, 6:53 avg. sub 7 average pace is starting to feel easy again! got held up trying to cross main street because of the high school grad parade. kinda fun to watch them celebrate their graduation socially distanced. can't believe i graduated highschool 4 years ago. and college 4 weeks ago! getting old. followed that with a 20min bike, avg HR 124. 

decided to do a time trial this weekend; taking it easy leading up to it haha. 2 miles easy, 7:40 avg, followed by a 10min bike, avg HR 116

morning: 10min bike to shakeout before i time trial

afternoon: mile time trial! wanted to see where my fitness was at following my abandoning of my sport lol. got to cedar high's track with brady around 3:00pm. it was super windy, as it always is in cedar. warmed up, did strides, and started. got out in about 1:10, a bit too fast for where i'm at but it's hard not to be antsy when you know you're trying to go all out. 800 in 2:30, slowed down quite a bit haha. 1200 in 3:45, then finished for 4:55. felt spent! it's crazy that i used to be able to hold that pace for races much longer than a mile, now it's all out for a mile haha. either way, i'm so glad to be training agian. now i have a benchmark time to base my future training off of. back at it! 

followed the time trial with 4x200m finishes, 33 33 33 32. felt smooth despite going all out 5 minutes earlier.