We ran a workout in a hurricane!

Except not really haha. This was on wednesday btw. This weeks running has been fairly ok. Sat,Sun,Tue ran w Jamie around 7ish miles each. Monday ran by myself i was tired as crap for some reason. Tuesday watched an exciting MSJ/McD dual meet which McD lost 28-29 too bad ugh. Still they ran well. Then for some reason i didnt sleep for crap Tues night i didnt have a lot of caffiene or anything idk why. SO i finally fell asleep(or saw the clock for the last time heh) at 1225 and then had to get up at 155 to do the early wed papers. Not ideal lol. Then i was borderline on nap time because we were doing a wo at 10 sooo i didnt take a nap i played minesweeper to keep me enraged and awake and then took a shower instead.

The workout was good and quite hard. TT looked awesome again he did 6x1000 in 2:57-3:00. The hurricane title meant that it was fairly windy- not extreme but significant. I started off doing the first 600 of the first 3- 1:49,1:49,1:51. The third one was def hard. The rest was hmm the 400 finish for him plus 2:30 of another 400 jog so about 4 min which is a lot(i hadnt thought of this before really). Then i did 400/200 on the next one in 71/35 and then just a straight 400 in 72 because my foot was getting increasingly sore- not terrible ut i didnt want to overdo it. At the time the wo was quite hard and it was good in terms of running farily far at what i think is like mile pace right now but it was obv also affected by getting 1 1/2 hrs of sleep the night before heh. Not the best. 1 mile CD

I actually(and amazingly) did a good job of treating my foot thru the next 24 hrs. Thursday which was apparently yesterday?? wierd- i did a split run heh 30 min at franklin which felt fine then drove down to mcd and did 20 more min by myself which felt like crap. i should have just stayed at franklin as the mcd team went to oregon ridge anyway heh. I just counted it as 6 total i dont care about the break haha it actually made the run harder.

Today i ran at franklin 22 min i was going to run more but then we went to IHOP which took forever and AS USUSAL i didnt take a nap when i got home. It is tough but i need to do better as well. I dont have to look up field hockey seedings the instant i get home and then get distracted for an hour by the computer. ugh. So when i got back from ihop i just went to sleep and woke up at 6(pm for those who are playing along at home).

Counties tomorrow im excited. Its nice to refocus on xc for another month. The guys had a good wo on the track on wednesday- not a hard one 4 800s at easy pace like 305 and then 4 faster 2s also merritt ran faster than the prescribed pace but it will give her confidence hoipefully which is a lot more important than physiology esp at this level(or most levels prob heh). i think she did like 325/17/11/02 heh.

Im going to get good sleep on sunday because we have race for cure on sunday am and then im running the dustin bauer race in the pm. Goal is low 17s i think(maybe under?) we shall see. Weather looks quite good at least like upper 50s-60. Nice.

Oh i was supposed to do a steady run today but that got skipped obv- i'll just be more rested for sunday which is as good/better anyway.

feeling funny and steady run

so ive been feeling funny this week but pretty much only at prac. left arm tingling heh but im not having a heart attack i think its STILL remnants of the stupid csf. but today was better than yesterday so thats good.

running wise 3 days ago i did 6.5 then off on the meet day,then 5 yest then today mile on track then over to hh. 3 loops steady- 746,750,742 for 2318 total. so 40 sec faster than last time which is good it was a bit harder but not too much. next time slow back down to 800 and do 4 loops. this is obv a theme lol. i need more vitamin c i think.

mileage will be not good this week. i think now its around 24 ugh in 4 days out of 6

I'm a Dunce! Yay

So my heel was really sore after the wo sunday. bad since it was only a tempo. then i was running today and realized that i had forgotten to finish cuuting the back part. so the spot where the bone sticks out was landing ion hard plastic each time i hit the ground. lol not ideal. stupid heh! i have obv remedied the situation so that should obv help.

i still made it thru a 53 min run with tt today and it was sore but nit terrible. should be good by thurs.

4x1600 almost T st ev 7:00

A nice warm day today for a jump in the pool... i mean a tempo workout at mcdonogh. For me these days its pretty much the same thing heh. Anyway standard 2 mile wu then 4x1600 st ev 7:00. The idea was 552 for the first two and drop down to 548. Of course i went faster than that duh.

251/252= 543,249/253=543,248/254=542.high,247/249=536.high. This was still not quite tempo effort but def was closer than last time. I suppose this is the other way to do it which is to just run the same pace and it will feel more and more comfortable. Which it did today which is good. Last time obv was not as good so that is good progress. Next week is back to 6x1k and try to do the same 335 which is 86 pace and possibly bring the float down a bit. Then the next week is 2x3200 prob honestly aim for the pace i did today. Or aim for 548 and expect 542 heh.

Also it looks unlikely that ill run at the goucher meet hmph because of the homecoming parade at franklin. Kind of annoying meh but oh well. Still have the dustin bauer race the next week which was more important anyway.

Have to stay focused on xc we have a good chance to run fast tomorrow. Indoor is getting closer and closer though- very exciting! heh. Meet with the top 20 or so girls in a week and a half.

wo with TT 6x800 avg about 2:38

Ran w tt at mcd this am at 10. I thought i had a kidney stone last night(and i suppose i still might) so i drank 4 liters of water between 2 am and now(basically 2 pm heh). Its not bad if i do or it might just be that my back is tight heh. Anyway went to mcd and did 2 mile wu then 6x800 while tt did a 8k tempo. First one i started behind him and predictably started too fast a 75 for the first lap then an 80 for 2:35. Rest was a 200 jog and wait so 2 min even as he did a 600. Second one might have felt the worst it wasnt horrible or anything but 240 and it wasnt easy. The third one i just sat behind him and we did either 237 or 238 and then the fourth one was also either 237/8(one was 37 and one 38 i cant remember which). 2:39 on the 5th one then i led the first lap of the 6th one after taking 40 sec extra rest which helped. that was 76/77 for 233.high. TT did the 8k in 2624 impressive! I felt ok it was def tough but not brutal i was tired on the second and the last ones. 1 mile wd. my foot was a bit sore after but i iced it w corn hopefully itll be good for tom.

meet today at LR should be fun!

steady run yesterday

Running has been fair the last few days. Saturday i was tired after the meet predictably and ran a purposefully extremely slow 4 miles at mcd after a nap. Then sunday i was going to do a steady run but matt got mugged in the morning and he was mostly ok but he had to get him from the hospital and take him to get the car. So i went home and took a nap and then figured i would go to my moms house for dinner where he was fine. So no run that day which isnt great but not a huge problem.

Then yesterday went back and did the steady run- 1.75 wu then 3 loops in HH with TT it was mostly pretty comfortable pacewise my foot was a little sore. I might get some new shoes to semi replace the smaller pair i have right now they make my foot hurt a bit more. Anyway we did about 802/806/751 for the three loops i pushed the last one a little bit to get to 2400 even. The goal for this run is obv to go to 4 loops and slowly work down near 30 min. Maybe in spring or something like that as we cant do the woods over the winter prob hmph.

Today was a short 4 miles in theam at mcd and then 3 miles easy w the team in the pm. Its always hard to run more after they(or anyone) stop but its somewhat bad to just run off and leave them obv.

Also the people were talking about reading this glob haha im impressed they made it through all of the running nonsense. At least i have a fairly good amount about the team. Even though i didnt type anything about the gunpowder meet haha. Anyway tomorrow will be fun at least hopefully the other teams will not be stupid and run hard. Then well run fast on monday.