Saturday, April 12, 2014

Yummy medicine!

So im going to have a big dose of medicine tomorrow. 5 years of sloth and gluttony(well not quite as much gluttony) might come home to roost. Time to start shedding some skin like a big fat lizard haha. I did 1200-800-800-800 with Merritt it was very windy we were basically running just over 6 min pace. The wo was fine a little tough but the annoying thing is that my right heel was sore. I think its because my shoes are basically really done but i altered a new pair just now so that might hopefully help. Just a good fun hard effort tomorrow.

Today we had Meade Stampede which went quite well- lots of PRs and lots of medals. We ended up losing the girls by 2 points grrr to Annapolis but no worries people were happy etc. Darin ran 1:59.high/2:00 in SMR then came back with a 1:59.50 in open 8 for a commanding win- the times will come he won by 3+ seconds.Then came bakc 30 min later with a 50.3 in the 4x4. Nandu hit 51.4/2:02.9 PR and came back for a close second then 52.0 in 4x4. We just need to put it all together in a fast 8 too bad missed a chance for big PR but there will be several more def. They are running great in the 400 for sure. The field events were quite good as well. Some good results from young sprinters too. good meet- next Thursday is the next opportunity and then on to Penn. Supposed to be nice and warm for a couple more days then cold again lol meh.

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

5x(1:00/2:00 jog/2:00/2:00 jog) aka I am a new superhero- The Rationalizer!

Today rolled down to McD after prac- beautiful 65 degree day btw hooray!! Did 1.5 mile wu down the course. Then decided to do the aforementioned wo(it was a choice between that and two laps steady in the woods). The first set was a bit sluggish(good) went into the woods and did 2 loops in apporx 906 and around 855 it was just about exactly 1800 for the 2 loops which is perfectly fine. I was a little bit tired by the end of the fourth set which was back up the little blast furnace hill coming up from the river. I was then grumpy to discover that the whole last one min would be up the farm rd hill area hmph. But obv it was fine. So the wo ended up being 33 min as i wussed out of the last jog and then managed to figure out a way that i didnt need to do a warmdown so i just walked back 200m lol. But it was 6 total which is fine for now. I think ill prob do a wo on friday but i might stay on the grass field and do 4 loops just because its kind of boring to do the woods for a wo two times in 3 days. Also that loop is slightly more than 1k so it will just be a case of running steady loops and comparing times. I was def excited going down today to do the wo which is a good sign. My ankle is a little sore btw not bad but a little annoying- i was thinking of doing a morning run tom but i dont think i will.

The meet was fine on tuesday nothing earth shattering but some solid runs- darin 50.7 nandu 52.0 in 400 some fairly good action in field events. nandu also had a fun come from behind win in the 4x4. Saturday still looking good although some of the girls cant go. ugh. its hard to be fully motivated when people arent really that into and dont care that much but the fine thing is that plenty of the people do so its all good.