Wearing the full regalia/Good performances at the second home

So a long day today and a good day. First up was the BRRC (hopefully) 5 mile run at Druid Hill park. Surprisingly it was cold and windy. Go figure. However by this point we were quite used to it. I decided to go with full FMTC colors which meant that I had to at least put in a good effort. Took an early lead and then had several comical moments with the lead SUV when he got stopped with some oncoming runners. I channeled my best Claudio Chiapucci(minus the fabulous ability and probable drug use) and briefly passed it. To make a long story short(already too late) I led for approx 2 miles then stuck with the guy who caught me up the first big hill and then got smoked on the downhill(according to Jamie) and stayed fairly the same after that. I thought I might catch him when he randomly started walking up the last hill haha. Anyway a perfectly serviceable 29:13- we were debating whether the course was accurate after the time prediction debacles of the past- I feel like it is at least close based on the effort level and result. Who really knows obv but a good effort. Jamie had a creditable 31:58 in some tough conditions. The best things were some post race rehashing of 10-15 year old stories with Mike Woodman and the fact that my foot felt fine- left calf a little tight from running on the roads.

Later in the day we went down to PG for Montgomery Invit and there were lots of good runs. Jeff had a 6 second PR in 1600 and will go much faster, Madeline came 2nd in her heat(2nd fastest) in 5:13 a PR in January no less. Martin and Josh sporting their new kicks ran 2:10 and 2:12 in the 800 and Justin Gross hit a big 23'6" in LJ to break the meet record and apparently won the triple as well and came 2nd(barely) in the 55Hur. He is having a superlative senior season. Im sure I forgot some but thatll do for now.

Mileage for week = 54 a good first week of the year with 3 moderate workouts. Just stay consistent aand keep working and improving! Long run tomorrow 70 min prob on road maybe at mcd?

Out with the old and in with the nucleus

Workout was solid today. Good way to get a nice 7 miles in the pickups make it go by faster we agreed. My foot was fairly sore after the meet 5 hours of standing around will do that. The meet was a little bit discouraging in that everyone runs so slow in the armory. Plus it is the first meet right after break and we hvae a lot of young people so they will get better again. Anyway two easy runs tomorrow and then a good effort on Saturday. Jeff did a good job today sometimes for a HSer that is a hard thing to do 3 laps fast 1 lap float and still ran 11:19. Mileage this week is a little below what it should be but not bad. OK i better go to bed so i dont get fired.

Btw hopefully we wont get very much snow.

So i was too sleepy and lazy to run in the AM which is ok(esp for now). I might switch it to tomorrow well see although there is a light workout tomorrow at noon. More like a distance run with some 1:00 pickups really. So maybe an easy 3 after doing the papers in the morning we shall see. If i was super motivated i would get up really early and run 3 miles while Anna did part of her wo at 6 a.m. Hm an interesting idea. I might actually try it- easy to say now though heh.

Felt good today a nice 5 mile run with A and J then i did 2 more miles on treadmill after we came in. So 59 min total which is not bad. Also on the treadmill obv you just keep turning up the speed every 2 min which is fun- its just nice to run faster sometimes just for the fun of it not for workout or whatever. Of course 6:40 pace is hardly burning up the mill haha- then my shoe came untied and i didnt want it to get sucked under so i slowed down lol.

Good news is that I can do the 5 mile race/steady effort on Saturday because Curtis cant go to the Mont Invit which is too bad for him but nice for me. Also we had a track meeting for the boys about the county meet- it is cool that they are getting so into it the team is starting to understand what it takes to get to a good level in high school running and how to be successful. Still a long way to go of course(when isnt there heh but thats the point obv). So hopefully we can run some fast times over the course of the next week and see lots of PRs!

OK better go to bed if i want to have a chance of getting up early enough- its a long shot but its the only shot we've got(paraphrased from Airplane I believe).

18 is the loneliest number

Wow so Anna had a impressively long wo today- 18x400 with 2xtime recov. Yet again windy and cold- not horrible but still 30 and moderately windy is 30 and moderately windy(deep). She was out there for a long time. We did 4x1600 right around 6:00 pace the last one was a little faster like 5:46 but it felt mostly the same which was good. Then I did 200,200,300,300 to help Anna along. My foot was not bad I still think running in these cold conditions makes it take a little longer to loosen up. Jamie did a good job he did the whole thing except for one lap and Em did 6 400s and 2 200s. I also wore my plaid road flats for a 400m jog and my foot felt fine with them even though they feel funny overall heh. And of course as im typing this i forgot to ice my foot but now its pretty much too late oh well- ill do it later at least for a little benefit maybe.

As of now I want to do the 5 mile race on Saturday morning which might mean I have to blow off Curtis hmph I will see what develops in terms of that. As of right now im pretty sleepy so I will shower and nap and then go to practice. oh yeah diddle daddle to all and to all a good night.

Good, Morning

So the first minor skirmish of the year went well this morning. I was faced with a post-work decision of whether to go run or put it off until in the evening which obv would have been stupid. At least for today though the forces of good prevailed and i went for a pleasant run on piney grove up to a little past longnecker to make sure it was 1.5 miles- it was a little more. Still cold but already it seems(and is) warmer than yesterday- it is amusing to think of 22 degrees as "warmer". I guess that is how people in Maine/Alaska survive the winter. Anyway the run was 13:30 up the hill and 12:10 down the hill heh- it is a good hill prob just over a mile total. So that was nice and now i feel good. And i get to run with Anna and Jamie at 1230 which will be fun.

Btw yesterday was another nice/freezing run in the valley with Em,a pair of Roths and Jamie. 66 minutes which is a good start to long runs. Try for 72-74 next week on Sunday- nice easy pace obv. It was the longest run for 4 of us in a long time so that was a success.

Also I think I will post some of the Franklin wos on here mainly because they dont always get written down and it can be hard to remember who does what. Just another thing to follow on this exciting site! Haha. Anyway 3/4 of the people will be epically out of shape today since they prob ran 2 steps over break. So we'll save the hard wo for tomorrow of 8x400+4x200 for the mile/2 mile group and 200s with short rest for the 800 group. Today will therefore be 4x800 tempo for some of the distance people and 100s with short rest for many of the 800 group. The only problem with that obv is that its the same wo 2 days in a row for the 800 group. Tomorrow might change actually to something longer which is smart. So tomorrow will now be 4-3-2-1 plus 2x200 for the 800 group at close to 800 pace. Nice stream of conciousness blabber to finish off the post.

Wind Schwind

A nice workout this am with Anna,Jamie and Zach(with C Mac there doin his own thing 5 400s in 68 or so). 5x1000 at 6:00 pace or a little over with a 3:00 recovery. Temperature and wind were both in the mid 20s so it was chilly and tough. Anna is getting very strong I predict sub 11 3k and sub 19 5k soon if she can get into a couple races. The UMD meet should be fun at least!

I was happy with this workout it was a perfect intro because the first C Interval next week is 4x1600 at 6:00 pace. I could feel my foot a tiny bit on the first one because of the cold and a slightly short warmup but then it went away and was fine. It was fun to run with the group obv and help keep the pace consistent. Jamie is also looking quite good I thikn we should go for sub 30 next week in the BRRC race- which might not be too hard if the course is 400m short lol.

Also Beth and TT both left/are leaving today which is sad obv hmph.

Im running with Emily later which will be nice. Im kind of excited about the Bay swim thing I think I want to go watch it if she gets in- hopefully it is at a convenient time. Also practice is later hopefully people have been running over the break some have many havent. I am really blabbering in this log so far so good.

He must have a watch hidden somewhere/But I didnt have to go to the bathroom!

Well congrats are in clearly in order to Sir James aka someone named Kaiser? who incredibly ran within 1 sec of his time for the third time in a prediction race. At breakfast later we guessed that he had a finger watch secreted somewhere on his person. For his ridiculous skill and luck he won a 70 dollar watch while the rest of us had to be content with having a sweaty penis(luckily there was no exposing in this case). Ran with Tristram for pretty much the whole thing before doing the standard silliness of stopping before the line etc etc. This buffoonery only made my prediction less accurate- however the course was certainly too far which wrecked any hope for a normal mortal to accurately predict their time. Anyway a good fun run followed by a lengthy nap now im off to run in the valley from the church. PS hopefully we will get in the paper again for this race which would be highly amusing haha.