Light run 4 miles

So ran down at mcd. My self proclaimed Wolverine like healing ability had helped my heel heal. Ha-ha. But that was feeling much better. My ankle was sore from walking around in weird fashion yesterday so I only did 4. That should be better by tom. Pleasant 32 min on a nice fall afternoon. Tomorrow if I feel ok i might do 7 before prac idk. Prob should go to bed soon. Also im getting tired of waiting for the shoe to drop ugh lets get this over with.

Sore sore sore

So im not running today ugh. But should be good for tomorrow. I was sore in the am- quite sore to be precise. Then obv went straight to counties and jogged/hobbled around through about 2 varsity races and then was fairly stationary for the next 3. Im feeling better now though. The races were ok- Merritt didnt feel good- good first 800- then many people passed her from about .5-1.5ish then she satbilized and had a good rally to pass a few people back. So not great but ok- her side was a little sore in the middle but got better. She wasnt too discouraged after either which is a good sign. Darin ran a solid PR which is encouraging- he said he thought he could have gone faster as well/didnt feel that tired at the end.

I like this daily posting maybe it will lead to daily running.

Resume Posting...now!

So im going to start posting daily from now on. We'll see how long that lasts- I give it 3 days. ANyway i jogged 2 miles in the am w mainly merritt. counties is tomorrow. then i went down to mcd for a supposed 8x400 in 94 st ev 2:30. They were doing a wo so of course i ended up doing that instead. It was 1 mile WU(which felt fast uhoh lol) then mile-mile-800-800 then steady pace mile WD. So 6:00/6:02/3:00/2:57/7:41 up the 3rd mile. My knee was a bit sore and my feet hurt some. Im not sure I should run Gerrys race but i prob will? Idk. At least I did a wo. I will try to hit the goal for next week. Ill post about counties tomorrow.

Battling.

I bet I will do a morning run tomorrow.

Battling?

Well im far behind on goals that I posted- shock meh. However I have been trying to run at least- I have only missed 2 days in september which is not great obv but not horrible. However the runs have been fairly crappy and workouts basically non existent. I altered my older shoes today which might help the bottom of my heels- its possible that the heel inserts have been not helping rather than helping. We'll see. I made up a little schedule for next week so we'll see how that goes.

Team is doing ok- we had the county relays which went solidly. The goal for boys(which will hopefully go better than my stinky goal performance- they are not old(but then again neither am i- that old at least) is 4th in the county). Btw I am a fan of the parentheses within parenthses you gotta get the double parens at the end(or (begininning)). Lol. ANYWAY Darin,Merritt,Oscar,Nandu,Ethan,Daquan??,Naomi,Warren doing well. JV boys could? be interesting we def have the best group weve had since ive been there with 7 fairly good sophs. Well at least 7 veteranish sophs of whom several can be fairly good. Hedge much lol?

The first dual meet got postponed due to heat oiy. So we have meets monday and wednesday next week. Monday tempo wednesday race. Should be interesting.

September GOALS

SO no post for a month. My knee took a little while to get better(still sore sometimes not really during running too much). Mileage of in the range of 28,35,cant remember last week i have to finish writing it in.

So what we're all waiting for: goals!! Who cares what has gone before lets think about the future.

September:
1. 200 Miles on 9 runs per week
2. 4 Steady runs(4k,5k,5k,6k)
3. 4 Light minutes workouts in progression style
4. 4 Long runs!?! in the range of 9-11 miles

If I complete these tasks in a healthy fashion I will run the first half of the Bachman Valley Half on the 29th. Kind of lame to not run the whole thing but its best to be careful.

XC training is progressing. Merritt hit 50 miles 2 weeks ago and Darin is gaining a lot of strength. They came 3rd and 3rd in a time trial with mcdonogh(2 miles)- also OScar was 4th. I wish we had a few more good people- we need 2 boys and 2 girls. Also the JV boys have a possibility of being good. We shall see.

I will now(well in a week i guess) begin monitoring my goals.

18:42? then OW

Lol not good news when every post ends in ow. Ran at HCS 5k at reservoir today along with Darin. Nice course 90% on grass with a little road. Mowed etc 3 loops with 2 short steep hills one slightly longer than the other that you did twice. Some turns. So did 1.5 mile WU then 4 strides etc and go. STarted out at a relatively sensible pace behind the front group- one guy was far out ahead then about 5-6 people that I was at the back of. They slowly pulled ahead from about 1/2 mile to mile mark they were already prob 10ish sec ahead by that point. One guy I was going to try to stick with randomly stopped at the mile mark heh. Then Doug Mock came by right after the steep hill after the mile and rapidly pulled away hmph. He told me later he was 530 at the mile so I was in that range possibly like 528 or so- that is not bad def it didnt feel terrible so thats good as well esp considering I ran a 1 mile race in 518 2 months ago.
      However then the plodding started lol. I was basically by myself at that point as Doug pulled ahead and passed a couple more people- there was one kid in sight but he was 80 or so meters ahead(or more) and I wasnt going anywhere so I was just trying to cover ground without falling over heh. Did second loop,did third loop- I took about 3 peeks behind just to make sure- noone was super close- and finished it off in just over 1840 I think like between 40 and 44 somewhere. Then while I was waiting for Darin my calves cramped up significantly and my knee started to hurt significantly also hmph. Calves are obv no problem(good thing I wore training shoes though heh)- the knee was obv the left one it was more of the upper knee like where the quad attaches on the left side. The standard lower knee bump is sore but just that- pretty standard. So hopefully it wont be too sore tomorrow- I iced it a good amount which helps obv but we'll see. We're supposed to do 9 tomorrow Im not sure ill be able to we shall see.
     So the race was ok overall honestly. It sucks to run that hard and run 1840 ugh but its just a starting point- obv havent had a 5k race in like 7-8 months. If things go well another one in 2 weeks try to stay in that front group a little longer. Mainly just try to stay healthy of course. Also im clearly doing better than 2 months ago so thats good just keep that up.