The King of Controversy

My only goal for this week is to just relax. I've just been so tense and tight on a lot of my workouts lately and that is one reason why I struggle to hit them. I'm just going to try to get back to my old self where I had beautiful relaxed form. 

AM - 3 miles. It is getting warmer in the morning but still not warm enough for short sleeve. I felt pretty good.

PM - 8 miles. 4x1600 at 85% (goal - 5:35) with 3 min. recovery, 1.5 mile warm/cool. I did pretty well today. My first two were a lot slower than they should have been but I finished the workout off really well. My times ended up being 5:46, 5:41, 5:35, and 5:32. My foot hurt a bit but nothing too bad. 

AM - 3 miles. Pretty warm this morning. My foot hurt a lot. Yoga after.

PM - 6 miles. 2 mile warm/cool, 1 mile time trial, and striders. I was a little disappointed with my performance today. I stayed pretty relaxed through out but I think that was only because I wasn't going that fast. My time is way off my Kosmin (19 seconds) which was really a bummer. I can't be too mad since I haven't hit a lot of my workouts lately. 

AM - 3 miles. Same old. Foot still hurt but a lot less.

PM - 10 miles with 24 min. AT tempo (goal = 5:44). I ran very bad today. I ran very well for about the first half. It was in the zone for the first half and it didn't really feel like I was pushing that much or hurting. About halfway through I lost focus and got out of the zone and I slowed down a lot to finish very poorly. Workouts like this show why I ran so poorly at the time trial. 

AM - 3 miles. I felt pretty good today. The foot still hurts but is still getting better. Great book discussion after.

PM - 5.5 miles. 10x200 at mile race pace (goal - 35.50) with 2 min. recovery and 1.5 mile warm/cool (I was supposed to do 2 mile warm/cool but I didn't know until after). I did this by myself today because I went to the doctor today to just check up on my foot. He just said keep doing what I'm doing and it should just keep getting but if for some reason it gets worse than I may have to get surgery. Hopefully that will not happen. I felt really good about my workout today. I was feeling great and I just love speed workouts. My times were 36.82, 36.10, 36.20, 35.85, 34.99, 34.00, 32.10, 30.47, 28.01, 27.42. I don't know if I was supposed to finish off that fast but I was feeling pretty good so I just went for it.

AM - 3 miles. Sad attendance this morning. I felt really good.

Lunch - 1 mile. Root Beer Mile today. It sucked. I finished like 3rd to last.

PM - 5 miles trail. I wasn't feeling it today and I just fell behind the whole group. Super excited for the race tomorrow.

Race - 1.5 mile warm/cool. I had a lot of fun today. The race was awesome and I was very satisfied with my performance even if it was still off my LT pace. When the race started, I hung back a little bit but was still going pretty fast. I was just a few seconds behind Krenny, Dave, and Matt for that first mile. I picked it up the second mile and caught up to Dave but was still a few seconds behind Krenny and Matt, Dave started to fall back a bit towards the end of the second mile and I just stayed in the same spot. The third mile was pretty much the same. Matt started to gap Krenny but I was still the same distance from Krenny. With about 800 to go I finally decided to go get Krenny. I caught him with about 400 to go and then I used my kick to barely finish in front of him by 2 seconds. My average pace ended up being about 5:37 which is still 13 seconds off my LT but a lot closer than it has been. I'm not to worried about that. It was just fun to go out and race again. I am in love with road races.