The King of Controversy

Goal for the week is to hit my workouts and get up where I should be. I'll probably do it by just chilling out and having some fun.

AM - 9 miles. 4x1600 at 85% (goal - 5:35) with 3 min. recovery and 2 mile warm/cool. I finally did this workout like I'm supposed to. My times ended up being 5:37, 5:34, 5:31, and 5:21. I really focused on keeping my breathing calm today so that I would be able to stay relaxed and hit my times and it really helped. A lot of guys were going pretty slow as well so I was able to use them to pull me. I think it also helped that Coach yelled at the guys that weren't where they were supposed to be and got me kick started on those last two. The last was a real confidence booster. I stuck in right behind Abel for the first lap and half before he started to gap me which really shows that I can run fast. I just need to kill fear.

PM - 3 miles. I just got a quick run in while I was up in Zion.

AM - 10 miles with 20 min. AT to LT Progression. We headed out into the fields today and had a nice tempo. When we started I immediately grouped up with Paul, Nick, and Matt and I went withh them. They started to gap me a few minutes later and I knew I was slowing down instead of speeding up. Luckily, Dallin came up next to me pretty soon and we really got moving together. I would give a little surge and then Dallin would give a little one and we really got moving that way. At the end, Josh came up next to us and helped give us that last little push to finish off. Not much of a progression but I felt like it was still a very solid push and one of my better tempos lately. I probably could have started off slower and worked more on the progressing but I know I need to start pushing with Paul and those guys a lot more.

PM - 4 miles. 3 miles and striders. I didn't know we had striders yesterday so I did them today. It was pretty windy on my run today which made it a lot cooler and nice.

AM - 5 miles. 4 miles easy with 4x200. Legs feeling a little tired and tight so it was nice to have an easy run today. The 200s weren't very fast but still a nice little pick up. Weights after.

PM - 3 miles easy. Good run. I still feel a bit tired so I will try to get some good sleep tonight.

AM - 6.25 miles. 6x400 at 800 race pace (goal - 1:05) with 1-2 min. (120 heart rate) recovery and 2 mile warm/cool. This was our first workout this season where we split between 800 guys and 1600 guys. I'm an 800 guy so we did 400s at 800 race pace so since I didn't have an 800 time we just converted our 1600 times to 800. I was supposed to hit 1:05 with the conversion which was extremely tough. I was always solid the first 200 but the second 200 I started to tighten up like I have lately and I really struggled. My times were 1:05, 1:07, 1:08, 1:08, 1:11, 1:06. The last one was a bit surprising because I finished right with Abel and Nick so I guess I really should stick right with them as much as I can so that I can hit my time. We did the full set of Plyos after which was super long and tiring but I know it's going to make me better.

PM - 3 miles. My family went and hiked Chuckwalla so I just did my run there. Super fun, quiet run.

AM - 9.25 miles. Old Man Hills: 3 sets of 800, 400, 200. I ran like a grandma up those hills today. I just couldn't get myself to push up those hills. I need to stop being so afraid to hurt and just run.

PM - 3 miles. Just another quiet and lonely but good run.

AM - 5 miles easy. Just a slow easy run. I felt pretty good and was a great way to end the week. It has been a pretty good week. I final hit my mile repeats and my only poor workout was Old Man Hills. Let's hope I can make next week better.