The King of Controversy

AM - 4 miles. 30 min easy. Feeling pretty good this morning. 

PM - 7.5 miles. 60 min with 8x800 and 1 min recovery. Not a good workout. After about 5 my legs felt so dead and I just decided to cut after 8 because I was running like a wimp. My times on the first five were all about 2:50 and last 3 were about 3:00. I just need to get more sleep. 

AM - 3.75 miles. 30 min easy. We kept it a little slower today which was nice. 

PM - 5.25 miles. 40 min easy. Stupid lightning made us have to run inside again today so we had to just do our easy run today. Not a very fun run. Running in the school sucks. 

AM - 4 miles. 30 min easy. Run was fun. I felt a bit sore but it seemed a lot cooler this morning because of the storm. 

PM - 7.25 miles. 55 min. Time Trial #2 and 2x1600 meter repeats with 3 min recovery. Good race for me today. We got out quick and as a good pack but it fell apart when Dallin made a big move up the hill on the first lap. Coming into the 2nd lap I decided to try to make a huge move and see if I could go out and beat Nick. I gave a good push but only could hold off Nick for about 400 meters before he caught back up. The move wore me out and so I couldn't get myself to go with Nick and he pulled ahead. Paul passed me on this lap too. Coming into the 3rd lap I was really tired but somehow I was able to still give a good push and keep the gap between me and Paul small and finish 3rd on the team. Great race for the team as well. We have a really strong group from guys 2 to 7. Our problem is the gap between that group and Nick. If we can pull our group up with Nick, we would be a much stronger team.

AM - 5.5 miles. 40 min easy. We had 40 min this morning because of the lightning storm earlier this week that screwed everything up. It was fun though. I really wouldn't mind having morning runs being a little longer like today. I always feel pretty good in the morning so it wouldn't be a huge deal. 

PM - 8.5 miles. 5xSandy Hills and Striders. Not the greatest workout today. I really do not like running in sand or running up hills and today was a combination of both. It was really hard and I felt really tired so it wasn't as strong as it should have been. The rest of the run was fun though. We did an adventure run through the ravine in Green Springs. It was pretty epic. 

AM - 4 miles. 30 min easy. Felt tired and my knee hurt today. I barely could keep up with the group. 

PM - 6.5 miles. 50 min with 20 tempo. We ran our tempo over on the tempo loop we used during track. It was pretty hot and my knee still wasn't feeling good so the tempo was pretty hard. I tried my best to stick in the group today but it wasn't easy. I sat at the back for most of the first lap until our group started breaking up and I had to move up to Paul. I tried my best to stick on Paul and Andrew but I didn't have it today and they pulled ahead a bit. I finished off pretty weak so that's something to work on. 

AM - 10 miles. 80 min easy. Met up with the guys this morning before the car wash. We didn't really know about the strong finish so we didn't do one. It was a nice run. We kept the pace very controlled which was good because I was already pretty tired. My legs were very dead by the end. I really enjoy these long runs because we can go so many places and combine like 5 different runs into one.