The King of Controversy

AM-3 miles. It felt good to run again especially after taking a break on Sunday. My muscles my not have been totally healed but about as good as I am going to get for the next week. It was another nice cool run.

PM-8 mile. 7 miles plus striders. We ran to Vernon Worthen park today and did striders there and then ran back. I was able to keep up with everybody for the first two miles but after that I took a break and soon was left in the dust. I was able to make it to the park just in time to start striders. I wasn't feeling so great today so my striders weren't very fast but on the way back I started to feel better. I got behind again but at the Brick Oven I was able to catch up with Jake Taylor and after stopping to get water at Starbucks ran the rest of the way with him. Weights and plyos afterwards were tiring but it felt good to be out of the heat.  

Ran 5x1000's with Heart's warm and cool. It wasn't has hot as yesterday but I was still dying. My times were 3:38, 3:42, 3:45, 4:10, and 3:32 respectively. I felt pretty good on the first three but on the 4th one I was already burned out (or so I thought). Coach gave a really inspirational pep talk about fear and pain and I was able to push myself on the last one. It also helped that I knew I only had one more but I think it still helped me out. I drank too much water before my cool down and I felt like crap on it but I felt like I had a pretty good run considering yesterday and compared to my last 1000's workout.

AM-3 miles. Another cool morning run. Enough said.

PM-5.5 miles. Harts warm and cool. 4x2 min. with 1 min recovery. 5x400 with 30 sec recovery. I actually only did 4x400 because I thought that was how many I was supposed to do. Today overall I felt really good. My legs were a little stiff and sore on the warm up but by the workout I was fine. My 2 min. weren't the best but I thought I was where I usually am, need to work on pushing myself a little bit harder on those. My 400's were really good today and I was able to pack it in a little closer than usually. I wasn't able to pack it in very well in the beginning but I tried to push myself hard at the end and was able to catch up a good distance. Need to work on pushing it through the whole thing. 

PM- A nice easy run into Green Springs. A little hot but a nice short 3 mile run with striders and weights and plyos afterwords.

PM- Did 7 miles with 30 minute 7:30 tempo. I ran with Jake but I don't think we quite ran a 7:30. I was really tired especially after doing about 4 miles at the run-a-thon. I ran the 3:00pm shift and then we went on our tempo. After the tempo, I chilled in the locker room and then went to watch the football game. I went home and ate for part of the football game but made it back just before the end. The run-a-thon was tiring but I kept going (with a little nap in between). It was really fun to just hang out and run all through the night. I'm not sure how many total miles I got throughout the night but I got enough for my Friday run and then my tempo was my Saturday run.