The King of Controversy

AM - 4 miles. 30 min easy. Good run. Still felt tired and sore from the tough weekend (Race and Homecoming). 

PM - 7.75 miles. 60 min with 7x800 and 3x400 with 1 min recovery. Times: 2:50, 2:42, 2:47, 2:46, 2:44, 2:47, 2:51, 1:24, 1:20, 1:16. Great workout for our team today. Definitely the strongest workout we've had in quite a while. We didn't group up very tight but we were still very close together and everyone was fighting to stick together. I went right with Paul on the first 4-5 800s but I started to tighten up and couldn't relax on those last couple and I fell behind quite a bit. On the 400s I couldn't get myself to relax on those either so they weren't as strong as they should have been but it was still a good workout. Definitely a step in the right direction. 

AM - 3.75 miles. 30 minutes easy. Not feeling insanely great but it was a good run. 

PM - 8 miles. 60 min with 3xmile repeats and 3 mile tempo. JV guys were racing at the Region Course for Duel in the Desert today and so we did our workout there today. Not my best workout. I did my best to stick with Paul on the mile repeats but I couldn't get myself to stay relaxed. Still hit some okay times around 5:45. For the tempo we just hopped in the guys race and tempoed it while they all raced. Our goal was to hit 18:30ish but it was supposed to be chill so we ended up hitting about 19:00. Nothing crazy but it was a good push and I was definitely tired after. 

AM - 3.75 miles. 30 min easy. Felt off this morning. Couldn't get my legs moving and so I just stuck at the back of the pack today. 

PM - 8.25 miles. 60 min and Striders. Felt much better than this morning but legs still  felt tired and it was hard run on Roller Coasters. Striders were okay. 

AM - 3.75 miles. 30 min easy. Same old morning. Nothing to report. 

PM - 6.25 miles. 40 min easy with 4x200. Good run into Green Springs. I felt pretty good and it was a fun run. I kept it a little slower on the 200s today to try and focus on my form. 

AM - 3.75 miles. 30 min easy. Felt a bit tired this morning. I didn't get much sleep last night. 

PM - 2.5 miles. 20 min with pickups. We got to the course around 3 and were able to run the course and get familiar with it. We threw some pickups in as well to shakeout the legs from the long drive. I felt a lot less tired because I slept on the way down. 

Race - 5.5 miles. Our race was super legit because it wasn't until 9:40 Cali time and so the sun had already set and it wasn't blazing hot. This race was very fast and I just wasn't ready for it today. I didn't get out as fast as I should have and I fell behind my teammates early. I tried to catch Andrew in the 2nd mile but every time I surged, I didn't hardly make a dent in the gap. In the 3rd mile I gave another surge but I still wasn't moving up on Andrew and I wasn't really passing anyone either. I finished with one of my best kicks of the season but it still wasn't that great. I barely missed breaking 16 (seriously my time was 16:00.0) which was kind of bummer but I was more bummed about my placing on the team. I was 6th on the team and I felt like I ran pretty well. It wasn't a bad race for me. It was just a better race for my teammates. I guess that's a good sign though and shows that our team is getting stronger. I need to work on my start because I kept the gap between me and Andrew pretty much the same for the whole race. If I had gone with Andrew from the start that gap never would have existed. Just something to work on. Our team won our race so I shouldn't be so bummed. 

AM - 10.5 miles. 80 min with strong finish. Swag run in Cali. It wasn't very hot but it was super humid. It was a super fun run just exploring some places and the strong finish was super good. We did and Indian Run to finish and we were really moving. I'm not sure what pace we were actually hitting but it was blazing fast. I felt really tired and sore towards the end especially in my Hamstrings. Good run.