The King of Controversy

AM - 3 miles. I went three miles finally but it turned out not to be a super great idea because my foot really started hurting at about 2 miles.

PM - 4.5 miles. 2000 and 1000 at the average pace of our best set of thousands this season. My pace was about 7:20 for the 2000 and 3:40 for the 1000. My foot was still hurting a lot on the warm up so I didn't know if I was even going to run the workout. It felt good enough to run the whole workout but I cut the cool down short because I didn't want to push it too much more. My 2000 time was 7:00 which was way too fast so I relaxed a little bit more on the 1000 running a 3:36. Good workout but still need to get healthy.

AM - Took morning off.

PM - 6.75 miles. Michigan today. I ran a 26:36 which was way slower than last tine so I'm super disappointed. My foot felt okay but still hurting a lot more than it should. I really need to get healthy and stay healthy and definitely need to stay strong mentally better and hopefully, I can push back up to Andrew and Jake. I think I'm going to take morning off again tommorrow.

AM - Morning off again.

PM - 5.5 miles. 2 mile warmup, 4x400 (1600 race pace) with equal recovery, 1 mile easy, and then 4 hill sprints (all out) and 4x100 (all out) both with walking recovery. I felt like I did really well today. My 400 times were 1:18, 1:16, 1:15, and 1:12. I decided to relax a little bit more than usual on these and focus on a faster finish than start. On the hill sprints and 100s, I did just the opposite, going as hard as I could because that was what we were supposed to do. I just felt really fast on these especially since I was quite a ways ahead of Andrew on these. I clocked the 100s all at about 13.

AM - Morning off again.

PM - 4.5 miles. Half mile warm, 3 miles easy, and 4x200s fast with equal walk recovery. Foot felt okay, better than earlier this week but still bothered me. Nice grass run with Level 2 guys down at 2450 park. Then on the 200s I was doing great but I really got tensed up on those last few and my form was all over the place. I'll need to work on staying relaxed even at those faster speeds.

AM - 1 mile. Finally ran a morning run again. Foot wasn't great so just 1 mile.

Race - 1.5 mile warm and then got to the start line. I got out a little slower today but I felt that it really helped me have a good race. I was with Preston for about the first mile but he pulled ahead after that. I kept working my way up on the second mile and towards the end of this is where I really started struggling. But, I just kept thinking of how bad I wanted to beat Desert Hills and that kept me going. My kick still was crappy but I'm still super satisfied with my race. Definately my best 3 mile race of the season. A course PR by about 40 seconds and we easily took down Desert Hills which added to the sweetness. Sadly, our Varsity boys still could not get Desert Hills so hopefully the can figure that out. Still not where I would like to be (running with Andrew and Jake) but I don't care that much anymore. I've been focused so much on beating my own team that I've lost sight of what is much more important: beating other teams. My main focus from now on is to beat other teams (specifically DH) and if that means running where I am now then great but if that means running with Jake and Andrew then even better. All I care about is that we win or do good as a team not just as an individual. 1.5 mile cool with Preston after. Foot wasn't too awesome today.

PM - 2 miles. I went out to do my workout and I did the first 2 minute fartlek but my foot wasn't feeling great so I didn't do the rest and turned back.