10/10-10/18

I haveent kept up with this really well this week so I'm going to summarize it.

10/10 we did a 4 mile tempo on the track with a timed mile afterwards. This was probably my best workout of the year thus far. I ran 20:55 for the tempo and felt great. (5:11, 5:15, 5:17, 5:12) then I came back and ran a pretty decent mile in 4:49 (7 seconds better than last time). I felt like this workout was a good indicator of possible improvement in my training. We will see though, we are running it again in a couple weeks.

10/11-12 miles moderate at the state park. I ran 6:38 pace for 12 miles in the park, which isnt too bad. It was a somewhat moderate pace. Caps off a 73 mile week.

10/12- 6 miles easy. I ran 6:32 pace and felt really good.

10/13- Morning: 4X1000m 1X1600, and 3X800m on the track because the intermural fields were soaked.
I ran the 3:10, 3:05, 3:03, 3:04 for the 1000m.
4:56 for the 1600m and 2:26, 2:28, 2:24 for the 800's. We got 3 mintues of rest between the 1000's and 1600 and 2min rest between 800's.
This workout did not feel as good as saturday (the 10th) but I ran pretty good so I'm happy. Not going to always feel good.

Afternoon: 3.5 miles easy on tredmill

10/14-10.5 mile run at home in houston. It was super humid and disgusting outside so I ran really easy. 6:51 pace

10/15-Morning: We met and did some quick 300's on the track to get a little speed work in. I did 10X300 with 50sec rest. I ran them all about 49-52, but some of the guys on the team like Pat and Julius were kicking my ass running 47-48 at the same effort I was running 49-50. I hoped I was fatigued for the race Saturday.

10/16- 6 miles easy at the course for our home cross-country meet at Kate Barr Ross park.

10/17- Today we had our home meet. I had yet another sub-par performance. I didn't run awful, but I should have done better. Patrick and a Julius should never beat me, but it happened. I ran 20:55 for our 6300m course and got 17th. I got 10th out here last year when the race was more competitive so that kind of pisses me off too.
On a good note though, our team ran well. We got 3rd in a field of 9-10 teams. Things seem to be coming along well in that aspect of things.
I don't know why I ran the way I did. I was clam and mentally well prepared, I had a great week of training, but when I got on the course I couldn't make myself push it was so fustrating! I cross the finish line and all i could think was "Damn it, I could have ran 20sec faster." I would have been 7th or 8th had I done so. I gotta get it together before conference. This can't happen there, no can i pass out haha......

10/18- today I ran 13miles on my own. I ran from my place (the Loft) to Kate Barr Ross park where we had the meet, ran 3 loops in it, and ran back home. I had a chip on my shoulder from the day before, so I decided at the end of the run to burn off a little steam. I ran 6:20, 6:05, then at the peak of my temper tantrum ran a 5:45 last mile over so pretty intense hills over by the graveyard in town. It felt good to do that. I was much more relaxed and clam when I finished. This capped off another 73 mile week for me