9/12

Since the meet was cancelled, we had a workout. We had a 4mile tempo run followed by a mile at an all out effort.
The tempo run wasn't quite as easy as I would have liked it to been, but I did run 21:31(5:22 pace). Pat and Clint finished just ahead of me in 21:30.
The mile afterwards wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I ran 4:55. I was happy with it, but I think I could have ran 4:52 if I had put a little more into the last 200m, i guess it's just something I still need to mentally learn to make myself do. It was still great though because that's the first mile in an run or workout I've ran since confrence track back in may that was sub-5. Pat blazed his though, he went 4:46, so I got to do better next time.
I have been feeling a little tired on my runs, not sore, but tired. I have been getting sleep so I know it's not that. I think it's just been a fase I guess in my training, hopefully it ends soon.

9/11

Today I just did a 4mile shake out. I'm was just trying to feel good for the A&M meet the next day.
Later that night though, it was cancelled due to rains damaging the course.

9/10

Today I had 2 easy paced runs consisting of 9miles in the morning and 5 miles in the evening. We had met at the field house for abbs in the morning then I ran the 9miler with julius and we went 6:50 pace (1:01:30). It felt pretty easy.
Later this evening around 5P.M. I ran a 5miler from the loft to our tempo course that runs through the campus. It didn't feel so great until the end, but that was just because it was hilly during the first half.

12miles out at the national forest

This morning we drove out to the national forest to do a Long run. Coach Jesse told us to run comfortably, but not too easy and not so hard to kill ourselves. So in the dark we took off into the woods. I kinda initiated things from the get go. I ran 6:48 the first mile and Julius was the only one running with me. He was moving this morning so i thought I'd run with him as long as he wasn't running too fast. Sure enough, we ran 6:22 and then another 6:22 right after that. I saw this on my watch and was a bit shocked to see that we were running this fast. It wasn't hurting though so I told myself to just stay even and not to run any faster and it should go fine. We went 6:26, 6:24, 6:23, 6:21, 6:19, 6:19, 6:18, then I got a little happy with myself and closed in 6:09, and 5:58. One hour, sixteen minutes and about 20seconds give or take a few.
This run really pleased me because this run would have in the past not been fairly difficult, but now my fitness is so good that it was litterally a stroll through the woods. I really cannot wait for the VO2 max workouts now. I think after a couple weeks of doing them I'm going to run like a bat out of hell. >:)

8x1200m repeats with min rest and 8x120m hills

Coach split us into two or three groups today. My group consisted of Patrick, Blake, Clint, and Julius. Pat and I worked together on these again which helped out. We split 4:08, 4:06, 4:03, 4:04, 4:02, 4:02, 4:00, 3:54. We were very consistent and steady with the pace, so I think we got the most out of the workout. The 8 hills after were no big thing afterwards, we just went like 3k-5k effort up them. The total mileage for the day was 10.
I felt relatively good today. I was not sore before, I haven't really been "sore" for a while now, I guess its just been a while since I depleted myself. In a couple weeks we will start doing VO2 max stuff and it will be a whole other story I'm sure, but it doesn't matter as long as a get better which I haven't in ages.

Later on we had cross training in the afternoon. We did some abbs as a team then I did 25 minutes on the eliptical. I was exhausted from being up since 5:30 so I just took it easy with how much stuff I did.

6 easy

Today starts a new week and the goal is to hit or go a little over 80 miles. I'm home visiting my family in Houston for labor day so I ran alone here through the streets I once ruled in my high school days.
This morning I ran 6 miles pretty easy, although it was a bit tough for just 6:51 pace. I left my good shoes at school on accident so i had to wear some old ones I had here so I'm sure that had something to do with how the run felt.
Tomorrow we got another workout at the prittchet track so I got that to look forward to.

On another subject, my brother had a 6mile ppm(pace per mile) run today for his practice. He ran really impressively. Especially the part where he PRed his 4mile at 22:45 after it was 23:08 before.
The point of a ppm run is to basically go out blazing and hold your top speed as long as you can. Sounds tough, and indeed it is, but if you can do it longer and longer every time you do it, your times and VO2 max improve drastically.
He split 5:23, 10:55(5:32),16:50(5:55), 22:45(5:55), he died after that and finished 6 in like 36:10 but he got the benifit of the workout. Now he needs to go out that pace the next couple of times he does this run and I guarantee you that he runs sub 35 minutes for 6. It's good stuff, hopefully he does it.

9/6

In the morning we had workout that consisted of 4 miles @ 20K race pace, 2miles at 10K race pace, followed by 8X120m hills repeats on the cyinder track at prittchet field.
I did the whole workout with Patrick. We shared the lead, taking it every 3 laps then sitching off for the 4miler. We ran 21:57, just a few seconds fast than coach instructed(22:00).
Then on the 2miles we traded off every 800m. I ran 10:40 and Pat finished with 10:44 I believe.
After coach saw how some of the other guys struggled to finish the workout, he backed everyone off the hills a little bit and said to do 4-6 repeats versus 8. I came out there to do 8 repeats though and 8 repeats is what I did.
Turned out to be an alright workout, although I wasn't quite as comfortable as I would have liked to have been.
The mileage totaled about 10 after warm ups and cool downs so that capped off a 73 mile week for me which was also solid.