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

10/9 HBU meet canceled

The rain we have been having off and on all week came on strong today as norther winds blew in making the weather cool. The HBU has been post-ponded till tomorrow but we are not going. We are going to have a workout in the morning.
So in the mean time we did a easy 2.5 mile shake out in the morning. Then in the evening I ran 8 miles easy. I got into it well. I ran 6:42, 6:36, 6:29, 6:12 for the last 4 miles. Again enforcing my opinion that I have not ran my easy runs fast enough. Ended up with a 6:43 pace which is a good easy pace.

10/8 tempo/easy

Today we met at the state park and ran 4 miles out on the feeder road at a quality effort and ran the 4 miles back at an easy effort. I ran 23:03 for the 4 on the extremely hilly course. There really wasn't much too this workout, but it was a nice way to get the legs turned over for the race at HBU tomorrow.

10/7 12mile ball-breaker

Today I did 12miles on the "ball-breaker". Which is a hilly course that goes through Huntsville. All the way to the end, nothing but hills. I ran a 6:47 pace, did not feel as easy as it should, but when you run that many hills, it's to be expected.
I ran this course because I just feel like I'm not challenging myself enough on my easy runs. I havent gotten any better in two years now so I'm trying anything to get better.

10/6 mile repeats

Today we met at the intermurals fileds to do 4X1600m and 2X800m. 3minutes between miles and 2 minutes betweens 800's for rest.
Jesse told us to negative split every single one or else we would have to stop. So I did 5:38, 5:31, 5:27, 5:24, 2:40, 2:35.
Decent considering the field was muddy yet again.

10/5/09 easy run

today i just ran 5miles easy on the in-field of Bowers stadium. I ended up doing it bear-foot on the grass to strengthen my feet. I ended up running 6:29 pace (32:29). Not a bad little run.

10/4 Fartlek

Today we drove out to the national forest for practice. We has 5X 4min on/3min off. It was a solid workout considering how muddy it was. I was going about 1200m/ 4 min. I hope we get a chance to do this workout again and see if I cannot run further in those 4 min.
This caps a 68 mile week for me.