Running Blog

We had our first track workout today. 20 minute warm up with Megan, Heather, and Brooke (much more chatty than usual). Then a continuous warm-up thing (four laps on the track of 100 stride, 100 easy). Then a quick drink of water and we began the actual workout. 2x500 @ 1:38-1:40 pace to begin. These felt fine. The pace isn't hard; it's just enough to get you tired for what's coming. Then we had 4x200 of 17 seconds for the first 100, then all-out for the second 100. Let me tell you, the days when I could stick with the sprinters for a 10x200 workout are long gone. These were HARD. Megan destroyed me. It feels good to get some speed in, but it sucks realizing how far away I am from where I was. I talked to Coach Spence, and he told me about when he took a break from running in college because of an injury, and he said the training coming back into it was the hardest training he's ever done. Which makes me feel better about my out-of-shapeness, but also forces me to realize what the road ahead looks like. I'm just gonna have to tough it out for this season. 12 minute cool down around the practice field afterward, because it was already dark.

Easy run with Janz down Broken Canal. It was cold, so I wore a long sleeve with a short sleeve on top, but then I was kinda hot so I had to roll up my sleeves.. It was still cold enough to make it hard to breathe, though. The cold air kills my lungs. It's like I can't get used to it. Also my calves are still somewhat sore and my knee randomly hurt today for no apparent reason. I think I'm dying. Chalk it up to the fact that it's the end of the semester, which has been known to cause spontaneous aches, injuries, and death.

Easy run on my own.. it was quite slow. I wasn't in the mood to run, but I had to because we have the Blue & White meet later that I have to go help at. By some miracle, it's been warmish lately with no snow since two weeks ago. Hallelujah.

55 minutes with Garrett. Tried to do the hill but a dumptruck came and parked right in the way.

4x long hill at 1:20-1:24, 4x short hill at :35. Times were 1:19, 1:26, 1:26, 1:24, :33, :28, :28, :29.